Inspired by a conversation about recreational reading I had with a past student. Five per category, in no particular order:
Fiction
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Candide: or, The Optimist by Voltaire
Nonfiction
- The Panda’s Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
- Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me! by Edmund Snow Carpenter
- Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by Tȟáȟča Hušté
Comics
- The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
- Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman
- The Book of Genesis by Robert Crumb
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
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