The Dilbert Principle: A cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads and other workplace afflictions / Scott Adams
Music and the Mind / Anthony Storr
Anathem / Neal Stephenson
The Mirror of Ink / Jorge Luis Borges
A Taste of the Unexpected / Roald Dahl
The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Michael Hanlon
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb / Philip K. Dick
Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly / Philip K. Dick
Amerika / Franz Kafka
{Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno/The Path to the Spiders' Nests / Italo Calvino}
The Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger
Liar's Poker / Michael Lewis
Seven Stories / Anton Chekhov
Einstein's Dreams / Alan Lightman
La serenità / Seneca
The Stuff of Thought / Steven Pinker
Franny and Zooey / J. D. Salinger
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb / Peter George
Why I Write / George Orwell
Designing Interactions / Bill Moggridge
The Idiot / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
{Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories / Italo Calvino}
Jeeves and the Impending Doom / P. G. Wodehouse
Nine Stories / J. D. Salinger
Eleven Stories / Anton Chekhov
Cloud, Castle, Lake / Vladimir Nabokov
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World / Niall Ferguson
The Great Wall of China (Penguin 70) / Franz Kafka
Il castello bianco/The White Castle / Orhan Pamuk
Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen / Gabriel García Márquez
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction / J. D. Salinger
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable / edited by John Brockman
The Country of the Blind / H. G. Wells
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism / George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
The Death of Bunny Munro / Nick Cave
1914: Why the World Went to War / Niall Ferguson
Rashomon and Other Stories / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World / John D. Barrow
Ask the Dust / John Fante
The Cave of the Cyclops / Homer
Emilio's Carnival (As a Man Grows Older)/Senilità / Italo Svevo
2008
Il gattopardo/The Leopard / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il fu Mattia Pascal/The Late Mattia Pascal / Luigi Pirandello
What just happened: A chronicle from the information frontier / James Gleick
Ficciones / Jorge Luis Borges
Meditations / Marcus Aurelius
Dead Poets Society: a novel / N. H. Kleinbaum
Managing Humans: Biting and humorous tales of a software engineering manager / Michael Lopp
La noia/Boredom / Alberto Moravia
The Little Prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pistache / Sebastian Faulks
The Castle / Franz Kafka
Novelle da Don Camillo e il suo gregge / Giovanni Guareschi
Cosmicomics / Italo Calvino
Senza sangue/Without Blood / Alessandro Baricco
t zero / Italo Calvino
La luna e i falò/The Moon and the Bonfires / Cesare Pavese
Il deserto dei Tartari/The Tartar Steppe / Dino Buzzati
Labyrinths / Jorge Luis Borges
Difficult Loves / Italo Calvino
Crime and Punishment / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro/The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro / Antonio Tabucchi
Il castello dei destini incrociati/The Castle of Crossed Destinies / Italo Calvino
Pale Fire / Vladimir Nabokov
Racconti romani/Roman Tales / Alberto Moravia
Wind, Sand and Stars/Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
City / Alessandro Baricco
Il libraio di Selinunte / Roberto Vecchioni
branchie!/gills! / Niccolò Ammaniti
Novecento: Un monologo/Novecento: A monologue / Alessandro Baricco
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
La giornata d’uno scrutatore/The Watcher / Italo Calvino
Keep the Aspidistra Flying / George Orwell
La speculazione edilizia/A Plunge Into Real Estate / Italo Calvino
An Iliad: A story of war / Alessandro Baricco
I promessi sposi/The Betrothed / Alessandro Manzoni
The Outsider / Albert Camus
Alessandro Manzoni / Bernard Wall
The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything / Tim Harford
Twenty-First Century Capitalism / Robert Heilbroner
No One Writes to the Colonel / Gabriel García Márquez
Candide: Or, Optimism / Voltaire
Why Read the Classics? / Italo Calvino
The Last Tycoon / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Requiem: A Hallucination / Antonio Tabucchi
The Polysyllabic Spree / Nick Hornby
Gli indifferenti/The Time of Indifference / Alberto Moravia
Fontamara / Ignazio Silone
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / Milan Kundera
The Literature Machine / Italo Calvino
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There / Lewis Carroll
I Malavoglia/The House by the Medlar Tree / Giovanni Verga
The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Design Patterns in Ruby / Russ Olsen
Fables of Aesop (a new translation by S.A. Handford) / Aesop
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini/The Garden of the Finzi-Continis / Giorgio Bassani
Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Out of My Mind / Richard Bach
How to Build a Time Machine / Paul Davies
Objective-C Pocket Reference / Andrew Duncan
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Ed / Aaron Hillegass
Notes From Underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Six Frames: For Thinking About Information / Edward De Bono
Se questo è un uomo/If This is a Man / Primo Levi
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain / Oliver Sacks
Flatland: A romance of many dimensions / Edwin A. Abbott
Introducing Kafka / David Zane Mairowitz and Robert Crumb
La tregua/The Truce / Primo Levi
The Economic Naturalist: In search of explanations for everyday enigmas / Robert H. Frank
Further Confessions of Zeno / Italo Svevo
La vita nuova/The New Life / Dante Alighieri
The Long Tail: How endless choice is creating unlimited demand / Chris Anderson
2007
The Well of Lost Plots / Jasper Fforde
2007: a true story, waiting to happen / Robyn Williams
Something Rotten / Jasper Fforde
On Love: a novel / Alain de Botton
Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency / Tom DeMarco
Zorro: Un eremita sul marciapiede / Margaret Mazzantini
The Search: How Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture / John Battelle
The Cult of Mac / Leander Kahney
Code Complete, 2nd Ed / Steve McConnell
Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects / Jared Richardson and William A Gwaltney
Sotto il sole giaguaro/Under the Jaguar Sun / Italo Calvino
Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management / Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby
Imperium / Robert Harris
Software Creativity 2.0 / Robert L. Glass
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods / Umberto Eco
Agile Web Development with Rails / Dave Thomas et al
A Spot of Bother / Mark Haddon
The Undercover Economist / Tim Harford
Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed. / Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
Sette racconti/Seven Short Stories / Alberto Moravia
The Meaning of Tingo: and other extraordinary words from around the world / Adam Jacot de Boinod
Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
Pompeii: a novel / Robert Harris
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana / Umberto Eco
A Man Without a Country / Kurt Vonnegut
Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World / Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
The Raw Shark Texts / Steven Hall
Software Conflict 2.0: The Art And Science of Software Engineering / Robert L. Glass
Il meglio dei racconti/The Best Short Stories / Dino Buzzati (selection)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed / Edward R. Tufte
The Affluent Society (New Ed) / John Kenneth Galbraith
San Sombrero: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coups / Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch
{Palomar / Italo Calvino}
The Big Over Easy: an investigation with the Nursery Crime Division / Jasper Fforde
Writing Effective Use Cases / Alistair Cockburn
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution / Steven Levy
The Fourth Bear: an investigation with the Nursery Crime Division / Jasper Fforde
Beautiful Evidence / Edward R. Tufte
Adam, One Afternoon: and other stories / Italo Calvino
Il conformista/The Conformist / Alberto Moravia
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science / Charles Wheelan
Silk / Alessandro Baricco
Envisioning Information / Edward R. Tufte
Spook Country / William Gibson
First Among Sequels / Jasper Fforde
Armchair Economist: Economics and everyday life / Steven E. Landsburg
Breakfast of Champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday! / Kurt Vonnegut
Visual Explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative / Edward R. Tufte
Don't Make Me Think!: A common sense approach to web usability / Steve Krug
La nuvola di smog e La formica argentina / Italo Calvino
Il disprezzo/Contempt (or A Ghost at Noon) / Alberto Moravia
Sostiene Pereira: una testimonianza/Pereira Declares: a testimony / Antonio Tabucchi
Una storia semplice/A Simple Story / Leonardo Sciascia
The Book of Imaginary Beings / Jorge Luis Borges
Are Your Lights On?: A treatise on the definition of diverse problems / Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
The Trial / Franz Kafka
The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and anomalies of economic life / Richard H. Thaler
Confessions of Zeno/La Coscienza di Zeno / Italo Svevo
Shakespeare: The World as Stage / Bill Bryson
I dialoghi mancati / Antonio Tabucchi
{Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore/If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller / Italo Calvino}
Ocean Sea / Alessandro Baricco
Gittinomics: Living the good life without money stress, overwork and joyless consumption / Ross Gittins
Blank: The power of not actually thinking at all / Noah Tall
{Marcovaldo: ovvero, Le stagioni in città / Italo Calvino}
The Change Function: Why some technologies take off and others crash and burn / Pip Coburn
Quirky Qwerty: The story of the keyboard @ your fingertips / Torbjorn Lundmark
2006
The Art of the Start: the time-tested, battle-hardened guide for anyone starting anything / Guy Kawasaki
The Right to Write / Julia Cameron
Government in the Future / Noam Chomsky
Manual of the Warrior of the Light / Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage / Paulo Coelho
Deep Simplicity: chaos, complexity and the emergence of life / John Gribbin
Everyone in Silico / Jim Munroe
George W. Bushisms V: new ways to harm our country / Jacob Weisberg
The Rules of Life: a personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life / Richard Templar
The Elements of Style / William Strunk
The Six Value Medals / Edward de Bono
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less / Barry Schwartz
The Google Story / David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Writing Better Requirements / Ian Alexander and Richard Stevens
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: a leadership fable / Patrick Lencioni
La casa in collina/The House in the Hills / Cesare Pavese
JPod: A Novel / Douglas Coupland
Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing / edited by William Irwin
{Our Ancestors: Three Novels (The Cloven Viscount/Baron in the Trees/The Non-Existant Knight) / Italo Calvino}
The Architecture of Happiness / Alain de Botton
Beyond Java / Bruce Tate
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations / James Surowiecki
{Road to San Giovanni / Italo Calvino}
Archeologia del Presente / Sebastiano Vassalli
Steal You Away / Niccolo Ammaniti
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America / Martin Amis
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir / Bill Bryson
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough / Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss
{Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino}
The Sirens of Titan / Kurt Vonnegut
The Eyre Affair / Jasper Fforde
Chart Throb / Ben Elton
Lost in a Good Book / Jasper Fforde
iWoz: computer geek to cult icon: getting to the core of Apple's inventor / Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith
Revolution in the Valley / Andy Hertzfeld
+non-library reads:
Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity / Joel Spolsky
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky / Joel Spolsky (editor)
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age / Paul Graham
The Design of Everyday Things / Donald A. Norman
2005
A Month Of Sundays: how to go travelling without leaving town / James O'Loghlin
The official Fahrenheit 9/11 reader / Michael Moore
Past Mortem / Ben Elton
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales / Joseph Conrad
Microserfs / Douglas Coupland
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream / Paulo Coelho
M/F / Anthony Burgess
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking / Malcolm Gladwell
How to Have a Beautiful Mind / Edward De Bono
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything / Steven Levy
{Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity / Jakob Nielsen}
Java 2 v5.0 (Tiger) New Features / Herbert Schildt
Paperweight / Stephen Fry
?? Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age / Steven Levy
Life: and how to survive it / Robin Skynner/John Cleese
The Republic / Plato
Mind Hacks / Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things / Donald A. Norman
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Philip K. Dick
Molvania: a land untouched by modern dentistry / Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch
J2EE Development without EJB / Rod Johnson and Juergen Hoeller
Phaic Tan: sunstroke on a shoestring / Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch
Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars / Ray Bradbury
Paris in the Twentieth Century / Jules Verne
Revenge of the Sith / Matthew Stover
+non-library reads:
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity / Alan Cooper
Programming in Objective-C / Stephen Kochan
2004
Dude, Where's My Country? / Michael Moore
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X / Aaron Hillegass
Oh, the Things I Know! / Al Franken
The Clock of the Long Now / Stewart Brand
Eureka!: the book of inventing / Bob Symes and ?
The Evolution of Useful Things / Henry Petroski
I'm Not Scared / Niccolo Ammaniti
The Pencil: a history / Henry Petroski
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams
The Commanding Heights: the battle between government and the marketplace that is remaking the modern world / Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
{The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide / Douglas Adams}
Mostly Harmless / Douglas Adams
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: a novel / Mark Haddon
Nano / John Robert Marlow
Lies (and the lying liars who tell them): a fair and balanced look at the Right / Al Franken
Status Anxiety / Alain de Botton
Downsize This!: random threats from an unarmed American / Michael Moore
A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess
The Cat Who'll Live Forever: the final adventures of Norton, the perfect cat, and his imperfect human / Peter Gethers
The Great Unravelling: from boom to bust in three scandalous years / Paul Krugman
Broken Music: a memoir / Sting
A Year in Provence / Peter Mayle
Life of Pi: a novel / Yann Martel
Demian: the story of Emil Sinclair's youth / Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) / Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values / Robert M. Pirsig
Apple: the inside story of intrigue, egomania, and business blunders / Jim Carlton
Lila: an inquiry into morals / Robert Pirsig
+non-library reads:
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering / Robert L. Glass
The Psychology of Computer Programming, Silver Anniversery Edition / Gerald M. Weinberg
Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative / Pete McBreen
2003
Baudolino / Umberto Eco
High Society / Ben Elton
Bill Bryson's African Diary / Bill Bryson
Loser Takes All / Graham Greene
The Futurological Congress: from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy / Stanislaw Lem
{Foundation / Isaac Asimov}
The Cat Who Went to Paris / Peter Gethers
{Foundation and Empire / Isaac Asimov}
Lucky Jim / Kingsley Amis
A Cat Abroad: the further adventures of Norton, the cat who went to Paris, and his human / Peter Gethers
Slaughterhouse-Five: or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death / Kurt Vonnegut
Under the Tuscan Sun: at home in Italy / Frances Mayes
{Second Foundation / Isaac Asimov}
Pattern Recognition / William Gibson
The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown
Bagombo Snuff Box: uncollected short fiction / Kurt Vonnegut
The World from Italy: football, food and politics / George Negus
Bella Tuscany: the sweet life in Italy / Frances Mayes
The Quiet American / Graham Greene
The Psychology of Computer Programming / Gerald M. Weinberg
Timequake / Kurt Vonnegut
Stupid White Men: and other sorry excuses for the State of the Nation / Michael Moore
The Aeneid / Virgil
Cat's Cradle / Kurt Vonnegut
Digital Fortress / Dan Brown
Prelude to Foundation / Isaac Asimov
Steppenwolf / Hermann Hesse
Catch-22 / Joseph Heller
Money: a suicide note / Martin Amis
The Periodic Table / Primo Levi
A Time in Rome / Elizabeth Bowen
Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse
The Game-Players of Titan / Philip K. Dick
The Salmon of Doubt: hitchhiking the galaxy one last time / Douglas Adams
Rogue States: the rule of force in World Affairs / Noam Chomsky
Almost French: a new life in Paris / Sarah Turnbull
+non-library reads:
A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad / edited by Don George and Anthony Sattin
Agile Software Development / Alistair Cockburn
The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management / Tom DeMarco
Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) / Jon Bentley
Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective / Diomidis Spinellis
2002
Travels in Hyperreality: essays / Umberto Eco
Jonathan Livingston Seagull / Richard Bach
Programming Pearls / Jon Bentley
How to Travel with a Salmon and other essays / Umberto Eco
Java Pitfalls: time-saving solutions and workarounds to improve programs / Michael C. Daconta
Dead Famous / Ben Elton
Release 2.0 / Esther Dyson
The Consolations of Philosphy / Alain de Botton
Coming Up For Air / George Orwell
Weaving the Web: the past, present and future of the World Wide Web by its inventor / Tim Berners-Lee, with Mark Fischetti
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity / Jakob Nielsen
The Spire / William Golding
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference / Malcolm Gladwell
Burmese Days / George Orwell
Mindplayers / Pat Cadigan
Minority Report / Philip K. Dick
Schismatrix Plus / Bruce Sterling
Now Wait for Last Year / Philip K. Dick
How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel / Alain De Botton
Six Memos for the Next Millennium / Italo Calvino
Second Variety / Philip K. Dick
Interface / Neal Stephenson
Attack of the Clones / R.A. Salvatore
Troublesome Words / Bill Bryson
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual / Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
Across Realtime (= The Peace War + The Ungoverned + Marooned in Realtime) / Vernor Vinge
The Art of Travel / Alain de Botton
+non-library reads:
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. / Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
Discovering Smalltalk / Wilf Lalonde
2001
Big bangs: the story of five discoveries that changed musical history / Howard Goodall
Myst: the book of Atrus / Rand and Robyn Miller with David Wingrove
Myst: the book of Ti'ana / Rand Miller, with David Wingrove
The pleasure of finding things out: the best short works of Richard P. Feynman / Richard P. Feynman
++ ??
