books

Books I’d like to read and books I’ve read. means I liked it, means it was just ok, means I didn’t like it.

This isn’t necessarily the same thing as whether I thought it was good or bad. If I mark a book , I may still think it’s good overall, but just doesn’t match my own personal taste, and vice versa.

nf is non-fiction, f is fiction.

Also see Maulik’s and Jon’s reading lists, movies, games, and other lists.

Books I’d like to read:

• Siddhartha Mukherjee – The Emperor Of All Maladies nf

• Ben Marcus - The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet f

• Emma Donoghue – Room f

• Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park f

• Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife f

• Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged f

• Gore Vidal - Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Dreaming War, Imperial America nf

• China Mieville – Embassytown f

• The Lifeboat Strategy nf

• Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow f

• Haruki Murakami – 1Q84 f

• John Berendt – Midnight in the garden of good and evil f

• Larry Niven – Ringworld f

• Upton Sinclair - Sylvia, Dragon’s Teeth I f

• Pankaj Ghemawat – World 3.0 nf

• Max Ernst – Une Semaine de Bonté f

• Iain M Banks – Use of Weapons, Feersum Endjinn f

Books I’ve read:

• Alan Lightman – Einstein’s Dreams f

• Bruce Schneier – Liars and Outliers nf

• Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian f

• Daniel Solove - Nothing to Hide nf

• Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero f

• Tom McCarthy – Men in Space f

• Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City , Story of My Life f

• Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow nf

• Tyler Cowen – The Great Stagnation nf

• Richard K. Morgan – Altered Carbon f

• Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities f

• Kurt Vonnegut – Sirens of Titan f

• Upton Sinclair – The Jungle f

• Tom McCarthy – C f

• Charles Perrow – Normal Accidents nf

• T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land f

• Ian McEwan – Solar f

• Daniel Paul Schreber – Memoirs of My Nervous Illness nf

• Edwin A Abbott – Flatland f

• David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest f

• Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon f

• Cormac McCarthy - The Road f

• Terry Pratchett - The Color of Magic f, Going Postal f

• Jennifer Egan – A Visit from the Goon Squad f

• Gever Tulley – Beware Dangerism nf

• Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep f

• Jonathan Franzen – Freedom f

• Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now nf

• Hank Taggart – How to Purchase Anonymously on the Internet nf

• Steven Levy – In the Plex nf

• Douglas Hofstadter – I Am a Strange Loop nf

• Alan Moore, David Gibbons – Watchmen f

• Neal Stephenson – Anathem f

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – The Little Prince f

• Journey to the West f

• Matt Ridley – The Rational Optimist nf

• Lynd Ward – Woodcut Novels f
  Gods’ Man , Madman’s Drum , Wild Pilgrimage , Prelude to a Million Years , Song Without Words , Vertigo

• Sep Kamvar, Jonathan Harris – We Feel Fine nf

• Jonathan Franzen – The Corrections f

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb – The Black Swan nf

• Michael Pollan – Food Rules nf

• Robert J. Sawyer – Flash Forward, etc. f

• John Updike – Rabbit Run f

• Gary Taubes - Good Calories, Bad Calories nf

• Vernor Vinge – A Fire Upon the Deep f

• Robert Heinlein – Stranger in a Strange Land f

• Jonah Lehrer – How We Decide nf

• E.M. Forster – The Machine Stops f

• Ted C. Fishman – China Inc. nf

• Clay Gordon – Discover Chocolate nf

• Anthony Swofford – Jarhead nf

• Clive Cussler – Atlantis Found f, The Chase f

• Scott McCloud – Understanding Comics nf

• Andy Oram, Greg Wilson et al – Beautiful Code nf

• Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo f, The Girl Who Played with Fire f

• US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual nf

• Kemble Scott – The Sower f

• Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay f

• Peter Seibel – Coders at Work nf

• Iain M Banks – The Algebraist f, Excession f

• Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull f

• Dan Simmons - Hyperion f, The Fall of Hyperion f

• David Foster Wallace - The Broom of the System f, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again nf

• William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury f

• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 f, Player Piano f

• Bertrand Russell – The Problems of Philosophy nf

• Tom Wolfe - Bonfire of the Vanities f, I Am Charlotte Simmons f, A Man in Full f

• J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye f

• Philip Roth – American Pastoral f

• Steve Lopez – The Soloist f

• Jill Taylor – My Stroke of Insight nf

• Aubrey de Grey – Ending Aging nf

• William Strunk, E. B. White – The Elements of Style nf

• Dave Eggers – What Is the What f

• Stephen King – On Writing nf

• Chloé Doutre-Roussel – The Chocolate Connoisseur nf

• Blastland, Dilnot – The Tiger That Isn’t nf

• Rebecca Walker – What Makes a Man nf

• Iain Simons – Inside Game Design nf

• Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle - The Mote in God’s Eye , The Gripping Hand f

• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini f

• Geoffrey Stone – War and Liberty nf

• Chris DiBona - Bruce Napoleon, Vampire Veterinarian f

• James W. Loewen – Lies My Teacher Told Me nf

• John Perkins – Confessions of an Economic Hit Man nf

• Cory Doctorow – Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom , Eastern Standard Tribe , Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town f

• Daniel Solove - I’ve Got Nothing to Hide… nf

• Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World , The Elephant Vanishes , After Dark f

• Vernor Vinge - True Names , Rainbow’s End (available online!) f

• Edge – The 100 Best Videogames nf

• Christof Koch – The Quest for Consciousness nf

• Zadie Smith – On Beauty f

• Freeman Dyson – Our Biotech Future and Joyce Carol Oates – Lest We Forget, from the New York Review of Books nf

• Daniel Gilbert – Stumbling on Happiness nf

• Tim O’Reilly in a Nutshell (available for free!) nf

• Etgar Keret – The Bus Driver who Wanted to be God f

• Raby, Ruggeri – How To Protect Your Personal Information nf

• Orson Scott Card – Getting Lost nf

• Carter Scholz - Radiance f

• Bruce Sterling - The Difference Engine , Mirrorshades , Schismatrix f

• Robert Charles Wilson - Spin , Axis , Blind Lake , Darwinia , The Chronoliths f

• Ken MacLeod – Learning The World f

• J. J. Luna – Invisible Money nf

• Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming in Code nf

• David Simon - Homicide , The Corner nf

• Tom McCarthy – Remainder f

• Salman Rushdie – Shalimar the Clown f

• Kemble Scott – SoMa f

• David Sedaris – Naked nf

• Lewis et al – A General Theory of Love nf

• James Gwartney et al – Common Sense Economics nf

• Thomas Nagel – Concealment and Exposure nf

• Bobby Henderson – The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster nf

• Mike Cohn – Agile Estimating and Planning nf

• Jeff Hawkins – On Intelligence nf

• Penny Arcade: Attack of the Bacon Robots! nf

• William Gibson - Neuromancer , Pattern Recognition f

• John Battelle – The Search nf

• J. J. Luna – How to Be Invisible nf

• Neil Strauss – The Game nf

• Terry Grossman and Ray Kurzweil – Fantastic Voyage nf

• Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneider – The Rules nf

• Max Brooks – World War Z f

• Niel Gaiman – Neverwhere f

• Michael Roizen, Mehmet Oz – You, The Owner’s Manual nf

• Steven Johnson - Everything Bad is Good for You , Mind Wide Open nf

• Bruce Schneier – Beyond Fear nf

• Helen Fisher – Why We Love nf

• Lauren Weisberger – The Devil Wears Prada f

• Thomas Kuhn – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions nf

• Stephen Wolfram – A New Kind of Science nf

• Joel Spolsky – The Best Software Writing I nf

• Michael J. Behe – Darwin’s Black Box nf

• John Allen Paulos - Innumeracy nf

• Freeman Dyson – Disturbing the Universe nf

• Susan Blackmore – The Meme Machine nf

• Matt Ridley - Genome , Nature Via Nurture , The Red Queen nf

• Drew McDermott – Mind and Mechanism nf

• Steven Strogatz - Sync nf

• Frank Close – Lucifer’s Legacy nf

• John F. X. Sundman – Acts of the Apostles f

• John Compton Sundman – Cheap Complex Devices f

• Randy Cohen – The Good, The Bad and The Difference nf

• Mark Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time f

• Matt Ruff – Set this House in Order f

• Sean Stewart – Perfect Circle f

• Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything nf

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow , Creativity nf

• Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines , The Age of Intelligent Machines , The Ray Kurzweil Reader nf

