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This is a hodge podge of all the books I remember reading. I guess the others aren't worth it, right?

The full text of many of these books can bo found on line via the CMU Books on line server, at <http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/Web/bookauthors.html>.

Author

Title

When read

Full Text

Notes

Adams, Douglas

Dirk Gentry's Holistic Detective Agency

1987

Adams, Douglas

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

1984

TeX

Adams, Douglas

The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

1984

TeX

Adams, Douglas

Life, The Universe, and Everything

1984

TeX

Adams, Douglas

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

1984

TeX

Adams, Douglas

The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul

1987

Albott, Edwin

Flatland

1989

HTML, TEXT

Allen, Woody

Side Effects

1989

Allen, Woody

Without Feathers

1990

Asimov, Isaac

I Robot

Asimov, Isaac

The Foundation Trilogy

Attenborough, David

Life on Earth

December 1999

Attenborough, David

The Life of Birds

May 2000

Attenborough, David

Life on Air

July/August 2003

Bach, Richard

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1990

Bach, Richard

One

1990

Baldacci, David

Absolute Power

June/July 2001

Basie, Count

Autobiography

1995

Baugh, John

Black Street Speech

July/August 2000

Berger, Thomas

Little Big Man

1990

Bradbury, Ray

Farenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Bradbury, Ray

The Martian Chronicles

Brooks, Fred

Bridges, John

How to be a Gentleman

February 2002

The Mythical Man Month

Camus, Albert

The Stranger

1991

Card, Orson Scott

Ender's Game

Fall 1997

Cather, Wila

My Antonia

1994

Chapman, Gary

The Five Love Languages

August 2006

Clancy, Tom

Patriot Games

Clancy, Tom

Red Storm Rising

Clancy, Tom

The Hunt for Red October

Clark, Arthur C.

Childhood's End

Clarke, Arthur C.

2001: A Space Oddessey

1986

Clarke, Arthur C.

Rendezvous With Rama

Crow, Bill

Jazz Anecdotes

1995

Copeland, Douglas

Generation X

1995

Copeland, Douglas

Microserfs

1995

Dahl, Roald

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

1981

Dahl, Roald

James and the Giant Peach

1990

Davis, Miles Dewey

Autobiography

1994

Delany, Bessie and Sadie

Having Our Say

May 1996

Dick, Philip K.

Flow My Tears, the Policeman said.

Fall 1995

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

Dickey, James

Deliverance

Spring 1990

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Return of Sherlock Holmes April 2002

Dosteyevesky, Fydor

Crime and Punishment

1990

Dosteyevesky, Fydor

The Dream of the Ridiculous Man

Fall 1997

Dosteyevesky, Fydor

The Eternal Husband

Fall 1997

Ellington, Duke

Autobiography

1994

Ellington, Duke

Music is My Mistress

June 1999

Ellison, Ralph

Invisible Man

July-September 1999

Flinn, Denny Martin

Star Trek: The Fearful Summons

22 January 1999

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Tender is the Night

Spring 1992

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby

Fowler, Martin

UML Distilled

August 1998

Frisch, Max

Biedermann und die Brandstifter

Spring 1995

Frank, Bernhardt

Secret Kehlstein

July 2004

Fuller-Ross, Dana

Illinois!

January 2002

Gaiman, Neil

Death: The High Cost of Living

13 January 2001

Gaiman, Neil

American Gods

January 2005

Goer, Henci

The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth

January 2003

Grobel, Lawrence

The Art of the Interview

September 2006

Heche, Ann

Call Me Crazy

April 2002

Heinlein, Robert

Farmer in the Sky

Heinlein, Robert

Starship Trooper

Heinlein, Robert

Stranger in a Strange Land

Heller, Joseph

Catch 22

1990

Herbert, Frank

Dune Series

Hesse, Herman

Siddhartha

Summer 1996

Higham, Charles and Moseley, Roy

Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart

March - June 2002

Hoeg, Peter

Smila's Sense of Snow

May 1996

Hoyle, Sir Fred

On Stonehenge

July 24-31 2000

Hughart, Barry

Bridge of Birds

June 1999

Huxley, Aldus

Brave New World

Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Spring 1992

Kafka, Franz

die Verwandlung

Spring 1995

Korten, David C.

When Corporations Rule The World

February - April 2000

Kotzwinkle, William

Fan Man, The

November 1995

Keillor, Garrison

Priarie Home Companian

Keillor, Garrison

Coming Home

King Jr., Martin Luther

Why We Can't Wait

October 1999

Kleist, Heinrich Von

das Erdbeben in Chile

Spring 1995

Kocher, Paul H.

Master of Middle Earth: the Fiction of JRR Tolkien

April 2001

Kube-McDowell, Michael P.

Before the Storm (Star Wars, Book 1 of the Black Fleet Crisis)

January 1999

Kube-McDowell, Michael P.

Shield of Lies (Star Wars, Book 2 of the Black Fleet Crisis)

Febraury/March 1999

Kube-McDowell, Michael P.

Tyrant's Test (Star Wars, Book 3 of the Black Fleet Crisis)

April/May 1999

Kundera, Milan

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Fall 1994

Larsen, Egon

Hovercraft and Hydrofoils Work Like This

July 1999

Le Guin, Ursula K.

The Dispossesed

June 2000

Levy, Steven

Hackers

Spring 1990

Lewis, C.S.

Out of the Silent Planet

Summer 1990

Lewis, C.S.

Perelandra

Summer 1990

Lewis, C.S.

That Hideous Strength

Summer 1990

Lewis, C.S.

The Chronicles of Narnia

Lewis, C.S.

Til We Have Faces

Lewis, Sinclair

Babbit

1987

McCloud, Scott

Understanding Comics

September 2000

Melville, Herman

Benito Cereno

March 1998

text

Complete online works

Melville, Herman

Bartleby the Scribner

March 1998

HTML

Melville, Herman

The Encantadas

April 1998

HTML

Melville, Herman

Billy Budd, Foretopman

March 1998

HTML

Melville, Herman

Confidence Man, The

March 1998

HTML

Meyers, Scott

Effective C++

June 1996

Morrison, Toni

Jazz

January, February 2000

Nimoy, Leonard

I am Spock

December 1995

Norman, Marsha

'Night, Mother

9 December 1999

O'Brien, Flann

At Swim Two Birds

October 2006

O'Brien, Flann

The Dalkey Archive

June 2007

O'Brien, Flann

The Third Policeman

June 2007

Orwell, George

1984

1984

Orwell, George

Animal Farm

Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar

July 1996

Pirsig, Robert

Lila

January 1995

notes

Pirsig, Robert

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Fall 1995

Powers, Tim

Anubis Gates, The

September/October 1999

Pratchett, Terry

Fifth Elephant, The

December 2004

Real, Terrence

I Don't Want to Talk About It

May - July 2004

Robbins, Tom

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Robbins, Tom

Jitterbug Perfume

Summer 1988

Robbins, Tom

Skinny Legs and All

Salinger, J.D.

The Catcher in the Rye

1989

Salinger, J.D.

9 Stories

Schiller, Friedrich

Wilhelm Tell

Spring 1995

Seinfeld, Jerry

Sein Language

8 June 1999

Shatner, William

Tek War

Summer 1990

Shirer, William L.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

October 2000 - November 2001

Sienkiewicz, Bill

Stray Toasters

April 2007

Snicket, Lemony

The Hostile Hospital

August 24 - 28 2004

Sperber, Ann M.

Edward R. Murrow, a biography

Spring 1992

Spiegelman, Art

Maus

Fall 1995

Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath

Stephenson, Neal

Snow Crash

Summer 1995

Storm, Theodor

der Schimelreiter

Spring 1995

Tepper, Sheri S.

    Beauty

June 1996

notes

Thomson, Toby

Positively Main Street, An Unorthodox View of Bob Dylan

August, September 2000

HTML

Thoreau, Henry David

On Civil Disobedience

April 1995

HTML

Thoreau, Henry David

Walden

April 1995

TEXT

notes

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Hobbit

1985

Tolkien, J.R.R.

The Lord of the Rings

1985

Twain, Mark

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Twain, Mark

Huckleberry Finn

Twain, Mark

The Innocents Abroad

Twain, Mark

Tom Sawyer

Verne, Jules

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Verne, Jules

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse Five

Wells, H. G.

The Invisible Man

June 1999

Wells, H. G.

The Time Machine

June 1999

White, E.B.

Charlotte's Web

Whitfield, Charles L. M.D.

Healing the Child Within

11 July 2006

White, T.H.

The Once and Future King

Willis, Connie

Bellwether

June 2001

Wilson, Gar

Phoenix Force (various titles)

1983

Wilson, Gar

Mack Bolan (various titles)

1983

Yourdan, Ed

The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer


If you have some more suggestions, please send me an email. When I compiled this list, I noticed a lack of women authors, so recommendations in that regard are particularly welcome.
Ed Burns <edburns@acm.org>
Created: Sat Feb 17 18:08:52 PDT 1996

Last modified: Wed Jun 04 15:58:46 Eastern Daylight Time 2008