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After several years (if they are clever and good with languages), perhaps they'd be ready to work on Nancy Drew and Harry Potter.
Why assume they can read? This way they can get the context.
How about philosophy. It would be hard for them to get the other stuff(excluding math and science). I don't know if they could get our philosophy either, since the way we think and see the world is very tightly coupled with our psychology, but we can assume that if they got our language(lets call it blubish) they either understand humans to some degree, or are themselves similar to us(or similar enough to understand…
"On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection"
by Charles Darwin, 1859.
"The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, 1974 is a good appendum there as well but once mastering "Origin" one really has the basics one needs.
The only book anyone, human or alien, really needs to read is - "On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin, 1859. "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, 1974 is a good appendum there as well but once mastering "Origin" one really has the basics one needs.
What precludes an "intelligently designed" being from being the first non-terrestrial life-form we encounter?
For all the talk we have here about the Singularity, I would assume that the first signs of life from Earth that any other civilization would meet would probably be something engineered by man. (Assuming we're meeting them somewhere other than our solar system.)
The hitchiker's guide to galaxy.