? The island of the day before / Umberto Eco
? Simplicity / Edward de Bono
? Six action shoes / Edward de Bono
Lord of the Flies / William Golding
Circles: Fifty Roundtrips Through History, Technology, Science, Culture... / James Burke
The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburettor Possible - and Other Journeys / James Burke
The Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- And Other Journeys Through Knowledge / James Burke
Myst: the book of Dn'i / Rand Miller and David Wingrove
The Literature Machine: Essays / Italo Calvino
The Quick Python book / Daryl Harms, Kenneth McDonald
Illustrated Walden / Henry David Thoreau
Peopleware / Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
Software failure, management failure : amazing stories and cautionary tales / Stephen Flowers
Slaves of the Machine: The Quickening of Computer Technology / Gregory J. E. Rawlins
Road to San Giovanni / Italo Calvino
The science of secrecy: The secret history of codes and codebreaking / Simon Singh
Misreadings / Umberto Eco
+non-library reads:
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code / Martin Fowler
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) / Erich Gamma et al
Practical Java Programming Language Guide / Peter Haggar
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master / Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
The Practice of Programming / Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike
Effective Java Programming Language Guide / Joshua Bloch
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change / Kent Beck
Extreme Programming Installed / Ron Jeffries
2000
probably incomplete
The lost continent: travels in small town america / Bill Bryson
Nineteen Eighty-Four / George Orwell
Animal Farm / George Orwell
Six thinking hats / Edward de Bono
Apocalypse postponed / Umberto Eco
The name of the rose / Umberto Eco
Reflections on The name of the rose / Umberto Eco
? Utopia / Saint Sir Thomas More
Cryptonomicon / Neal Stephenson
Foucault's pendulum / Umberto Eco
Seinfeld: the totally unauthorized tribute (not that there's anything wrong with that) / by David Wild
Down Under / Bill Bryson
Mother Tongue / Bill Bryson
Bots: the origin of new species / Andrew Leonard
The path to the spiders' nest / Italo Calvino
The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
+non-library reads:
Metamorphoses / Ovid
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems / Jef Raskin
1999
probably incomplete
Mr Palomar / Italo Calvino
Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
The martian chronicles / Ray Bradbury
Brave new world / Aldous Huxley
Galapagos / Kurt Vonnegut
++ ??
The Edge of Human (Blade Runner, Book 2) / K.W. Jeter
Fuzzy Thinking: The new science of fuzzy logic / Bart Kosko
Faster: The acceleration of just about everything / James Gleick
About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution / Paul Davies
Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino
The non-existent knight & the cloven viscount / Italo Calvino
This other Eden / Ben Elton
Blast from the past / Ben Elton
Inconceivable / Ben Elton
Driving blind / Ray Bradbury
Made in America / Bill Bryson
Neither here nor there: travels in Europe / Bill Bryson
I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after 20 years away / Bill Bryson
Notes from a small island / Bill Bryson
A walk in the woods / Bill Bryson
All tomorrow's parties / William Gibson
1998 and Earlier
missing library receipt records, so based on memory
pre 1990
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything / Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish / Douglas Adams
Foundation / Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire / Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation / Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation / Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge / Isaac Asimov
Foundation & Earth / Isaac Asimov
The Caves of Steel / Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun / Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn / Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire / Isaac Asimov
I, robot / Isaac Asimov
Pebble in the Sky / Isaac Asimov
The Stars, Like Dust / Isaac Asimov
The Currents of Space / Isaac Asimov
Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Jules Verne
From the earth to the moon / Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth / Jules Verne
War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells
A Brief History of Time / Stephen W. Hawking
The Emporer's New Mind / Roger Penrose
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth / James Lovelock
Chaos: Making a new science / James Gleick
Tao of Physics: An exploration of the parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism / Fritjof Capra
1990 - 1993
The Macintosh Way / Guy Kawasaki
Stark / Ben Elton
Gridlock / Ben Elton
Dirk Gently's holistic Detective Agency / Douglas Adams
The long dark tea-time of the soul / Douglas Adams
Tales of the Black Widowers / Isaac Asimov
More Tales of the Black Widowers / Isaac Asimov
The Casebook of the Black Widowers / Isaac Asimov
Banquets of the Black Widowers / Isaac Asimov
The Union Club Mysteries / Isaac Asimov
Azazel / Isaac Asimov
The Matter Myth / Paul Davies and James Gribbin
1994 - best guess
Machiavelli in Hell / Sebastian de Grazia
Nueromancer / William Gibson
Count Zero / William Gibson
Mona List Overdrive / William Gibson
The Difference Engine / William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Virtual Light / William Gibson
Heir to the empire / Timothy Zahn
Dark force rising / Timothy Zahn
The last command / Timothy Zahn
Counter-Clock World / Philip K. Dick
Ubik / Philip K. Dick
The Penultimate Truth: A Novel / Philip K. Dick
Martian Time-slip / Philip K. Dick
The Crack in Space: A Novel / Philip K. Dick
The Game-players of Titan / Philip K. Dick
Lies, Inc.: A Novel / Philip K. Dick
The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1 - 5
1994 - confirmed in Dec
Lateral thinking: a textbook of creativity / Edward de Bono
Burning Chrome / William Gibson
1995 - best guess
Jedi search / Kevin J. Anderson
The Man in the High Castle / Philip K. Dick
The courtship of Princess Leia / Dave Wolverton
Dark apprentice / Kevin J. Anderson
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? / Philip K. Dick
Champions of the Force / Kevin J. Anderson
The truce at Bakura / Kathy Tyers
The Left Hand of Darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin
Solar Lottery / Philip K. Dick
Time Out of Joint / Philip K. Dick
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov / Isaac Asimov
Schismatrix / Bruce Sterling
The crystal star / Vonda N. McIntyre
Ambush at Corellia / Roger MacBride Allen
Assault at Selonia / Roger MacBride Allen
Programming Pearls / Jon Bentley
More Programming Pearls / Jon Bentley
1996
Children of the Jedi / Barbara Hambly
Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina / edited by Kevin J. Anderson
Tales from Jabba's Palace / edited by Kevin J. Anderson
Showdown at Centerpoint / Roger MacBride Allen
Darksaber / Kevin J. Anderson
Snow Crash / Neal Stephenson
1997
Idoru / William Gibson
The Diamond Age / Neal Stephenson
Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer / James L. Adams
1998 - best guess
Numbers in the dark: and other stories / Italo Calvino
Ten Italian folktales / Italo Calvino
If on a winter's night a traveller / Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo / Italo Calvino
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition / Frederick P. Brooks
Read but not allocated
Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence / George Dyson
? Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher / Richard Phillips Feynman
The Shift / George Foy
Other books read for high school English
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
Macbeth / William Shakespeare
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