Books in Chronological Order

All of the books that I've read since late 1996 are listed here, along with some of the more memorable books that I read earlier. There are short reviews of over 300 of them. I use the word "review" loosely, and should probably think of a better one since I don't have the time or inclination to write detailed reviews. They are merely intended to give a little bit of information about the books and why I liked or didn't like them.

July 2003	The Demon Princes vol 2 -- Jack Vance The Demon Princes vol 1 -- Jack Vance Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis Complicity -- Iain Banks Into Thin Air -- Jon Krakauer Climbing Ice -- Yvon Chouinard Castleview -- Gene Wolfe
June 2003	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J. K. Rowling Hobo -- Eddy Joe Cotton Count Zero -- William Gibson Across a Billion Years -- Robert Silverberg Straight Man -- Richard Russo
May 2003	Unbounding the Future -- K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman The Nanny Diaries -- Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
April 2003	Fear of Cooking -- Bob Scher Neuromancer -- William Gibson
March 2003	The Dream Machine -- M. Mitchell Waldrop The Clock of Dreams -- Brian Lumley Inversions -- Iain M. Banks
February 2003	Down and Out in Paris and London -- George Orwell A is for Alibi -- Sue Grafton The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks Wine for Dummies -- Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan
January 2003	Languages for Digital Embedded Systems -- Stephen A. Edwards The Killer Angels -- Michael Shaara Mormon America -- Richard Ostling, Joan Ostling Crusade -- Rick Atkinson Four Past Midnight -- Stephen King
December 2002	The Straw Men -- Michael Marshall Bored of the Rings -- Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway The Emperor of Ocean Park -- Stephen Carter
November 2002	Tales of the Dying Earth -- Jack Vance Bolo -- Keith Laumer I'm Just Here for the Food -- Alton Brown
October 2002	Life: A User's Manual -- Georges Perec The Ringworld Engineers -- Larry Niven Morality Play -- Barry Unsworth Protector -- Larry Niven Hell's Angels -- Hunter Thompson
September 2002	Neutron Star -- Larry Niven The Shipping News -- E. Annie Proulx A Hole in Space -- Larry Niven Ringworld -- Larry Niven Teewinot -- Jack Turner
August 2002	Pandora by Holly Hollander -- Gene Wolfe Revelation Space -- Alastair Reynolds The Zygote Chronicles -- Suzanne Finnamore
July 2002	Soldiers Live -- Glen Cook Water Sleeps -- Glen Cook She is the Darkness -- Glen Cook Bleak Seasons -- Glen Cook Otherwise Engaged -- Suzanne Finnamore
June 2002	Dreams of Steel -- Glen Cook Shadow Games -- Glen Cook The Silver Spike -- Glen Cook Our Cosmic Habitat -- Martin J. Rees The White Rose -- Glen Cook Shadows Linger -- Glen Cook The Black Company -- Glen Cook Stranger Things Happen -- Kelly Link I Was Saddam's Son -- Latif Yahia, Karl Wendl The ABC of Avalanche Safety -- E. R. LaChapelle
May 2002	The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen
April 2002	Use of Weapons -- Iain M. Banks Consider Phlebas -- Iain M. Banks Iron and Silk -- Mark Salzman
March 2002	Macroscope -- Piers Anthony The French Lieutenant's Woman -- John Fowles Stalingrad -- Antony Beevor
February 2002	Basin and Range -- John McPhee Endangered Species -- Gene Wolfe A Pail of Air -- Fritz Leiber A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry
January 2002	Appreciating Whisky -- Phillip Hills The White Hotel -- D. M. Thomas Apollo -- Charles Murray, Catherine Cox Laws of Form -- George Spencer-Brown
December 2001	A Discipline of Programming -- Edsger W. Dijkstra Stolen Lives -- Malika Oufkir Real-Time Systems and Software -- Alan C. Shaw Plowing the Dark -- Richard Powers
November 2001	Revenge of the Lawn -- Richard Brautigan The Urth of the New Sun -- Gene Wolfe Switchbacks -- Sid Marty
October 2001	Computers Take Flight -- James Tomayko This Must Be the Place -- David Bowman The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman Desert Solitaire -- Edward Abbey
September 2001	The Cassini Division -- Ken MacLeod Space Cat Meets Mars -- Ruthven Todd Design Patterns -- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides The Business -- Iain Banks Look to Windward -- Iain M. Banks The Elegant Universe -- Brian Greene
August 2001	The Flying Circus of Physics -- Jearl Walker Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk Destination: Void -- Frank Herbert Elements of ML Programming -- Jeffrey D. Ullman Let the Dog Drive -- David Bowman
