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I'm currently reading Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich, Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin, Empire by Hardt and Negri, Diary of a Genius by Salvador Dali, Darwin by Desmond and Moore, and By The Sword by Richard Cohen.

Next on my list: Non-Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges.

One of my favourite authors is Stanislaw Lem, his works, classed as science fiction, are an intelligent and dazzling study of the effects of technology on humanity.

I recently finished reading Shroedinger's Cat Trillogy by Robert A. Wilson, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, The Bridge by Iain Banks, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, The New Feminism by Natasha Walter, and Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman, and re-read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy by Douglas Adams (pay no attention to the fish stuck in my ear).

May I recommend:

Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky Orientalism by Edward W. Said The Palace of Wisdom by Robert Marshall-Andrews I, Claudius by Robert Graves Searching for the Emperor by Roberto Pazzi Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanislaw Lem The Embedding by Ian Watson Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams Neuromancer by William Gibson Nothing Sacred by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Ringworld by Larry Niven Cosmogenesis by David Layzer The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 by Donald M. Nicol What is Life? by Erwin Schroedinger The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero by Brian Rotman

And since I'm here, how about something by Nizar Kabbani, the great Damascean and Middle-Eastern poet...