Here's a list of books people have suggested, over the years, that I read. I don't have a lot of time to spend on reading at the moment, however I keep this list for when I do...
5/5/2000: Ice, the Ultimate Disaster, by Richard W. Noone (ISBN 0-517-56408-4)
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., by Sylvia Nascar (ISBN 0684819066)
Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, by John Mack
The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil
Alien Liason, by Timothy Good (ISBN 0-09-985920-3)
Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick (ISBN 0-465-09720-0)
The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton (ISBN 0-345-37848-2)
Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier
The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore (ISBN: 1594201226)
At The Abyss, by Thomas Reed
Blue Blood, True Blood: Conflict and Creation, by Stewart A. Swerdlow (ISBN: 0962644668)
Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
Chance and Necessity, by Jacques Monod
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The Codebreakers - The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet, by David Kahn (ISBN 0684831309)
The Computer Entrepreneurs, by Levering, Katz, Moskowitz
Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, by Neale Donald Walsch
Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson
The Cuckoo's Egg, by Clifford Stoll (ISBN: 0-385-24946-2)
Dealers of Lightning, by Michael Hiltzik
Don Juan, by Eric Linklater
The Dragons of Eden, Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, by Carl Sagan
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, by Al Gore (ISBN 0-452-26935-0)
Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
Engines of Creation, by K Eric Drexler
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Feminism and The Mastery of Nature, by Val Plumwood
Foucault's Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt
Genesis, by David Wood (Baton Press, England 1993)
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
The Gods of Eden, by William Bramley
The Gods of the New Millenium, by Alan F. Alford (ISBN 0340696133)
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, by Robert Fisk
The Greening of Ethics, by Richard Routley and David Bennett (1994, Cambridge, England: White Horse Press; Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press)
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham (ISBN 0596006624)
Hidden Agendas, by John Pilger (ISBN: 0099741512)
Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf, by Stephen Pelletiere (ISBN 0275945626)
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, by Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton
Liberty and Tyranny, by Francis W. Hirst (1935)
Living Energies, by Callum Coates (ISBN 0-946551-97-9)
The Logic of Life, by Tim Harford (ISBN 0316027561)
LSD - My Problem Child, by Dr. Albert Hofmann
Magic Squares and Cubes, by W. S. Andrews et al (Open Court Publishing Co., 1917, reprinted by Dover Publications, 1960)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky (ISBN 0-3757-1449-9)
Mathematics of Evolution, by Fred Hoyle
Marxism and Domination: A Neo-Hegelian, Feminist, Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual, Political, and Technological Liberation, by Isaac Balbus
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, by Ricardo Semler
Megatrends, by John Naisbitt
Microcosm, by Philip Slater (John Wiley & Sons Inc, London, 1966)
Mohammad in World Scriptures, by Dr. A.H. Vidyarthi (1990)
The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris
The Net Delusion, by Evgeny Morozov
The New Atlantis, by Sir Francis Bacon (1626)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World, by Kevin Kelly
Pharmako/Poeia: Plants Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft, by Dale Pendell
The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal (Media, Culture and Society), by Vincent Mosco (1996)
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade -- Prof. Alfred McCoy
The Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford (ISBN 0140067485)
A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror -- Prof. Alfred McCoy
The Quiet Crisis, by Stewart Udall
The Republic, by Plato
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich von Hayek
Sacred Mirrors: the Visionary Art of Alex Grey, by Alex Grey
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson
A Secret Country, by John Pilger (ISBN: 0099152312)
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Self-Made, by Pine and Mundale
Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation, by John Perkins (ISBN 0892816635)
The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner (ISBN 0-060-10559-3)
The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
The Spirit of Enterprise, by George Gilder
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon (ISBN 087477435)
The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff
Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill
The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the Great Work, by David Goddard
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Tricks of the Mind, by Derren Brown (ISBN 1905026358)
Twelth Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin
The UFO Coverup, by Lawrence Fawcett, J. Allen Hynek, Barry J. Greenwood (ISBN 0131377124)
Uncommon Sense: the State is Out of Date, by Gregory Sams (ISBN 095313010-x)
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, by John Ralston Saul
World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Zen and The Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig
Here's a partial list of books I have read:
1984, by George Orwell
2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Asimov's Mysteries, by Isaac Asimov
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
The Collector, by John Fowles
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
A Fall of Moondust, by Arthur C. Clarke
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
A Fortunate Life, by A.B. Facey and Robert Juniper
Foundation's Edge, by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, by Jules Verne
Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
Mostly Harmless, by Douglas Adams
The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov
Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Rendezvous with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams
Robots and Empire, by Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn, by Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, by Douglas Adams
Stark, by Ben Elton
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells
The World of the Future: Future Cities, by Kenneth Gatland and David Jeffries
The World of the Future: Robots, by Kenneth Gatland and David Jeffries
The World of the Future: Star Travel, by Kenneth Gatland and David Jeffries
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