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The following is a list of books I have read or want to read. This list is mostly for self-documentation.
Books I have read
(in chronological order)
About a Boy - Nick Hornby In search of Bobby Fischer - Fred Waitzkin High Fidelity - Nick Hornby The Chosen - Chaim Potok Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch (first book only) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin Animal Farm - George Orwell The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien The Secret History - Donna Tartt The doors of perception/Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (le petit prince) Less than zero - Bret Easton Ellis One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey The Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Atomised - Michel Houellebecq ("Les Particules élémentaires") The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Holographic Universe - Micheal Talbot Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Catch-22 - Joseph Heller Anarchism & Other essays - Emma Goldman Minorty Report - Phillip K. Dick The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostievesky For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells The Woman who walked into doors - Roddy Doyle Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger The Beach - Alex Garland The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy Twenty One stories - Graham Greene Choke - Chuck Palahniuk Go Ask Alice - Anonymous [in the library the computer said the author was "go ask alice", the irony...] Island - Aldous Huxley Last Exit to Brooklyn - Hubert Selby jr. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris The Human Zoo - Desmond Morris The Apology - Plato The Fall - Albert Camus Stamboul Train - Graham Greene Generation X - Douglas Coupland The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang Goethe Desperate Characters - Paula Fox This Timeless Moment - Laura Huxley (biography of Aldous Huxley) The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera [biography of] E=MC sqaure - David Bodanis A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco Ice - Anna Kavan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon Wittgenstein's Poker - David Edmund & John Eidinow For Esme with Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger (a.k.a. Nine Stories) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll Foundation / Foundation & Empire / Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Life, the universe and everything - Douglas Adams The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway Paddy Clarke ha ha ha - Roddy Doyle The Deadly Space Between - Patricia Duncker The Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq Godel, Escher, Bach: an eternal braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter The Death of Iwan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson Iluminatus! trilogy - Shea & Wilson Women - Charles Bukowski Eureka! - Edgar Allan Poe War & Peace - Tolstoy Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Murakami Data Smog - David Shenk Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsch In Search of the Perfect Language - Umberto Eco The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier - Bruce Sterling Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Céline Vivo de Andreo Cseh - Ed Borsboom Konsolo de la Filozofio - Boecio El la vivo de Bervala Sentaugulo - Louis Beaucaire The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose Vivo de Lanti - Ed Borsboom Extension de domaine de la lutte - Michel Houellebecq Fajron sentas mi interne - Ulrich Matthias Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence The Trial - Franz Kafka The Castle - Franz Kafka A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson Amerika - Franz Kafka Industrial society and its future (aka The Unabomber Manifesto) - FC Walden - Henry David Thoreau The Embodied Mind - Varela, Thompson & Rosch Biography of Charles Sanders Peirce - Joseph Brent The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick Theory of Nothing - Russell Standish A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut Maps of Time - David Christian Ludwig Wittgenstein, the duty of genius - Ray Monk Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche So long, and thanks for all the fish - Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams The Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Dracula - Bram Stoker The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Micheal Chabon Meta maths - Gregory Chaitin In the land of invented languages - Arika Okrent At Home - Bill Bryson The unfinished game - Keith Devlin Imagining Numbers - Barry Mazur Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Raise high the roof beam, carpenter / Seymour--an introduction - J.D. Salinger The art instinct - Denis Dutton Het slimme onbewuste - Ap Dijksterhuis Anthem - Ayn Rand Don't sleep, there are snakes - Daniel Everett The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño Command & control - Eric Schlosser A Mind for Murder (formerly titled ``Harvard and the Unabomber'') - Alston Chase Willpower - Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov The Better Angels of our Nature - Steven Pinker Atomic Accidents - James Mahaffey The Dead Sea Scrolls deception - Micheal Baigent & Richard Leigh Zealot - Reza Aslan Coup d'Etat - Edward N. Luttwak The people's history of the united states - Howard Zinn The sense of an ending - Julian Barnes Tonio - A.F.Th. van der Heijden All quiet on the western front - Erich Maria Remarque Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell Orewoet - Emy Koopman A guide to the good life - William B. Irvine De Buurman - J.J. Voskuil Dr. Eckener's dream machine: the great zeppelin and the dawn of air travel - Douglas Botting Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Great Derangement - Amitav Ghosh De Kaart en het Gebied - Michel Houellebecq Het Diner - Herman Koch De Schilder en het Meisje - Margriet de Moor De Koning - Kader Abdolah By Night in Chile - Roberto Bolaño 2666 - Roberto Bolaño De Stille Kracht - Louis Couperus Lectures and Fragments - Musonius Rufus Enchiridion - Epictetus Sapiens: a brief history of mankind - Yuval Noah Harari Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez We - Yevgeny Zamyatin Blind man's bluff - Sherry Sontag, Cristopher & Annette Lawrence Drew Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner The Dead Hand - David E. Hoffman See no evil - Robert Baer The ministry of special cases - Nathan Englander For two thousand years - Mihail Sebastian A brief history of the spy - Paul Simpson The Penguin Lessons - Tom Michell The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft Oscar - Jan Siebelink Het raadsel Spinoza - Irving Yalom Een soort familie - Kees van Beijnum De Ordening - Kees van Beijnum Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy De Offers - Kees van Beijnum Faxen aan Ger, de kennismaking - Nicolien Mizee To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy Patriot Games - Tom Clancy The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy Fiasco - Stanislaw Lem Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy The Sum of all Fears - Tom Clancy The MANIAC - Benjamín Labatut A study in scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle The sign of the four - Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway The Tesseract - Alex Garland De donkere kamer van Damokles - Willem Frederik Hermans La Superba - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Nostromo - Joseph Conrad Eyeless in Gaza - Aldous Huxley
Books I own but still have to read
[loosely in planned order, not exhaustive]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick Ubik - Philip K. Dick Diaspora - Greg Egan The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever - Stephen Donaldson Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis The Little Friend - Donna Tartt The Discovery of Heaven - Harry Mullisch The Willow Tree - Hubert Selby Jr. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne The Labyrinth of Solitude - Octavio Paz Women, fire and dangerous things - George Lakoff Fundamenta Krestomatio - L. Zamenhof Vivo de Zamenhof - Edmund Privat Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace Amusing Ourselves To Death - Neil Postman
Books I would like to have
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski Quantum Dialogue - Mara Beller John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing - William Aspray Everything by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf and Tolstoy.