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+Books To Read
+--------------
+
+Novels
+==============
+
+* Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Foer
+* The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
+* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
+* The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
+* The Magic Mountain, thomas mann
+* Grapes of Wrath
+* The Illuminatus! Trilogy
+
+Old Classics:
+
+* The Plum in the Golden Vase
+* Romance of the Three Kingdoms
+* Dream of the Red Chamber
+
+Science/Tech
+===============
+
+* Engines of Creation
+* The Society of Mind by Minsky
+* Mind Children
+* War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa
+* Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Holger Kantz Thomas Schreiber
+* Field Notes on Science & Nature
+
+Philosophy
+===============
+
+* The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
+* She Came to Stay, Simone de Beauvoir
+* The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
+* The Order of Things, Foucault
+* Structuralism, Piaget
+* Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault
+* The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
+
+History and Politics
+=======================
+
+* Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
+* The Art of Intelligence by Henry Crumpton (CIA history)
+* The Conscience of a Conservative "by" Barry Goldwater
+
+Chinese History:
+
+* A Concise History of China, j.a.g. roberts
+* Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History, keith schoppa
+* On China, kissinger
+
+Other Non-Fiction
+=====================
+
+* Looking for a Ship, John McPhee (merchant marine)
+* Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee (shipping)
+* The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes