Books I Want to Read

From Nvm

See also: Books I'm Reading, Books I've Got But Haven't Read Yet and Books I've Read

• 1066 and All That by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. — Mentioned as a good book in the wikipedia fallout shelter article
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins
• A for Andromeda by Fred Hoyle
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes
• A Place So Foreign and Eight More by Cory Doctorow — Slashdot recommendation
• Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C Clarke
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• All Fool's Day by Edmund Cooper
• All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven — Recommended in the Terminator 2 FAQ. It is the name of a short story and also the collection of stories. Deals with Everetts-many worlds theory
• All You Zombies by Robert A Heinlein — Short story within a collection titled The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
• Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have A Thing To Do With It by David Mills — Referenced in The God Delusion (some of the anecdotes sounded very interesting)
• Bad Medicine by Christopher Wanjek
• Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
• Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition by Stuart A. Vyse
• Belligerence and Debauchery: The Tucker Max Stories by Tucker Max — First heard about this book after Reti Sped mentioned it in her blog"; ;
• Beyond War: The Human Potential For Peace by Douglas Fry
• Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
• Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Archer — FictionShe has been mentioned in discussions of Bukowski.
• Brute Force by Matt Curtin — Recommended on Slashdot, the history of cracking 56bit DES.
• Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller — I've read loads of essays about Catch 22 but I still haven't got around to reading it yet.
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• Colossus: The Fall of Colossus by Dennis Jones — Sequel to the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V Aho — Also known as The Dragon Book, a classic text I should have read by now
• Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham
• Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye — aka Simulacron-3
• Counterknowledge by Damian Thomson
• Creation Revisited by Peter Atkins — Referenced in The God Delusion
• The Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes
• Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton
• The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Dark Universe by Daniel F. Galouye — Recommended by Dawkins
• Dawkins vs Gould: Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny
• Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life by Alister McGrath — Trying to balance some of my reading..
• Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Phillip K. Dick
• Dragon's Egg (Del Ray Impact) by Robert L Forward — Mentioned on some TV show, sounds interesting, life on a nova star.
• Dressing the Man by Alan Flusser — Book about how to dress. Interesting. I should read this.
• E-myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
• Earth Abides by George R Stewart
• Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors by Louis R. Franzini and John M. Grossberg
• Edenborn by Nick Sagan — Sequel to Idlewild
• Empty World by Samuel Youd
• Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein — Mentioned as a good book in the wikipedia fallout shelter article
• Fitzpatrick's War by Theodore Judson
• Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes — Recommended by Matt at Ottakar's bookgroup - I'd like to read some more Julian Barnes anyway, after enjoying Arthur & George
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — The subtitle reads "the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets", sounds interesting
• For a Breath I Tarry' by Roger Zelazny
• Freaks' Amour by Tom DeHaven
• Fugue For A Darkening Island by Christopher Priest
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn — Sounds fascinating
• God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens — Recommended by Dawkins as a good book dealing with Islam.
• Golem XIV by Stanisław Lem — Sentient AI novel.
• Good News by Edward Abbey
• Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
• Has Science Found God? by Victor J. Stenger — Referenced in The God Delusion
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• How We Believe by Michael Shermer
• How They Started: How 30 Good Ideas Became Great Businesses by David Lester
• How to Survive a Robot Uprising by Daniel Wilson
• Hungry City Chronicles by Philip Reeve
• If it's Raining In The Tropics, Buy Starbucks by Peter Navarro
• Implosion by D. F. Jones
• In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
• Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
• The Islamist by Ed Husain — Recommended by Dawkins
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris — Recommended by Dawkins in one of his lectures in Lynchburg, Virginia.
• Letting Go Of God by Julia Sweeney — I don't think this is primarily a book, but an audio CD. Will try to get hold of it anyway, sounds interesting.
• Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
• Life - How Did It Get Here? by Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania — Referenced in The God Delusion - A creationist book which has been posted to Dawkins six times, would be interesting to see.
