Sara asked:


Say you were a rich benefactor and you wanted to give a graduation gift to all the young people who were graduating high school in your city. You wanted it to be a book that had meaning and would help them form an opinion of the heritage of humanity.
Which book would you award the graduates?

I was thinking of this because when I graduated, a local furniture store gave each of us a wooden jewelry box, and other businesses gave us coupons for free things.
How much more memorable would a book have been?