Trainspotting

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Even better than the movie!

Author

Irvin Welsh, a contemporary Scottish novelist.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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Collection of essays on software engineering methods.

Author

Eric Steven Raymond, American computer programmer, author and open source software advocate.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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So much better than the television show...

Author

George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English author, journalist and revolutionary opposer to totalitarianism.

Brave New World

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Oh Ford, what a masterpiece!

Author

Aldous Leonard Huxley, English writer of novel and essays.

Girl with a One-Track Mind

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A blog about sexuality.

Author

Abby Lee, pen name of Zoe Margolis, British blogger.

The Catcher in the Rye

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The very first coming of age novel.

Author

Jerome David Salinger, an American author, known for his reclusive nature.

On the road

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...but I'm out, on the road again -- Canned Heat

Author

Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac, a Canadian-American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast, and alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

Papillon

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True story of a man, imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit and his miraculous escape(s).

Author

Henri Charrière,  a convicted murderer chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a hugely successful memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony on French Guiana.

The Brethren

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Three convicted former judges have the perfect blackmail scam until they hit on the wrong victim...

Author

John Ray Grisham, Jr., an American author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.

Code to Zero

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Set in the cold war, a man with amnesia struggles through 48 hours that could change the world's political landscape (1).

Author

Ken Follett, a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels has sold more than 100 million copies of his works.

Business Stripped Bare

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Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur.

Author

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, British business magnate, chairman of Virgin Group.

We The Living

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Strong anti-communist manifest.

Author

Ayn Rand, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.

Tao Te Ching

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Harmony by non-action.

Author

Lao Tzu, mystic philosopher of ancient China.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

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Probably the best children's book in the world.

Author

Lewis Carroll (real name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson):  English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

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An essay regarding the question: "What is quality?".

Author

Robert Maynard Pirsig, American writer and philosopher.