I was watching The 3 Body Problem and remembered a scene where a character reads fairy tales from Brothers Grim (worst choice of book imo!) to the San-Ti (name of alien species with much more advance technology), specifically “Little Red Riding Hood”.
Which book(s) would you send to the aliens knowing that they would be able to translate it to understand about our species? Not necessarily your favourite book either. For example, I adore Don Quixote, but what ideas would an old self-delusioned character teach them? Or how the Don and Sancho often get beat up by characters they run into? Maybe not the best image of humanity.
by MrMontaigne
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The entirety of Discworld.
Mahabharata