Books on the Waiting List
This list has become depressingly long -- it's so much
easier to buy books than it is to read them.
Inter Ice Age 4 -- Kobo Abe
The Spell of the Sensuous -- David Abram
London -- Peter Ackroyd
The Camera -- Ansel Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish -- Douglas Adams
Watership Down -- Richard Adams
Quantum Mechanics and Experience -- David Z. Albert
Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott
A Pattern Language -- Christopher Alexander
London Fields -- Martin Amis
ACM Turing Award Lectures -- Robert Ashenhurst
Second Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire -- Isaac Asimov
Confessions -- Saint Augustine
The Size of Thoughts -- Nicholson Baker
The Puzzle Palace -- James Bamford
Whit -- Iain Banks
Feersum Endjinn -- Iain Banks
Against a Dark Background -- Iain Banks
The Inhuman Condition -- Clive Barker
Imajica -- Clive Barker
The Great and Secret Show -- Clive Barker
Simple and Direct -- Jacques Barzun
Slant -- Greg Bear
Blood Music -- Greg Bear
Endgame -- Samuel Beckett
Humboldt's Gift -- Saul Bellow
Computers as Tutors -- Frederick Bennett
Programming Pearls -- Jon Bentley
Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins -- Ted Bernstein
Resource Management -- Richard McDougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Every Hoogendoorn, Enqique Vargas, Tom Bialaski
The One Minute Manager -- Kenneth Blanchard
The Art of the Metaobject Protocol -- Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow
Clouds in a Glass of Beer -- Braig F. Bohren
Advice for New Faculty Members -- Robert Boice
Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day -- Joan Bolker
Lateral Thinking -- Edward De Bono
Collected Fictions -- Jorge Luis Borges
The Dictionary of Theories -- Jennifer Bothamley
The Forest House -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Clock of the Long Now -- Stewart Brand
Losing my Virginity -- Richard Branson
Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away -- Richard Brautigan
The Uplift War -- David Brin
Startide Rising -- David Brin
The Elements of Typographic Style -- Robert Bringhurst
Bodyguard of Lies -- Anthony Cave Brown
Minds, Machines and the Multiverse -- Julian R. Brown
Goodnight Moon -- Margaret Wise Brown
Photo Fakery -- Dino A. Brugioni
The Master and Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Devil's Mode -- Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange -- Anthony Burgess
Tremor of Intent -- Anthony Burgess
Saints and Scamps -- Steven M. Cahn
How to Read a Person Like a Book -- Gerald I. Nierenberg, Henry H. Calero
The Plague -- Albert Camus
Speaker for the Dead -- Orson Scott Card
Xenocide -- Orson Scott Card
How to Win Friends and Influence People -- Dale Carnegie
The Alienist -- Caleb Carr
The Panic Hand -- Jonathan Carroll
Sleeping in Flame -- Jonathan Carroll
The Major Plays -- Anton Chekhov
The Chomsky Reader -- Noam Chomsky
The Gathering Storm -- Winston Churchill
The Nine Billion Names of God -- Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous With Rama -- Arthur C. Clarke
Look at the Evidence -- John Clute
Strokes -- John Clute
Carrying the Fire -- Michael Collins
Cold Copper Tears -- Glen Cook
Old Tin Sorrows -- Glen Cook
Deadly Quicksilver Lies -- Glen Cook
Sweet Silver Blues -- Glen Cook
Dread Brass Shadows -- Glen Cook
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student -- Edward Corbett
Shampoo Planet -- Douglas Coupland
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People -- Stephen R. Covey
Daemonomania -- John Crowley
Aegypt -- John Crowley
Love and Sleep -- John Crowley
Beasts -- John Crowley
The Deep -- John Crowley
Engine Summer -- John Crowley
Flow -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
On Deconstruction -- Jonathan Culler
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator -- Roald Dahl
The Practical SQL Handbook -- Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky
The Cunning Man -- Robertson Davies
The Selfish Gene -- Richard Dawkins
Libra -- Don DeLillo
A Profile of Mathematical Logic -- Howard DeLong
Dhalgren -- Samuel R. Delany
Underworld -- Don Delillo
Brainchildren -- Daniel Dennett
Consciousness Explained -- Daniel Dennett
The Armchair Universe -- A. K. Dewdney
The Tinkertoy Computer -- A. K. Dewdney
The Magic Machine -- A. K. Dewdney
Guns, Germs, and Steel -- Jared Diamond
David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
How to Read a Book -- Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Engines of Creation -- K. Eric Drexler
What Computers Still Can't Do -- Hubert L. Dreyfus
Alphabetic Labyrinth -- Johanna Drucker
Ho Chi Minh -- William J. Duiker
Diaspora -- Greg Egan
Graphic Storytelling -- Will Eisner
Patent, Copyright & Trademark -- Stephen Elias
Middlemarch -- George Elliot
The Other Glass Teat -- Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison's Watching -- Harlan Ellison
Edgeworks 1: Over The Edge, An Edge in My Voice -- Harlan Ellison
Edgeworks 2: Spider Kiss, Stalking the Nightmare -- Harlan Ellison
Edgeworks 3: The Harlan Ellison Hornbook, Harlan Ellison's Movie -- Harlan Ellison
Edgeworks 4: Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World -- Harlan Ellison
Slippage -- Harlan Ellison
Again, Dangerous Visions -- ed. Harlan Ellison
Self Reliance and Other Essays -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seven Types of Ambiguity -- William Empson
The First Elizabeth -- Carolly Erickson
Elements -- Euclid
PR! A Social History of Spin -- Stuart Ewen
To Your Scattered Bodies Go -- Phillip Jose Farmer
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
Boy, Girl. Boy, Girl. -- Jules Feiffer
The Little Schemer -- Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
Tom Jones -- Henry Fielding
Numerical Recipes in C -- William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, Brian P. Flannery
The Existential Pleasures of Engineering -- Samuel C. Florman
Introduction to Probability -- John R. Freund
Sophie's World -- Jostein Gaarder
Smoke and Mirrors -- Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
The New Ambidextrous Universe -- Martin Gardner
Mathematical Magic Show -- Martin Gardner
Mathematical Circus -- Martin Gardner
Mathematical Carnival -- Martin Gardner
Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions -- Martin Gardner
Wall Street -- Charles R. Geisst
When Things Start to Think -- Beil A. Gershenfeld
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling -- Neil A. Gershenfeld
The Physics of Information Technology -- Neil A. Gershenfeld
The Story of My Experiments with Truth -- Mohandas Ghandi
The Difference Engine -- Bruce Sterling, William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive -- William Gibson
Virtual Light -- William Gibson
James Joyce's Ulysses -- Stuart Gilbert
The Tipping Point -- Malcolm Gladwell
The Culture of Fear -- Barry Glassner
The Runner's Handbook -- Bob Glover
Wild Mind -- Natalie Goldberg
The Princess Bride -- William Goldman
The Refrigerator and the Universe -- Martin Goldstein, Inge Goldstein
The Cartoon Guide to Physics -- Larry Gonick
The Cartoon History of the Universe I -- Larry Gonick
Paris to the Moon -- Adam Gopnik
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
The White Goddess -- Robert Graves
An Introduction to Philosophical Logic -- A. C. Grayling
The Creature from Jekyll Island -- G. Edward Griffin
The Chicago Manual of Style -- John Grossman
Use Cases -- Daryl Kulak, Eamonn Guiney
The Best and the Brightest -- David Halberstam
The Great Stink of London -- Stephen Halliday
The Geek Handbook -- Mikki Halpin
The Ladies of Mandrigyn -- Barbara Hambly
The Art of Probability -- Richard W. Hamming
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering -- Richard Hamming
The Letters of William S. Burroughs -- William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris
The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Being and Time -- Martin Heidegger
