Bolded titles are highly recommended. On the left are fiction titles, and on the right - nonfiction. All books required for classes are excluded, unless they were suggested supplementary reading; my politics books are in this list, for example, because the class itself was no required for anything at all, and I found the books interesting.
In Progress
- Zadie Smith (edited by) - The Book of Other People
- Salvador Dali - The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
- Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon (in progress since 2007)
- Peter Pirolli - Information Foraging Theory
2010
- Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2009
- Suzanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell
- Courtney Sullivan - Commencement
- Pamela Weintraub - Cure Unknown
- Irving Siedman - Interviewing as Qualitative Research
- Kathy Charmaz - Constructing Grounded Theory
- Joseph Maxwell - Qualitative Research Design
- B.J. Fogg - Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
- Robert Kuttner - Obama's Challenge
- Andrew Gelman - Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State
2008
- Robert Heinlein - The Moon is A Harsh Mistress
- Charles Baxter - The Soul Thief
- Zadie Smith - On Beauty
- Zelazny and Sheckley - If at Faust You Don't Succeed
- Brams and Taylor - Fair Division
- Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point
- Malcolm Gladwell - Blink
- James Surowiecki - The Wisdom of Crowds
- Edward Purcell - The Crisis of Democratic Theory
- Cobb and Ross (edited by) - Cultural Strategies of Agenda Denial
- Baumgartner and Jones - Agendas and Instability in American Politics
- Theodore Lowi - The End of Liberalism
All-time Favorites
- Richard Bach - Illusions
- Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
(full text here)
- Tove Janson - all the Moomin-troll books
- Antoine de Saint Exupery - The Little Prince
(full English text, with illustrations)
- Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass
- Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
- Suzanna Clarke - The Ladies of Grace Adieu
- Isaac Asimov - Profession
(short story)
- C.S. Lewis - Narnia Chronicles
- Erik Frank Russell - And Then There Were None
(short story - full text here)