Fiction
The Tin Drum Gunther Grass
The Clay Machine Gun (also translated as Buddha's Little Finger) Victor Pelevin
Generation P (also translated as Homo Zapiens) Victor Pelevin
1984 George Orwell
On Grief and Reason Joseph Brodsky
The Defense Vladimir Nabokov
Spring in Fialta Vladimir Nabokov
Kim Rudyard Kipling
The Moon and Sixpence Somerset Maugham
Doctor Fisher of Geneva Graham Greene
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carrol
Sophie's Choice William Styron
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Moby Dick Melville
The Burn Vassily Aksyonov
In Search of Melancholy Baby Vassily Aksyonov
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Froth on the Daydream (also translated as Indigo Blue) Boris Vian
The Meeting of Strangers Elsa Triolet
Death of a Hero Richard Aldington
Tender is the Night Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Freddie's Book Martin Gardner
Autumn of the Patriarch Marquez
The Three Comrades Remarque
Side Effects Woody Allen
Imaginary Magnitude Stanislaw Lem
Bech is Back John Updike
Mr. Sammler's Planet Saul Bellow
 
Non-fiction
Characters La Bruyere
Essays Montaigne
Thoughts Pascal
The Life of Twelve Caesars Suetonius
King Solomon's Ring Konrad Lorenz
The Golden Bough Frazer
Neurotic Styles Shapiro
Parkinson's Law Cyril N. Parkinson
Man made (a memoir of my body) Ken Baker
 
Tao of Programming
Effective C++ Meyers
Design Patterns Erich Gamma et al.
Decline and Fall of the American Programmer Yourdon
Programming Pearls Bentley
 

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