I would also highly recommend the Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations”..........
I did not appreciate Dickens at all until I got older.
Now, “Tale of Two Cities”, “Great Expectations” and “David Copperfield” are high on the list of my favorite books.
Especially “Tale of Two Cities”. Breathtakingly scary, a novel written in the 19th Century that perfectly captures the essence of liberals at work.