The Elements of Style, Strunk & White.
Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books.
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#42Neuromancer
Dune
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#43Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
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#44Peregrine Worsthorne: In Defence of Aristocracy Michael Ondaajte: In the Skin of a Lion <-- a modern retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh via immigrant settlers in early 20th century Toronto.
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#45Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson
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#46The world is flat..
From Beirut to Jerusalem (not done yet).
Both from Thomas Friedman.
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#47Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Anything from Elmore Leonard
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#48I don't have any favorites, but the books I've read the most are "Notes from the Underground" and Walden. The last time I read Walden I didn't enjoy it much, so maybe I shouldn't mention it...
The first should be read by everyone though http://www.gutenberg.org/files/600/600.txt
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#49The Brothers Karamazov
Gravity's Rainbow
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#50Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The Mating Mind