10 most influential works
these may change with my mood
an idea noted in The Alcalde, the University of Texas alumni magazine
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)
- Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (1983)
- Guests of the Sheik by Elizabeth Fernea (1965)
- Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy (1987)
- Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (1999)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005)
- The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N by Leo Rosten (1937)
- None of Us are Free by Solomon Burke (2002)
- Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, a movie by Stanley Kubrick (1963)