User:Edward/books

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