Alenda Chang
In the Shadow of Man (Jane Goodall)
Emile (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Lost in Translation (Eva Hoffman)
Levels of the Game (John McPhee)
Brian Hicks
Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Simon Singh)
Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (George B. Dyson)
Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)
Chaos : Making a New Science (James Gleick)
The Whole Shebang : A State-Of-The-Universe(s) Report (Timothy Ferris)
Bots : The Origin of New Species (Andrew Leonard)
Consilience (Edward O. Wilson)
How the Mind Works (Steven Pinker)
Clifford Tham
The Wrinkle in Time series by Madeline L'Engle
The Lord of the Rings books including the Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
All the Clifford the Big Red Dog books by Norman Bridwell
The Odyssey by Homer
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Rising Sun, Airframe and/or Sphere (much better than the movie) by Michael Crichton
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
David Wu
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Burn Rate- Michael Wolff
Dusty Boeger
Raymond Chandler, JRR Tolkien, Isaak Asimov, Robert Heinlien, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Jonathan Kellerman, David Brin
Elice Zanzerkia
PG Wodehouse --he'll make you laugh.
John Hedley
The Mosquito Coast, by Paul Theroux (please ignore the movie)
Snow Crash, which any good techie geek has already read; a good sci-fi story with lots of creative technology, in which the United States is only good at a couple of things -- primarily software development and pizza delivery.
John Tokash
Hackers by Stephen Levy
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Snow Crash and Zodiac by Neal Stephenson
HGTTG(all 5) by Douglas Adams
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham
The Dark Elf series by R.A.Salvatore(The Halfling's Gem trilogy, then the Dark Elf trilogy, skip the rest).
Islands in the Net and Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
Justin Kitch
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
Franny and Zooey, Salinger
Grapes of Wrath, Steinback
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
Beloved, Toni Morrison
In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
100 Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Mark Twain essays
THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS: Vonnegut, Godel, Escher and Bach, Hofstadter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Barbara Kingsolver, Gleick, Genius