• Linux Toys: 13 Projects for Home, Office and Entertainment byChris Negus — Recommended on Slashdot, sounds like a fun book
• Love and Sex with Robots by David Levy
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez — This is the book for a meetup.com bookgroup
• Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell
• Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung, Joseph L. Henderson, Marie-Louise von Franz, Aniella Jaffé and Jolande Jacobi — Recommended on the wikipedia entry for Jung as a good introduction to Jungian psychology.
• Marijuana Time by Ken Lukowiak — bigkevmcd recommended this to me, will try and borrow it at some point.
• Megamistakes by Steven Schnaars by — Recommended on Slashdot. 'Professor Schaar.s book talks about science and technology forecasting and how wildly wrong such forecasts almost always are. He then goes on to talk about why forecasts go wrong.'
• Metamagical Themas byDouglas Hofstadter — Mentioned by bigkev, looks interesting
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E Douglas and Mark Olshaker
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman — Referenced in The God Delusion
• Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How To Survive Life's Smaller Challenges by Guy Browning — This was on the 'also bought by' list on Amazon when I was looking at 'East, Shites and Leaves', the reviews were good, looks like a fun book
• The Numerati by Stephen Baker
• On The Beach by Nevil Shute
• On The Rooftops of Paris by Henry Miller — Mentioned by Sara from the meetup.com bookgroup as the most offensive book she's read. Sounds good :-)
• Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Scott Orson Card — Purported to be similar to the movie Deja Vu. Plus it's Card.
• Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles — An new extended version was released in November 2006
• Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, Book 1) by David Eddings — Read about it somewhere, sounds like a big epic series for me to get into..
• Pilgrimage to Hell by Jack Adrian
• Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxley
• Prey by Michael Crichton — Sounds like an interesting 'techo-thriller', featuring nanotech.
• Psycho by Joyce Carol Oates — Mentioned by Sara from the meetup.com bookgroup as the most offensive book she's read. Sounds good :-)
• Queens of Angels by Greg Bear — I've read the sequel to this, Slant, need to go back and read this before moving on to the third book.
• Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan — Not sure where I heard about this book - sounds interesting though
• Realware by Rudy Rucker — Novel about aliens giving humanity a device that can instantiate any object they've already seen, leading to a breakdown in the economy.. sounds interesting.
• Restless by William Boyd — This is the Phoenix book group novel for March 2007
• Resurrection Day by Brendan Dubois
• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban — Heralded as a good example of ergodic literature.
• River of Gods by Ian McDonald — Deals with AIs and uploaded minds.
• Scouting For Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell
• Shadow of the Giant by Scott Orson Card — Didn't know about this book until I spotted it in the Wikipedia article on Ender's Game.
• Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein (aka as The Day After Tomorrow)
• Smoking In Bed: Conversations With Bruce Robinson — Looked the author up after watching Withnail & I.
• Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen — First book in the Greatwinter trilogy
• The Sound of Laughter by Peter Kay
• Spy Chips by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher — First book of The Dresden Files
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein — This is the book for the January sci-fi bookgroup, I don't like Heinlein much, but will try to get through it.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition by Harold Abelson — Edward mentioned he wanted to read it
• Suckers by Rose Shapiro
• Superman vs. Hollywood by Christopher Reeves
• Survivors by Terry Nation
• Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu — This book is recommended by everybody who makes a list of 'great books' or 'books that changed my life' and they never mention what the fsck its about - just stuff like; 'if you haven't read it, read it' and nothing descriptive. I suppose I better track it down
• Tau Zero by Pohl Frederick — Mentioned on a forum dealing with relative time dilation at light speed as an interesting novel dealing with the effects
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene — This is the book for a meetup.com bookgroup
• The Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley — First book: Cloud Warrior
• The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins
• The Average American Male: A Novel by Chad Kultgen
• The Beermat Entrepreneur by Mike Southon and Chris West
• The Biggest Game in Town by A. Alvarez — Recommended by the commentator in WSOP 2006.
• The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle — Mentioned by Dawkins as his "best sci-fi book".
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
• The Cloud Walker by Edmund Cooper
• The Crystal World by J.G. Ballard
• The Dawkins' Delusion? by Alister McGrath
