# fiction:

  Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)

  The Unconsoled  (Kazuo Ishiguro) 
      [no '-w' no 'use strict' == no sympathy]

  One hundred years of solitude (Gabrial Garcia Marquez)

  Out of Sight (Elmore Leonard)  

  Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Ecco);

# non-fiction:

  Gray's Anatomy  (Henry Gray)

  The Cosmic Code (Heinz Pagels)

  Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)

  Longitude (Dava Sobel) 
      [it's the general idea, not the accuracy that matters]

  Patterns in Prehistory (Robert Wenke)