Books by Subject

= Recommended

= Highly recommended

Academia

Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis

A Ph.D. Is Not Enough -- Peter J. Feibelman
Beneath the Wheel -- Herman Hesse
Advice to a Young Scientist -- P. B. Medawar

Moo -- Jane Smiley
The Big U -- Neal Stephenson
The Idea Factory -- Pepper White

Biography

Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain

This Must Be the Place -- David Bowman
Queer -- William S. Burroughs
Junky -- William S. Burroughs

The Basketball Diaries -- Jim Carroll

Hobo -- Eddy Joe Cotton
High Stakes, No Prisoners -- Charles H. Ferguson

A Street in Marrakech -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Genius -- James Gleick
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers -- Paul Hoffman

Chuck Amuck -- Chuck Jones

The Woman Warrior -- Maxine Hong Kingston

Will -- G. Gordon Liddy

Please Kill Me -- Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

Angela's Ashes -- Frank McCourt

The Curve of Binding Energy -- John McPhee

The Beat of a Different Drum -- Jagdish Mehra
William Burroughs -- Barry Miles
Blue Highways -- William Least Heat Moon

Down and Out in Paris and London -- George Orwell

Stolen Lives -- Malika Oufkir

Prisoner's Dilemma -- William Poundstone
Monster -- Sanyika Shakur

Maus II -- Art Spiegelman

Maus I -- Art Spiegelman

Travels with Charley -- John Steinbeck

The Dream Machine -- M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Double Helix -- James Watson

I Was Saddam's Son -- Latif Yahia, Karl Wendl
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder -- Lawrence Weschler

The Idea Factory -- Pepper White
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe

Books

Literary Theory -- Jonathan Culler

Ex Libris -- Anne Fadiman

The New Lifetime Reading Plan -- Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major

How to Write Book Reports -- Harry Teitelbaum

Children's Books

The Wizard of Oz -- L. Frank Baum

The Neverending Story -- Michael Ende

Mr. Tompkins in Paperback -- George Gamow

The Dot and the Line -- Norton Juster

A Wind in the Door -- Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeline L'Engle

The Farthest Shore -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan -- Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea -- Ursula K. Le Guin

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

Never Cry Wolf -- Farley Mowat

The Complete Adventures of Curious George -- H. A. Ray

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
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -- J. K. Rowling

Space Cat Meets Mars -- Ruthven Todd

The Hobbit -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Time Machine -- H. G. Wells

Computing

The Windows NT Device Driver Book -- Art Baker
Linux Kernel Internals -- Michael Beck
More Programming Pearls -- Jon Bentley
The Mythical Man-Month -- Fred Brooks
Hard Real-Time Computing Systems -- Giorgio Buttazzo
Understanding the Linux Kernel -- Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
The Unfinished Revolution -- Michael L. Dertouzos
A Discipline of Programming -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Release 2.0 -- Esther Dyson
The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide -- Robert Orfali, Dan Harkey, Jeri Edwards
Languages for Digital Embedded Systems -- Stephen A. Edwards
Mr. Bunny's Big Cup O' Java -- Carlton Egremont III

Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX -- Carlton Egremont III

High Stakes, No Prisoners -- Charles H. Ferguson

Feynman Lectures on Computation -- Richard Feynman

The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook -- Bruce Fries
Gödel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter

The Early History of Data Networks -- Gerard Holzmann
The Computer Contradictionary -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
Selected Papers on Computer Science -- Donald Knuth
The Age of Spiritual Machines -- Ray Kurzweil
Linkers and Loaders -- John R. Levine
Expert C Programming -- Peter van der Linden
Mastering Algorithms with Perl -- Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald
Writing Solid Code -- Steve Maguire
Robot -- Hans Moravec
Open Sources -- eds. Chris Dibona, Mark Stone, Sam Ockman

In Search of Clusters -- Gregory Pfister
The Practice of Programming -- Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
Prisoner's Dilemma -- William Poundstone
The New Hacker's Dictionary -- Eric Raymond

Linux Device Drivers -- Alessandro Rubini
Any Time, Anywhere Computing -- Abdelsalam Helal, Bert Haskell, Jeffrey L. Carter, Richard Brice, Darrell Woelk, Marek Rusinkiewicz
Microsoft Secrets -- Michael Cusumano, Richard Selby
Real-Time Systems and Software -- Alan C. Shaw
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- Harold Abelson, Gerald Sussman, Julie Sussman
Exegesis -- Astro Teller
Computers Take Flight -- James Tomayko
Elements of ML Programming -- Jeffrey D. Ullman
Design Patterns -- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
The Dream Machine -- M. Mitchell Waldrop

Showstopper! -- G. Pascal Zachary
Writing for Computer Science -- Justin Zobel

Design

Semiology of Graphics -- Jacques Bertin
How Buildings Learn -- Stewart Brand

Understanding Comics -- Scott McCloud

Reinventing Comics -- Scott McCloud
Creating Killer Web Sites -- David Siegel
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information -- Edward Tufte

