This is a list of some books that have been important to me in various ways: some are simply wonderfully written and entertaining and sources of joy, others have been books that expanded my thoughts and been sources of important knowledge and wisdom, yet others have been inspirations to enter new fields of knowledge. This, I suppose, explains the diversity. Some of the scientifically oriented books are not difficult reading, others are fiercesomely technical.
Argiri, Laura
The God in Flight, 478 pp.
Random House (1995)
ISBN: 0679428313
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation
Second Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Foundation's Edge
Prelude to Foundation
Foundation and Earth
Baigent, Michael; Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
The Messianic Legacy
The Temple and the Lodge
Casta\~neda, Carlos
The Teachings of Don Juan
Journey to Iztlan
A Separate Reality
Dirac, P. A. M.
[Dirac 1958]
[Dirac 1964]
Ecco, Umberto
The Name of the Rose
Foucault's Pendulum
Edelman, Gerald M.
Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of Mind
Basic Books (1992).
Exup\'ery, Antoine de Saint
Le Petit Prince (1943)
Griffon, Patricia
Blind Reason
Fowles, John
The Magus
Hammer, Dean and Peter Copeland
Living with Our Genes
Doubleday (1998)
Helmholtz, Hermann L. F.,
[Helmholtz 1877]
Herbert, Frank Dune, Frank Herbert [LINK] The World of Dune [LINK]
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heritics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune
The White Plague
Man of Two Worlds (with Brian Herbert)
Jaynes, Julian
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown
of the Bicameral Mind
Kidder, Tracy
The Soul of a New Machine
Avon Books (1981).
Miller, Alice
Prisoners of Childhood (reissued and generally known as
The Drama of the Gifted Child)
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child
Meridian (1986).
Minsky, Marvin
The Society of Mind
Simon and Schuster (1985).
Moldenhauer, Hans with Rosaleen Moldenhauer
Anton von Webern: A Chronicle of his Life and Work,
Alfred A. Knopf (1979).
Ornstein, Robert E.
The Psychology of Consciousness, and
The Nature of Human Consciouness
W. H. Freeman (1972).
Pirsig, Robert M.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
Powell, James N.
The Tao of Symbols (1982)
Anne Rice - Home Page from The Mining Company [LINK]
Rice, Anne
Cry unto Heaven
Interview with a Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
The Witching Hour
Lasher
Taltos
Servant of the Bones
Violin
Rand, Ayn
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Objectivist Epistemology
Tolkien, J. R. R.
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
Tuchman, Barbara W.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978)
The March of Folly (1984)
Ballantine Books
Walker, Alan
[Walker 1988]
[Walker 1993]
Wheeler, John Archibald
[Wheeler 1962]
Wolpe, Stefan
[Wolpe 1959]
Xenakis, Iannis
[Xenakis 1963]
Yourcenar, Margurite
Memoirs of Hadrian (1954)
Mishima: a vision of the void (1986)
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