Some Favourite Books
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Fiction
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Greg Egan Diaspora
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Frank Herbert Dune
Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (trilogy)
Ayn Rand The Fountainhead
J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Kurt Vonnegut Breakfast of Champions
Isaac Asimov Foundation (trilogy)
Piers Anthony A Spell for Chameleon (the first Xanth novel)
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Non-Fiction
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P Purdom & C Brown The Analysis of Algorithms
Fred S Roberts Applied Combinatorics
Douglas Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Merriam-Webster The Tenth Collegiate Dictionary
David Sklansky The Theory of Poker
Richard Epstein The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic
Jonathan Schaeffer One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy in Checkers
John Ralston Saul The Unconscious Civilization
David Keirsey Please Understand Me II
Most Recent (in the last few years)
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Alastair Brotchie A Book of Surrealist Games
Joseph Heller Closing Time [follow-up to Catch-22]
William Gibson Neuromancer
Greg Egan Permutation City
Elwyn Berlekamp The Dots and Boxes Game: Sophisticated Child's Play
Sid Sackson A Gamut of Games
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
Greg Egan Distress
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon
William Goldman The Princess Bride [abridged from S. Morgenstern's]
Nick Bantock Griffon and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence,
Sabine's Notebook, The Golden Mean
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash
Richard Dawkins Unweaving the Rainbow [weak]
W. P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe
Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom
Kalle Lasn Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal
Consumer Binge -- And Why We Must
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon
Paul Hoffman The Man Who Loved only Numbers: The Story of
Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
Dan Carlinsky Little Sports: The Official Rules of
and Ed Goodgold Insignificant Indoor Rivalries
Richard P Feynman "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P Feynman "What Do _You_ Care What Other People Think?"
Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Martin Gardner Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions
John Ralston Saul The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of
Aggressive Common Sense
Dave Barry Dave Barry Turns 40
David Keirsey Please Understand Me II
David Zindell Neverness
Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind
Voltaire Candide
Kurt Vonnegut Timequake
James McManus Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs,
and Binion's World Series of Poker
Douglas Adams The Salmon of Doubt
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Robert M Martin There are Two Errors in The The Title of This Book
(a sourcebook of philosophical puzzles, problems,
and paradoxes)
D.G. Hartwell (ed) Year's Best SF 3
Kurt Vonnegut Three Complete Novels:
Cat's Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Breakfast of Champions
Darren Wershler-Henry free as in speech and beer
John Ralston Saul The Unconscious Civilization [recommended]
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Byrne Standard Book of Pool and Billiards
Billiard Congress Billiards Official Rules and Record Book
Tad Tuleja Fabulous Fallacies
More than 300 Popular Beliefs That Are Not True
Thomas Lynch The Undertaking
Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Piers Anthony A Spell for Chameleon
Piers Anthony Omnivore
Piers Anthony Bio of a Space Tyrant, Volumes 1-5
William Poundstone Prisoner's Dilemma
Robert J Sawyer Hominids
Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Vernor Vinge Tatja Grimm's World
Greg Egan Schild's Ladder
Bruce Sterling Schismatrix (and related stories)
Ben Mezrich Bringing Down the House: The inside story of
six MIT students who took Vegas for Millions
Jack Kerouac The Dharma Bums
Cameron Browne Connection Games: Variations on a Theme
Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire
David C. Jones Sayings for Cynics
Lee Jones Winning Low Limit Hold'em (3rd edition)
Carl Hiaasen Team Rodent: How Disney Devours The World
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game
Elleston Trevor The Flight of the Phoenix
Joe Simpson Touching The Void
Barry Greenstein Ace on the River
B Chen & J Ankenman The Mathematics of Poker
N Postman & C Weingartner Teaching as a Subversive Activity
M Csikszentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Kurt Vonnegut Man Without a Country
Daniel Gilbert Stumbling On Happiness
Current
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Stephen Wolfram A New Kind of Science
Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene