Reddit reviews Calvin and Hobbes (Volume 1)

This I believe is the earliest and where I started.

I then went to this one but I don't know if you can really go wrong starting anywhere...

A good copy of this book is $3.83 with Prime.

Here you go, $4 after shipping

I have no suggestions for engineering, but my one of my safe go to gifts is one of the Calvin and Hobbes collections.

https://www.amazon.com/Calvin-Hobbes-Bill-Watterson/dp/0836220889

I'm sure whatever you gift him, you're rep will be intact :)

I've decided to start reading the Calvin and Hobbes series. These all came from the book I'm reading: Calvin and Hobbes Book 1 by Bill Watterson. (Amazon, if you're curious)

At the risk of coming across as facetious, I will say that there is an actual starting point, namely. Barring that I would highly recommend any of the Essential, Authoritative, or Indispensable collections, mostly because I like the format of those books the best for lounging and reading, but it could be argued they also contain the best collection, the Authoritative is my favourite. In truth I don't believe you can go wrong no matter where you choose to start, they are all more or less equally hilarious, and he doesn't generally reference old strips so you can start with any strip.

I envy your discovery of Watterson's wonderful world.

Annnnd here we go again. I'm doing this with all books, just because.

Allegiant

Berenstain Bears

Calvin and Hobbes

Dune

Edgar Allen Poe collection

Fahrenheit 451

Gulliver's Travels

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Julie of the Wolves

Kite Runner

Little House on the Prairie

Machine of Death

Neverending Story

Omnitopia Dawn (The book I'm reading now, actually!)

Pilgrim's Progress

Quarter Share (Also available free as a podiobook!)

Room

Snow Crash

[Tell-Tale Brain](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=tell-tale brain&sprefix=tell-tale%2Cstripbooks%2C222&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Atell-tale brain&ajr=2)

Uglies

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Watership Down

Xenocide

Year Zero

Zen and the Art of Knitting