Book shelf recommendations

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Mogador

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Some suggestions please for the ideal bookshelf for the platonic ideal of the eclectic author that lives in our heads. Research and reference focused please, but that doesn't exclude fiction, so long as it has a looking-something-up quality.

My starters, in no order, are:

- The Book of Imaginary Beings, Borges
- Outline of History, HG Wells
- Some collection of Lord Dunsany's shorter short stories
- Histories, Herodotus
- 1001 Nights
- Aesop
- OED and all that
- Rogets
- KJV Bible, your preferred supplementary translations, Bagavad Gita, etc

Go on, surprise me.
 
I don't read an awful lot of non-fiction these days. I do recall:
Heroes, by John Pilger. The flyleaf said any history teacher should start by chucking a copy of Heroes to every member of the class and it weren't lying. Pilger got around and it's still a good source of info on numerous modern, though becoming recently modern, then probably modern again, conflicts.
 
A good atlas, preferably a historical one that shows not only contemporary geographic labels but the extent of empires like Greek, Roman, British, Mongol, and the like.
 
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