 | After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $4.47 Murakami Haruki is probably the biggest thing in Japanese literature since Mishima. Not for everyone but this is one of his more accessible books. A collection of short stories set in late night Tokyo.
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 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I was blown away by the detail Herbert put into the world that he created. The book is basically a huge analogy for the west's relationship with the Middle East in terms of its reliance on one, very important, natural resource. Fascinating book.
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 | Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.25 One of my fav sci-fi authors genre does fiction set in the modern day and makes our modern world seem just as far out as any of the future landscapes he's written about previously. An old fashioned treasure hunt meets the Internet age.
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 | JPod: A Novel by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $1.98 This novel retreads some of the same territory as Microserfs but the go-go 90s hype and exuberance has been replaced by the post 9/11 era's pending sense of doom. Despite that, the novel is a fun read about people working in the video game industry
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 | The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian: The Original Adventures of the Greatest Sword and Sorcery Hero of All Time! by Robert E. Howard
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.00 I have always admired Howard's writing style for being both incredibly pulp yet at times, poetic. A great collection of adventure stories set in Howard's world of Hyboria. A very different sort of fantasy than Tolkein.
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 | Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan by Robert Whiting
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.19 This book is a blistering, real-life account of the rise of modern, Japanese organized crime in Tokyo from the end of WWII to the early 1990s.
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 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.36 OK - this is one of those business management books. However, the ideas Goldratt presents in terms of rethinking how you go about setting and reaching certain goals in business is very much worth reading.
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 | Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.27 A monster of a novel that takes place in both the Pacific theater of WWII and in 1999 during the Internet boom. Part treasure hunt, party treatise on world affairs, party lesson in crypto-analysis and the birth of the computer.
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 | The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.06 The quintessential noir detective novel. Chandler's alter ego, Phillip Marlow tries to solve a murder in 1940s Los Angeles.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $6.40 Thompson puts to paper a rather senseless story about a road-trip to Vegas with a car full of narcotics and a Samoan lawyer and produced and iconic book that became the eulogy for the flower power generation.
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