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I've been a compulsive reader all my life. Some years, I wrote down the names of the books I was reading.

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Autobiography of Anthony Trollope, by Anthony Trollope
The Myth of Neurosis: Overcoming the Illness Excuse, by Garth Wood
The Frontiers of Management: by Peter F. Drucker
The Virtue of Selfishness, by Ayn Rand
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, by James P. Carse
Atlas Shrugged, a novel by Ayn Rand
Brain Matters: Stories of a Neurologist and His Patients, by Bruce H. Dobkin
Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad
Restoring the American Dream: by Robert J. Ringer
Paper Money, by Adam Smith
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism: by Robert L. Heilbroner and James K. Galbraith
Risk and Other Four-Letter Words: by Walter B. Wriston
On Becoming A Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, by Carl R. Rogers
The Affluent Society: by John Kenneth Galbraith
New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery, by William H. Goetzmann
Maigret's War of Nerves, a novel by Georges Simenon
Multimind: A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior, by Robert E. Ornstein
Seven Clues to the Origin of Life: A Scientific Detective Story, by A. G. Cairns-Smith
Rotisserie League Baseball, by Daniel Okrent
The Twin Dimensions: Inventing Time and Space, by Geza Szamosi
In The Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism, by Dawn Ades
Pioneering the Space Frontier: The Report of the National Commission on Space by U.S. National Commission on Space
The Society of Mind: by Marvin Minsky
The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, by Ph.D., Robert T. Bakker
Stet! Tricks of the Trade for Writers and Editors, by Bruce O. Boston
Time Is All We Have: Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center, by Barnaby Conrad
Supercomputers of today and tomorrow: The parallel processing revolution, by Richard A Jenkins
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind, by Henry Hobhouse
Calvin & Hobbes: by Bill Watterson
Machinery of the Mind: Inside the New Science of Artificial Intelligence, by George Johnson
The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain, by William H Calvin
The Alphabet Effect: The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western Civilization, by Robert K. Logan
Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print, by Lawrence Block
Molecules of the Mind: The Brave New Science of Molecular Psychology, by Jon Franklin
Writing Becomes Electronic: by Bernhardt J. Hurwood
On Writing and the Novel: ESSAYS BY PAUL SCOTT
Thunderstones and Shooting Stars: The Meaning of Meteorites, by Robert T. Dodd
Micro-Cosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, by Lynn and Dorian Sagan Margulis
Dynamics of Macintosh Excel by John R. Adler
The Aldus Guide to Basic Design: by Roger C. Parker
Recent Revolutions in Anthropology: by Maxine P. Fisher
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity: Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences, by Gregory Bateson
You Can Profit From A Monetary Crisis: by Harry Browne
Modern Madness: The Hidden Link Between Work and Emotional Conflict, by Douglas LaBier
Games Pets Play: How Not to be Manipulated By Your Pet, by Dr. Bruce Fogle
After The Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe, by George Huppert
Time's Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time, by Richard Morris
News That Stayed News: 1974-1984: Ten Years of Coevolution Quarterly, by Stewart Brand and Art Kleiner
The Awful Truth About Publishing: Why They Always Reject Your Manuscript and What You Can Do About It, by John Boswell
Scientific Principals and Methods of Strength Fitness: by John Patrick O'Shea
Robotics: The First Authoritative Report from the Ultimate High-Tech Frontier, by Marvin Minsky
The Plateauing Trap: How to Avoid It in Your Career...and Your Life, by Judith M. Bardwick
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home, by Garry Wills
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time, by Stephen Jay Gould
The Child's Conception of the World: A 20th-Century Classic of Child Psychology, by Jean Piaget
Writers At Work: 7th Series: Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton,
Catwatching: Why Cats Purr and Everything Else You Ever Wanted to Know, by Morris Desmond
The Merchants War, a novel by Frederik Pohl
The Pathology of Power: by Norman Cousins
Suncell: ENERGY, ECONOMY and PHOTOVOLTAICS, by Christopher Swan
Dogwatching: WHY DOGS BARK AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU WANTED TO KNOW, by Desmond Morris
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, by Richard Dawkins
To Sail Beyond The Sunset, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein
Heechee Rendezvous, a novel by Frederik Pohl
Ringworld, a novel by Larry Niven
The Red Ape: Orang-Utans and Human Origins, by Jeffrey H. Schwartz
DON'T TREAD ON ME The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman, Prudence Crowther, Editor
Waging Business Warfare: Lessons from the Military Masters in Achieving Corporate Superiority, by David J. Rogers
The Boys of Winter: a novel by Wilfred Sheed
Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, by Rudolf Rucker
Thriving On Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution, by Tom Peters
Why the Best-Laid Investment Plans Usually Go Wrong: And How You Can Find Safety and Profit in an Uncertain World, by Harry Browne
Overcoming Agoraphobia: Conquering Fear of the Outside World, by Dr. Alan Goldstein and Berry Stainback
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, by Allan Bloom
The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking, by Theodore Roszak
Technique in Fiction: by Robie Macauley and George Lanning
Beyond the Quantum: How the Secrets of the New Physics are Bridging the Chasm Betweeen Science and Faith, by Michael Talbot