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Everything and More, David Foster Wallace
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell
Antifragile, Nassim Taleb
The Long Way, Bernard Moitessier
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, Rene Girard
The Wu-Tang Manual, RZA
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
Essays, Michel de Montaigne
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Joan Didion
"Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" - Lewis Carroll
"Dracula" - Bram Stoker
"Frankenstein" - Mary Shelly
"On Education" - Bertrand Russell
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" - Douglas Adams
"Animal Farm" - George Orwell
"1984" - George Orwell
"Lord of The Flies" - William Golding
"Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley
"Gulliver's Travels" - Jonathan Swift
"The Selfish Gene" - Richard Dawkins
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" - Lewis Carroll "Dracula" - Bram Stoker "Frankenstein" - Mary Shelly "On Education" - Bertrand Russell "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" - Douglas Adams "Animal Farm" - George Orwell "1984" - George Orwell "Lord of The Flies" - William Golding "Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley "Gulliver's Travels" - Jonathan…
Take anything from Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Philosphical Investigations, Ludwig Witgenstein.
The Analects.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Ableson and Sussman.
The Hamet and The Town and The Mansion, William Faulkner.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There" - Lewis Carroll "Dracula" - Bram Stoker "Frankenstein" - Mary Shelly "On Education" - Bertrand Russell "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy" - Douglas Adams "Animal Farm" - George Orwell "1984" - George Orwell "Lord of The Flies" - William Golding "Brave New World" - Aldous Huxley "Gulliver's Travels" - Jonathan…
Probably the most exhilarating read for me in a long while has been "The Secret Race" by Tyler Hamiliton. But don't take my word on it, read the reviews.
Blood Meridian , Cormac McCarthy. Philosphical Investigations , Ludwig Witgenstein. The Analects . Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , Ableson and Sussman. The Hamet and The Town and The Mansion , William Faulkner.
* Playing at the World, Jon Peterson ("Explore the conceptual origins of wargames and role-playing games in this unprecedented history of simulating the real and the impossible.")
* The Years of Lyndon Johnson (v1-4, 5 in production), Robert Caro. (If you ever wanted to see how political power actually works in the US, you can't beat this biography of LBJ, which reads like a (very long) novel.)
I just read Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark. It's an interesting study of how metaphors unconsciously drive thinking and perception.