Booklist
From Smop.co.uk
Well, due to a recent thread on the Hampshire Linux User Group mailing list, I thought I'd better start keeping track of books/authors I intend to read. Without further ado.
- Turn of the screw - Henry James
- Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dante's Inferno (Ciaran Carson translation)
- various Charles Dickens (already read "Great Expectations")
- Homer's Iliad
- The cosmic trilogy (Perelandra, Out of the silent planet, That hideous strength)
- The history of Mr Polly - H G Wells
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
- The picture of Dorian Gray
- Tacitus' "Histories"
- I, Claudius and Claudius the God
- The 39 steps
- A clockwork orange
- The big sleep
- Moby Dick
- Lorna Doon
- Dracula
- Around the world in 80 days
- War and Peace
- The three musketeers
- Neal Stephenson - Zodiac
- John Courtenay Grimwood - Arabesk trilogy, Stamping Butterflies
- George R R Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire (gritty fantasy)
- Charles Stross - Singularity Sky (hard sci-fi)
- Sin City graphic novels
- Sandman graphic novels
- Guns germs and steel
Books since read from this list:
- Robert Rankin - The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (funny)
- Iain (M) Banks - all remaining Sci-fi and contemporary books (great, amazing - even better! respectively)
- All George Orwell (including 1984, Animal farm)
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (fabulous)
- Great expectations - Clarles Dickens (good)
- Lord of the flies - William Golding (loved it at school, not reread recently)
- Lord of the rings - J R R Tolkien (enjoyed, but preferred the dragonbone chair trilogy)
- Ringworld - Larry Niven (good)
- Snow crash - Neal Stephenson (enjoyed)
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (I think I got a bit disinterested)
- Neuromancer - William Gibson (loved it)
- 2001,2010,2061,3001 - Arthur C Clarke - couldn't read as a child, but liked them (not loved them)
- Rama I,II,III,IV - Arthur C Clarke - interesting, prefer Stephen Baxter
- Homer's odyssey - classic book, just skip any analysis stuff
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (overlong, but amusing)
- War of the worlds - H G Wells (very good)
- The Dice Man - George Cockcroft (as Luke Rhinehart) (very funny and twisted, then a bit repetitive)
- The man who mistook his wife for a hat - Oliver Sachs (interesting)
- Dr Tatianas sex advice to all creation - Olivia Judson (interesting, coffee table book)
- Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott (bizarre, but fun in a a sad, mathmo way)
- Alice's adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll (classic, enjoyed it)
- Through the looking glass - Lewis Carroll (part II)
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (didn't got on with that at all)
- The Undercover Economist (gdb recommended, enlighening)
- Cat's cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