July 2001	Linkers and Loaders -- John R. Levine The Citadel of the Autarch -- Gene Wolfe The Screwtape Letters -- C. S. Lewis To the Heart of the Storm -- Will Eisner The Sword of the Lictor -- Gene Wolfe
June 2001	The Sheltering Sky -- Paul Bowles
May 2001	The Eye -- Vladimir Nabokov Espedair Street -- Iain Banks Dorsai! -- Gordon Dickson Only Begotten Daughter -- James Morrow Buy Your First Home! -- Robert Irwin
April 2001	Castle of Days -- Gene Wolfe A Mathematician's Apology -- G. H. Hardy The Unfinished Revolution -- Michael L. Dertouzos The Law -- Frederic Bastiat Will -- G. Gordon Liddy The Claw of the Conciliator -- Gene Wolfe
March 2001	Lexicon Urthus -- Michael Andre-Driussi The Shadow of the Torturer -- Gene Wolfe Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain Return to the Whorl -- Gene Wolfe
February 2001	In Green's Jungles -- Gene Wolfe On Blue's Waters -- Gene Wolfe The Best of Crank -- ed. Bryan Cholfin Free Live Free -- Gene Wolfe
January 2001	The Glass Teat -- Harlan Ellison The Winner's Curse -- Richard H. Thaler Burning Chrome -- William Gibson Understanding the Linux Kernel -- Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
December 2000	The Woman Warrior -- Maxine Hong Kingston High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby There Are Doors -- Gene Wolfe The Bridge -- Iain Banks
November 2000	How Buildings Learn -- Stewart Brand The Fabric of Reality -- David Deutsch How to Buy a Diamond -- Fred Cuellar David Boring -- Daniel Clowes The Player of Games -- Iain M. Banks Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
October 2000	Gun, With Occasional Music -- Jonathan Lethem Jimmy Corrigan -- Chris Ware Toxic Sludge Is Good for You -- John C. Stauber, Sheldon Rampton Peace -- Gene Wolfe Mr. Tompkins in Paperback -- George Gamow Beanworld -- Larry Marder Mountain Bike! -- William Nealy
September 2000	Mr. Bunny's Big Cup O' Java -- Carlton Egremont III High Stakes, No Prisoners -- Charles H. Ferguson Theology -- David F. Ford Taking the Quantum Leap -- Fred Alan Wolf From Hell -- Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell I Never Liked You -- Chester Brown
August 2000	Reinventing Comics -- Scott McCloud Writing for Computer Science -- Justin Zobel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -- J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -- J. K. Rowling
July 2000	Any Time, Anywhere Computing -- Abdelsalam Helal, Bert Haskell, Jeffrey L. Carter, Richard Brice, Darrell Woelk, Marek Rusinkiewicz Why I Hate Saturn -- Kyle Baker Cages -- Dave McKean The Cowboy Wally Show -- Kyle Baker Black Hawk Down -- Mark Bowden
June 2000	Class -- Paul Fussell The Prince -- Niccolo Machiavelli The Big U -- Neal Stephenson The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver How to Think About Statistics -- John L. Phillips Literary Theory -- Jonathan Culler
May 2000	Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX -- Carlton Egremont III Open Sources -- eds. Chris Dibona, Mark Stone, Sam Ockman Elric -- Michael Moorcock The State of the Art -- Iain M. Banks Feynman Lectures on Computation -- Richard Feynman
April 2000	The Universe Next Door -- James W. Sire Angela's Ashes -- Frank McCourt House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski
March 2000	The Wild Party -- Joseph Moncure March The Dot and the Line -- Norton Juster Hidden Order -- David D. Friedman The New Solar System -- J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Andrew L. Chaikin Elric: Song of the Black Sword -- Michael Moorcock
February 2000	The Annotated Alice -- Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner A Deepness in the Sky -- Vernor Vinge The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M. Christensen Visual Explanations -- Edward Tufte Strange Travelers -- Gene Wolfe Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
January 2000	The New Lifetime Reading Plan -- Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major Codex Seraphinianus -- Luigi Serafini Line by Line -- Claire Kehrwald Cook Exodus from the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe Caldé of the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -- J. K. Rowling The Age of Spiritual Machines -- Ray Kurzweil Lake of the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe
December 1999	Nightside the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe A Swiftly Tilting Planet -- Madeline L'Engle A Very Long Engagement -- Sebastien Japrisot
