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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
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Read it. Brilliantly funny and insightful.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
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Great book by a brilliant man.
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The Bell Jar: A Novel
Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath is the embodiment of feminism and this book makes you see life through her eyes. I would also recommend Ariel Poems, my favorites are the "Bee Poems".
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Vladimir Nabokov
James Mustich
Although Nabokov is best known as a novelist, the most exquisite of his books is this work of nonfiction, acclaimed as one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory covers the thirty-seven years between Nabokov’s earliest glimmerings of self-awareness—“the inner knowledge that I was I...show more
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
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I read it straight through transfixed both by its austere truths as well as brutal beauty. Wholly worth the journey.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
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Long. Detailed. Beautiful. My only regret is that he later compares Steve Jobs to the great man.Eck!
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Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan
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Fantastic! I couldn’t put it down. I so hope that further Volumes follow.
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The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
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Masterful, compelling, beautiful, satisfying.
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As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
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Stark, harrowing, beautiful.
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The World According to Garp
John Irving
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One of the seminal novels of my adolescence.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
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I loved reading this book to each of my 3 children.
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