User:Edward/books

Here is an incomplete list of the books I've read. This is so I can go through them and improve the articles. I was adding authors, but I got bored. Some of them point to the wrong place, like Remix and Artificial Life.


 * 1) Longitude by Dava Sobel
 * 2) The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
 * 3) The Big Short by Michael Lewis
 * 4) The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
 * 5) In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
 * 6) The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 * 7) The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
 * 8) Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
 * 9) Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
 * 10) The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
 * 11) Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century by Mark Leonard (2008-06-28 -> 2008-06-29)
 * 12) Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
 * 13) Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
 * 14) Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich / A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank (2007-12-27 -> 2007-12-29)
 * 15) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
 * 16) The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis Spufford
 * 17) The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
 * 18) The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel by Linda Grant (2006-12-26 -> 2006-12-28)
 * 19) Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (??? -> 2006-08-25)
 * 20) The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (??? -> 2006-08-17)
 * 21) A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer by Georgina Ferry
 * 22) Yeager by Chuck Yeager
 * 23) What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
 * 24) Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier
 * 25) The Wild Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson (2005-12-29 -> 2006-01-01)
 * 26) FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld (2005-12-27 -> 2005-12-28)
 * 27) Baghdad Business School by Heyrick Bond Gunning
 * 28) Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook
 * 29) To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
 * 30) From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey by Thomas Friedman ( ??? -> 2005-10-06)
 * 31) A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel ( ??? -> 2005-06-18)
 * 32) Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ( ??? -> 2005-06-16)
 * 33) Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card (2005-06-06 -> 2005-06-10)
 * 34) The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
 * 35) The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy (??? -> 2005-04-10)
 * 36) Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy (??? -> 2005-03-13)
 * 37) The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy
 * 38) Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (??? -> 2005-01-15)
 * 39) Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham (2004-12-26 -> 2004-12-27)
 * 40) Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom  by Cory Doctorow (2004-10-25 -> 2004-10-26)
 * 41) Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
 * 42) Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling
 * 43) The Abyss by Orson Scott Card (novel based on a film)
 * 44) Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge (2004-09-18 -> 2004-09-19)
 * 45) Blood Music by Greg Bear (2004-09-06 -> 2004-09-15)
 * 46) The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson (2004-08-30 -> 2004-09-05)
 * 47) Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
 * 48) The Peace War by Vernor Vinge
 * 49) Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
 * 50) Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
 * 51) The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy
 * 52) Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
 * 53) Contact (novel) by Carl Sagan
 * 54) Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
 * 55) Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
 * 56) We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When the UN Goes in Linda Polman
 * 57) The Stranger (novel) by Albert Camus
 * 58) The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
 * 59) Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
 * 60) What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier by James Gleick
 * 61) Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
 * 62) The Guns of the South alternative history science fiction by Harry Turtledove
 * 63) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
 * 64) Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
 * 65) Doomsday Book (novel) by Connie Willis
 * 66) Dune (novel) by Frank Herbert
 * 67) Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, Larry Wall
 * 68) The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
 * 69) Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
 * 70) Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
 * 71) DNS and BIND by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
 * 72) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
 * 73) The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
 * 74) Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
 * 75) A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
 * 76) Programming Ruby by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
 * 77) No Logo by Naomi Klein
 * 78) Downsize This! by Michael Moore
 * 79) Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
 * 80) Bombardiers by Po Bronson
 * 81) Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama
 * 82) Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
 * 83) The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
 * 84) The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen
 * 85) Diet for a New America by John Robbins (author)
 * 86) Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig
 * 87) 9-11 - A collection of interviews of Noam Chomsky by a variety of European publications, and individual interviewers, during the month after the September 11, 2001 attacks
 * 88) Permutation City by Greg Egan
 * 89) The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
 * 90) Big Women by Fay Weldon
 * 91) Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
 * 92) Lucifer's Dragon
 * 93) Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick
 * 94) Amazon.com: Get Big Fast by Robert Spector
 * 95) American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
 * 96) Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
 * 97) Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
 * 98) Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
 * 99) Rebel Code by Glyn Moody
 * 100) Trigger Happy by Steven Poole
 * 101) One Market Under God by Thomas Frank
 * 102) Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
 * 103) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
 * 104) Animal Farm by George Orwell
 * 105) Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier
 * 106) Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter (Space Opera)
 * 107) True Names by Vernor Vinge
 * 108) Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy
 * 109) Masters of Deception by Michele Slatalla, Joshua Quittner
 * 110) One Day in September by Simon Reeve
 * 111) Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy
 * 112) The Machinery of Freedom by David D. Friedman
 * 113) The World of Caffeine by Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. Bealer
 * 114) Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
 * 115) Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
 * 116) The New Jackals by Simon Reeve
 * 117) Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy
 * 118) Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
 * 119) Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
 * 120) Zodiac (book) by Neal Stephenson
 * 121) A Brief History of the Future by John Naughton
 * 122) Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner
 * 123) The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
 * 124) Remix by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
 * 125) Redrobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
 * 126) Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
 * 127) Ender's Game
 * 128) Speaker for the Dead
 * 129) Xenocide
 * 130) Children of the Mind
 * 131) Ender's Shadow
 * 132) Shadow of the Hegemon
 * 133) Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
 * 134) The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
 * 135) Economic Systems and Society by George Dalton
 * 136) Hiroshima by John Hersey
 * 137) Drugs and the Party Line by Kevin Williamson (author), Irvine Welsh
 * 138) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
 * 139) The Client by John Grisham
 * 140) Last Human
 * 141) Better Than Life
 * 142) Red Dwarf
 * 143) Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
 * 144) Boy (book) by Roald Dahl
 * 145) Talking in Whispers by James Watson
 * 146) The Crucible by Arthur Miller
 * 147) Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
 * 148) 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick
 * 149) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
 * 150) Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
 * 151) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
 * 152) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 * 153) The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
 * 154) The Colour of Magic
 * 155) The Borrowers by Mary Norton
 * 156) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
 * 157) Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
 * 158) The Unfinished Revolution by Michael L. Dertouzos
 * 159) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
 * 160) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
 * 161) Peer-to-Peer by Andy Oram
 * 162) The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
 * 163) Slaves of the Machine by Gregory J. E. Rawlins
 * 164) Protector by Larry Niven
 * 165) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 * 166) Neutron Star by Larry Niven
 * 167) Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
 * 168) Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond (journalist)
 * 169) Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
 * 170) The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll - Clifford Stoll's absorbing tale of how he tracked Markus Hess and the Chaos Computer Club cracking ring nicely illustrates the difference between ‘hacker' and ‘cracker'. Stoll's portrait of himself, his lady Martha, and his friends at Berkeley and on the Internet paints a marvelously vivid picture of how hackers and the people around them like to live and how they think.
 * 171) Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll
 * 172) Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
 * 173) The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson
 * 174) Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura, John Markoff
 * 175) A Quarter Century of UNIX by Peter H. Salus
 * 176) Big Blues by Paul Carroll
 * 177) Neuromancer by William Gibson
 * 178) Burning Chrome by William Gibson
 * 179) Count Zero by William Gibson
 * 180) Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
 * 181) Virtual Light by William Gibson
 * 182) City (book by Clifford D. Simak) by Clifford D. Simak (Sci-Fi)
 * 183) Prelude to Foundation
 * 184) Forward the Foundation
 * 185) Foundation (novel)
 * 186) Foundation and Empire
 * 187) Second Foundation
 * 188) Foundation's Edge
 * 189) Foundation and Earth
 * 190) I, Robot
 * 191) The Robots of Dawn
 * 192) The Naked Sun
 * 193) Robots and Empire
 * 194) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
 * 195) The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
 * 196) In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
 * 197) Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
 * 198) A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
 * 199) The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
 * 200) The Code Book by Simon Singh
 * 201) The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
 * 202) The First 20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson
 * 203) The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig
 * 204) Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
 * 205) Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
 * 206) The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
 * 207) The UNIX Programming Environment by Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan
 * 208) The New Hacker's Dictionary by Eric S. Raymond, Guy L. Steele
 * 209) Matilda (children's literature) by Roald Dahl
 * 210) The BFG by Roald Dahl
 * 211) The Food Revolution by John Robbins
 * 212) The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman http://www.alandeutschman.com/Bio.htm
 * 213) Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Philip Greenspun
 * 214) Eon (novel) by Greg Bear
 * 215) Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
 * 216) Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance by George Gilder
 * 217) Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
 * 218) Bloom by Wil McCarthy (Sci-Fi)
 * 219) 21 Dog Years : Doing Time at Amazon.com by Mike Daisey
 * 220) Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
 * 221) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
 * 222) Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
 * 223) Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. by Jay W. Richards, George Gilder, Ray Kurzweil, Thomas Ray, John Searle, William Dembski, Michael Denton
 * 224) Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
 * 225) Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
 * 226) The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer
 * 227) Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage by Fran Abrams
 * 228) Second Variety by Philip K. Dick (sci-fi, short story)
 * 229) We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick (sci-fi, short story)
 * 230) Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
 * 231) The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
 * 232) Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
 * 233) Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain by Issac Asimov