# What are your must-read book recommendations?

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**Created:** [August 28, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-must-read-book-recommendations/78527 "2001-08-28T15:04:30Z")\
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Fiction : “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay” - Michael Chabon

Nonfiction:  
“The Selfish Gene” -Richard Dawkins

“The Reflexive Universe” - the guy that invented the bell helicopter- Arthure something. Best nonfiction book ever written

“Conciousness Explained”- and anything else by Daniel Dennett

“Denial of Death” - Ernest Becker

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If you haven’t read _Catch-22_ yet, you’re missing one of the great pleasures of life.

The same is also true for _The Grapes of Wrath_.

_Hyperion_, by Dan Simmons, is the best science fiction book of recent years. If you read it, you’ll probably want to also read the sequel, called _The Fall of Hyperion_.

Right now, I’m working on _Nightfall_, by Isaac Asimov, which is also a very original work of science fiction.

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