Physics and Philosophy -- Werner Heisenberg
Memoir from Antproof Case -- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale -- Mark Helprin
Classics -- Mary Beard, John Henderson
Eye -- Frank Herbert
The Hernandez Satyricon -- Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez
Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences -- Nicholas J. Higham
Metamagical Themas -- Douglas Hofstadter
The Elements of Gnosticism -- Stuart Holroyd
The Iliad -- Homer
Personality Types -- Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson
Unlocking the Zen Koan -- Hui-Kai
Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro
The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis -- Raj Jain
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind -- Julian Jaynes
Medinas -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Computers and Intractability -- Michael R. Garey, David S. Johnson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- James Joyce
Ulysses -- James Joyce
The Phantom Tollbooth -- Norton Juster
Tibor Kalman -- Peter Hall, Michael Bierut, Tibor Kalman
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences -- eds. Robert A. Wilson, Frank C. Keil
A Feeling for the Organism -- Evelyn Fox Keller
Buddhism -- Damien Keown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -- Ken Kesey
Soul of a New Machine -- Tracy Kidder
Where Do We Go From Here -- Martin Luther King
MySQL and mSQL -- Randy Jay Yarger, George Reese, Tim King
The Drawing of the Three -- Stephen King
The Gunslinger -- Stephen King
The Conservative Mind -- Russell Kirk
Humpty Dumpty: An Oval -- Damon Knight
Fundamental Algorithms -- Donald Knuth
Seminumerical Algorithms -- Donald Knuth
Sorting and Searching -- Donald Knuth
The Act of Creation -- Arthur Koestler
The Painted Bird -- Jerzy Kosinski
The Accidental Theorist -- Paul Krugman
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions -- Thomas S. Kuhn
The Joke -- Milan Kundera
Many Waters -- Madeline L'Engle
MicroC/OS-II : The Real Time Kernel -- Jean J. Labrosse
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life -- Alan Lakein
A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners -- Walter R. Bourneman, Lyndon J. Lampert
The Insiders' Guide to Salt Lake City -- Kate Duffy, Bryan Larsen
Understanding the Infinite -- Shaughan Lavine
Selected Short Stories -- D. H. Lawrence
Tehanu -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed -- Ursula K. LeGuin
Language of the Night -- Ursula K. LeGuin
Tuva or Bust -- Ralph Leighton
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace -- Lawrence Lessig
The Golden Notebook -- Doris Lessing
A Handbook for Scholars -- Mary-Claire Van Leunen
Safeware -- Nancy Leveson
The Periodic Table -- Primo Levi
Artificial Life -- Steven Levy
Mere Christianity -- C. S. Lewis
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist -- Mark Leyner
Never be Lied to Again -- David Lieberman
Einstein's Dreams -- Alan Lightman
Software Architecture for Product Families -- Mehdi Jazayeri, Alexander Ran, Frank van der Linden
Voyage to Arcturus -- David Lindsay
Lions' Commentary on Unix -- John Lions
Peopleware -- Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
The Second Treatise on Civil Government -- John Locke
American Urban Architecture -- Wayne Attoe, Donn Logan
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward -- H. P. Lovecraft
Rules for the Road -- Eve Luppert
Doublespeak -- William Lutz
The New Doublespeak -- William Lutz
The Philosophy of Time -- eds. Robin Le Poidevin, Murray MacBeath
The New Way Things Work -- David Macaulay
Brush Up Your Shakespeare -- Michael Macrone
Wicked -- Gregory Maguire
Palace Walk -- Naguib Mahfouz
The Naked and the Dead -- Norman Mailer
A Random Walk Down Wall Street -- Burton G. Malkiel
A History of Reading -- Alberto Manguel
One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collected Stories -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Game of Thrones -- George R. R. Martin
