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. 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:

• Gary Taubes - Good Calories, Bad Calories

• Pier Larson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo f, The Girl Who Played with Fire f, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest f

• Sep Kamvar, Jonathan Harris - We Feel Fine nf

• David Livingstone Smith - anything nf

• Tom McCarthy - Men in Space f

• L. J. Shrum - The Psychology of Entertainment Media nf

• Neal Stephenson - Anathem f

• Clay Gordon - Discover Chocolate nf

• Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep f

• Alan Moore, David Gibbons - Watchmen f

• Scott McCloud - Understanding Comics nf

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

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

• John Shirley and Ken Levine - BioShock f

• Wil Wheaton - The Happiest Days of Our Lives nf

• Robert Charles Wilson - The Chronoliths f

• Ted Chiang - Hell is the Absence of God f

• Andy Oram, Greg Wilson - Beautiful Code nf

• Chris Okasaki - Purely Functional Data Structures nf

• Abelson, Sussman - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs nf

• Dijkstra - A Discipline of Programming nf

Books I've read:

• 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

• 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 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 Mieville - 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