Some authours and books offer deep introspection of human lives, that you learn and realise things about yourself from reading them: I got that feeling from re

Some authours and books offer deep introspection of human lives, that you learn and realise things about yourself from reading them: I got that feeling from reading Montaigne's Essays. Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton and Samuel Johnson's essays also are effective in a similar vein. Plutarch's Parallel Live's is the essential book on politics, after reading it, when you read the newspapers you get a feeling that there is nothing new under the Sun, in politics.