Mostly 'Hackers and Painters' and 'Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman'.
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#62I've given Alan Watts The Book to at least five people I thought could use it. Four of them never mentioned it again. I'm marrying the fifth next month.
Congratulations!
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#63Fiction: Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.
Non-Fiction: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Technical: The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Richie
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#64The Pragmatic Programmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer
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#65"I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi ( http://amzn.to/2aF1vjF ). It's a fantastic, easy read that takes you step-by-step into automating your finances and making smart decisions toward not necessarily being rich, but being rich er and having some financial security on a month to month basis. Every once in awhile, I'll have a conversation with friends about finances, and they'll complain about how much work it…
Ramit doesn't mess around.
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#66The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is one I've given adults. For kids, every year a local group called Book Harvest does a thing with Barnes & Noble where if you go in a B&N store, you can donate a book straight to Book Harvest which gives books to disadvantaged kids. For them, I usually grab a few books like A Wrinkle in Time or some Choose Your Own Adventure books or something.
I also semi-frequently buy (by accident) a second copy of a book that I already own. Usually instead of returning those to the store, I keep them and just give them to somebody as a gift, where the "who" depends on what the book is.
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#67Would anyone recommend a book about mathematical thinking? Basic, intro level would fit best.
Book of Proof by Richard Hammack[0]. It's free.
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#68I've literally just bought someone "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. It was the first Murakami book I read, and I've read plenty since. Wonderful.
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#69"Ishmael, An Adventure of Mind and Spirit" by Daniel Quinn. The book that created and destroyed the Turner Tomorrow Foundation Fellowship Award. It will make you examine some of the most profound myths at the center of our civilization and how those myths will determine our destiny, for better or for worse. It's a book that changed the way I think fundamentally. I will never be the same because of it.
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#70Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.