The Ethics of Ambiguity, simone de beauvoir
she came to stay, simone de beauvoir
the second sex

the gulag archipelago, aleksandr solzhenitsyn
The Origins of Totalitarianism by hannah arendt

master and margarita, mikhail bulgakov

the order of things, foucault
    then, piaget's Structuralism
    then, foucault's archaeology of knowledge

the magic mountain, thomas mann

grapes of wrath

turing's cathedral

a concise history of china, j.a.g. roberts
Columbia guide to modern Chinese history, keith schoppa
on china, kissinger
hungry ghosts?

Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Plum in the Golden Vase
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Dream of the Red Chamber
Red Sorghum

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Engines of Creation
The Society of Mind by Minsky
Mind Children
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Conscience of a Conservative "by" Barry Goldwater
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

Field Notes on Science & Nature

Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
    Holger Kantz
    Thomas Schreiber

et tu, babe

The Art of Intelligence by Henry Crumpton

Enlightening Symbols by Joseph Mazur (math notation)

John McPhee
    Looking for a Ship (merchant marine)
    Coming into the Country (Alaska)
    Uncommon Carriers (shipping)

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes