Pastwatch - Orson Scott Card

Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics - Ralph Grimaldi (It makes a great mousepad)

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

Naked - David Sedaris

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Fermata - Nicholson Baker

Call It Sleep - Henry Roth (The Jewish Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

Codes, Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication - Fred B. Rixon

Microserfs - Douglas Coupland

Learning Perl - Randal Schwartz & Tom Phoenix