Top Ten Books
1. Douglas Hofstadter "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
2. Leo Frankowski "Cross-Time Engineer" (series)
3. Douglas Coupland "Microserfs"
4. Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy"
5. Neal Stephenson "Cryptonomicon"
6. Michael Ende "Momo"
7. Robert Heinlein "Starship Troopers"
8. David Sedaris "Holidays On Ice"
9. Walter M. Miller Jr. "A Canticle For Liebowitz"
10. Kurt Vonnegut "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater"
James Joyce "Ulysses"
Nick Hornby "High Fidelity"
Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" & "Through the Looking Glass"
Emma Bull "War of the Oaks"
Christopher Langdon "The Maze"
Fred Saberhagen "Lost Swords" (series)
Ray Bradbury "Something Wicked This Way Comes"
Connie Willis "To Say Nothing Of The Dog"
Reif Larsen "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet"
John Christopher "White Mountains" (series)
John D. McDonald "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything"
Connie Willis "To Say Nothing Of The Dog"
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Dave Eggers "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
C.S. Lewis "Chronicles of Narnia" (series)
Ray Bradbury "Fahrenheit 541"
Ray Bradbury (short stories)
William Forschen ("The Lost Regiment" series)
John Knowles "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
Richard Bach "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
Arturo P�rez-Reverte "The Flanders Panel"
Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"
Roald Dahl (all)
Jay McInerney "Ransom"
Robert Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
Ernest Hemingway "Old Man and the Sea"
Mark Haddon "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Douglas Coupland "Life After God"
Umberto Eco "Island of the Day Before"/ "The Name of the Rose"/ "Focault's Pendulum"
Richard Feynman "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
Richard Feynman "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman"
George Orwell "1984"
James Joyce "The Dubliners"
Joseph Heller "Catch 22"
Stephen Hawking "A Brief History of Time"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Slaughterhouse Five"
Charlotte Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Steve Martin "Shopgirl"
Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants"
(Hardy Boys Mysteries)
Pete Wagner "Buy This Book" & "Buy This Book, Too"
Robert Cormier "I Am the Cheese"
Maurice Sendak "Where the Wild Things Are"
Fritzof Capra "The Tao of Physics" & "The Turning Point"
Dr. Seuss (all)
James Gliek "Chaos"
Bill Peet "Buford the Little Bighorn"
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. "Mother Night"

Thor's Top Authors
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Steven Milhauser
Ethan Mordden (fiction, the Buddies pentology)
Jack Fritscher
Dr. Seuss
(tie)
Roald Dahl's adult works
S. J. Perelman

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