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SF:
Kim Stanley Robinson - short stories
Ursula K Le Guin - The Eye of the Heron
Philip K Dick - The Exegesis of Philip K Dick (you probably don't want this)
Philip K Dick - The Divine Invasion
Iain M Banks - Matter
Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (tom hanks)
T.H. White - The Once and Future King (made me cry on an airplane)
Walter M Miller Jr. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (excellent)
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot (fair warning the cover is Will Smith)
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
"Literature":
William Faulkner - Sartoris
William Faulkner - Absalom, Absalom (man builds house)
William Faulkner - Light in August
Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing
Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
Shakespeare - Othello
Virginia Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway
Chinua Achebe - No Longer at Ease (this is great, it's super short, kind of a sequel to Things Fall Apart)
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
T.H. White - The Once and Future King
Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
Philosophy:
Deleuze and Guattari - Anti-Oedipus
Gilles Deleuze - Difference & Repetition
Marilynne Robinson - The Death of Adam
Catherine Belsey - Critical Practice
Thomas Kuhn - The Copernican Revolution
Technical:
Montiel and Ros - Curves and Surfaces (differential geometry textbook)
Boyd and Vandenberghe - Convex Optimization (oy! ML folks)
Charles Pinter - A Book of Abstract Algebra (this one's great)
Misc:
Evan S. Connell - Son of the Morning Star
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