What are your five-star books?

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I'm still going through a stack of 'paper' books having only recently being gifted with a kindle2 so this list reflects the books that were read or reread in the past 18 months or so and almost all of them are probably not found in an ebook format.

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry edited by Tony Branstone & Chou Ping
Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert
The Essential Chuang Tzu edited by Sam Hamill & J.P. Seaton
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Writings of William James edited by John J. McDermott
From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
A Jacques Barzun Reader by Jacques Barzun
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra
The Hidden Connections by Fritjof Capra
Microcosmos by Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan
Acquiring Genomes by Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan
The Tree of Life by Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker