My favourite books

• Vernor Vinge:
  • The Witling
  • True Names, and Other Dangers
  • Threats, and other Promises
  • The Peace War
  • Marooned in Realtime
  • A Fire Upon the Deep
• The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner
• Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, by Harry Harrison
• you need to know E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Skylark and Lensmen books to appreciate the above book...
• Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
• Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce
• Watership Down, by Richard Adams
• The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis:
  • The Magician's Nephew
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • The Horse and His Boy
  • Prince Caspian
  • The Voyage of theDawn Treader
  • The Silver Chair
  • The Last Battle
• The Lord of the Rings etc., by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Il Giornalino di Gian Burrasca, by Vamba
• Sex Tips for Girls, by Cynthia Heimel
• The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer
• The Hite Report, by Shere Hite
• Jack Vance:
  • The Eyes of the Overworld
  • Cugel's Saga
  • The Dying Earth
• Anything by Richard Dawkins:
  • The Selfish Gene
  • The Extended Phenotype
  • The Blind Watchmaker
  • River Out of Eden
• The Ballad of Halo Jones (2000AD strip, available in book form)
• Maus, by Art Spiegelman
• Calvin and Hobbes
• Martin Gardner:
  • Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
  • The New Age
  • Science Good, Bad and Bogus
  • On the Wild Side
  • The Ambidextrous Universe
  • and of course all his recreational mathematics stuff
• Winning Ways, by Berlekamp, Conway and Guy
• On Number and Games, by J.H. Conway
• How Far Can You Go?, by David Lodge. (Is it at all realistic? I hope not)
• Anything by the Argentinian cartoonist Quino. I don't know if his books are available in English. The non-Mafalda stuff is much better than Mafalda, IMHO.
• The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
• Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames, by Luis d'Antin Van Rooten
• How to be an Alien, by George Mikes
• Orson Scott Card:
  • Ender's Game
  • The Speaker for the Dead