The Reading List of Benjamin Franklin
This is pretty cool, Ben Franklin describes the books he read when he was young. He mentions books that he loved and books that he did not. He wishes that he had more accessible books available to him when he was young and thirsty for reading. "FROM a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. I afterward sold them to enable me to buy R. Burton's Historical Collections; they were small chapmen's books, " Benjamin Franklin, "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", 2.1