Currently reading

• Motion Mountain
• Graphics Programming
• A Tale of Two Cities

Top Of List

• Crime and Punishment [reread]

Very Good

• The Cider House Rules
• Some Prefer Nettles by Tanizaki
• Four Quartets by T S Eliot
• 2666 by Bolano
• Don Quixote (translated by Edith Grossman)
• The Count of Monte Cristo*
• The Iliad* [reread]
• The Odyssey* [reread]
• Ulysses*
• Paradise Lost*
• Romeo and Juliet*
• Koran
• Great Gadsby by Fitzgerald
• Master and Margaret
• Name of the Rose
• Dune [reread]
• Hobbit [reread]
• Lord of the Rings
• Animal Farm [reread]
• 1984 [reread]
• Fountainhead
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley [reread]
• The Maltese Falcon
• Catcher in the Rye
• Midnight’s Children
• One Hundred Years of Solitude [reread]
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Recommended

• The Power of Habit
• Rape of Nanking
• Caleb Carr: Alienist, Devil Soldier
• The Power Broker
• Robopocalypse
• Johnny Got His Gun
• Geek Love
• Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall
• Fixing My Gaze
• Farenheit 451
• The Great Stagnation
• Dictionary of the Khazars
• On War by Clausewitz
• Poems by Rilke
• Flowers for Algernon
• Little Expressionless Animals in “Girl With Curious Hair” by Wallace
• Awakenings by Sacks
• Our Town by Thornton Wilder
• The Skin of our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
• Millenium by Tom Holland
• Neuroconstructivism volumes 1 & 2
• Rethinking Inateness
• Age of American Unreason
• Philosophical Investigations by Wichtenstein
• Meditations by Aurelius

Good

• Superfreakonomics
• Nightwatch
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
• Passage to India
• Quantum Behavior from Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Physics
• Gadsby by E V Wright
• [something] by Kundera
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens*
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang
• Wuthering Heights*
• The Origin of Species*
• Robinson Crusoe*
• David Copperfield*
• The Three Musketeers*
• Relativity (by Albert Einstein)*
• Howard’s End*
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*
• The Scarlet Letter*
• The Critique of Pure Reason*
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream*
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*
• Treasure Island*
• Gulliver’s Travels* [reread]
• Tom Sawyer*
• The Mysterious Island* [reread]
• A Journey to the Interior of the Earth*
• The Importance of Being Earnest*
• Representative Government by Mill
• Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• I, Claudius
• Lord of the Flies
• Nostromo
• A Farewell to Arms
• A Room with a View
• Postman always Rings Twice
• Gone with the Wind
• The Sun also Rises
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sophie’s World
• Love in a Time of Cholera
• Unbearable Lightness of Being [reread]
• Doctor Zhivago
• American Psycho
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• A Brief History of Time
• I, Robot
• Neuromancer
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Kite Runner [reread]
• Hamlet

Other

• Song of Ice and Fire
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• Waking Life
• [something] by Simon Conway Morris
• Waiting for Goodell by Beckett
• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
• Satanic Verses by Rushdie
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Necronomicon
• Death in Venice
• Tender is the Night
• A Mathematician’s Lament by Paul Lockhart
• The Game
• From Eternity to Here
• Artful Sentences
• The Girl on the Fridge by Keret
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
• Full Moon by Michael Light
• Store Front: Disappearing Face of New York
• Evolution in 4 Dimensions
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman
• Stories by Tagore
• The Wreck by Tagore
• Crystal Egg and other short stories by Wells
• Man, The State, and War by Waltz
• Demonology — Stories by Rick Moody
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned — Stories by Wells Tower
• Bastards by Voltaire
• I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
• Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• Sandman v1 by Gaiman
• The Hotel New Hampshire
• A Widow for One Year
• What is History? by Carr
• The Immoralist
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Train by Pete Dexter
• Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Right Livelihoods (Three Novellas) by Rick Moody
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
• The Moon in a Harsh Mistress
• 1001 Foods to eat before you die
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• Shadow of Time by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Eunoia
• Thank you for not reading by Dubravka Ugresic
• Gottland Mariusz Szczygiel
• American Fictionary Dubravka Ugresic
• Book on weather by Reichholf
• Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
• How Fiction Works by James Wood
• Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst
• Rome 1960 by David Maraniss
• The White Tiger
• The Selfish Gene
• The God Delusion
• The Stranger
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• A Wrinkle of Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• The Story of Mankind*
• Galapagos by Vonnegut
• Mother Night by Vonnegut
• The Hendmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Love by Toni Morrison
• Elizabeth Costello by J M Coetzee
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• The Man Who Folded Himself
• Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen Kind
• A Trumpet in the Wadi by Michael Sami (Lotan Yael)
• Jonah and Sarah by David Shrayer-Petrov
• Vernon God Little by Pierre
• Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them by Al Franken
• Dude Where’s my Country by Michael Moore
• The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston
• The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
• Living to Tell the Tale by Garbiel Garcia Marques (Edith Grossman)
• The Greal Unraveling by Paul Krugman
• Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s Maps by Peter Galison
• Nergo President by Gary Wills
• Terror in the name of God by Jessica Stern
• Who’s Looking Out for You by Bill O’Reilly
• A Crime so Monstrous
• 30 Mini Biographies
• Cosmic Jackpot by Paul Davies
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Nation’s Best Short Stories
• The Complete Manual of Typography
• The Good Soldier
• All the King’s Men
• Go Tell it on the Mountain
• Day of the Locust
• Ginger Man
• Battlefield Earth
• Hunt for Red October
• Puppet Masters
• V.
• An American Tragedy
• Appointment in Samarra
• Loving
• Atonement
• Moviegoer
• Naked Lunch
• Blood Meridian
• Brideshead Revisited
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• A Death in the Family
• The Death of the Heart
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Tropic of Cancer
• Herzog
• Under the Volcano
• Grapes of Wrath
• Trainspotting
• Wind in the Willows
• Winnie the Pooh
• Colour Purple
• Trial
• To the Lighthouse
• Remembrance of Things Past
• Of Mice and Men
• Beloved
• Possession
• Tales from the City
• French Lieutenant’s Woman
• It
• 2001 – A Space Odyssey
• Tin Drum
• High Fidelity
• Horse Whisperer
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• The Sound and the Fury
• Darkness at Noon
• Sons and Lovers
• The Way of All Flesh
• Heart is a Lonely Hunter
• Native Son
• Henderson the Rain King
• U.S.A.
• Winesburg, Ohio
• Wings of the Dove
• Ambassadors
• Studs Lonigan Trilogy
• Golden Bowl
• Sister Carrie
• Handful of Dust
• As I Lay Dying
• Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Heart of the Matter
• Deliverance
• Dance to the Music of Time
• Point Counter Point
• Secret Agent
• Rainbow
• Women in Love
• Portnoy’s Complaint
• Les Miserables
• Light in August
• Parade’s End
• Zuleika Dobson
• From Here to Eternity
• Wapshot Chronicles
• Of Human Bondage
• Main Street
• House of Mirth
• Alexandria Quartet
• High Wind in Jamaica
• House for Ms Biswas
• Scoop
• Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• Finnegan’s Wake
• Kim
• Adventures of Augie Match
• Angle of Repose
• Bend in the River
• Lord Jim
• Ragtime
• Old Wives’ Tale
• Call of the Wind
• Tobacco Road
• Ironweed
• Magus
• Wide Sargasso Sea
• Under the Net
• Sophie’s Choice
• Sheltering Sky
• Alchemist
• Magnificent Ambersons
• Ringworld
• Starship Troopers
• Time Machine
• Rendezvous with Rama
• War of the Worlds
• Hyperion
• Childhood’s End
• Martial Chronicles
• Forever Way
• Cryptonomicon
• Jurassic Park
• Gods Themselves
• Contact
• End of Eternity
• Frankenstein
• Time Traveler’s Wife
• Secret History
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Germinal
• Vanity Fair

Read

• Devil in the White City
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Myths of Innovation
• Liar’s Poker
• The Day of the Triffids
• Lubiewo by Michal Witkowski
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
• Moby Dick
• Yiddish Policemen’s Union
• Last of the Mohicans
• Christmas Carol
• I Am a Strange Loop
• The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• Jungle Book
• The Secret Garden
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Age of Innocence
• The Art of War
• The End of the Affair
• Communist Manifesto
• Watchmen
• Heart of Darkness
• This Crowded Earth
• Cobb’s Anatomy
• The Awakening
• Lost City
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Cantenbury Tales
• Dracula
• Cat’s Cradle
• The Things they Carried
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales
• 20000 Leages Under the Seas
• King Lear
• Phantom of the Opera
• Huckleberry Finn
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• The Man on Mao’s Right
• Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
• On Intelligence
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Labirynths by Borges
• Nine Stories by Salinger
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Will You Please By Quiet, Please by Carver
• Cathedral by Carver
• Ubik
• If on a Winter’s Night a traveler by Calvino
• In Defense of Food
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Letters of Life by Rilke
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• What the Dog Saw
• The World According to Garp
• Lessons of History by Durant, W and A
• Tears of Autumn by Charles McCarry
• Fermata
• Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
• The Foundation by Asimov
• Predictably Irrational
• The Art of Racing in the Rain
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Invisible Man
• The Man in the High Castle
• American Tabloid
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
• Ender’s Game
• World War Z
• Life of Pi
• The Boy who Harnessed the Wind
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Just My Type
• Plain Tales from the Hills by Kipling
• Lolita
• Catch 22
• The Way of Kings
• Steve Jobs biography
• Leaving Atocha Station
• Making it All Work
• People’s History of the USA
• Treason
• Why Nations Fail
• Snow Crash

Read — notable shorts

• Metamorphosis
• 2 B R 0 2 B
• The Last Question
• The Raven
• Utopia by Thomas More
• Anthem
• 2008 Best American Short Stories
• Short Mystery Stories
• Declaration of Independence / Articles of Confederation / Constitution
• Federalist / On Liberty (excerpts)
• Representative Government, Utilitarianism
• All You Zombies
• There Will Come Soft Rains
• Foundations of Programming
• A Mathematician’s Apology
• In Search of Serenity
• Sum
• Siddartha
• Einstein’s Dreams
• Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector by Gogol
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s “A Village After Dark.”
• The Government Inspector