Visual Explanations -- Edward Tufte

Design Patterns -- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

Drama

Waiting for Godot -- Samuel Beckett

Hamlet -- William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream -- William Shakespeare

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead -- Tom Stoppard

Arcadia -- Tom Stoppard

Economics

The Law -- Frederic Bastiat

The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M. Christensen

Hidden Order -- David D. Friedman

Economics in One Lesson -- Henry Hazlitt

The Armchair Economist -- Steven E. Landsburg

The Winner's Curse -- Richard H. Thaler

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need -- Andrew Tobias

Fiction and Literature

Empire of the Senseless -- Kathy Acker
Life, the Universe, and Everything -- Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency -- Douglas Adams
Bastard out of Carolina -- Dorothy Allison

Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis

Time's Arrow -- Martin Amis
Lexicon Urthus -- Michael Andre-Driussi
On a Pale Horse -- Piers Anthony
Macroscope -- Piers Anthony
Nine Tomorrows -- Isaac Asimov
The Robber Bride -- Margaret Atwood
The New York Trilogy -- Paul Auster

Why I Hate Saturn -- Kyle Baker

The Cowboy Wally Show -- Kyle Baker

Vox -- Nicholson Baker

The Fermata -- Nicholson Baker
The Mezzanine -- Nicholson Baker

Empire of the Sun -- J. G. Ballard

Crash -- J. G. Ballard
Like a Hole in the Head -- Jen Banbury
Excession -- Iain M. Banks
The Bridge -- Iain Banks
The Player of Games -- Iain M. Banks

The State of the Art -- Iain M. Banks
The Business -- Iain Banks
Look to Windward -- Iain M. Banks

Espedair Street -- Iain Banks
Use of Weapons -- Iain M. Banks

Consider Phlebas -- Iain M. Banks
Complicity -- Iain Banks
Inversions -- Iain M. Banks
The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks

The Forgetting Room -- Nick Bantock
Griffin and Sabine -- Nick Bantock
The Golden Mean -- Nick Bantock
Sabine's Notebook -- Nick Bantock
The Hellbound Heart -- Clive Barker
The Dead Father -- Donald Barthelme
Sixty Stories -- Donald Barthelme

Forty Stories -- Donald Barthelme

The Wizard of Oz -- L. Frank Baum

Waiting for Godot -- Samuel Beckett

Corelli's Mandolin -- Louis de Bernieres

The Demolished Man -- Alfred Bester
Burglars Can't Be Choosers -- Lawrence Block
Labyrinths -- Jorge Luis Borges

The Sheltering Sky -- Paul Bowles
Bunny Modern -- David Bowman
Let the Dog Drive -- David Bowman
Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury

The Mists of Avalon -- Marion Zimmer Bradley

Revenge of the Lawn -- Richard Brautigan
I Never Liked You -- Chester Brown
The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner
Rogue Moon -- Algis Budrys
Post Office -- Charles Bukowski
The Naked Lunch -- William S. Burroughs
Possession -- A. S. Byatt

If on a winter's night a traveler -- Italo Calvino
From Hell -- Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell

The Stranger -- Albert Camus
Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card

Outside the Dog Museum -- Jonathan Carroll
Bones of the Moon -- Jonathan Carroll

The Emperor of Ocean Park -- Stephen Carter

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? -- Raymond Carver
The Man Who Was Thursday -- G. K. Chesterton
The Best of Crank -- ed. Bryan Cholfin

Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke
2001 -- Arthur C. Clarke

The Sentinel -- Arthur C. Clarke
Against the Fall of Night -- Arthur Clarke
Calling Crow -- Paul Clayton
Ghost World -- Daniel Clowes

David Boring -- Daniel Clowes

Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad

The White Rose -- Glen Cook
Shadows Linger -- Glen Cook

The Black Company -- Glen Cook

Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
Generation X -- Douglas Coupland
Great Work of Time -- John Crowley
Antiquities -- John Crowley
Little, Big -- John Crowley

House of Leaves -- Mark Z. Danielewski

Mao II -- Don DeLillo
White Noise -- Don DeLillo

A Scanner Darkly -- Philip K. Dick
Dorsai! -- Gordon Dickson
The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes From Underground -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dark Decade -- Johanna Drucker
Foucault's Pendulum -- Umberto Eco

Quarantine -- Greg Egan
To the Heart of the Storm -- Will Eisner

Less than Zero -- Brett Easton Ellis
Angry Candy -- Harlan Ellison

Shatterday -- Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories -- Harlan Ellison
The Neverending Story -- Michael Ende

The Zygote Chronicles -- Suzanne Finnamore
Otherwise Engaged -- Suzanne Finnamore
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Magus -- John Fowles

The French Lieutenant's Woman -- John Fowles

The Corrections -- Jonathan Franzen

The Kindly Ones -- Neil Gaiman

The Wake -- Neil Gaiman

World's End -- Neil Gaiman

Brief Lives -- Neil Gaiman
A Game of You -- Neil Gaiman
Fables and Reflections -- Neil Gaiman

