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Books

General Fiction and Non-Fiction

  1. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty (Radiolab?)
  2. An Economist Gets Lunch
  3. Exit Voice and Loyalty - A O Hischman
  4. The Rook - Kevin O'Malley. Dad recommends.
  5. 14 Minutes - Alberto Salazar (distance runner. NYorker article)
  6. Monkey Love - by Robert S. on Radiolab
  7. Candy by Terry Southern "high smut " from the author of Dr Strangelove (article in New Yorker(?) mentioned this)
  8. Myrna Breckinridge by Gore Vidal (article in New Yorker(?) mentioned this)
  9. You Can't Win by Jack Black (but not that Jack Black) - book about hobos (recommended on SA)
  10. Catch 22
  11. Confederacy of Dunces
  12. Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel - SA reader recommends. says it's dreamlike and surreal
  13. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson - SA. True Crime.
  14. Harpers Essays by David Foster Wallace
  15. 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
  16. Southern Discomfort: Tumultuous Literature of the American South
  17. Plutocrats: the Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland (wrote a NYTimes Op Ed 10/14/12)
  18. The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction - found this on Amazon (and here's an NPR review). Tamil is the high culture language of India and this is its pulp. How great is that?! GOLDEN RULES FOR TAMIL PULP FICTION In 1933, Tamil author Sudhandhira Sangu wrote an article called "The Secret of Commercial Novel Writing." He laid out the three golden rules:
    1. The title of the book should carry a woman's name — and it should be a sexy one like Miss Leela Mohini.
    2. Your story must absolutely include a minimum half-dozen lovers and prostitutes, preferably 10 or a dozen murders, and few sundry thieves and detectives.
    3. You can make money only if you are able to titillate. If you try to bring in any social message, forget it. Beware! You are not going to lure your women readers.
  19. Strength is What Remains - Tracy Kidder. 'Cause Mountains beyond Mountains was good.
  20. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  21. The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Recommended by Tyler and Paul)
  22. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss (Recommended by Luke)
  23. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Timothy Egan
  24. [Why Civil Resistance Works (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)][civil]: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - Erica Chenoweth, Maria J. Stephan

Programming

  1. The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler
  2. Coders At Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

Writing

Cooking

Go

Banjo

[civil]: - See more at: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/9780231156820-id-9780231156820.aspx#sthash.7S6PdcFM.dpuf

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