books I think ought to be great

but which haven't gotten round to reading yet, and am pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get past page one

1. Godel,Escher,Bach, an eternal golden braid ( punctuation may vaey ), by douglas hofstadter
2. a pattern language, by christopher alexander
3. a thousand years of non-linear history , by manuel delanda
this can add the following to the list :
3.1 war in the age of intelligent machines
3.2 a thousand plateaus - guattari & deleuze
> no more : 4. the emperor's new mind, by roger penrose
5. laws of form
6. SICP,PCL, Anatomy of Lisp, etc etc,
7. Flow

to begin with some of these books already languish in my cupboard unattended. there are also books on graphology, astrology, how to read faces...

new additions : the Programmer's Stone course's reading list

this includes feynman lectures on computation (!!!)
and more