Here are the recommendations I've gleaned from word of mouth, plus a few of my own.
General
The Decameron (Boccaccio)
The Ghost Map (Johnson)
Lolita (Nabokov)
The Invisible Man (Wells)
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Joyce)
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
The Glass Castle (Walls)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Khun)
Sociability and Slang (Eble)
East of Eden (Steinbeck)
Signal and Noise (Griesemer)
Middlesex (Eugenides)
Mediated (Zengotita)
Academic (Articles/Books)
Cognitive Semantics (Talmy)
Cognitive Grammar (Langacker)
Gestures Accompanying Verbal Route Directions... (Allen)
What the Face Reveals (Ekman)
5 comments:
Try The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. My favorite book ever. This blog is what I should have done, if I was as smart and creative as you!
Oh and also, try Pablo Neruda's poetry. I got a few volumes of it from the library, and it's wonderful. He describes things in incredibly unconventional, convoluted terms, almost roundaboutly, but you always get his images beautfiully. They're...elegantly strange. Most of the books of his poetry also comes both in the original spanish and the translated english, on opposite pages. It's interesting to see how different the spanish is, and how the rythm and images changes. I think the Spanish versions are better because they have better flow and emphasis on particularly important words.
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I really enjoyed The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho.
It's an unexpectedly fun little read that leaves you wishing it weren't so little. Simple little story with bits of Confuciusian like detail juxtaposed against big picture thoughts about living life fully.
I've heard that some of the others by Coelho are also good but I would not recommend The Witch of Portobello.
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If your major is "science" anything (e.g., cog sci), you'd probably be delighted by Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
So many books so little time...It's obviously way late to add to your list but I can make a zillion recommendations any time you want.
(I think I'll do a blog post with some!) :)
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