Catch-22
Joseph Heller (1961).
What makes us who we are?
an idea noted in The Alcalde, the University of Texas alumni magazine, where the lists were entitled "the ten cultural works that have most influenced your life or opened up new windows on the world"
There may be more or less than 10 here, but who's counting?
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte (1983)
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick (2011)
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Paul Kennedy (1987)
Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
Fredrik Logevall (1999)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond (2005)
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
Leo Rosten (1937)
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Orlando Figes (2019)
Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
a movie by Stanley Kubrick (1963)
None of Us are Free
Solomon Burke (2002)