Season of Mists -- Neil Gaiman

Dream Country -- Neil Gaiman
The Doll's House -- Neil Gaiman

Preludes and Nocturnes -- Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
Because They Wanted To -- Mary Gaitskill

Grendel -- John Gardner
The Annotated Alice -- Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner

Watchmen -- Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Burning Chrome -- William Gibson
Count Zero -- William Gibson
Neuromancer -- William Gibson

Remote Feed -- David Gilbert
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden
A is for Alibi -- Sue Grafton
Replay -- Ken Grimwood
The Forever War -- Joe Haldeman
Go Now -- Richard Hell
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller

A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway

Chapterhouse: Dune -- Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune -- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune -- Frank Herbert
Children of Dune -- Frank Herbert

Dune Messiah -- Frank Herbert

Dune -- Frank Herbert

Destination: Void -- Frank Herbert
Tears from Heaven -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Las Mujeres Perdidas -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Chelo's Burden -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez

Music for Mechanics -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
Luba Conquers the World -- Gilbert Hernandez

Poison River -- Gilbert Hernandez

Love and Rockets X -- Gilbert Hernandez

Blood of Palomar -- Gilbert Hernandez

Flies on the Ceiling -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Duck Feet -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

House of Raging Women -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Chester Square -- Jaime Hernandez

Wigwam Bam -- Jaime Hernandez

The Death of Speedy -- Jaime Hernandez

Beneath the Wheel -- Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf -- Herman Hesse

Smilla's Sense of Snow -- Peter Hoeg

Candy -- Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg
The Odyssey -- Homer

High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby
The Turn of the Screw -- Henry James
A Very Long Engagement -- Sebastien Japrisot

How to Save Your Own Life -- Erica Jong
Fear of Flying -- Erica Jong
The Dot and the Line -- Norton Juster

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories -- Franz Kafka

Thirst -- Ken Kalfus

Bored of the Rings -- Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney
On The Road -- Jack Kerouac

Flowers for Algernon -- Daniel Keyes

The Stand -- Stephen King
Four Past Midnight -- Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver

Being There -- Jerzy Kosinski

The Nanny Diaries -- Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera

A Swiftly Tilting Planet -- Madeline L'Engle

A Wind in the Door -- Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeline L'Engle

Bolo -- Keith Laumer

The Farthest Shore -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan -- Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Swords and Deviltry -- Fritz Leiber
A Pail of Air -- Fritz Leiber
The Futurological Congress -- Stanislaw Lem
As She Climbed Across the Table -- Jonathan Lethem

Gun, With Occasional Music -- Jonathan Lethem
The Screwtape Letters -- C. S. Lewis
Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog -- Mark Leyner

Stranger Things Happen -- Kelly Link

V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore, David Lloyd

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath -- H. P. Lovecraft
The Clock of Dreams -- Brian Lumley
The Cassini Division -- Ken MacLeod
The Wild Party -- Joseph Moncure March
Beanworld -- Larry Marder

The Straw Men -- Michael Marshall
The Armageddon Rag -- George R. R. Martin
More Tales of the City -- Armistead Maupin
Tales of the City -- Armistead Maupin

Babycakes -- Armistead Maupin
Further Tales of the City -- Armistead Maupin
Blood Meridian -- Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses -- Cormac McCarthy

Zot, Vol. 1 -- Scott McCloud
Cages -- Dave McKean

Violent Cases -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

The Dark Knight Returns -- Frank Miller

A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry

Elric -- Michael Moorcock
Elric: Song of the Black Sword -- Michael Moorcock
Beloved -- Toni Morrison

Only Begotten Daughter -- James Morrow
Moonshadow -- J. M. DeMatteis, Jon Muth

The Eye -- Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov

The Ringworld Engineers -- Larry Niven
Protector -- Larry Niven
Neutron Star -- Larry Niven

A Hole in Space -- Larry Niven
Ringworld -- Larry Niven
The English Patient -- Michael Ondaatje
Animal Farm -- George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London -- George Orwell

1984 -- George Orwell

Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk

Life: A User's Manual -- Georges Perec

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig
Selected Stories and Poems -- Edgar Allan Poe

The Gold Bug Variations -- Richard Powers

Galatea 2.2 -- Richard Powers

Gain -- Richard Powers

Operation Wandering Soul -- Richard Powers
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance -- Richard Powers

Plowing the Dark -- Richard Powers

The Shipping News -- E. Annie Proulx

The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman

Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon

The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon

Ishmael -- Daniel Quinn
Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
Anthem -- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead -- Ayn Rand
The Complete Adventures of Curious George -- H. A. Ray

Story of O -- Pauline Réage
Revelation Space -- Alastair Reynolds
The Vampire Lestat -- Anne Rice
Snapshots -- Alain Robbe-Grillet
Jealousy -- Alain Robbe-Grillet

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
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -- J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J. K. Rowling
Freeware -- Rudy Rucker
Wetware -- Rudy Rucker
Software -- Rudy Rucker

