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| - | Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code | + | ====== Bookshelf ====== |
| - | Card, Orson Scott - Firat Meetings in the Enderverse | + | Todo: sort by read/unread |
| - | Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones | + | |
| - | London, Jack - White Fang and The Call of The Wild | + | |
| - | Henstell, Diana - Deadly Friend | + | |
| - | Goldacre, Ben - Bad Science | + | |
| - | James, Peter - Dead Simple | + | |
| - | Smith, Michael Marshall - Only Forward | + | |
| - | Bagshawe, Louise - Tuesday's Child | + | |
| - | Bear, Greg - Blood Music | + | |
| - | Card, Orson Scott - Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | + | |
| - | Bear, Greg - Slant | + | |
| - | Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy | + | |
| - | Godley, Janey - Handstands In The Dark | + | |
| - | Brin, David - Earth | + | |
| - | Grossman, Lev - Codex | + | |
| - | Roberts, Adam - The Snow | + | |
| - | Buxton, Ian - 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die | + | |
| - | Forward, Robert L - Dragon's Egg | + | |
| - | Asmiov, Isaac - The Caves of Steel | + | |
| - | McKay, Dave - Destroyers | + | |
| - | Sladek, John - Roderick | + | |
| - | Daniken, Erich Von - Chariots of the Gods | + | |
| - | Herriot, James - Vets Might Fly | + | |
| - | Heinlen, Robert A - Farnham's Freehold | + | |
| - | Kidder, Tracey - The Soul of a New Machine | + | |
| - | Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night | + | ===== Fiction ===== |
| - | Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George | + | * Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| - | Aldiss, Brian - Helliconia | + | * Adams, Scott - The Dilbert Future |
| - | Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - redRobe | + | * Aldiss, Brian - Helliconia |
| - | Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas | + | * Anthony, Piers - Split Infinity |
| - | Besher, Alexander - Rim | + | * Asher, Neal - Cowl |
| - | Palmer, Dexter - Version Control | + | * Asimov, Isacc - I, Robot |
| - | O Siochru, Michael - God's Executioner | + | * Asmiov, Isaac - The Caves of Steel |
| - | Kushner, David - Masters of Doom | + | * Banks, Iain M - Consider Phlebas |
| - | Gordon, Roderick & Williams, Brian - Tunels | + | * Banks, Iain M - The Algebraist |
| - | Khoury, Raymond - The Sign | + | * Banks, Ian - Whit |
| - | Shriver, Lionel - We Need To Talk About Kevin | + | * Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George |
| - | Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation | + | * Baxter, Stephen - Ark |
| - | Banks, Ian - Whit | + | * Baxter, Stephen - Manifold Origin |
| - | Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - reMix | + | * Baxter, Stephen - Space |
| - | Shea, Robert & Wilson, Robert Anton - The Illuminatus! Trilogy | + | * Baxter, Stephen - Time |
| - | Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides | + | * Bear, Greg - Blood Music |
| - | Salinger, J.D - The Catcher In The Rye | + | * Bear, Greg - Slant |
| - | Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar | + | * Besher, Alexander - Rim |
| - | Dick, Philip K - Minority Report | + | * Bova, Ben - Future Crime |
| - | Mason, Mark - The C Words | + | * Brin, David - Earth |
| - | Hawking, Stephen - The Grand Design | + | * Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre |
| + | * Bryson, Bill - Neither Here Nor There | ||
| + | * Bryson, Bill - Notes from a Small Island | ||
| + | * Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent | ||
| + | * Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Heart of a Dog | ||
| + | * Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch | ||
| + | * Capote, Truman - Breakfast at Tiffany's | ||
| + | * Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game | ||
| + | * Card, Orson Scott - First Meetings in the Enderverse | ||
| + | * Card, Orson Scott - Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus | ||
| + | * Card, Orson Scott - Seventh Son | ||
| + | * Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | ||
| + | * Chambers, Becky - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet | ||
| + | * Cook, Rick - Cursed & Consulted | ||
| + | * Coupland, Douglas - Eleanor Rigby | ||
| + | * Coupland, Douglas - Miss Wyoming | ||
| + | * Crichton, Michael - Prey | ||
| + | * Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves | ||
| + | * Daniken, Erich Von - Chariots of the Gods | ||
| + | * Dick, Philip K - Dr Bloodmoney | ||
| + | * Dick, Philip K - Minority Report | ||
| + | * Dick, Philip K - The Man In The High Castle | ||
| + | * Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love | ||
| + | * Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho | ||
| + | * Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides | ||
| + | * Fenn, Jaine - Principles of Angels | ||
| + | * Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots | ||
| + | * Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night | ||
| + | * Forward, Robert L - Dragon's Egg | ||
| + | * Forward, Robert L - Starquake | ||
| + | * Gaiman, Neil - Anansi Boys | ||
| + | * Gates, Bill - The Road Ahead | ||
| + | * Gemmell, David - The King Beyond The Gate | ||
| + | * Gibson, William - Virtual Light | ||
| + | * Godley, Janey - Handstands In The Dark | ||
| + | * Golding, William - Lord of the Flies | ||
| + | * Gordon, Roderick & Williams, Brian - Tunnels | ||
| + | * Grahame-Smith, Seth - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | ||
| + | * Gray, John - Gray's Anatomy | ||
| + | * Gray, John - Straw Dogs | ||
| + | * Greene, Richard & Mohammad, K. Silem - The Undead and Philosophy | ||
| + | * Grimwood, Jin Courtenay - Lucifer's Dragon | ||
| + | * Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - redRobe | ||
| + | * Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - reMix | ||
| + | * Grossman, Lev - Codex | ||
| + | * Gunn, Neil M - The Silver Darlings | ||
| + | * Hadon, Mark - A Spot of Bother | ||
| + | * Hafner, Katie & Lyon, Matthew - Where Wizards Stay Up Late | ||
| + | * Hamilton, Peter F - Fallen Dragon | ||
| + | * Harth, Erich - The Creative Loop | ||
| + | * Heinlein, Robert A - Farnham's Freehold | ||
| + | * Heinlein, Robert A - The Number of the Beast | ||
| + | * Heller, Joesph - Catch 22 | ||
| + | * Henstell, Diana - Deadly Friend | ||
| + | * Herbert, James - The Rats | ||
| + | * Hills, Simon - Strictly No! | ||
| + | * Hornby, Nick - How To Be Good | ||
| + | * James, Peter - Dead Simple | ||
| + | * Kaplan, Andrew - Homeland | ||
| + | * Kaplan, Jerry - Start Up | ||
| + | * Kennedy, Emma - I Left My Tent in San Francisco | ||
| + | * Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | ||
| + | * Khoury, Raymond - The Sign | ||
| + | * Kidder, Tracey - The Soul of a New Machine | ||
| + | * Koontz, Dean - The Good Guy | ||
| + | * Lawrence, Louise - Children of the Dust | ||
| + | * Lem, Stanislaw - The Star Diaries | ||
| + | * London, Jack - White Fang and The Call of The Wild | ||
| + | * Lovegrove, James - Days | ||
| + | * MacBride, Stuart B - Halfhead | ||
| + | * Mason, Mark - The C Words | ||
| + | * McIntyre, Michael - Life & Laughing | ||
| + | * Menn, Joesph - Fatal System Error | ||
| + | * Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas | ||
| + | * More, Thomas - Utopia | ||
| + | * Neilan, Paul - Apathy | ||
| + | * Nicholls, David - Us | ||
| + | * Niven, Larry - The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton | ||
| + | * Niven, Larry - The Magic Goes Away | ||
| + | * O Siochru, Michael - God's Executioner | ||
| + | * Palmer, Dexter - Version Control | ||
| + | * Paulsen, Gary - Hatchet | ||
| + | * Plascencia, Salvador - The People of Paper | ||
| + | * Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar | ||
| + | * Pohl, Frederik - Man Plus | ||
| + | * Pullman, Philip - Book of Dust | ||
| + | * Pullman, Philip - The Subtle Knife | ||
| + | * Roberts, Adam - The Snow | ||
| + | * Sagan, Carl - The Dragons of Eden | ||
| + | * Sagan, Nick - Idlewild | ||
| + | * Salinger, J.D - The Catcher In The Rye | ||
| + | * Sapkowski, Andrzej - Blood of Elves | ||
| + | * Sapkowski, Andrzej - The Last Wish | ||
| + | * Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation | ||
| + | * Sebold, Alice - Lucky | ||
| + | * Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones | ||
| + | * Shea, Robert & Wilson, Robert Anton - The Illuminatus! Trilogy | ||
| + | * Sheldon, Sidney - Are You Afraid of the Dark? | ||
| + | * Shriver, Lionel - We Need To Talk About Kevin | ||
| + | * Sladek, John - Roderick | ||
| + | * Smith, Martin Cruz - Wolves Eat Dogs | ||
| + | * Smith, Michael Marshall - Only Forward | ||
| + | * Smith, Michael Marshall - Spares | ||
| + | * Sontag, Sherry & Drew, Christopher - Blind Man's Buff | ||
| + | * Stapledon, Olaf - Star Maker | ||
| + | * Steinbeck, John - East of Eden | ||
| + | * Stephenson, Neal - The System of the World | ||
| + | * Sterling, Bruce - Distraction | ||
| + | * Sterling, Bruce - The Hacker Crackdown | ||
| + | * Stross, Charles - Halting State | ||
| + | * Sturgeon, Theodore - More Than Human | ||
| + | * Swindells, Robert - Brother in the Land | ||
| + | * Thompson, Craig - Blankets | ||
| + | * Thorpe, David - Hybrids | ||
| + | * Tressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | ||
| + | * Tsu, Lao - Tao Te Ching | ||
| + | * Turtledove, Harry - World War In The Balance | ||
| + | * Wheaton, Wil - Just a Geek | ||
| + | * Winslow, Don - The Cartel | ||
| + | * Wolfe, Gene - Soldier In The Mist | ||
| + | * Wolf, Mary Anne - Proust and the Squid | ||
| + | * Zelazny, Roger - Lord of Light | ||
| + | ===== Non fiction ===== | ||
| + | * Alexander, Eben - Proof of Heaven | ||
| + | * Blackmore, Susan - Conversations on Consciousness | ||
| + | * Burton, Robert A - On Being Certain | ||
| + | * Cohen, Adam - The Perfect Store | ||
| + | * Covey, Stephen R - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | ||
| + | * Dawkins, Richard - A Devil's Chaplain | ||
| + | * Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion | ||
| + | * Dawkins, Richard - The Greatest Show on Earth | ||
| + | * Dawkins, Richard - The Selfish Gene | ||
| + | * Fawcett, Bill - It Looked Good On Paper | ||
| + | * Feynman, Richard P - The Character of Physical Law | ||
| + | * Fisher, Helen - Why We Love | ||
| + | * Franken, Al - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them | ||
| + | * Fry, Stephen - Making History | ||
| + | * Fry, Stephen - Moab is my Washpot | ||
| + | * Gleick, James - Chaos | ||
| + | * Goldacre, Ben - Bad Science | ||
| + | * Hawking, Stephen - The Grand Design | ||
| + | * Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion | ||
| + | * Hitchens, Christopher - God is not Great | ||
| + | * Johnson, Steven - The Ghost Map | ||
| + | * Kenneally, Christine - The First Word | ||
| + | * Klein, Naomi - No Logo | ||
| + | * Krauss, Lawrence M - Beyond Star Trek | ||
| + | * Krauss, Lawrence - The Physics of Star Trek | ||
| + | * Lewis, Bernard - What Went Wrong? | ||
| + | * Ness, Randolph M - Evolution and Healing | ||
| + | * Matthews, Robert - 25 Big Ideas | ||
| + | * McCormack, Mark H - What They Didn't Teach You At Harvard Business School | ||
| + | * Mortimer, Ian - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England | ||
| + | * Murray, John - Success In Electronics | ||
| + | * Patel, Raj - The Value of Nothing | ||
| + | * Roach, Mary - Stiff | ||
| + | * Singh, Simon - Fermat's Last Theorem | ||
| + | * Sullivan, Robert - Rats | ||
| + | * Taubes, Gary - Good Calories, Bad Calories | ||
| + | * Thomas, Mark - As Seen on The Famous Nelson Mandela | ||
| + | * Tsu, Lao - Tao Te Ching | ||
| + | * Vise, David A - The Google Story | ||
| + | * Weeks, David & James, Jamie - Eccentrics | ||
| + | * West, Geoffrey - Scale | ||
| + | * Yu, Charles - How to Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe | ||
| - | Winslow, Don - The Cartel | + | ==== Poetry ==== |
| - | Sontag, Sherry & Drew, Christopher - Blind Man's Buff | + | * Bukowski, Charles - Ham on Rye |
| - | Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | + | * Florence, Rab - Poetry & Swearing Vol 1 |
| - | Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch | + | * McNish, Holly - Nobody Told Me |
| - | Gates, Bill - The Road Ahead | + | * Rilke, Rainer Maria - Letters to a Young Poet |
| - | Harth, Erich - The Creative Loop | + | * Tsu, Lao - Tao Te Ching |
| - | Gray, John - Gray's Anatomy | + | |
| - | Gaiman, Neil - Anasi Boys | + | |
| - | Thorpe, David - Hybrids | + | |
| - | Bryson, Bill - Notes from a Small Island | + | |
| - | Kaplan, Jerry - Start Up | + | |
| - | Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent | + | |
| - | Chambers, Becky - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet | + | |
| - | Stapledon, Olaf - Star Maker | + | |
| - | Smith, Martin Cruz - Wolves Eat Dogs | + | |
| - | Hornby, Nick - How To Be Good | + | |
| - | Krauss, Lawrence - The Physics of Star Trek | + | |
| - | Bryson, Bill - Neither Here Nor There | + | |
| - | Heller, Joesph - Catch 22 | + | |
| - | Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | + | |
| - | Kesey, Ken - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | + | |
| - | Cohen, Adam - The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay | + | |
| - | Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love | + | |
| - | Eyre, Jane - Charlotte Bronte | + | |
| - | Levy, Steven - Insanely Great | + | |
| - | Banks, Iain M - The Algebraist | + | |
| - | Kennedy, Emma - I Left My Tent in San Francisco | + | |
| - | Gleick, James - Chaos | + | |
| - | Gunn, Neil M - The Silver Darlings | + | |
| + | ==== Biographies ==== | ||
| + | * Bannatyne, Duncan - Anyone Can Do It | ||
| + | * Branson, Richard - The Autobiography | ||
| + | * Clarkson, Jeremy - Don't Stop Me Now | ||
| + | * Kay, Peter - The Sound of Laughter | ||
| + | * Moyles, Chris - The Gospel According to Chris Moyles | ||
| + | * Moore, Michael - Dude Where's My Country? | ||
| + | * Wheaton, Will - Just A Geek | ||
| - | Golding, William - Lord of the Flies | + | ===== Computer history/culture ===== |
| - | Krauss, Lawrence M - Beyond Star Trek | + | |
| - | Hafner, Katie & Lyon, Matthew - Where Wizards Stay Up Late | + | |
| - | Moore, Thomas - Utopia | + | |
| - | Menn, Joesph - Fatal System Error | + | |
| - | Sebold, Alice - Lucky | + | |
| - | Hills, Simon - Strictly No! | + | |
| - | Lette, Quentin - 50 People Who Buggered Up Britain | + | |
| - | Grahame-Smith, Seth - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | + | |
| - | Berners-Lee, Tim - Weaving The Web | + | |
| - | Lewis, Bernard - What Went Wrong? | + | |
| - | Tressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | + | |
| - | Lawrence, Louise - Children of the Dust | + | |
| - | Steinbeck, John - East of Eden | + | |
| - | Swindells, Robert - Brother in the Land | + | |
| - | Tsu, Lao - Tao Te Ching | + | |
| + | * Benedict, Michael - Cyberspace | ||
| + | * Berners-Lee, Tim - Weaving The Web | ||
| + | * Bronson, Po - The Nudist on the Late Shift | ||
| + | * Brooks, Frederick P Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month | ||
| + | * Brynjolfsson, Erik & McAfree, Andrew - The Second Machine Age | ||
| + | * Clothier, Paul - The Computer Trainer | ||
| + | * Cohen, Adam - The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay | ||
| + | * Hafner, Katie - Where Wizards Stay Up Late | ||
| + | * Johnson, Steve - Emergence | ||
| + | * Kaplan, Jerry - Start Up | ||
| + | * Kidder, Tracey - The Soul of a New Machine | ||
| + | * Kushner, David - Masters of Doom | ||
| + | * Levy, Steven - Insanely Great | ||
| + | * Menn, Joesph - Fatal System Error | ||
| + | * Padua, Sydney - The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage | ||
| + | * Palmer, Dexter - Version Control | ||
| + | * Shimomura, Tsutomu - Takedown | ||
| + | * Standage, Tom - The Victorian Internet | ||
| + | * Sterling, Bruce - The Hacker Crackdown | ||
| + | * Stoll, Clifford - Silicon Snake Oil | ||
| + | * Torvalds, Linus & Diamond, David - Just For Fun | ||
| + | ===== Computer reference ===== | ||
| + | * Abelson, Harold & Sussman, Gerald - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd Ed) | ||
| + | * Aho, Alfred V & Sethi, Ravi - Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools | ||
| + | * Albitz, Paul & Lui, Cricket - DNS and Bind (3rd Ed) | ||
| + | * Bornstein, Niel M - .NET and XML | ||
| + | * Connolly, Thomas - Database Systems | ||
| + | * Erikson, Jon - Hacking: The Art of Exploitation | ||
| + | * Flickenger, Rob - Linux Server Hacks | ||
| + | * Petzold, Charles - Code | ||
| + | * McComb, Gordon - The Robot Builder's Bonanza | ||
| + | * Powers, Shelly - Adding Ajax | ||
| + | * Pratt, Philip J & Adamas, Joesph J - Database Systems Management and Design | ||
| + | * Stevens, Richard W & Fenner, Bill - Unix Network Programming (3rd Ed) | ||
| - | * [[wp>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People]] by [[wp>Stephen Covey]] - Gift from Karen, Dec 2011. (Jun 2004) | + | ===== Unsorted (oversized) ===== |
| - | * [[wp>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay]] by [[wp>Michael Chabon]] (Aug 2003) | + | * Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves |
| - | * [[wp>American Psycho]] by [[wp>Bret Easton Ellis]] - Dec 2011 gift from Karen. (Apr 2003) | + | * Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots |
| - | * [[wp>Anyone Can Do It]] by [[wp>Duncan Bannatyne]] (Oct 2011) | + | * Greene, Richard & Mohammad, K. Silem - The Undead and Philosophy |
| - | * [[wp>Apathy and Other Small Victories]] by [[wp>Paul Neilian]] (Jan 2011) | + | * Niven, Larry - The Magic Goes Away |
| - | * [[wp>Ark]] by [[wp>Stephen Baxter]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Wheaton, Wil - Just a Geek |
| - | * [[wp>Bad Science]] by [[wp>Ben Goldacre]] (May 2010) | + | |
| - | * [[wp>Blood of Elves]] by [[wp>A Sapkowski]] - Recommended on the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List (Dec 2003) | + | |
| - | * [[wp>Chaos]] by [[wp>James Gleick]] (Jun 2004) | + | ====== Unread Fiction ====== |
| - | * [[wp>Compilers - Principles, Techniques and Tools]] by [[wp>Alfred V Aho]] - First edition present from my mum, Dec 2011. (Mar 2012) | + | |
| - | * [[wp>Cowl]] by [[wp>Neal Asher]] (Jul 2010) | + | * Anthony, Piers - Split Infinity |
| - | * [[wp>Delusions of Gender]] by [[wp>Cordelia Fine]] - Book for the skeptics bookgroup April 2012. I'm finding the style extremely hard to read, she annoys me. I'm only a few chapters in and have been encouraged to read further though. (Apr 2012) | + | * Asher, Neal - Cowl |
| - | * [[wp>A Devil's Chaplain]] by [[wp>Richard Dawkins]] - I loved The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins so I plan to read his other books... (Dec 2003) | + | * Baxter, Stephen - Ark |
| - | * [[wp>Eats, Shites & Leaves]] by [[wp>Antal Parody]] (Jun 2005) | + | * Besher, Alexander - Rim |
| - | * [[wp>Geek Love]] by [[wp>Katherine Dunn]] - Borrowed from Kev. (Apr 2010) | + | * Bova, Ben - Future Crime |
| - | * [[wp>Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid]] by [[wp>Douglas Hofstadter]] (Jul 2010) | + | * Brin, David - Earth |
| - | * [[wp>Gray's Anatomy]] by [[wp>John Gray]] (Mar 2012) | + | * Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre |
| - | * [[wp>The Greatest Show on Earth]] by [[wp>Richard Dawkins]] (Jun 2010) | + | * Bryson, Bill - Neither Here Nor There |
| - | * [[wp>Halfhead]] by [[wp>Stuart B MacBride]] - Picked this up on a whim in Waterstones because it was set in a futuristic Glasgow. (Aug 2011) | + | * Bryson, Bill - Notes from a Small Island |
| - | * [[wp>House of Leaves]] by [[wp>Mark Z. Danielewski]] - Sounds like a fascinating book. (Dec 2010) | + | * Bryson, Bill - The Lost Continent |
| - | * [[wp>Howl's Moving Castle]] by [[wp>Diana Wynne Jones]] - Reading this for my sci-fi bookgroup. (Jun 2011) | + | * Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Heart of a Dog |
| - | * [[wp>Hybrids]] by [[wp>David Thorpe]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch |
| - | * [[wp>If We're So In Love Why Aren't We Happy?]] by [[wp>Susan Page]] (May 2005) | + | * Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay |
| - | * [[wp>The Illuminatus! Trilogy]] by [[wp>multi multi]] (Mar 2004) | + | * Chambers, Becky - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet |
| - | * [[wp>The Importance of Being Earnest]] by [[wp>Oscar Wilde]] - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020) and of course, I'd been meaning to read this one especially | + | * Cook, Rick - Cursed & Consulted |
| - | * [[wp>In The Balance]] by [[wp>Harry Turtledove]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Coupland, Douglas - Miss Wyoming |
| - | * [[wp>The King Beyond The Gate]] by [[wp>David Gemmell]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves |
| - | * [[wp>The Last Wish]] by [[wp>A Sapkowski]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love |
| - | * [[wp>The Little Prince]] by [[wp>Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020) and it's a classic I always meant to read | + | * Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho |
| - | * [[wp>Making History]] by [[wp>Stephen Fry]] - Gift from my sister, Dec 2011. (Dec 2005)] | + | * Fenn, Jaine - Principles of Angels |
| - | * [[wp>Man's Search for Meaning]] by [[wp>Viktor Frankl]] - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020) | + | * Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots |
| - | * [[wp>The Martian Chronicles]] by [[wp>Ray Bradbury]] - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020) | + | * Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night |
| - | * [[wp>Notes from Underground]] by [[wp>Fyodor Dostoevsky]] - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020) | + | * Gates, Bill - The Road Ahead |
| - | * [[wp>The Nudist on the Late Shift]] by [[wp>Po Bronson]] (May 2003) | + | * Gemmell, David - The King Beyond The Gate |
| - | * [[wp>Pride and Prejudice]] by [[wp>Jane Austen]] (Sep 2011) | + | * Godley, Janey - Handstands In The Dark |
| - | * [[wp>Principles of Angels]] by [[wp>Jaine Fenn]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Gordon, Roderick & Williams, Brian - Tunnels |
| - | * [[wp>Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City]] by [[wp>Robert Sullivan]] - Not sure where I heard about this book - sounds interesting though. Been on my list since June 2004. (Jan 2011) | + | * Grahame-Smith, Seth - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies |
| - | * [[wp>Richard Branson: The Autobiography]] by [[wp>Richard Branson]] (Mar 2012) | + | * Gray, John - Gray's Anatomy |
| - | * [[wp>The Robot Builder's Bonanza]] by [[wp>Gordon McComb]] - I've had this book for months, but never actually got around to reading it 'till now. (May 2005) | + | * Gray, John - Straw Dogs |
| - | * [[wp>The Sacred Stones]] by [[wp>Matthew Reilly]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Greene, Richard & Mohammad, K. Silem - The Undead and Philosophy |
| - | * [[wp>The Selfish Gene]] by [[wp>Richard Dawkins]] - I loved The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins so I plan to read his other books... (Dec 2003) | + | * Grimwood, Jin Courtenay - Lucifer's Dragon |
| - | * [[wp>Sex Tips For Girls]] by [[wp>Cynthia Heimel]] (Apr 2004) | + | * Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - redRobe |
| - | * [[wp>A Song of Ice and Fire]] by [[wp>George R Martin]] - Recommended on the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List (Dec 2003) | + | * Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - reMix |
| - | * [[wp>A Spot of Bother]] by [[wp>Mark Haddon]] (Mar 2012) | + | * Grossman, Lev - Codex |
| - | * [[wp>The Star Diaries]] by [[wp>Stanislaw Lem]] - Rumoured to be where Douglas Adams got his writing style from. Need to read this. Mentioned by a guy on slashdot. Got as a gift from my mum, Dec 2011. (May 2004) | + | * Gunn, Neil M - The Silver Darlings |
| - | * [[wp>Stargirl]] by [[wp>Jerry Spinelli]] (Aug 2003) | + | * Hadon, Mark - A Spot of Bother |
| - | * [[wp>The Subtle Knife]] by [[wp>Philip Pullman]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Hafner, Katie & Lyon, Matthew - Where Wizards Stay Up Late |
| - | * [[wp>The Survivors Club: How To Survive Anything]] by [[wp>Ben Sherwood]] (Mar 2012) | + | * Hamilton, Peter F - Fallen Dragon |
| - | * [[wp>Tao Te Ching]] by [[wp>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 (Jun 2004) | + | * Harth, Erich - The Creative Loop |
| - | * [[wp>The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England]] by [[wp>Ian Mortimer]] (Mar 2012) | + | * Hawking, Stephen - The Grand Design |
| - | * [[wp>Utopia]] by [[wp>Thomas Moore]] (Sep 2005) | + | * Heinlein, Robert A - The Number of the Beast |
| - | * [[wp>Virtual Light]] by [[wp>William Gibson]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Hills, Simon - Strictly No! |
| - | * [[wp>What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive]] by [[wp>Mark McCormack]] (Jul 2005) | + | * Hornby, Nick - How To Be Good |
| - | * [[wp>Where Wizards Stay Up Late]] by [[wp>Katie Hafner]] (May 2003) | + | * James, Peter - Dead Simple |
| - | * [[wp>Why We Love]] by [[wp>Helen Fisher]] - Read some of her papers and listened to one of her talks. Fascinating woman. Looks like an interesting book. (Sep 2010) | + | * Kaplan, Andrew - Homeland |
| - | * [[wp>Wizard's Bane]] by [[wp>Rick Cook]] (Sep 2010) | + | * Kaplan, Jerry - Start Up |
| + | * Kennedy, Emma - I Left My Tent in San Francisco | ||
| + | * Khoury, Raymond - The Sign | ||
| + | * Koontz, Dean - The Good Guy | ||
| + | * Lem, Stanislaw - The Star Diaries | ||
| + | * London, Jack - White Fang and The Call of The Wild | ||
| + | * Lovegrove, James - Days | ||
| + | * MacBride, Stuart B - Halfhead | ||
| + | * Mason, Mark - The C Words | ||
| + | * McIntyre, Michael - Life & Laughing | ||
| + | * Menn, Joesph - Fatal System Error | ||
| + | * Neilan, Paul - Apathy | ||
| + | * Nicholls, David - Us | ||
| + | * Niven, Larry - The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton | ||
| + | * O Siochru, Michael - God's Executioner | ||
| + | * Palmer, Dexter - Version Control | ||
| + | * Plascencia, Salvador - The People of Paper | ||
| + | * Pohl, Frederik - Man Plus | ||
| + | * Pullman, Philip - Book of Dust | ||
| + | * Roberts, Adam - The Snow | ||
| + | * Sagan, Carl - The Dragons of Eden | ||
| + | * Salinger, J.D - The Catcher In The Rye | ||
| + | * Sapkowski, Andrzej - Blood of Elves | ||
