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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. 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