In case you wanted to give me a book for some occasion here are a few 
I'd like to read and likely to keep on my bookshelf. Please try not to get it from Amazon! 

Top current interest:
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David Bolm - Wholeness 
Umberto Eco  - Semiotics and philosophy of language
"This is Biology" Ernst Mayr (biology for physics minds) 
Stephen Jay Gould "The Mismeasure of Man," a study of intelligence testing 
Durkheim Emile, 'Elementary Forms of Religious Life.' (superconsciousness)(EP)
William Styron "Sophie's choice" (Adbe) 

older ideas
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 "Theory of Self-Reproducing Authomata" John von Neumann, 1966 
 "Confessions of a philosopher", by Bryan Magee. (K)
 Burroughs William (Naked lunch)   (a friend of Kerouac J.) (EP)
 Bukowski Charles "Women" (Ipek)
 Bouvier Nicolas, "Chronique japonaise" (L)
 Camus A. "The fall"(Abde),"Between yes & no"(mb),"Speeches from Sweeden"(manu)
 Carver Raymond - short stories (abde)
 Coelho Paulo "The fifth mountain" "Dnevnik maga" "Palomnichestvo" " Val'kirii" "By the River Piedra I sat down and wept"(mom)
 Daniel Dennett "Brainstorms" (ref from D. R. Hofstadter "A coffeehouse
               conversation" - from "Mind's I") "Consciousness explained"
 Duras Marguerite (Chiroshima, Mon amoir; The ravishing of Lol Stein") (EP)
 Durrenmatt "Physicists" 
 Gardrer "Art History" (or Janson)
 Goodrick Mick, The Advancing Guitarist  
 Gide, Andre, 1869-1951 "The immoralist", "Falshivomonetchiki" (L)
 Gurdjieff "Beelzebub's tales to his grandson: an objectively impartial criticism of the life of man" (ref from Rushdi?)
 H. Hesse  "Narcisso & Goldmund" (L, John, EJ)
 Eco Umberto, "How to Travel with a Salmon" (sah)5A
 Faulkner "The sound and the Fury" (mb), "Absalom, Absalom!"(sah)
 Kadare Ismail "The three-arched bridge"  (Abde)
 Kerouc "Book of Dreams" (EJ), Satari in Paris 
 Morua Andre, Pis'mo k Molodomu cheloveku, Prevratnosti Lyubvi (dad)
 Miller Henry 'Tropic of cancer' (EJ)
 Nabokov  Pale fire(lpk) 1-SIZE PG3476.N3
 Voltaire "Candid" (L, mb)   PQ2082 .C3 1968a 
 Rimbaud Arthur "A season in Hell"  (EJ)
 Rilke 
 Remarque, Erich Maria "All Quiet On The Western Front", "A time to love, a time to die", "Black Obelisk"  (dad, mb)
 Roth Philip "The counterlife"  (Abde) 
 Sartre J-P "Being and Nothingness" (EJ)
 Salinger "Catcher in the Rye"(re-read), "Franny and zoay" (EJ)
 Saramago "Blindness" Portuguese  N'98 (Nadine)
 Solovev "Smysl Lyubvi"  1892
 "Nothing To Declare" by Mary Morris memoir of a woman traveling alone through Central America (holly)
 Seth, Vikram  "The Golden Gate: a novel in verse" 1952 (lpk) PS3569.E76 G65
  Gaarder, Jostein  Sophie's world: a novel about the history of philosophy
    PT8951.17.A17 S6413   (lm)

  Erasm Notredamme "Tribute to the stupidity" (L)
  Manuel Oleveira "Un lettre"
  M. Prust "A la recherche du temps perdu" 
  Merab Mamardashvili "Psihologicheskaya topologiya puti" 

  Elias Canetti (lli?)   eye-play; crowd and power  (Edwin)
  Dutch: Cees Nooteboom: all souls
  
  Evelina Macropolis (immortal)
  Ziskind "perfumer" (L)
  
  Naguib Mahfouz "The Trilogy",   1950  "Place Walk"
  Ahdaf Soueif "In the Eye of the Sun" 

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 Joyce, ginsberg, burroughs
 Genrikh Bell, Peter Weiss, Alfred Deblin, Genrich Mann, Gottfried Keller,
John Keats, Naguib Mahfouz

  Philip K. Dick "UBIK" "Palmer Eldrich" "The man in the High Castle"

 Edelman, Gerald M. Bright air, brilliant fire : on the matter of the mind          Lamont: BF161.E34 1992x