Booklist

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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
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