Here's a small list of some of my favorite books

(in no pariticular order)

• Religious:
  • The Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma (Lotus Sutra)
  • The Bible
  • The Koran
  • The Book of Mormon
  • Kundalini: Evolution & Enlightenment, John White
  • The Thirteen Principal Upanishads
  • The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche
• Science Fiction:
  • Arthur C. Clarke (just about everything he's written)
  • Stephen Donaldson (both series):
    
    • The Thomas Covenant series
    • The Gap Series
      • The Real Story
      • Forbidden Knowledge
      • A Dark and Hungry God Arises
      • Chaos and Order (currently reading this)
  • Michael Crichton (Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, etc.)
  • Frank Herbert, The Dune series
• Others:
  • Why I Am Not a Christian, by Bertram Russell
  • Sidhartha, by Herman Hesse
  • The Mind's Eye, Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
  • Many books by Ayn Rand including The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, etc.
  • Science and Human Behavior, B. F. Skinner
  • The Tao of Physics, Fritjof Capra
  • The Discovers, Daniel Boorstin
  • Various books by James Thurber, including The Thurber Carnival, etc.

Richard Johnson, January, 1996