A few that have come to mind recently, prompted from threads here, or life in general Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition - Samuel Beckett For those who are waiting...for food trucks, nuclear attacks, or a shipment of seeds for your vegetable garden (mine will be on their way soon) Traders, Guns, and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives - Satyajit Das Many excellent real-life stories - sardonic quant humor for any market Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban MIssile