• Thomas Friedman - Longitudes & Attitudes , The World is Flat nf, Hot, Flat, and Crowded nf

• Lawrence Lessig - The Future of Ideas , Code nf

• Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene , The Blind Watchmaker , Unweaving the Rainbow nf

• Steven Levy - Hackers , Insanely Great nf

• Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age , Cryptonomicon , Snow Crash f

• Neal Stephenson – In the Beginning…Was the Command Line nf

• Charles Stross - Accelerando , Singularity Sky , Iron Sunrise , Glasshouse f

• China Miéville - Perdido Street Station , The Scar , Iron Council , King Rat f, The City & The City f

• James Trefil – 101 Things You Don’t Know about Science and No On Else Does Either nf

• Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman – Godel’s Proof nf

• David Brin - Sundiver f

• M. T. Anderson - Feed f

• Franz Kafka – The Trial f

• Stewart Brand – The Media Lab nf

• Stephen R. Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People nf

• Alec Mackenzie – The Time Trap nf

• Ian McEwan - Atonement f

• Michael E. Edleson – Value Averaging nf

• Jeff Fischer – Investing Without a Silver Spoon nf

• David and Tom Gardner – The Motley Fool Investment Guide nf

• Percival Everett – American Desert f

• Richard Feynman - Surely You Must Be Joking, Mr. Feynman nf, The Character of Physical Law nf, Six Not-So-Easy Pieces nf

• Stephen Hawking – Black Holes and Baby Universes nf

• Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity , A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius f

• Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being f

• Tao Te Ching nf

• Shunryu Suzuki – Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind nf

• Paul Reps and Nyugen Senzaki – Zen Flesh Zen Bones nf

• Leonard Shlain – Sex, Time, and Power nf

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude , Love in the Time of Cholera , etc. f

• Jared Diamond – Guns, Germs, and Steel nf

• Richard Adams - Watership Down , Tales from Watership Down f

• Laura Schlessinger - Ten Things Women Do to Mess Up their Lives , Ten Things Men Do to Mess Up their Lives nf

• Richard Watson – Cogito, Ergo Sum nf

• T. R. Reid – Confucius Lives Next Door nf

• Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana , A Song for Arbonne , The Lions of Al-Rassan f

• Arnold C. Schonberg – The Great Pianists nf

• Nick Bollettieri – My Aces, My Faults nf

• John Nunn – Secrets of Rook Endings nf

• A. J. Gillam – Simple Checkmates nf

• Al Horowitz - Chess nf

• Suparna Damany and Jack Bellis – It’s Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! nf

• Eric Raymond - The Cathedral and The Bazaar, The Art of Unix Programming nf

• Frank Herbert - Dune , Dune Messiah , Children of Dune , etc. f

• Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, etc. f

• Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides – Design Patterns nf

• Robert Silverberg - Lord Valentine’s Castle, Valentine Pontifex, Majipoor Chronicles, etc. f

• Stephen King - The Stand, It, Needful Things, Cujo, etc. f

• Plato - Republic nf

• Melvin Rader and Jerry H. Gill – The Enduring Questions nf

• Immanuel Kant – Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals nf

• Rene Descartes – Collected Writings nf

• Aristotle - Ethics nf

• David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding nf

• Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights f

• Charles Dickens – Great Expectations f

• Bernard Williams - Morality nf

• William James – Essays in Pragmatism nf

• Thomas Aquinas – On Law, Morality, and Politics nf

• Lex Williford and Michael Martone – The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction nf

• Michael Crichton - Rising Sun, Sphere, The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Congo, f

• Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow Of the Giant f

• Piers Anthony - A Spell for Chameleon and the Xanth series, the Incarnations series, and many others f