Sewer, Gas and Electric -- Matt Ruff
Children of God -- Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow -- Mary Doria Russell

Straight Man -- Richard Russo

Iron and Silk -- Mark Salzman

Codex Seraphinianus -- Luigi Serafini

Hamlet -- William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream -- William Shakespeare

Slam -- Lewis Shiner

Across a Billion Years -- Robert Silverberg
Cerebus -- Dave Sim
Moo -- Jane Smiley
Zod Wallop -- William Browning Spencer

Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck

The Pearl -- John Steinbeck

Suicide Blonde -- Darcey Steinke
Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

The Big U -- Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead -- Tom Stoppard

Arcadia -- Tom Stoppard

Exegesis -- Astro Teller
The White Hotel -- D. M. Thomas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S. Thompson

Space Cat Meets Mars -- Ruthven Todd

The Silmarillion -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Two Towers -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring -- J. R. R. Tolkien

32 Stories -- Adrian Tomine

Sleepwalk and Other Stories -- Adrian Tomine

Morality Play -- Barry Unsworth

Rabbit Redux -- John Updike

Rabbit, Run -- John Updike

The Dying Earth -- Jack Vance
Tales of the Dying Earth -- Jack Vance

The Demon Princes vol 2 -- Jack Vance
The Demon Princes vol 1 -- Jack Vance

Titan, Wizard, Demon -- John Varley
Marooned in Realtime -- Vernor Vinge

The Peace War -- Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky -- Vernor Vinge

A Fire Upon the Deep -- Vernor Vinge

Candide -- Voltaire

Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut

Jimmy Corrigan -- Chris Ware

The Time Machine -- H. G. Wells

Trainspotting -- Irvine Welsh

The Once and Future King -- T. H. White
Doomsday Book -- Connie Willis
Space Child's Mother Goose -- Frederick Winsor

Sexing the Cherry -- Jeanette Winterson

Carry On, Jeeves -- P. G. Wodehouse
The Devil in a Forest -- Gene Wolfe
The Fifth Head of Cerberus -- Gene Wolfe

Nightside the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories -- Gene Wolfe

Plan[e]t Engineering -- Gene Wolfe

There Are Doors -- Gene Wolfe

Peace -- Gene Wolfe

Strange Travelers -- Gene Wolfe

Exodus from the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

Caldé of the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

Lake of the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

The Urth of the New Sun -- Gene Wolfe

The Citadel of the Autarch -- Gene Wolfe

The Sword of the Lictor -- Gene Wolfe

Castle of Days -- Gene Wolfe

The Claw of the Conciliator -- Gene Wolfe

The Shadow of the Torturer -- Gene Wolfe

Return to the Whorl -- Gene Wolfe

In Green's Jungles -- Gene Wolfe

On Blue's Waters -- Gene Wolfe

Free Live Free -- Gene Wolfe

Pandora by Holly Hollander -- Gene Wolfe
Endangered Species -- Gene Wolfe
Castleview -- Gene Wolfe

Food and Drink

Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain

I'm Just Here for the Food -- Alton Brown
Wine for Dummies -- Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Appreciating Whisky -- Phillip Hills

Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking -- Madhur Jaffrey
Fear of Cooking -- Bob Scher

General Science

Signs in Contemporary Culture -- Arthur Asa Berger
Games People Play -- Eric Berne

Semiology of Graphics -- Jacques Bertin
I'm Just Here for the Food -- Alton Brown
The New Solar System -- J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Andrew L. Chaikin

Soldiers Live -- Glen Cook
Water Sleeps -- Glen Cook
She is the Darkness -- Glen Cook
Bleak Seasons -- Glen Cook
Dreams of Steel -- Glen Cook
Shadow Games -- Glen Cook
The Silver Spike -- Glen Cook

Apollo -- Charles Murray, Catherine Cox

The Fabric of Reality -- David Deutsch

Infinite in All Directions -- Freeman Dyson

Disturbing the Universe -- Freeman Dyson

Relativity -- Albert Einstein

A Ph.D. Is Not Enough -- Peter J. Feibelman
Feynman Lectures on Computation -- Richard Feynman

QED -- Richard Feynman

Mr. Tompkins in Paperback -- George Gamow

Faster -- James Gleick
Chaos -- James Gleick
The Elegant Universe -- Brian Greene

The Mathematical Experience -- Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

Gödel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter

The Early History of Data Networks -- Gerard Holzmann
The Curve of Binding Energy -- John McPhee

Basin and Range -- John McPhee

Advice to a Young Scientist -- P. B. Medawar

The Beat of a Different Drum -- Jagdish Mehra
Robot -- Hans Moravec
The Dreams of Reason -- Heinz Pagels
Dimensional Analysis and Scale Factors -- R. C. Pankhurst
Unbounding the Future -- K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson
How the Mind Works -- Steven Pinker

Prisoner's Dilemma -- William Poundstone
Our Cosmic Habitat -- Martin J. Rees

Infinity and the Mind -- Rudy Rucker
Any Time, Anywhere Computing -- Abdelsalam Helal, Bert Haskell, Jeffrey L. Carter, Richard Brice, Darrell Woelk, Marek Rusinkiewicz
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -- Oliver Sacks

