Favorite books

Fiction

• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
• George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
• Philip K. Dick: Stories, The Dark Haired Girl
• Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
• Tom Robbins: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince
• Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle, Snow Crash
• Eiji Yoshikawa: Musashi

Non-fiction

• Karen Armstrong: The Great Transformation
• Robert Caro: Multi-volume Lyndon Johnson biography
• Richard Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Jon Gertner: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
• Michael Hiltzik: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• C.G. Jung: Aspects of the Feminine; Aspects of the Masculine; Memories, Dreams, Reflections
• John Keegan: The Face of Battle
• Leonard Kleinrock: Queueing Systems
• Steven Levy: Hackers
• David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
• Robert K. Massie: Dreadnought
• John McPhee: The Control of Nature
• Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
• Thomas Ricks: The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today
• W. Richard Stevens: Unix Network Programming
• Studs Terkel: Working
• Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States

Poetry

• Erich Fried
• Nikki Giovanni
• Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching
• Pablo Neruda
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Arthur Rimbaud