Reading list (fiction)

Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths
Richard Powers:
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
Prisoner's Dilemma
Operation Wandering Soul
Gain
Plowing the Dark
Don deLillo:
Underworld
White Noise
Thomas Pynchon:
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason and Dixon
David Foster Wallace:
Infinite Jest
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Amsterdam
The Comfort of Strangers
Enduring Love
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Wonder Boys
Mark Danielewski:
House of Leaves
Alberto Perez-Reverte:
The Nautical Chart
The Seville Communion
The Fencing Master
Allen Kurzweil
The Grand Complication
Philip K. Dick:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Salman Rushdie:
The Satanic Verses

Herman Melville:
Moby Dick
Sinclair Lewis:
Arrowsmith
Joseph Conrad:
Heart of Darkness

Reading list (biology)

Daniel Dennett:
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Steve Jones:
Darwin's Ghost
Robert E. Kohler:
Lords of the Fly
Evelyn Fox Keller:
A Feeling for the Organism
The Century of the Gene
Horace Freeland Judson:
The Eighth Day of Creation
Jonathan Weiner:
The Beak of the Finch

Steven Jay Gould
Ever Since Darwin
The Panda's Thumb
Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes
The Flamingo's Smile
Bully for Brontosaurus
Eight Little Piggies
Dinosaur in a Haystack
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Lying Stones of Marrakech
I Have Landed
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The Mismeasure of Man
Full House
Questioning the Millenium
Time's Arrow Time's Cycle
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Urchin in the Storm
Wonderful Life
Richard Dawkins
The Extended Phenotype
The Selfish Gene
The Blind Watchmaker
Unweaving the Rainbow

Favorite works: isomorphisms and tangled hierarchies

Douglas Hofstadter:
Godel Escher Bach
Metamagical Themas
Le Ton Beau de Marot
Edward Tufte:
The Visual Display of Quant. Info.
Envisioning Information
Visual Explanations
Norton Juster:
The Phantom Tollbooth
Georges Perec:
The Void
Mark Dunn:
Ella Minnow Pea
Edwin Abbott:
Flatland
Richard Powers:
The Gold Bug Variations
A.S. Byatt
Possession
Alberto Perez-Reverte:
The Flanders Panel
The Club Dumas
Michael Ende:
The Neverending Story

Favorite books: other

Margaret Atwood:
Cat's Eye
John Steinbeck:
Cannery Row
The Wayward Bus
East of Eden
Tortilla Flat
The Grapes of Wrath
Wallace Stegner:
Angle of Repose
Arundhati Roy:
The God of Small Things
John Irving:
The World According to Garp
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Allen Kurzweil
The Case of Curiosities
David McCullough:
Truman

Reading list: non fiction, non biology

William Dunham:
Journey Through Genius: the Great Theorems of Mathematics
Marvin Minsky:
The Society of Mind
Douglas Hofstadter:
The Mind's I
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
David Halberstam:
The Best and the Brightest
David McCullough:
John Adams
Steven E. Landsburg:
The Armchair Economist
Martin Gardner
Raymond Smullyan

Favorite poems (click to read)

Robert Frost:
My November Guest
Tree at my Window
Edgar Allan Poe:
The Raven
Robert W. Service:
The Cremation of Sam McGee
e.e.cummings:
rpophessagr
Emily Dickinson:
Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant