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Adams, Scott - The Dilbert Future Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Aldiss, Brian - Helliconia Anthony, Piers - Split Infinity Asher, Neal - Cowl Asimov, Isacc - I, Robot Asmiov, Isaac - The Caves of Steel Banks, Iain M - The Algebraist Banks, Iain M - Consider Phlebas Banks, Ian - Whit Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George Baxter, Stephen - Manifold Origin Baxter, Stephen - Space Baxter, Stephen - Time Bear, Greg - Blood Music Bear, Greg - Slant Berners-Lee, Tim - Weaving The Web Besher, Alexander - Rim Bova, Ben - Future Crime Brin, David - Earth Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre Brooks, Frederick P Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month 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 - Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game Card, Orson Scott - First Meetings in the Enderverse Card, Orson Scott - Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus Chabon, Michael - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Chambers, Becky - The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet Cook, Rick - Cursed & Consulted Clothier, Paul - The Computer Trainer Cohen, Adam - The Perfect Store: Inside Ebay Coupland, Douglas - Eleanor Rigby Coupland, Douglas - Miss Wyoming Crichton, Michael - Prety Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves Daniken, Erich Von - Chariots of the Gods Dick, Philip K - The Man In The High Castle Dick, Philip K - Minority Report Dick, Philip K - Dr Bloodmoney Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love Ellis, Bret Easton - American Psycho Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides Eyre, Jane - Charlotte Bronte Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots Fitzgerald, F. 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Kenneally, Christine - The First Word Alexander, Eben - Proof of Heaven Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion Patel, Raj - The Value of Nothing Burton, Robert A - On Being Certain Blackmore, Susan - Conversations on Consciousness Johnson, Steven - The Ghost Map Roach, Mary - Stiff Matthews, Robert - 25 Big Ideas West, Geoffrey - Scale Goldacre, Ben - Bad Science Fry, Stephen - Moab is my Washpot Fry, Stephen - Making History Lewis, Bernard - What Went Wrong? Vise, David A - The Google Story Franken, Al - Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Taubes, Gary - Good Calories, Bad Calories Tsu, Lao - Tao Te Ching Yu, Charles - How to Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Mortimer, Ian - The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England Klein, Naomi - No Logo Hawking, Stephen - The Grand Design Feynman, Richard P - The Character of Physical Law Cohen, Adam - The Perfect Store Singh, Simon - Fermat's Last Theorem

Danielewski, Mark Z. - House of Leaves Brooks, Frederick P Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month Linus Torvalds & David Diamond - Just For Fun Clothier, Paul - The Computer Trainer Niven, Larry - The Magic Goes Away Wheaton, Wil - Just a Geek Sterling, Bruce - The Hacker Crackdown Greene, Richard & Mohammad, K. Silem - The Undead and Philosophy Fforde, Jasper - The Well of Lost Plots

Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code Card, Orson Scott - Firat Meetings in the Enderverse 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 Barnes, Julian - Arthur & George Aldiss, Brian - Helliconia Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - redRobe Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas Besher, Alexander - Rim Palmer, Dexter - Version Control O Siochru, Michael - God's Executioner Kushner, David - Masters of Doom Gordon, Roderick & Williams, Brian - Tunels Khoury, Raymond - The Sign Shriver, Lionel - We Need To Talk About Kevin Schlosser, Eric - Fast Food Nation Banks, Ian - Whit Grimwood, Jon Courtenay - reMix Shea, Robert & Wilson, Robert Anton - The Illuminatus! Trilogy Eugenides, Jeffrey - The Virgin Suicides Salinger, J.D - The Catcher In The Rye Plath, Sylvia - The Bell Jar Dick, Philip K - Minority Report Mason, Mark - The C Words Hawking, Stephen - The Grand Design

Winslow, Don - The Cartel Sontag, Sherry & Drew, Christopher - Blind Man's Buff Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Burroughs, William - Naked Lunch Gates, Bill - The Road Ahead Harth, Erich - The Creative Loop 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

Golding, William - Lord of the Flies 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