The Winner's Curse -- Richard H. Thaler

Computers Take Flight -- James Tomayko
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information -- Edward Tufte

Visual Explanations -- Edward Tufte

The Flying Circus of Physics -- Jearl Walker

The Double Helix -- James Watson

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder -- Lawrence Weschler

Taking the Quantum Leap -- Fred Alan Wolf

Graphic Novels

Why I Hate Saturn -- Kyle Baker

The Cowboy Wally Show -- Kyle Baker

Griffin and Sabine -- Nick Bantock
The Golden Mean -- Nick Bantock
Sabine's Notebook -- Nick Bantock
I Never Liked You -- Chester Brown
From Hell -- Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell

Ghost World -- Daniel Clowes

David Boring -- Daniel Clowes

To the Heart of the Storm -- Will Eisner

The Explainers -- Jules Feiffer
Hold Me -- Jules Feiffer
The Kindly Ones -- Neil Gaiman

The Wake -- Neil Gaiman

World's End -- Neil Gaiman

Brief Lives -- Neil Gaiman
A Game of You -- Neil Gaiman
Fables and Reflections -- Neil Gaiman

Season of Mists -- Neil Gaiman

Dream Country -- Neil Gaiman
The Doll's House -- Neil Gaiman

Preludes and Nocturnes -- Neil Gaiman

Watchmen -- Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Cartoon History of the Universe II -- Larry Gonick

Tears from Heaven -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Las Mujeres Perdidas -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Chelo's Burden -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez

Music for Mechanics -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez
Luba Conquers the World -- Gilbert Hernandez

Poison River -- Gilbert Hernandez

Love and Rockets X -- Gilbert Hernandez

Blood of Palomar -- Gilbert Hernandez

Flies on the Ceiling -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Duck Feet -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

House of Raging Women -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez

Chester Square -- Jaime Hernandez

Wigwam Bam -- Jaime Hernandez

The Death of Speedy -- Jaime Hernandez

The Dot and the Line -- Norton Juster

V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore, David Lloyd

Beanworld -- Larry Marder

Understanding Comics -- Scott McCloud

Zot, Vol. 1 -- Scott McCloud
Reinventing Comics -- Scott McCloud
Cages -- Dave McKean

Violent Cases -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

The Dark Knight Returns -- Frank Miller

Moonshadow -- J. M. DeMatteis, Jon Muth

Mountain Bike! -- William Nealy

The Complete Adventures of Curious George -- H. A. Ray

Codex Seraphinianus -- Luigi Serafini

Cerebus -- Dave Sim
Maus II -- Art Spiegelman

Maus I -- Art Spiegelman

32 Stories -- Adrian Tomine

Sleepwalk and Other Stories -- Adrian Tomine

Mage -- Matt Wagner

Jimmy Corrigan -- Chris Ware

History

Crusade -- Rick Atkinson

Stalingrad -- Antony Beevor

Journey Through Genius -- William Dunham

Cartoon History of the Universe II -- Larry Gonick

The Early History of Data Networks -- Gerard Holzmann
The Commissar Vanishes -- David King
Prisoner's Dilemma -- William Poundstone
The Longest Day -- Cornelius Ryan
The Killer Angels -- Michael Shaara

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William Shirer

Maus II -- Art Spiegelman

Maus I -- Art Spiegelman

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder -- Lawrence Weschler

An Underground Education -- Richard Zacks

Humor

Life, the Universe, and Everything -- Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

Lucky Jim -- Kingsley Amis

Why I Hate Saturn -- Kyle Baker

The Cowboy Wally Show -- Kyle Baker

Like a Hole in the Head -- Jen Banbury
Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain

Bunny Modern -- David Bowman
Mr. Bunny's Big Cup O' Java -- Carlton Egremont III

Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX -- Carlton Egremont III

The Explainers -- Jules Feiffer
Hold Me -- Jules Feiffer
The Zygote Chronicles -- Suzanne Finnamore
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller

Candy -- Terry Southern, Mason Hoffenberg
The Computer Contradictionary -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
Bored of the Rings -- Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney
Being There -- Jerzy Kosinski

As She Climbed Across the Table -- Jonathan Lethem

Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog -- Mark Leyner

L.A. Bizarro -- Anthony Lovett, Matt Maranian
The Wild Girls Club -- Anka Radakovich
Freeware -- Rudy Rucker
Wetware -- Rudy Rucker
Software -- Rudy Rucker

Sewer, Gas and Electric -- Matt Ruff
Cerebus -- Dave Sim
Moo -- Jane Smiley
Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

Candide -- Voltaire

The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe

Mathematics

The Fabric of Reality -- David Deutsch

A Discipline of Programming -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Journey Through Genius -- William Dunham

Chaos -- James Gleick
A Mathematician's Apology -- G. H. Hardy

The Mathematical Experience -- Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers -- Paul Hoffman

