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Originally Posted by xibalban
Well, let's see! A book about or on a subject which does away with convention. In other words, - Love & romance are out
- Religious/Mythical are out
- Vampires & Horror out
- History/Biography are out
- Science Fiction to do with aliens and spaceships are out
- World Wars and Epics are out
Looking for some simple philosophy (but unlike Beyond Good & Evil), mystery ( Sherlock Holmes method), self-help (like The Young's Man's Guide) and reads that gives you food for thought (like Utopia or Animal Farm).
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Ah. You probably won't like Andre Norton then. Her works usually revolve around moral choices and the philosophy of being a good person, and she was very influential in her field, but she definitely wrote extraplanetary sci-fi or fantasy. Just out of curiosity, why are you excluding extraplanetary sci-fi?
Treasure Island was a wildly implausible but a fun adventure story. Not much philosophy besides 'murder is bad'.