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey - Gift from Karen, Dec 2011. (Jun 2004)
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (Aug 2003)
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis - Dec 2011 gift from Karen. (Apr 2003)
• Anyone Can Do It by Duncan Bannatyne (Oct 2011)
• Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilian (Jan 2011)
• Ark by Stephen Baxter (Sep 2010)
• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (May 2010)
• Blood of Elves by A Sapkowski - Recommended on the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List (Dec 2003)
• Chaos by James Gleick (Jun 2004)
• Compilers - Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V Aho - First edition present from my mum, Dec 2011. (Mar 2012)
• Cowl by Neal Asher (Jul 2010)
• Delusions of Gender by 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)
• A Devil's Chaplain by Richard Dawkins - I loved The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins so I plan to read his other books… (Dec 2003)
• Eats, Shites & Leaves by Antal Parody (Jun 2005)
• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn - Borrowed from Kev. (Apr 2010)
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (Jul 2010)
• Gray's Anatomy by John Gray (Mar 2012)
• The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (Jun 2010)
• Halfhead by Stuart B MacBride - Picked this up on a whim in Waterstones because it was set in a futuristic Glasgow. (Aug 2011)
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - Sounds like a fascinating book. (Dec 2010)
• Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - Reading this for my sci-fi bookgroup. (Jun 2011)
• Hybrids by David Thorpe (Sep 2010)
• If We're So In Love Why Aren't We Happy? by Susan Page (May 2005)
• The Illuminatus! Trilogy by multi multi (Mar 2004)
• The Importance of Being Earnest by 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
• In The Balance by Harry Turtledove (Sep 2010)
• The King Beyond The Gate by David Gemmell (Sep 2010)
• The Last Wish by A Sapkowski (Sep 2010)
• The Little Prince by 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
• Making History by Stephen Fry - Gift from my sister, Dec 2011. (Dec 2005)]
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020)
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020)
• The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson (May 2003)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Sep 2011)
• Principles of Angels by Jaine Fenn (Sep 2010)
• Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City by Robert Sullivan - Not sure where I heard about this book - sounds interesting though. Been on my list since June 2004. (Jan 2011)
• Richard Branson: The Autobiography by Richard Branson (Mar 2012)
• The Robot Builder's Bonanza by Gordon McComb - I've had this book for months, but never actually got around to reading it 'till now. (May 2005)
• The Sacred Stones by Matthew Reilly (Sep 2010)
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins - I loved The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins so I plan to read his other books… (Dec 2003)
• Sex Tips For Girls by Cynthia Heimel (Apr 2004)
• A Song of Ice and Fire by George R Martin - Recommended on the Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List (Dec 2003)
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (Mar 2012)
• 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. Got as a gift from my mum, Dec 2011. (May 2004)
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (Aug 2003)
• The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (Sep 2010)
• The Survivors Club: How To Survive Anything by Ben Sherwood (Mar 2012)
• 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 (Jun 2004)
• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer (Mar 2012)
• Utopia by Thomas Moore (Sep 2005)
• Virtual Light by William Gibson (Sep 2010)
• What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive by Mark McCormack (Jul 2005)
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner (May 2003)
• Why We Love by Helen Fisher - Read some of her papers and listened to one of her talks. Fascinating woman. Looks like an interesting book. (Sep 2010)
• Wizard's Bane by Rick Cook (Sep 2010)

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - Characters slipping between parallel universes with subtle differences. Sounds interesting. (Jan 2012)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman - http://i.imgur.com/qdg3v.jpg - this made me want to read it. (Jun 2012)
• Antarctica by 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)
• Blindness by Jose Saramago (Apr 2011)
• Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (Dec 2010)
• Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings (Mar 2011)
• Cows by Matthew Stokoe - Mentioned in a 'most disturbing book' thread on reddit. Sounds interesting. (Dec 2010)
• The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch - Lack of community post industrialisation. Could be interesting. (Aug 2011)
• Food of the Gods by Terrence McKenna (Sep 2011)
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston - Sounds interesting. (Dec 2010)
• The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne (Nov 2010)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach - Recommended on a reddit list of books to read before you die (Jan 2020)
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (Feb 2012)
• Lost Boys by Scott Orson Card - The climax was mentioned on xkcd. Sounds interesting. (Jul 2011)
• Millennium by John Varley (Jul 2011)
• On the Outside Looking Indian by Rupinder Gill - Saw the back cover on reddit, with blurbs she'd written herself. Looks interesting. (Mar 2011)
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac (Oct 2010)
• Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, Book 1) by David Eddings (Jun 2005)
• Split Infinity by Piers Anthony (Feb 2012)
• Story of the Eye (Histoire de l'oeil) by Georges Bataille (Dec 2010)
• Unwind by Neal Shusterman (Jan 2011)