Hey gang,
I have an Amazon online gift certificate that I need to use. I'd like to buy some interesting books that I can see myself rereading often, and I don't feel like buying novels since I'd rather get those from a library. Basically, I'm looking for "cool" books that I want to have in my bookshelf 2, 5, 10, 30 years from now and pick up and say "Yeah, this book is cool. I should read through it again." So far, my list is:
-Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis
-Diagramless Crosswords, by Brendan Emmett Quigley
Sooooo crossword books don't really fit my description above, but whatever. Any other ideas?
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1: Books by members of Oulipo. I would particularly recommend Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau and Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec. I guess the latter could be considered a novel, but I'm recommending it anyway.
ReplyDelete2: Any of the Amphigorey collections by Edward Gorey
i liked logicomix...i think itd be a nice thing to have a copy of
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of anything by Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics. These are amazing books that I find myself rereading. Granted, I have them all and you can just borrow them if you want.
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