15 Books
Tim Wilson made me do this at Facebook. I ended up with 16 because his list reminded me of a couple I'd neglected at first. Choose 15 at will.
Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
- The Tale of the Scale, Solly Angel
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Bright Earth, Philip Ball
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Connections, James Burke
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean B. Carroll
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Kinsey, Pomeroy, and Martin
- Conjectures and Refutations, Karl Popper
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
- Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
- The Blood Doctor, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)