• The Death of Grass by John Christopher
• The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
• The Drought (aka The Burning World) by J.G. Ballard
• The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
• The End of Faith by Sam Harris — Recommended by Dawkins in one of his lectures in Lynchburg, Virginia.
• The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
• The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss
• The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
• The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove — Mentioned in the wikipedia article on time travel, sounds interesting
• The HAB Theory by Allan W Eckert
• The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes by Ken Wilber
• The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
• The Last Ship by William Brinkley
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
• The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold — Mentioned in the T2 FAQ as 'quite a trip'
• The Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbluth — I read about this after watching Idiocracy, looks interesting.
• The Midnight Eye Files: The Amulet by William Meikle — 'Derek Adams is a Glasgow PI'... Sounds interesting
• The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco — March's meetup.com bookgroup novel, might just have time to read one of these
• The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Peculiar Memories Of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson — Looked the author up after watching Withnail & I.
• The Philosophers Toolkit by Julian Baggini and Peter Fosl
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams — Referenced in The God Delusion
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
• The Sixth Winter by Douglas Orgill and John Gribbon
• The Stand by Stephen King — Try to get an original 70s print to avoid the anachronisms in later reedited versions.
• The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem — Rumoured to be where Douglas Adams got his writing style from. Need to read this. Mentioned by a guy on slashdot.
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
• The Sunless City by Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin — Deals with an submarine finding a city through a hole at the bottom of a (bottomless?) lake. Sounds intersting.
• The Survivalist by Jerry Ahern — "considered the earliest example of pure survivalist fiction"
• The Trial by Franz Kafka — I have a recording on my phone of some girl recommending this to me.. Can't quite remember when it was or why it was recommended though. Must have been at the bookgroup.
• The Turing Option by Marvin Minsky and Harry Harrison
• The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World by Alister McGrath
• The Unauthorized Version by Robin Lane Fox — Referenced in The God Delusion
• The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde — Cited as a critical but humorous attack on Enid Blyton's literary style.
• The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
• There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson — Heard about it on imdb forum "The main character can teleport through time & space. He goes to the Crucifiction of "Jesus of Nazareth", and finds the massive crowd is mostly made up of other time travelers."
• Thinking Straight by Anthony Flew — This would help me I think, I'm killing too many brain cells.
• Travels With Chinaski by Daithidh Macochaidh
• Trick of the Mind by Derren Brown
• Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
• True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
• True Names by Vinge Vernor — Recommended on the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List
• Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
• Twilight of the Dead by Travis Adkins
• Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events by Kenneth Tynan — There are some memorable quotes on this guys wikipedia entry. Sounds like an interesting character.
• Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
• Whisper of Death by Christopher Pike
• Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq — Referenced in The God Delusion
• Why Most Things Fail by Paul Ormerod — A review mentioned: "compares biological species extinctions to the collapse of businesses", sounds interesting
• Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
• Why We Love by Helen Fisher — Some of the chemistry behind love, looks interesting. Referenced in The God Delusion.
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire — Recommended by bigkev
• Wisdom for a Young CEO by Douglas Barry
• World War Z by Max Brooks — Zombies, apocalypse, underwater.. Those words from the synopsis are enough to get me interested.
• You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski — A collection of Bukowski's poems I'd like to read.

Online Books

• Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein — link
• South of No North by Charles Bukowski — link
• Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny — link
• Under The Hill by Aubrey Beardsley — Mentioned a few times in The Witches of Chiswick as an excellent example of Victorian-era erotica. Sounds interesting. — link
• Lights Out by David Crawford — link
• The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster — link

Other

• The American Library Association's "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000".