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.

Longitude by Dava Sobel
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century by Mark Leonard (2008-06-28 -> 2008-06-29)
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
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)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis Spufford
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel by Linda Grant (2006-12-26 -> 2006-12-28)
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (??? -> 2006-08-25)
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (??? -> 2006-08-17)
A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer by Georgina Ferry
Yeager by Chuck Yeager
What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson
Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier
The Wild Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson (2005-12-29 -> 2006-01-01)
FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld (2005-12-27 -> 2005-12-28)
Baghdad Business School by Heyrick Bond Gunning
Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey by Thomas Friedman ( ??? -> 2005-10-06)
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel ( ??? -> 2005-06-18)
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan ( ??? -> 2005-06-16)
Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card (2005-06-06 -> 2005-06-10)
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy (??? -> 2005-04-10)
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy (??? -> 2005-03-13)
The Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (??? -> 2005-01-15)
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham (2004-12-26 -> 2004-12-27)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2004-10-25 -> 2004-10-26)
Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Tomorrow Now by Bruce Sterling
The Abyss by Orson Scott Card (novel based on a film)
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge (2004-09-18 -> 2004-09-19)
Blood Music by Greg Bear (2004-09-06 -> 2004-09-15)
The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson (2004-08-30 -> 2004-09-05)
Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
The Peace War by Vernor Vinge
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Contact (novel) by Carl Sagan
Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
We Did Nothing: Why the Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When the UN Goes in Linda Polman
The Stranger (novel) by Albert Camus
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Electronic Frontier by James Gleick
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
The Guns of the South alternative history science fiction by Harry Turtledove
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant
Doomsday Book (novel) by Connie Willis
Dune (novel) by Frank Herbert
Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, Larry Wall
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
DNS and BIND by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Programming Ruby by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
No Logo by Naomi Klein
Downsize This! by Michael Moore
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Bombardiers by Po Bronson
Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Perfect Store: Inside eBay by Adam Cohen
Diet for a New America by John Robbins (author)
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig
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
Permutation City by Greg Egan
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Big Women by Fay Weldon
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Lucifer's Dragon
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything by James Gleick
Amazon.com: Get Big Fast by Robert Spector
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
Rebel Code by Glyn Moody
Trigger Happy by Steven Poole
One Market Under God by Thomas Frank
Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier
Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter (Space Opera)
True Names by Vernor Vinge
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy
Masters of Deception by Michele Slatalla, Joshua Quittner
One Day in September by Simon Reeve
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy
The Machinery of Freedom by David D. Friedman
The World of Caffeine by Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. Bealer
Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely
Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
The New Jackals by Simon Reeve
Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology by Steven Levy
Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Zodiac (book) by Neal Stephenson
A Brief History of the Future by John Naughton
Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
Remix by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Redrobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Economic Systems and Society by George Dalton
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Drugs and the Party Line by Kevin Williamson (author), Irvine Welsh
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Client by John Grisham
Last Human
Better Than Life
Red Dwarf
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
Boy (book) by Roald Dahl
Talking in Whispers by James Watson
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
The Colour of Magic
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
The Unfinished Revolution by Michael L. Dertouzos
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Peer-to-Peer by Andy Oram
The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Slaves of the Machine by Gregory J. E. Rawlins
Protector by Larry Niven
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Neutron Star by Larry Niven
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond (journalist)
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
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.
Silicon Snake Oil by Clifford Stoll
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson
Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura, John Markoff
A Quarter Century of UNIX by Peter H. Salus
Big Blues by Paul Carroll
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Burning Chrome by William Gibson
Count Zero by William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Virtual Light by William Gibson
City (book by Clifford D. Simak) by Clifford D. Simak (Sci-Fi)
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
Foundation (novel)
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
I, Robot
The Robots of Dawn
The Naked Sun
Robots and Empire
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
In the Beginning...was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
The First 20 Million Is Always the Hardest by Po Bronson
The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig
Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
The UNIX Programming Environment by Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan
The New Hacker's Dictionary by Eric S. Raymond, Guy L. Steele
Matilda (children's literature) by Roald Dahl
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Food Revolution by John Robbins
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman http://www.alandeutschman.com/Bio.htm
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Philip Greenspun
Eon (novel) by Greg Bear
Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe
Telecosm: The World After Bandwidth Abundance by George Gilder
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Bloom by Wil McCarthy (Sci-Fi)
21 Dog Years : Doing Time at Amazon.com by Mike Daisey
Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
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
Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer
Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage by Fran Abrams
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick (sci-fi, short story)
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick (sci-fi, short story)
Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain by Issac Asimov