Child of the River -- Paul McAuley
The Crossing -- Cormac McCarthy
Code Complete -- Steve McConnell
Plus -- Joseph McElroy
On Food and Cooking -- Harold McGee
Mr. Punch -- Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do -- Peter McWilliams
Moby Dick -- Herman Melville
Faculty in New Jobs -- Robert J. Menges
Principles of Political Economy -- John Stuart Mill
The Crucible -- Arthur Miller
PrairyErth -- William Least Heat Moon
Von Bek -- Michael Moorcock
The Cornelius Chronicles -- Michael Moorcock
An Alien Heat -- Michael Moorcock
The War Hound and the World's Pain -- Michael Moorcock
The Hollow Lands -- Michael Moorcock
The Dragon in the Sword -- Michael Moorcock
Voodoo -- Alan Moore
Stupid White Men -- Michael Moore
The Bluffer's Guide to Philosophy -- Thomas V. Morris
Loud and Clear -- George L. Morrisey
Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
A Beautiful Mind -- Sylvia Nasar
Being Digital -- Nicholas Negroponte
Utopia in Power -- Mikhail Heller, Aleksandr M. Nekrich
High Tech Start Up -- John L. Nesheim
All the Myriad Ways -- Larry Niven
Limits -- Larry Niven
The Design of Everyday Things -- Donald Norman
The Octopus -- Frank Norris
Operating System Projects Using Windows NT -- Gary Nutt
Parliament of Whores -- P. J. O'Rourke
Our Dumb Century -- The Onion
Subtle is the Lord -- Abraham Pais
Inward Bound -- Abraham Pais
The Quincunx -- Charles Palliser
Sexy Origins and Intimate Things -- Charles Panati
Doctor Zhivago -- Boris Pasternak
Titus Groan -- Mervyn Peake
The Emperor's New Mind -- Roger Penrose
The Complete Techniques of Jacques Pepin -- Jacques Pepin
Interconnections -- Radia Perlman
The Portable Thomas Jefferson -- Merrill D. Peterson
Mazes for the Mind -- Cliff Pickover
An Introduction to Information Theory -- J. S. Pierce
Passionate Minds -- Claudia Roth Pierpont
The Language Instinct -- Steven Pinker
The Inferno of Dante -- Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky
Programming on Purpose -- P. J. Plauger
The Place No One Knew -- Eliot Porter
The Recursive Universe -- William Poundstone
Bigger Secrets -- William Poundstone
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement -- Anthony Powell
A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement -- Anthony Powell
Derrida for Beginners -- Jim Powell
Wolf Solent -- John Cowper Powys
Swann's Way -- Marcel Proust
Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
Slow Learner -- Thomas Pynchon
Vineland -- Thomas Pynchon
V -- Thomas Pynchon
The Cathedral and the Bazaar -- Eric S. Raymond
Africa -- John Reader
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition -- Ed Regis
Tomorrow's Professor -- Richard Reis
The Making of the Atomic Bomb -- Richard Rhodes
Dark Sun -- Richard Rhodes
Interview with the Vampire -- Anne Rice
Queen of the Damned -- Anne Rice
Time Wars -- Jeremy Rifkin
Salamander -- Linda Sillitoe, Allen Dale Roberts
Managing the Windows NT Registry -- Paul E. Robichaux
Your Money or Your Life -- Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin
The Curriculum Vitae Handbook -- Rebecca Anthony, Gerald Roe
The E.I. Syndrome -- Sherry A. Rogers
Edit Yourself -- Bruce Ross-Larson
A Course in Game Theory -- Martin J. Osborne, Ariel Rubinstein
Master of Space and Time -- Rudy Rucker
Inside Microsoft Windows 2000 3e -- David A. Solomon, Mark Russinovich
Empire Falls -- Richard Russo
The Last Battle -- Cornelius Ryan
A Bridge Too Far -- Cornelius Ryan
The Pre-Astronauts -- Craig Ryan
An Anthropologist on Mars -- Oliver Sacks
Orientalism -- Edward Said
The Question of Palestine -- Edward Said
The Unconscious Civilization -- John Ralston Saul
Richard Scarry's Biggest and Best Storybook Ever -- Richard Scarry
On Concurrent Programming -- Fred Schneider
Secrets and Lies -- Bruce Schneier
Applied Cryptography -- Bruce Schneier
Dynamics in Document Design -- Karen A. Schriver
Titus Andronicus -- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet -- William Shakespeare