November 1999	Economics in One Lesson -- Henry Hazlitt The Armageddon Rag -- George R. R. Martin Flowers for Algernon -- Daniel Keyes Mastering Algorithms with Perl -- Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald A Wind in the Door -- Madeline L'Engle How to Write Book Reports -- Harry Teitelbaum The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories -- Gene Wolfe Hard Real-Time Computing Systems -- Giorgio Buttazzo The Writing Life -- Annie Dillard
October 1999	The Complete Adventures of Curious George -- H. A. Ray Microsoft Secrets -- Michael Cusumano, Richard Selby A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeline L'Engle Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck All the Pretty Horses -- Cormac McCarthy The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook -- Bruce Fries Babycakes -- Armistead Maupin The Elements of Moral Philosophy -- James Rachels Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder -- Lawrence Weschler Faster -- James Gleick
September 1999	Replay -- Ken Grimwood Forty Stories -- Donald Barthelme The Return of the King -- J. R. R. Tolkien The Curve of Binding Energy -- John McPhee
August 1999	The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Commissar Vanishes -- David King Sex and the City -- Candace Bushnell The Two Towers -- J. R. R. Tolkien Notes From Underground -- Fyodor Dostoevsky Expert C Programming -- Peter van der Linden
July 1999	The Armchair Economist -- Steven E. Landsburg The Fellowship of the Ring -- J. R. R. Tolkien An Underground Education -- Richard Zacks The Demolished Man -- Alfred Bester Waiting for Godot -- Samuel Beckett Showstopper! -- G. Pascal Zachary
June 1999	Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need -- Andrew Tobias Moonshadow -- J. M. DeMatteis, Jon Muth Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller A Midsummer Night's Dream -- William Shakespeare
May 1999	The Practice of Programming -- Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike The Man Who Loved Only Numbers -- Paul Hoffman The Stand -- Stephen King The Golden Mean -- Nick Bantock The Kindly Ones -- Neil Gaiman
April 1999	The Basketball Diaries -- Jim Carroll The Wake -- Neil Gaiman World's End -- Neil Gaiman Brief Lives -- Neil Gaiman 2001 -- Arthur C. Clarke A Game of You -- Neil Gaiman Fables and Reflections -- Neil Gaiman The Sentinel -- Arthur C. Clarke Season of Mists -- Neil Gaiman Monster -- Sanyika Shakur Underground -- David Macaulay Maus II -- Art Spiegelman The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William Shirer
March 1999	Dream Country -- Neil Gaiman Maus I -- Art Spiegelman The Doll's House -- Neil Gaiman Sabine's Notebook -- Nick Bantock The Longest Day -- Cornelius Ryan A Ph.D. Is Not Enough -- Peter J. Feibelman How Proust Can Change Your Life -- Alain de Botton 32 Stories -- Adrian Tomine
February 1999	The Pearl -- John Steinbeck Sleepwalk and Other Stories -- Adrian Tomine Plan[e]t Engineering -- Gene Wolfe Preludes and Nocturnes -- Neil Gaiman Further Tales of the City -- Armistead Maupin A Street in Marrakech -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea Real World Scanning and Halftones -- David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, Stephen F. Roth Beloved -- Toni Morrison
January 1999	The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean Luba Conquers the World -- Gilbert Hernandez Chester Square -- Jaime Hernandez Poison River -- Gilbert Hernandez Wigwam Bam -- Jaime Hernandez Love and Rockets X -- Gilbert Hernandez Blood of Palomar -- Gilbert Hernandez Ghost World -- Daniel Clowes How the Mind Works -- Steven Pinker Zot, Vol. 1 -- Scott McCloud Flies on the Ceiling -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez The Death of Speedy -- Jaime Hernandez Duck Feet -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card Animal Farm -- George Orwell Corelli's Mandolin -- Louis de Bernieres House of Raging Women -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez
January 1998	Quarantine -- Greg Egan
December 1997	Advice to a Young Scientist -- P. B. Medawar Prisoner's Dilemma -- William Poundstone The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera Trainspotting -- Irvine Welsh Nine Tomorrows -- Isaac Asimov The Dying Earth -- Jack Vance The Magus -- John Fowles The Neverending Story -- Michael Ende Bastard out of Carolina -- Dorothy Allison Marooned in Realtime -- Vernor Vinge