Gödel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter

The Dot and the Line -- Norton Juster

The Dreams of Reason -- Heinz Pagels
How to Think About Statistics -- John L. Phillips
Infinity and the Mind -- Rudy Rucker
Laws of Form -- George Spencer-Brown

Media

Release 2.0 -- Esther Dyson
The Glass Teat -- Harlan Ellison
Sex Stupidity and Greed -- Ian Grey
Chuck Amuck -- Chuck Jones

The Commissar Vanishes -- David King
Reinventing Comics -- Scott McCloud
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You -- John C. Stauber, Sheldon Rampton

Military

Crusade -- Rick Atkinson

Stalingrad -- Antony Beevor

Black Hawk Down -- Mark Bowden

The Curve of Binding Energy -- John McPhee

The Longest Day -- Cornelius Ryan
The Killer Angels -- Michael Shaara

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William Shirer

Music

Espedair Street -- Iain Banks
This Must Be the Place -- David Bowman
The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook -- Bruce Fries
The Armageddon Rag -- George R. R. Martin
Please Kill Me -- Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

Nonfiction

Desert Solitaire -- Edward Abbey

Crusade -- Rick Atkinson

The Windows NT Device Driver Book -- Art Baker
The Law -- Frederic Bastiat

Linux Kernel Internals -- Michael Beck
Stalingrad -- Antony Beevor

More Programming Pearls -- Jon Bentley
Signs in Contemporary Culture -- Arthur Asa Berger
Games People Play -- Eric Berne

Semiology of Graphics -- Jacques Bertin
How Proust Can Change Your Life -- Alain de Botton
Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain

Black Hawk Down -- Mark Bowden

This Must Be the Place -- David Bowman
How Buildings Learn -- Stewart Brand

The Mythical Man-Month -- Fred Brooks
I'm Just Here for the Food -- Alton Brown
Starting From Scratch -- Rita Mae Brown
Queer -- William S. Burroughs
Junky -- William S. Burroughs

Sex and the City -- Candace Bushnell
Hard Real-Time Computing Systems -- Giorgio Buttazzo
The Basketball Diaries -- Jim Carroll

Tolkien -- Lin Carter
Understanding the Linux Kernel -- Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati
The New Solar System -- J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Andrew L. Chaikin

Climbing Ice -- Yvon Chouinard

The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M. Christensen

Line by Line -- Claire Kehrwald Cook

Hobo -- Eddy Joe Cotton
Apollo -- Charles Murray, Catherine Cox

How to Buy a Diamond -- Fred Cuellar
Literary Theory -- Jonathan Culler

The Unfinished Revolution -- Michael L. Dertouzos
The Fabric of Reality -- David Deutsch

A Discipline of Programming -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

The Writing Life -- Annie Dillard

What Men Don't Want Women to Know -- Mike Smith, Bill Doe
Journey Through Genius -- William Dunham

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed -- Harlan Ellison
The Glass Teat -- Harlan Ellison
Wine for Dummies -- Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Ex Libris -- Anne Fadiman

A Ph.D. Is Not Enough -- Peter J. Feibelman
High Stakes, No Prisoners -- Charles H. Ferguson

A Street in Marrakech -- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

Feynman Lectures on Computation -- Richard Feynman

QED -- Richard Feynman

Theology -- David F. Ford

Hidden Order -- David D. Friedman

The MP3 and Internet Audio Handbook -- Bruce Fries
Class -- Paul Fussell

Mr. Tompkins in Paperback -- George Gamow

The Prophet -- Kahlil Gibran

Faster -- James Gleick
Genius -- James Gleick
Cartoon History of the Universe II -- Larry Gonick

The Elegant Universe -- Brian Greene

Sex Stupidity and Greed -- Ian Grey
A Mathematician's Apology -- G. H. Hardy

Economics in One Lesson -- Henry Hazlitt

The Mathematical Experience -- Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

Appreciating Whisky -- Phillip Hills

The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving -- John Hoffman
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers -- Paul Hoffman

Gödel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter

The Early History of Data Networks -- Gerard Holzmann
Buy Your First Home! -- Robert Irwin
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking -- Madhur Jaffrey
Chuck Amuck -- Chuck Jones

The Commissar Vanishes -- David King
The Woman Warrior -- Maxine Hong Kingston

Selected Papers on Computer Science -- Donald Knuth
Into Thin Air -- Jon Krakauer
The Age of Spiritual Machines -- Ray Kurzweil
The ABC of Avalanche Safety -- E. R. LaChapelle
The Armchair Economist -- Steven E. Landsburg

Linkers and Loaders -- John R. Levine
Will -- G. Gordon Liddy

Expert C Programming -- Peter van der Linden
Underground -- David Macaulay

Mastering Algorithms with Perl -- Jon Orwant, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John Macdonald
The Prince -- Niccolo Machiavelli

Writing Solid Code -- Steve Maguire
The New Lifetime Reading Plan -- Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major

