OK, it is a kid's book. But who cares? I loved it as a child and I still enjoy it. It also allows to procrastinate whilst retaining moral highground. Just what I am doing now, in fact.

This blew my mind when I read it the first time, then it became confused. And than a friend pointed out that he leans to heavily on Murakami. I still really enjoyed it after the third reading.

Another author who learned from Murakami. But rather weird than quirky. With a bit of gastroporn thrown in.

My cooking started with this. My dirty little sectret is that when I wrote up my PhD I only read recepie books in order to relax. And this one is still high up the list.

This is another jolly classic. Make sure you get a book containing parts 1 and 2. And skip the boring Marlowe, this is much more interesing. Amusing, too.

I sometimes like a geeky read, and whilst Banks is positively the Antithesis of Hesse, he laso is crisp with a bitter seaweed tang. I like this one because the AIs are the new humans. Superhumans.

A book by a geek who tries not cease to be one, for other geeks, who pretend that they are cool. Very uncool but very good.