Freedom and the Law, Bruno Leoni.

• As a series of lectures, this book doesn't read as well as it would have if it had been edited by the author as a book, but good discussion of libertarian legal ideas, especially the tendency of legislatures to "over-rule".

• Very good discussion of privately-produced law, including interesting discussion of pre-state common law practices.

• One of the best "literary histories" I've ever read; excellent way to fill a hole, if you haven't studied the French Revolution.

• Extremely well written and researched exploration of the evolutionary psychology of human sexuality. This book casts light on some of the deepest recesses of the human psyche with examples from the ethology of many nonhuman species and very broad research into human sexual behavior. Very Highly Recommended.

• Beautiful book-length historical essay of Spain and Latin America; my most highly-recommended single book on Latin America.

• Keegan takes on Clausewitz and wins: The natural history of warfare as an anthropological phenomenon in actual history; contains Keegans "taxonomy" of army-types.

• Not particularly well edited collection of mesoamerican myths; well-illustrated.

• Entertaining semi-gonzo account of the Reston Ebola incident, its antecedents and aftermath; great airplane book.

• Natural history of drug use in humans and other animals; very interesting.

• Minsky's updated Piagetean epistemology and schema for the development of AI; a must read for would-be transhumanists.

• Tipler's "big book" on life, the universe and everything; this is the book about the "Omega Point".

• The first book was my introduction to transhumanism as a discrete collection of ideas; In Nano, Regis does another good job of chronicling the transhumanist movement, here in a scientific biography of Eric Drexler.

• Some of the funniest fiction and best-researched historical fiction ever written.
• A G.M. Fraser Web Page

• The best sea-stories ever written; great historical fiction and great literature, Aubrey and Maturin are two of the most interesting and engaging characters I've encountered.
• The Aubrey/Maturin Web!

• Great end-of-the-world sci-fi novel.

• A great example of fiction by one of the best thinkers writing science fiction today.