L.A. Bizarro -- Anthony Lovett, Matt Maranian
Switchbacks -- Sid Marty
Storming the Reality Studio -- Larry McCaffrey

Please Kill Me -- Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

Understanding Comics -- Scott McCloud

Reinventing Comics -- Scott McCloud
Angela's Ashes -- Frank McCourt

The Curve of Binding Energy -- John McPhee

Basin and Range -- John McPhee

Advice to a Young Scientist -- P. B. Medawar

The Beat of a Different Drum -- Jagdish Mehra
William Burroughs -- Barry Miles
Blue Highways -- William Least Heat Moon

Robot -- Hans Moravec
Never Cry Wolf -- Farley Mowat

Mountain Bike! -- William Nealy

Open Sources -- eds. Chris Dibona, Mark Stone, Sam Ockman

Mormon America -- Richard Ostling, Joan Ostling

Stolen Lives -- Malika Oufkir

The Dreams of Reason -- Heinz Pagels
Dimensional Analysis and Scale Factors -- R. C. Pankhurst
Unbounding the Future -- K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson
In Search of Clusters -- Gregory Pfister
How to Think About Statistics -- John L. Phillips
The Practice of Programming -- Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
How the Mind Works -- Steven Pinker

Prisoner's Dilemma -- William Poundstone
Big Secrets -- William Poundstone
Biggest Secrets -- William Poundstone
Repetitive Strain Injury -- Emil Pascarelli, Deborah Quilter
The Elements of Moral Philosophy -- James Rachels

The Wild Girls Club -- Anka Radakovich
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You -- John C. Stauber, Sheldon Rampton

The New Hacker's Dictionary -- Eric Raymond

Our Cosmic Habitat -- Martin J. Rees

Real World Scanning and Halftones -- David Blatner, Glenn Fleishman, Stephen F. Roth
Linux Device Drivers -- Alessandro Rubini
Infinity and the Mind -- Rudy Rucker
Any Time, Anywhere Computing -- Abdelsalam Helal, Bert Haskell, Jeffrey L. Carter, Richard Brice, Darrell Woelk, Marek Rusinkiewicz
The Longest Day -- Cornelius Ryan
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -- Oliver Sacks

Fear of Cooking -- Bob Scher

Signs -- Thomas A. Sebeok
Microsoft Secrets -- Michael Cusumano, Richard Selby
The Killer Angels -- Michael Shaara

Monster -- Sanyika Shakur

Real-Time Systems and Software -- Alan C. Shaw
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William Shirer

Creating Killer Web Sites -- David Siegel
The Universe Next Door -- James W. Sire
Laws of Form -- George Spencer-Brown
Maus II -- Art Spiegelman

Maus I -- Art Spiegelman

Travels with Charley -- John Steinbeck

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs -- Harold Abelson, Gerald Sussman, Julie Sussman
How to Write Book Reports -- Harry Teitelbaum
The Winner's Curse -- Richard H. Thaler

Hell's Angels -- Hunter Thompson

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need -- Andrew Tobias

Computers Take Flight -- James Tomayko
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information -- Edward Tufte

Visual Explanations -- Edward Tufte

Teewinot -- Jack Turner
The Art of War -- Sun Tzu
Elements of ML Programming -- Jeffrey D. Ullman
Design Patterns -- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
The Dream Machine -- M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Flying Circus of Physics -- Jearl Walker

I Was Saddam's Son -- Latif Yahia, Karl Wendl
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder -- Lawrence Weschler

The Idea Factory -- Pepper White
Taking the Quantum Leap -- Fred Alan Wolf
The Right Stuff -- Tom Wolfe

Electric Kool Aid Acid Test -- Tom Wolfe
Donnie Brasco -- Joseph Pistone, Richard Woodley
Showstopper! -- G. Pascal Zachary
An Underground Education -- Richard Zacks

Writing for Computer Science -- Justin Zobel

Outdoors

Desert Solitaire -- Edward Abbey

Climbing Ice -- Yvon Chouinard

Into Thin Air -- Jon Krakauer
The ABC of Avalanche Safety -- E. R. LaChapelle
Switchbacks -- Sid Marty
Mountain Bike! -- William Nealy

Teewinot -- Jack Turner

Philosophy

The Law -- Frederic Bastiat

The Fabric of Reality -- David Deutsch

Theology -- David F. Ford

Gödel Escher Bach -- Douglas Hofstadter

Advice to a Young Scientist -- P. B. Medawar

The Dreams of Reason -- Heinz Pagels
The Elements of Moral Philosophy -- James Rachels

The Universe Next Door -- James W. Sire

Poetry

The Wild Party -- Joseph Moncure March

Psychology

Games People Play -- Eric Berne

How the Mind Works -- Steven Pinker

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -- Oliver Sacks

The Universe Next Door -- James W. Sire

SF

Life, the Universe, and Everything -- Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

Lexicon Urthus -- Michael Andre-Driussi
On a Pale Horse -- Piers Anthony
Macroscope -- Piers Anthony
Nine Tomorrows -- Isaac Asimov
Excession -- Iain M. Banks
The Player of Games -- Iain M. Banks

