--- title: "Books I Like" type: page --- - **Origami and Math - John Montroll**: My favorite origami book. - **1984 - George Orwell**: The book that Amazon erased from people's Kindles... - **What If? - Randall Munroe**: The What If? blog but as a book. - **The Elements - Theodore Gray**: Lovely periodic table book with large beautiful pictures. - **Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen**: Everything your history class got wrong. - **The Code Book - Simon Singh**: A very accessible book about cryptography. - **The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams**: A book so creative that it defies the limits of human creativity.