Nov 17, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: 9 Easter Eggs From the Bookshelf in Interstellar

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[*The Wasp Factory*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/waspfactory) - Iain Banks | “Once read, never forgotten, strangely moving, horrible tale of a child and father living in near isolation.”
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[*Selected Poems*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/selectedeliot) - T. S. Eliot | “Concepts of time and space at their most complex are sometimes best expressed through art rather than science. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’ are as thought-provoking about time as any scientific text.”

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[*The Stand*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/thestand ) - Stephen King | "A bleak scenario that hammers home the fact that our perspective on momentous events will always be intimate.”
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[*Gravity’s Rainbow*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/gravitysrainbow) - Thomas Pynchon | “The most elegant title. Ever.”

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[*Emma*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/emma) - Jane Austen | “A beautiful name for a beautiful book (or a beautiful producer).”
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[*A Wrinkle in Time*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/wrinkleintime) - Madeleine L’Engle | “My introduction to the idea of higher dimensions, including the notion of a tesseract.”

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[*Labyrinths*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/labyrinths) - Jorge Luis Borges | “The name says it all.”
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[*The Go Between*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/gobetween) - L.P. Hartley | “The experiences of childhood echoing through the halls of adulthood. Moving, with one of the greatest opening sentences of all time.”

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[*Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions*](http://cnstud.io/wired_editorial/apps/flatland) - Edwin Abbott | “A remarkably readable attempt to change the actual way that you look at the world around you.”

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