The State of the Art -- Iain M. Banks
Look to Windward -- Iain M. Banks

Use of Weapons -- Iain M. Banks

Consider Phlebas -- Iain M. Banks
Inversions -- Iain M. Banks
The Demolished Man -- Alfred Bester
Bunny Modern -- David Bowman
Something Wicked This Way Comes -- Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury

The Mists of Avalon -- Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner
Rogue Moon -- Algis Budrys
Ender's Game -- Orson Scott Card

The Best of Crank -- ed. Bryan Cholfin

Childhood's End -- Arthur C. Clarke
2001 -- Arthur C. Clarke

The Sentinel -- Arthur C. Clarke
Against the Fall of Night -- Arthur Clarke
The White Rose -- Glen Cook
Shadows Linger -- Glen Cook

The Black Company -- Glen Cook

Great Work of Time -- John Crowley
Antiquities -- John Crowley
Little, Big -- John Crowley

A Scanner Darkly -- Philip K. Dick
Dorsai! -- Gordon Dickson
Quarantine -- Greg Egan
Angry Candy -- Harlan Ellison

Shatterday -- Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories -- Harlan Ellison
The Neverending Story -- Michael Ende

The Kindly Ones -- Neil Gaiman

The Wake -- Neil Gaiman

World's End -- Neil Gaiman

Brief Lives -- Neil Gaiman
A Game of You -- Neil Gaiman
Fables and Reflections -- Neil Gaiman

Season of Mists -- Neil Gaiman

Dream Country -- Neil Gaiman
The Doll's House -- Neil Gaiman

Preludes and Nocturnes -- Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
Watchmen -- Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Burning Chrome -- William Gibson
Count Zero -- William Gibson
Neuromancer -- William Gibson

Replay -- Ken Grimwood
The Forever War -- Joe Haldeman
Chapterhouse: Dune -- Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune -- Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune -- Frank Herbert
Children of Dune -- Frank Herbert

Dune Messiah -- Frank Herbert

Dune -- Frank Herbert

Destination: Void -- Frank Herbert
Bored of the Rings -- Henry N. Beard, Douglas C. Kenney
The Stand -- Stephen King
A Swiftly Tilting Planet -- Madeline L'Engle

A Wind in the Door -- Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time -- Madeline L'Engle

Bolo -- Keith Laumer

Swords and Deviltry -- Fritz Leiber
A Pail of Air -- Fritz Leiber
The Futurological Congress -- Stanislaw Lem
As She Climbed Across the Table -- Jonathan Lethem

Gun, With Occasional Music -- Jonathan Lethem
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath -- H. P. Lovecraft
The Clock of Dreams -- Brian Lumley
The Cassini Division -- Ken MacLeod
The Armageddon Rag -- George R. R. Martin
The Dark Knight Returns -- Frank Miller

Elric -- Michael Moorcock
Elric: Song of the Black Sword -- Michael Moorcock
Only Begotten Daughter -- James Morrow
The Ringworld Engineers -- Larry Niven
Protector -- Larry Niven
Neutron Star -- Larry Niven

A Hole in Space -- Larry Niven
Ringworld -- Larry Niven
The Golden Compass -- Philip Pullman

Anthem -- Ayn Rand
Revelation Space -- Alastair Reynolds
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
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -- J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -- J. K. Rowling
Freeware -- Rudy Rucker
Wetware -- Rudy Rucker
Software -- Rudy Rucker

Sewer, Gas and Electric -- Matt Ruff
Children of God -- Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow -- Mary Doria Russell

Across a Billion Years -- Robert Silverberg
Zod Wallop -- William Browning Spencer

Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

The Big U -- Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
Exegesis -- Astro Teller
Space Cat Meets Mars -- Ruthven Todd

The Silmarillion -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Two Towers -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Fellowship of the Ring -- J. R. R. Tolkien

The Dying Earth -- Jack Vance
Tales of the Dying Earth -- Jack Vance

The Demon Princes vol 2 -- Jack Vance
The Demon Princes vol 1 -- Jack Vance

Titan, Wizard, Demon -- John Varley
Marooned in Realtime -- Vernor Vinge

The Peace War -- Vernor Vinge
A Deepness in the Sky -- Vernor Vinge

A Fire Upon the Deep -- Vernor Vinge

Slaughterhouse Five -- Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle -- Kurt Vonnegut

Mage -- Matt Wagner

The Once and Future King -- T. H. White
Doomsday Book -- Connie Willis
The Devil in a Forest -- Gene Wolfe
The Fifth Head of Cerberus -- Gene Wolfe

Nightside the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories -- Gene Wolfe

There Are Doors -- Gene Wolfe

Strange Travelers -- Gene Wolfe

Exodus from the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

Caldé of the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

Lake of the Long Sun -- Gene Wolfe

The Urth of the New Sun -- Gene Wolfe

The Citadel of the Autarch -- Gene Wolfe

The Sword of the Lictor -- Gene Wolfe