There is a meme going around that people should mention a list of ten books that changed them. The following is my list:
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson
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The TeXbook: Donald E. Knuth
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One, two, three, infinity: George Gamov
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Physics and Music: Gleb Anfilov
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The Concept of A Riemann Surface: Hermann Weyl
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Yuganta, The End of an Epoch: Iravati Karve
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Three men in a Boat: Jerome K. Jerome
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Mathematics for the Million: Lancelot Hogben
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My Experiments with Truth: Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Rainbow's End: Vernor Vinge
How the list was created.
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I made a list of keywords for the books (since I didn't remember the title/author in some cases). This took 5 minutes.
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Hunted on Google for precise titles and full author names.
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Trimmed the list to 10. (There were about 15!)
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Sorted the list in Alphabetical order.
Of course, each book is the "leader" in a list of books that are similar.