7 books to get to know me, in no particular order:
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
The C++ Programming Language, Bjarne Stroustrup
The Grey King, Susan Cooper
Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters