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Personal Favorites

Science Fiction

• Robert Heinlein:

Stranger in a Strange Land

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

• James Hogan:

Voyage from Yesteryear

Code of the Lifemaker

• Arthur C. Clarke:

Rendezvous with Rama series

The Fountains of Paradise

Tales from the White Hart

• Orson Scott Card:

Ender's Game series

A Planet Called Treason

• Lois McMaster Bujold:

Falling Free

...and all the Miles Vorkosigan books...

• Connie Willis:

Doomsday Book

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Fantasy

• J.R.R. Tolkien:

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings

• Piers Anthony:

early Xanth series

Classic Fiction

• George Orwell:

Animal Farm

1984

• Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Persuasion

• John Steinbeck

Cannery Row

The Pearl

Serious nonfiction with particular importance to me

• On education: Jonathan Kozol, The Night is Dark and I Am Far from Home
• On love and sexuality: Easton and Liszt, The Ethical Slut
• On consensual crimes: Peter McWilliams, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
• On genocide in Rwanda: Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families