 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.87 a brilliant prediction of GWBush's modern America!
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
Buy used from: $4.00 a fascinating read on human evolution and sexual selection
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 | The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.95 an old but well-written book on Phi
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 | Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet by James F. Kurose
Buy used from: $0.28 excellent book on networking fundamentals
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: $0.01 a difficult read (demasiados Buendias), but emotional ending is strong.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy used from: $0.20 a classic must-read for all
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 | Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
Buy used from: $11.15 good biography of Richard Stallman
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 | Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $0.01 a story of friendship
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 | Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.04 freakin' pigs!
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.49 non-linear story on bureaucracy, war
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 | The Social Contract (Penguin Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Buy new: $9.00 / Used from: $2.15 interesting theories on how society is formed
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 | The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.89 what were these guys thinking?
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 | Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet by Katie Hafner
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.02 excellent background on Arpanet/Internet history
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.37 excellent book on developent of civilizations across the world
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 | Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-László Barabási
Buy used from: $4.95 mass-audience, shallow introduction to small world theory
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $0.35 not as good as 1984
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 | Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology) by Janet Abbate
Buy new: $22.10 / Used from: $16.99 very good read, but drier than Where Wizards Stay Up At Night
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 | Romeo and Juliet (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 overrated
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 | Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Twelfth Night; The Tempest (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.01 cost-effective collection of 4 comedies. my favourite is Twelfth Night
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 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.83 very different from Blade Runner
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 | Othello (Shakespeare, Signet Classic) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 a classic
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 | In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.40 nice exposition on CLIs vs. GUIs
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 | Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $1.49 pointless, but that's the point
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 | The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.50 a good book by Ridley, but not as good as Red Queen
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 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.99 time-travelling book on war horrors
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