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- The Campus Trilogy (Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work), by David Lodge.
DO IT!: Scenarios of the Revolution, by Jerry Rubin.
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking A Spy Through The Maze Of Computer Espionage, by Cliff Stoll.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
Logicomix, by Apóstolos K. Doxiàdis and Christos Papadimitriou.
Other books that I strongly recommend can be found here (some of them are in French): https://pablo.rauzy.name/miscellaneous.html#books
Update: Pirates de tous les pays, by Marcus Rediker is a translation of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age which you can thus read in English :). It really is an awesome read! After I finished it I immidiately ordered 5 more copies to give them to friends.
- A pretty sombre article. In what were the "go go" days of academe, the MLA was the target of some fairly comic parodies and ridicule. A standout was David Lodge's "Small World" which formed part of his campus trilogy. [0][1]. Still a great read today.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_World:_An_Academic_Roman...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=campus+trilogy&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
