GREGORY RAWLINS RECOMMENDS:

Of the many books in his personal library, Gregroy Rawlins recommends the following as some of his favorites:

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Brian W. Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree
Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex
John Barnes, Mother of Storms
Eric T. Bell, Men of Mathematics
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and the Importance of Fairy Tales
Ernest Brahma, Kai Lung's Golden Hours
B. Burrough and J. Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Robert Cialdini, Influence: The New Psychology of Modern Persuasion
Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
James Clavell, Shogun
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Greg Egan, Permutation City
Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!
Ian Fleming, Doctor No
William Gibson, Neuromancer
George Gilder, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Techology
Robert Graves, I, Claudius
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Frank Herbert, Dune
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence
John Le Carre, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
Julian May, The Saga of the Pliocene Exile
Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence
James A. Michener, Source
Daniel Moran, Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keys Moran, The Long Run
Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape
Craig Mosoda, The Bare Facts Video Guide
P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the U. S. Government
Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates
Vaughn Pratt and L. Sprauge DeCamp, The Incomplete Enchanter
Thomas Ryan, The Adolescence of P1
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Thomas T. Thomas, ME
Alvin Toffler, Future Shock
J. R. R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings
Vernor Vinge, A Fire upon the Deep
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book
P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Morning
Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

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