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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.\
\- Mark Twain

- **Origami and Math - John Montroll**: I like origami and I like math, so this book is like heaven for me. Easily my top favorite origami book of all time.

- **What If? - Randall Munroe**: The What If? blog but as a book, and the best way to blown the mind of fourth-grade me.

- **The Elements - Theodore Gray**: Lovely periodic table book with large beautiful pictures except the author sadly didn't try to nearly kill himself by photographing the highly radioactive elements.

- **Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen**: I can't decide if this book is more interesting or [Wikipedia's weirdest history articles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles#History).

- **The Code Book - Simon Singh**: The book that got me into cryptography, except I lost it after a week after bringing it everywhere.

- **Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter**: An amazing math book that I received as a present recently even though I'd already read the book a few years ago. Oh well.