| Some of my favorite fiction books: - Seiobo There Below, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai - The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas - Moby Dick, by Herman Melville - Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy - Cuentos Completos, by Jorge Luis Borges (or at least the "Labyrinths" compilation) - A Perfect Vacuum, by Stanislaw Lem (Forewords to Non-Existent Books) - Imaginary Magnitude, by Stanislaw Lem - His Master's Voice, by Stanislaw Lem (Along the same lines as Sagan's Contact, but better, way better.) - Buddha's Little Finger, by Victor Pelevin Some my favorite "non-fiction" books: - The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories, edited by Robert Strassler - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon - Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan, by Nassim Taleb - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter - The Road to Reality, by Roger Penrose - Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman |