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Books of the 1770s

The books we recommend first published in the 1770s — 13 titles across every category.

As the Crow Files Jeffrey Archer · 1770 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
Poems (Lover's Complaint William Shakespeare · 1771 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Naked Ape Desmond Morris · 1772 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
M'Fingal John Trumbull · 1775 Recommended See details →
Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell · 1776 Recommended See details →
The uncommercial traveller Charles Dickens · 1776 Recommended See details →
The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith · 1776 Recommended See details →
The Poetical Works of John Dryden John Dryden · 1777 Recommended See details →
The education of Henry Adams Henry Adams · 1777 Recommended See details →
Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768 Jonathan Carver · 1778 Recommended See details →
Evelina Fanny Burney · 1778 Recommended See details →
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume · 1779 Recommended See details →
Nathan der Weise Gotthold Ephraim Lessing · 1779 Recommended See details →

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