This is a great thread idea, Greg! :thumbup::thumbup: Thinking selfishly, this should be more popular than "Beverages and Blades", since I read more than I drink!
Barrett, you've posted lots of interesting books already: Tolkien, Twain, Voltaire, Vonnegut all showed up on one shelf, along with a Hugo/Nebula winner that I should check out sometime!! And I always enjoy Chabon's books! :thumbup::thumbup: I think I've read most of them, but my problem is almost all of my "pleasure reading" is purely for escape/relaxation and I end up not remembering much anymore about the books I read.
Of course, it has the advantage that I could probably pick a set of 12 books and just read them repeatedly for whatever years I have left!
Here's my first-ever pocket knife, a Colonial Forest-Master I got around 1960, with a very easy-to-read, interesting "Math's Greatest Hits" book that serves as one of the textbooks in a course I'm teaching this semester.
- GT