Henry the Eighth -- William Shakespeare
Othello -- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice -- William Shakespeare
As You Like It -- William Shakespeare
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work -- John M. Gottman, Nan Silver
The Fall of Hyperion -- Dan Simmons
Hyperion -- Dan Simmons
An Embedded Software Primer -- David E. Simon
How to Read Slowly -- James R. Sire
Interstellar Pig -- William Sleator
House of Stairs -- William Sleator
The Best of Cordwainer Smith -- Cordwainer Smith
Longitude -- Dava Sobel
Cancer Ward -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago vol 1 -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago vol 2 -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago vol 3 -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
August 1914 -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oedipus the King -- Sophocles
Antigone -- Sophocles
100 Banned Books -- Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, Dawn B. Sova
Deadline Scheduling for Real-Time Systems - EDF and Related Algorithms -- John A. Stankovic
Sorting Things Out -- Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
All Too Human -- George Stephanopoulos
Zodiac -- Neal Stephenson
Distraction -- Bruce Sterling
Crystal Express -- Bruce Sterling
How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation -- David Sternberg
The Cuckoo's Egg -- Cliff Stoll
The Design and Evolution of C++ -- Bjarne Stroustrup
The Design and Evolution of C++ -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Sophie's Choice -- William Styron
Arabs in America -- ed. Michael W. Suleiman
Programming Interviews Exposed -- John Mongan, Noah Suojanen
Gulliver's Travels -- Jonathan Swift
At Home with Books -- Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, Christopher Sykes
The Bonesetter's Daughter -- Amy Tan
Why Things Bite Back -- Edward Tenner
The Pragmatic Programmer -- Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
The Great Shark Hunt -- Hunter Thompson
The Physics of Immortality -- Frank J. Tipler
Future Shock -- Alvin Toffler
The Perl Cookbook -- Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
The Form of the Book -- Jan Tschichold
Envisioning Information -- Edward Tufte
The History of Hell -- Alice K. Turner
Rabbit is Rich -- John Updike
Selected Writings -- Paul Valery
Information Rules -- Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian
The Snow Queen -- Joan Vinge
Threats... and Other Promises -- Vernor Vinge
The Aenid -- Virgil
The Case for Mars -- Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
The Color Purple -- Alice Walker
The Art of Styling Sentences -- Marie L. Waddell, Robert M. Esch, Roberta R. Walker
Stalingrad -- Stephen Walsh
Postmodernism -- Glenn Ward
Cake-Cutting Algorithms -- Jack Robertson, William Webb
General Principles of Systems Design -- Gerald M. Weinberg, Daniela Weinberg
The First Three Minutes -- Steven Weinberg
Doon -- Ellis Weiner
Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages -- Alan Burns, Andy Wellings
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics -- Rober R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller, Jerry E. White
Leaves of Grass -- Walt Whitman
The Story About Ping -- Marjorie Flack, Kurt Wiese
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy -- Walter C. Willett
Style -- Joseph M. Williams
Schrodinger's Cat -- Robert Anton Wilson
Art Objects -- Jeanette Winterson
Storeys from the Old Hotel -- Gene Wolfe
The Radicalism of the American Revolution -- Gordon S. Wood
Maestro -- Bob Woodward
All the President's Men -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
To The Lighthouse -- Virginia Woolf
Native Son -- Richard Wright
Information Architects -- Richard Saul Wurman
The Prize -- Daniel H. Yergin
Death March -- Edward Yourdon
A People's History of the United States -- Howard Zinn
The Dancing Wu Li Masters -- Gary Zukav
John Regehr