My Favorite Books

Fiction

• 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
• Bored of the Rings (Harvard Lampoon)
• The Bounty Trilogy (Nordhoff)
• A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
• Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Stoll)
• Flatland (Abbot)
• The Fountainhead (Rand)
• Frankenstein (Shelley)
• The Gold Bug (Poe)
• The Hobbit or There and Back Again (Tolken)
• Interview with the Vampire (Rice)
• Henderson the Rain King (Bellow)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
• I, Robot (Asimov)
• The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You (Dorothy Bryant)
• The Lathe of Heaven (Le Guin)
• Lolita (Nabokov)
• Lord of the Flies : A Novel (Golding)
• The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)
• Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
• Papillon (Henri Charriere)
• Perfume : The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Suskind)
• Permutation City (Egan)
• The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)
• The Princess Bride (Goldman)
• Rendevous With Rama (Clarke)
• The 7 1/2 Percent Solution
• The Time Machine (Wells)
• Shôgun (Clavel) [My #1 favorite fiction]
• Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
• Swiss Family Robenson (Wyss)
• The Tragedy of Hamlet  (Folger Library)
• Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonegot)
• A Wiff of Death (Asimov)

Non-Fiction

• The Elegant Universe (Greene) [My #1 favorite non-fiction]
• From Atoms to Quarks (Trefil)
• The Life of the Cosmos (Smolin)
  
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are (Wright)
• Read My Lips : Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (Wilchins)
• Regular Polytopes (Coxeter)
• The Pursuit of Death (Congdon) [Out of print? A shame since it's excellent]
• Sex and the Origins of Death (Clark)
• The World of M.C. Escher (Abrams) [Hardcover version a must. Out of print?]

Biography

• The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth (Hoffman)
• Mein Kampf (Hitler)

Reference

• Deutsch-English (Klett)
• Mispeller's Dictionery (Webster's)