Ray Bradbury

Isaac Asimov

Jane Austen

And I would have to include a fourth one - Agatha Christie - three is just not enough.

Killers of the Flower Moon. It sickened me. I read it early this year and did not realize it was also being made into a movie. It still sickens me, although current events reminds just how awful humans can be to each other.

The Lanny Budd series by Upton Sinclair. Specifically there is a point when Lanny says something about how questions reveal what the questioner really is interested in.

I would most likely be a peasant so I don’t think I would have time for a hobby. Life for most was incredibly hard and time consuming.