Giuseppe Insana - 墨白

The books I treasure the most and that perfectly resonate with my personality and ideas:

• 道德經[Dao De Jing] (老子)  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde, O.)  
• The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien, J.R.R.)  
• Le Petit Prince (De Saint-Exupery, A.)   (My collection of versions of this book)

As a kind of short "Bibliography into me" (books that nurtured and shaped me) and furthermore as a diverse set of good books which I would recommend anyone to read (in order to widen the mind's horizons and build a good memetic resistance), I present the following list.

• 兵法[The Art of War] (孫子)  
• Software (Rucker, R.v.B.)  
• 名人[The Master of Go] (川端康成)  
• The Mists of Avalon (Zimmer Bradley, M.)  
• A Brief History of Time (Hawking, S.)  
• Gödel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter, D.)  
• Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne[Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow] (Høeg, P.)  
• Ender's Game (Card, O.S.)  
• Djinn (Dufaux, J.)  
• The Kite Runner (Hosseini, K.)  
• La Philosophie dans le boudoir (de Sade, D.A.F.)  
• Margherita Dolcevita (Benni, S.)  
• Dune (Herbert, F.)  
• The Emperor's New Mind (Penrose, R.)  
• The World Until Yesterday (Diamond, J.)  
• Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke, A.C.)  
• A Clockwork Orange (Burgess, A.)  
• Golden Boy (江川達也)  
• Il Gattopardo (Tomasi di Lampedusa, G.)  
• The Pillars of the Earth (Follet, K.)  
• A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin, U.K.)  
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig, R.M.)  
• Naked Lunch (Burroughs, W.)  
• Anathem (Stephenson, N.)  
• Death: The High Cost of Living (Gaiman, N.)  
• Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens[Zen in the Art of Archery] (Herrigel, E.)  
• Aztec (Jennings, G.)  
• Die Verwandlung[The Metamorphosis] (Kafka, F.)  
• The Language Instinct (Pinker, S.)  
• Il Visconte Dimezzato (Calvino, I.)  
• The Incredible Tide (Key, A.)  
• Histoire d'O (Reage, P.)  
• 葉隠[Hagakure] (山本常朝)  
• The Selfish Gene (Dawkins, R.)  
• The Jagged Orbit (Brunner, J.)  
• The Gods Themselves (Asimov, I.)  
• Neuromancer (Gibson, W.)  
• Firechild (Williamson, J.)  
• Codex Seraphinianus (Serafini, L.)  
• Мастер и Маргарита (Булгаков, М.А.)  
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams, D.)  
• Il Nome della Rosa (Eco, U.)  
• Voyage au centre de la Terre (Verne, J.G.)  
• Decameron (Boccaccio G.)  
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick, P.K.)  
• Heart of Darkness (Conrad J.)  
• 攻殻機動隊[Ghost in the Shell] (士郎正宗)  
• Cien Años de Soledad (Márquez, G.G.)  
• Islands in the Net (Sterling, B.)  
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell, G.)  
• Ficciones (Borges, J.L.)  
• La Famosa Invasione degli Orsi in Sicilia (Buzzati, D.)  
• Oceano Mare (Baricco, A.)  
• The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger, J.D.)  
• Molecular Biology Of the Cell (Alberts B. et al.)  
• The Great Gatsby (Scott Fitzgerald, F.)  
• Dago (Wood, R.)  
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Heinlein, R.A.)  
• Canone Inverso (Maurensig, P.)  
• Chronicles of Wormwood (Ennis, G.)  
• 海辺のカフカ[Kafka on the Shore] (村上春樹)  
• Das Glasperlenspiel[The Glass Bead Game] (Hesse, H.)  
• Sin City (Miller, F.)  
• 潮騒[The Sound of Waves] (三島由紀夫)  
• The Language Construction Kit (Rosenfelder, M.)  
• La Divina Commedia (Alighieri, D.)  
• Tropic of Cancer (Miller, H.)  
• Sphere (Crichton, M.)  
• The Favourite Game (Cohen, L.)  
• Chung Kuo (Wingrove, D.)  

Note that both lists have been shuffled, so no order is implied. Also note that - for brevity purposes - I decided to include only one book for each writer; many other works by those authors would also be heartily recommended. I hope the number of those I forgot to include is not too high.