- The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- Foundations of Analysis by Edmund Landau
- The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd
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I own a copy of the GEB and have read random parts of it for years. If there is enough interest, I would love to read along with people and discuss it.
I am mostly planning to read a large part of Landau's series :)
See http://homovulgaris.blogspot.com/2007/01/course-of-physics.html
Regarding your book list .. well penrose is ok.. I personally am a Dawkins fan. Do read more of his books.
I'm very much a fan of The Selfish Gene. The man's a good debater, and it shows in his writing.
How about something shorter by Stephenson? (No way anyone is getting through the baroque cycle in a summer) Or perhaps one book could be Vernor Vinge's The Peace War.
The Peace War is an interesting suggestion. The Diamond Age by Stephenson is 512 pages. Snow Crash is shorter, but I've read that one. My list above is based on books I own that need to be read eventually, so please feel free to recommend whatever.
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