Stanislaw Lem, The Futurological Congress Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea + Snows of Kilmanjaro (Short Stories) + A Farewell to Arms + Islands in the Stream (after you appreciate his style) Standard Must Reads: The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, Catch 22, Slaughterhouse 5, Animal Farm Shakespeare, Turgenev, Poetry by Emily Dickinson. There have been books written since 1970 but I just can't think of any. Modzi