| + | * Sapkowski, Andrzej - The Last Wish | ||
| + | * Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation | ||
| + | * Sebold, Alice - Lucky | ||
| + | * Shea, Robert & Wilson, Robert Anton - The Illuminatus! Trilogy | ||
| + | * Sheldon, Sidney - Are You Afraid of the Dark? | ||
| + | * Shriver, Lionel - We Need To Talk About Kevin | ||
| + | * Sontag, Sherry & Drew, Christopher - Blind Man's Buff | ||
| + | * Stapledon, Olaf - Star Maker | ||
| + | * Stephenson, Neal - The System of the World | ||
| + | * Sterling, Bruce - Distraction | ||
| + | * Sterling, Bruce - The Hacker Crackdown | ||
| + | * Stross, Charles - Halting State | ||
| + | * Sturgeon, Theodore - More Than Human | ||
| + | * Thompson, Craig - Blankets | ||
| + | * Thorpe, David - Hybrids | ||
| + | * Tressell, Robert - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | ||
| + | * Tsu, Lao - Tao Te Ching | ||
| + | * Turtledove, Harry - World War In The Balance | ||
| + | * Winslow, Don - The Cartel | ||
| + | * Wolfe, Gene - Soldier In The Mist | ||
| + | * Wolf, Mary Anne - Proust and the Squid | ||
| + | * Zelazny, Roger - Lord of Light | ||
| - | ===== Still to get ===== | ||
| - | * [[wp>1Q84]] by [[wp>Haruki Murakami]] - Characters slipping between parallel universes with subtle differences. Sounds interesting. (Jan 2012) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Amusing Ourselves to Death]] by [[wp>Neil Postman]] - http://i.imgur.com/qdg3v.jpg - this made me want to read it. (Jun 2012) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Antarctica]] by [[wp>Kim Stanley Robinson]] - Set in McMurdo base, same as The Thing, might be interesting, though I did find his Mars trilogy quite tough to read. (Sep 2012) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Blindness]] by [[wp>Jose Saramago]] (Apr 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West]] by [[wp>Cormac McCarthy]] (Dec 2010) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs]] by [[wp>Ken Jennings]] (Mar 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Cows]] by [[wp>Matthew Stokoe]] - Mentioned in a 'most disturbing book' thread on reddit. Sounds interesting. (Dec 2010) | ||
| - | * [[wp>The Culture of Narcissism]] by [[wp>Christopher Lasch]] - Lack of community post industrialisation. Could be interesting. (Aug 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Food of the Gods]] by [[wp>Terrence McKenna]] (Sep 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>The Hot Zone]] by [[wp>Richard Preston]] - Sounds interesting. (Dec 2010) | ||
| - | * [[wp>The Internet is a Playground]] by [[wp>David Thorne]] (Nov 2010) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Jonathan Livingston Seagull]] by [[wp>Richard Bach]] - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Letter to a Christian Nation]] by [[wp>Sam Harris]] (Feb 2012) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Lost Boys]] by [[wp>Scott Orson Card]] - The climax was mentioned on xkcd. Sounds interesting. (Jul 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Millennium]] by [[wp>John Varley]] (Jul 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>On the Outside Looking Indian]] by [[wp>Rupinder Gill]] - Saw the back cover on reddit, with blurbs she'd written herself. Looks interesting. (Mar 2011) | ||
| - | * [[wp>On The Road]] by [[wp>Jack Kerouac]] (Oct 2010) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, Book 1)]] by [[wp>David Eddings]] (Jun 2005) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Split Infinity]] by [[wp>Piers Anthony]] (Feb 2012) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Story of the Eye (Histoire de l'oeil)]] by [[wp>Georges Bataille]] (Dec 2010) | ||
| - | * [[wp>Unwind]] by [[wp>Neal Shusterman]] (Jan 2011) | ||
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