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Originally Posted by JSWolf

I suggest H. G. Wells.

Originally Posted by issybird

I loved Dickens’ other historical novel Barnaby Rudge

Originally Posted by gmw

Another that fits that description was Hard Times.

...I enjoyed American Notes, which given the mixed audience here might generate some interesting conversation, but I also found The Uncommercial Traveller and A Child's History of England to be interesting.

Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl

There are several nonfiction Mark Twain books that have been on my TBR for a long time such as Life on the Mississippi, Roughing It and The Innocents Abroad.

Originally Posted by issybird

...perhaps my favorite Twain of all is the posthumous collection of essays, Letters from the Earth on topics of religion and morality, which is sidesplitting, at least in my memory.

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

I remember reading A Tramp Abroad a great many years ago, and laughing so much I nearly dropped the book.

I'd pretty much love to read any of these, so all great suggestions.

For Wells, I read the Island of Dr. Moreau for the book club here but haven't read War of the Worlds or The invisible Man, and I think I read parts or most of The Time Machine when I was young but don't remember.

I haven't read any of those Dickens or Twain mentioned. I haven't been so enamoured with the two Twain books I've read (Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court); some of his witty quotes I've read are great but in book form his writing hasn't grabbed me yet (a bit like Oscar Wilde in that regard). Still, I have Huckleberry Finn on my tbr so I'm definitely interested in reading more of him and would love to try his nonfiction; maybe it would suit me better... and even if it doesn't, it might be fun to be a naysaying counterpoint in a discussion.