November 1997	The Peace War -- Vernor Vinge Time's Arrow -- Martin Amis Robot -- Hans Moravec Possession -- A. S. Byatt Dimensional Analysis and Scale Factors -- R. C. Pankhurst Being There -- Jerzy Kosinski Calling Crow -- Paul Clayton Starting From Scratch -- Rita Mae Brown Angry Candy -- Harlan Ellison Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
Early Fall 1997	The Farthest Shore -- Ursula K. Le Guin Linux Kernel Internals -- Michael Beck The Computer Contradictionary -- Stan Kelly-Bootle The Tombs of Atuan -- Ursula K. Le Guin The Explainers -- Jules Feiffer A Wizard of Earthsea -- Ursula K. Le Guin Blue Highways -- William Least Heat Moon Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking -- Madhur Jaffrey Understanding Comics -- Scott McCloud The Turn of the Screw -- Henry James The Wizard of Oz -- L. Frank Baum Shatterday -- Harlan Ellison The Visual Display of Quantitative Information -- Edward Tufte More Programming Pearls -- Jon Bentley Selected Stories and Poems -- Edgar Allan Poe
Summer 1997	Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland Vox -- Nicholson Baker The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving -- John Hoffman Please Kill Me -- Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain The Man Who Was Thursday -- G. K. Chesterton The Gold Bug Variations -- Richard Powers Creating Killer Web Sites -- David Siegel A Scanner Darkly -- Philip K. Dick In Search of Clusters -- Gregory Pfister L.A. Bizarro -- Anthony Lovett, Matt Maranian Selected Papers on Computer Science -- Donald Knuth The Stranger -- Albert Camus The English Patient -- Michael Ondaatje Slam -- Lewis Shiner On a Pale Horse -- Piers Anthony Go Now -- Richard Hell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig The Wild Girls Club -- Anka Radakovich Blood Meridian -- Cormac McCarthy Cerebus -- Dave Sim Cartoon History of the Universe II -- Larry Gonick Rogue Moon -- Algis Budrys Empire of the Sun -- J. G. Ballard Ishmael -- Daniel Quinn Titan, Wizard, Demon -- John Varley Swords and Deviltry -- Fritz Leiber
Spring 1997	Smilla's Sense of Snow -- Peter Hoeg Galatea 2.2 -- Richard Powers The Fermata -- Nicholson Baker Empire of the Senseless -- Kathy Acker Repetitive Strain Injury -- Emil Pascarelli, Deborah Quilter Semiology of Graphics -- Jacques Bertin The Art of War -- Sun Tzu The Forever War -- Joe Haldeman Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed -- Harlan Ellison Dark Decade -- Johanna Drucker The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath -- H. P. Lovecraft Story of O -- Pauline Réage Excession -- Iain M. Banks The Mezzanine -- Nicholson Baker Less than Zero -- Brett Easton Ellis Signs in Contemporary Culture -- Arthur Asa Berger Generation X -- Douglas Coupland Infinity and the Mind -- Rudy Rucker If on a winter's night a traveler -- Italo Calvino Crash -- J. G. Ballard Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Ray Bradbury How to Save Your Own Life -- Erica Jong Fear of Flying -- Erica Jong Signs -- Thomas A. Sebeok
December 1998	Tears from Heaven -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez Las Mujeres Perdidas -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez Chelo's Burden -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez Space Child's Mother Goose -- Frederick Winsor Deathbird Stories -- Harlan Ellison Tolkien -- Lin Carter Music for Mechanics -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez Violent Cases -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean The Silmarillion -- J. R. R. Tolkien More Tales of the City -- Armistead Maupin Hold Me -- Jules Feiffer Great Work of Time -- John Crowley The Forgetting Room -- Nick Bantock Candy -- Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg Chuck Amuck -- Chuck Jones Tales of the City -- Armistead Maupin Anthem -- Ayn Rand
November 1998	The Hobbit -- J. R. R. Tolkien Travels with Charley -- John Steinbeck Griffin and Sabine -- Nick Bantock Life, the Universe, and Everything -- Douglas Adams Big Secrets -- William Poundstone Ex Libris -- Anne Fadiman Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead -- Tom Stoppard Remote Feed -- David Gilbert
October 1998	Thirst -- Ken Kalfus The Dead Father -- Donald Barthelme Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -- Oliver Sacks The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Douglas Adams Post Office -- Charles Bukowski Antiquities -- John Crowley Sex Stupidity and Greed -- Ian Grey The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
September 1998	Sixty Stories -- Donald Barthelme What Men Don't Want Women to Know -- Mike Smith, Bill Doe The Metamorphosis and Other Stories -- Franz Kafka The Dark Knight Returns -- Frank Miller The Devil in a Forest -- Gene Wolfe Like a Hole in the Head -- Jen Banbury Sewer, Gas and Electric -- Matt Ruff Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad
August 1998	Biggest Secrets -- William Poundstone The Hellbound Heart -- Clive Barker The Beat of a Different Drum -- Jagdish Mehra Rabbit Redux -- John Updike Writing Solid Code -- Steve Maguire Doomsday Book -- Connie Willis Rabbit, Run -- John Updike Suicide Blonde -- Darcey Steinke Gain -- Richard Powers
July 1998	Exegesis -- Astro Teller The Fifth Head of Cerberus -- Gene Wolfe Hamlet -- William Shakespeare Burglars Can't Be Choosers -- Lawrence Block The Prophet -- Kahlil Gibran The New York Trilogy -- Paul Auster The Idea Factory -- Pepper White Arcadia -- Tom Stoppard Carry On, Jeeves -- P. G. Wodehouse
June 1998	Operation Wandering Soul -- Richard Powers The Odyssey -- Homer Games People Play -- Eric Berne
May 1998	Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance -- Richard Powers The Dreams of Reason -- Heinz Pagels V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore, David Lloyd Snapshots -- Alain Robbe-Grillet
April 1998	Children of God -- Mary Doria Russell Little, Big -- John Crowley Linux Device Drivers -- Alessandro Rubini The Mythical Man-Month -- Fred Brooks Chapterhouse: Dune -- Frank Herbert The Windows NT Device Driver Book -- Art Baker Jealousy -- Alain Robbe-Grillet The Futurological Congress -- Stanislaw Lem
March 1998	The Sparrow -- Mary Doria Russell The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky As She Climbed Across the Table -- Jonathan Lethem The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide -- Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards The Vampire Lestat -- Anne Rice Bunny Modern -- David Bowman The Early History of Data Networks -- Gerard Holzmann Zod Wallop -- William Browning Spencer Freeware -- Rudy Rucker
February 1998	Wetware -- Rudy Rucker Software -- Rudy Rucker Beneath the Wheel -- Herman Hesse Moo -- Jane Smiley Heretics of Dune -- Frank Herbert Donnie Brasco -- Joseph Pistone, Richard Woodley Journey Through Genius -- William Dunham Release 2.0 -- Esther Dyson
January 1998	God Emperor of Dune -- Frank Herbert Because They Wanted To -- Mary Gaitskill Children of Dune -- Frank Herbert Dune Messiah -- Frank Herbert Candide -- Voltaire Relativity -- Albert Einstein Dune -- Frank Herbert Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- Harold Abelson, Gerald Sussman, Julie Sussman
Late 1996	Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? -- Raymond Carver William Burroughs -- Barry Miles Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog -- Mark Leyner The Once and Future King -- T. H. White Against the Fall of Night -- Arthur Clarke Sexing the Cherry -- Jeanette Winterson Mao II -- Don DeLillo Grendel -- John Gardner The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
Earlier	Storming the Reality Studio -- Larry McCaffrey White Noise -- Don DeLillo The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand Outside the Dog Museum -- Jonathan Carroll Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut The Mists of Avalon -- Marion Zimmer Bradley The Robber Bride -- Margaret Atwood Electric Kool Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe Foucault's Pendulum -- Umberto Eco On The Road -- Jack Kerouac The New Hacker's Dictionary -- Eric Raymond The Mathematical Experience -- Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh Steppenwolf -- Herman Hesse Queer -- William S. Burroughs Junky -- William S. Burroughs Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov A Fire Upon the Deep -- Vernor Vinge The Naked Lunch -- William S. Burroughs Genius -- James Gleick Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S. Thompson Bones of the Moon -- Jonathan Carroll Infinite in All Directions -- Freeman Dyson Disturbing the Universe -- Freeman Dyson Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- Douglas Adams The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon QED -- Richard Feynman Mage -- Matt Wagner Chaos -- James Gleick The Double Helix -- James Watson Labyrinths -- Jorge Luis Borges Watchmen -- Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons Gödel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter Never Cry Wolf -- Farley Mowat 1984 -- George Orwell The Time Machine -- H. G. Wells Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury

John Regehr