I'm forever recommending books to people, so much so that I think certain publishing companies should send me a little plaque to thank me. You know, "Lady, he's putting my kids through college!"*.
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Right now, this page is tentatively organized into "Recent Favorites", which represent really good books from the past year or so, and "All-Time Favorites", books for the ages. Maybe if I ever have any free time (ha) I'll write reviews of these books.

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<b>Recent Favorites:</b>
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<li>Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges
<li>Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
<li>The Scar, by China Mieville
<li>Abhorsen, by Garth Nix
<li>American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
<li>Anything from the Expendables universe, by James Alan Gardner
<li>The Liveship Traders trilogy, by Robin Hobb
<li>The Assassin series, by Robin Hobb
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<b>All-Time Favorites:</b>
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<li>The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
<li>Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
<li>The Sarantine Mosaic, by Guy Gavriel Kay
<li>Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
<li>The His Dark Materials series, by Phillip Pullman
<li>Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay
<li>A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge
<li>True Names, by Vernor Vinge (more accurate than a Jules Verne novel, except about the internet!)
<li>The Brothers Karamozov, by Doestoevsky
<li>Sandman, by Neil Gaiman
<li>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
<li>The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
<li>Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre is a babe, what can I say?)
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* I'm looking at you, Simon & Schuster!