The Norton Anthology of Short Stories.
Failing that, Flowers for Algernon or Catch-22.
The Norton Anthology of Short Stories.
Failing that, Flowers for Algernon or Catch-22.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (although a Prayer for Owen Meany was a contender, but rats, it was taken by Antigen).
The Dollmaker by Harriett Arnow
To Serve Man by Damon Knight
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time.
Munro Leaf’s Gordon the Goat.
Something by Vonnegut, I think.
Henry Adams’s Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
(great question!)
The God Dellusion.
Or perhaps the His Dark Materials Box set.
An upside-down book. Don’t care which.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
One of the most purely FUN books I’ve ever read, interspersed with some interesting concepts.
God bless you, sir.
Crash by J.G. Ballard
HA!
How about The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore.
Story of O. It’s very important to warp young minds.
Definitely Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Or The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Or Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here For the Food.
I didn’t specify.
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