Friday, July 23, 2010

Atlas Shrugged (75 must-read geek books)

Atlas Shrugged (75 must-read geek books)

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clark
The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Bruce Campbell
Shadows Over Innsmouth, HP Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury
Does IT Matter?, Nicholas G Carr
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R Hofstadter
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Show-Stopper!, G Pascal Zachary
The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll
The Google Story, David A Vise
The Road Ahead, Bill Gates
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon, Steve Wozniak
1984, George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner), Philip K. Dick
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Harry Potter, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials, Phillip Pullman
The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
The Time Machine, HG Wells
1632, Eric Flint
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire
Contact, Carl Sagan
Dune, Frank Herbert
I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig
Lila, Robert M Pirsig
Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible, Arthur C Clarke
Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
Starship Troopers, Robert A Heinlein
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
The Geek Atlas, John Graham-Cumming
Little, Big, John Crowley
The City & The City, China Mieville
Everything Bad Is Good for You, Stephen johnson
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A Heinlein
The Cluetrain Manifesto, Rick Levine
Anathem, Neal Stephenson
Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
Amber series, Roger Zelazny
Magician: Apprentice, Raymond E Feist
Magician: Master, Raymond E Feist
The Serpentwar Saga: Book I, Raymond E Feist
The Serpentwar Saga: Book II, Raymond E Feist
The Serpentwar Saga: Book III, Raymond E Feist
The Serpentwar Saga: Book IV, Raymond E Feist
Code Complete, Steve McConnell
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks
Ender's Game (Ender Wiggin Series #1), Orson Scott Card
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Ringworld, Lary Niven
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams

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The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong, Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull
Body by Science, John R. Little, Doug McGuff
The Story of Ping, Marjorie Flack
Everything You Know is Wrong, Lloyd Pye
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Greg Palast
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Outliers : The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins