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These two are IMO timeless literature and unlike most of the recommended books in this thread are not business books.<br />
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Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson<br />
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi<br />
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Neal Stephenson is truly next level writer. I put little tabs on passages that I like and may want to refer back to. My copy of a great book like Little Big Man may have 5 or 6 tabs. Cryptonomicon has 60+.
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Stephenson doesn't get enough credit. His first book, Snowcrash, is a fast paced thriller of a sci fi book. Love that one. His later work gets more "heady". <br />
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Some of my favorites with no connection to personal development / business:<br />
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<b>Dune - </b>Just great, classic sci-fi. A must read for anyone who loves sci-fi.<br />
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<b>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - </b>The movie may very well be one of the most accurate book-to-movie adaptations I've ever seen but the book is still 100% worth a read.<br />
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<b>Hell's Angels </b>- By the same author as Fear and Loathing. Non-fiction. The author spent a year or so travelling with the Hell's Angels and writes about it as only Hunter S. Thompson can.<br />
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<b>Catch-22</b> - An absurd war story. Another classic. Every single page is absolutely hilarious.<br />
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<b>Ender's Game</b> - More sci-fi but it's very, very good. What's really cool is the entire book series branches off in two directions as the result of how it ends (the "Ender" series and the "Shadow" series) where one follows Ender and gets further into the sci-fi direction and the other stays on Earth and gets into war and politics.<br />
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<b>Slaughterhouse Five </b>- I say this book but really ANYTHING by Kurt Vonnegut is just great reading.<br />
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<b>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance </b>- Has nothing to do with either Zen or Bikes, funny enough. Great philosophical read about a father with split-personality disorder going on a cross country motorcycle trip with his son. The father dives deeply into the idea of quality and values.<br />
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<b>Trust Me, I'm Lying </b>- Nonfiction book about Ryan Holiday and his role as a media manipulator and how so much of what is considered news today is total bunk and possibly even entirely fabricated by people like him.
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I second Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.<br />
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I'll add The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook. If a giant squid attacks, if you ever get frostbite, if you need to drink water and all you have is a vine, or if you need to perform a tracheotomy (it's 5 steps!), you'll know what to do. Fun read. Definitely not like any other book I've read.</div>
