For Work:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick
The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
For fun
Life on Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet by Sherry Turkle
Birthday Stories by Haruki Murakami
Washington Square by Henry James
Triumph & Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould (Baseball and science in one book- the most perceptive present i received this year)
Oracle Nights by Paul Auster
Listening to: BILL HICKS, he died ten years ago last week and it would be a crime to forget him.