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.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People - Dale Carnegie
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_YES - Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
- Freud (The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of everyday life, Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Ego and the Id)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (maybe not his directly)
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- The City and The City - China Mieville
- IOU: The Story of the Debt - Noreena Hertz
- Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions
- Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- The girl with the dragon tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- John Kay - "The long and the short of it", "The hare and the tortoise" - financial recommended by gdb
- Reginald D Hunter - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Evolution of Corporations - Robert Axelrod (recommended by Adam Trickett)
- Sinking of the Bismark
- I am legend
- http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/
- 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 - Oscar Wilde
- The Histories - Tacitus
- I, Claudius and Claudius the God
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Around the world in 80 days
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The three musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- 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), (read glasshouse, halting state, accelerando)
- Sin City graphic novels
- Sandman graphic novels
- Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep
- The Magic of Thinking Big - David Schwarz
- How to make millions with your ideas: An Entrepreneur's guide - Dan Kennedy
- The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber
- Vagabonding: An uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel - Rolf Potts
- Walden - Henry David Thoreau
- Less is more - The art of voluntary poverty - Goldian Vandenbroeck
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 get on with that at all)
- The Undercover Economist (gdb recommended, enlightening)
- Cat's cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- The big sleep - Raymond Chandler (written in the 1st person, very colourful turns of phrase)
- A clockwork orange - strange, reminds me of the film
- Turn of the screw - Henry James
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Guns germs and steel
- Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón/Lucia Graves
- E. E. "Doc" Smith's books, which are utterly silly, but cosmic in scope
- read Triplanetary
- Four hour work week - Timothy Ferris
- Running with the moon - Jonny Bealby
- The 39 steps - John Buchan
- Dan Simmons' Hyperion books
- Tau Zero - Poul Anderson
- Lorna Doone - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, John Gray
- Stranger in a strange land, Robert A. Heinlein
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
- Richard Templar - The rules of working, the rules of management
- Robery Heinlein - Starship Troopers
- Dune - Frank Herbert
