Tweeting out favorites and book suggestions from your friendly neighborhood Twitter people. All views awesome, but our own. Curated by @sof.
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The Golden Ticket by Lance Fortnow: Popular explanation of people seeking solutions for the impossible, via @phoe6
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, by @robinsloan: playfully captures the current ethos + archetypes of the San Francisco tech world via @sof
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov: shrouded yet accessible, half poetry and half prose connected through hypertext via @garru
To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan: A very Twittery introduction to combinatory logic via @DanaDanger
The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan: If Joseph Heller lived in communist China and really really liked alcohol this would be it. via @lessachu
The Mists of Avalon: Retold with le Fay as a sympathetic defender of matriarchal tradition instead of a powerful villainess via @DanaDanger
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles: Becoming who you are, making all the best mistakes. New York City in the 30s. via @sof
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the chief provider of the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. via @karantly
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving: "characters that you'll love and great storytelling that spans decades." via @chenosaurus
fun with books retweeted
@read If you work and live in New York, read "The Power Broker." Amazing biography and the best guide to why your city is t he way it is.
Tweet @read with the title of your favorite book! Help others find new adventures and soon-to-be old friends.
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery: a world being examined is so small that it becomes large. via @saramctweets