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Ze'ev's Book List
Chronologically arranged list of
interesting books - science, philosophy, novels, whatever - I've read.
By-and-large, these are books I like; otherwise I wouldn't have
finished them.
2018
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
(1992).
Empire Star by Samuel Delany
(1966).
Babel-17 by Samuel Delany
(1966).
City of Thieves by David Benioff
(2008).
Understanding Digital Photography by Bryan Peterson
(2005).
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
(1947).
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(1880).
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
(1928).
Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller
(1981).
2017
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
(1955).
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
(1984).
How to Create a Self-Sustaining Aquatic Ecosystem: The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Jarrarium by Patrick Grubbs
(2017).
High Rise by J.G. Ballard
(1975).
The Birthday of the World by Ursula Le Guin
(2014).
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
(2014).
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
(1988).
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
(1930).
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
(1915).
2016
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
(1959).
On the Heights of Despair by Emil Ciora
(1934).
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
(2001).
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
(2006).
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
(1532).
Ecclesiastes by Unknown
.
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
(2005).
Contact by Carl Sagan
(1985).
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
(2010).
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
(1938).
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
(1982).
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
(1961).
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
(1968).
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin
(1969).
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
(1974).
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
(2007).
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
(1997).
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
(2006).
The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson
(1969).
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
(1963).
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
(2001).
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
(1973).
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
(2013).
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert Pirsig
(1991).
The Player of Games by Iain Banks
(1988).
The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert Heinlein
(1967).
2015
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
(1959).
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
(1954).
The City and the Starts by Arthur Clark
(1956).
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
(1956).
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
(1895).
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
(1896).
Apex by Ramez Naam
(2015).
Earth by David Brin
(1990).
Glory Road by Robert Heinlein
(1963).
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
(2007).
Structures: or, Why things don't fall down by J. E. Gordon
(1978).
We the Living by Ayn Rand
(1936).
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
(1889).
Crux by Ramez Naam
(2013).
The Transparent Society by David Brin
(1998).
Nexus by Ramez Naam
(2012).
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
(1954).
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
(1954).
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
(1954).
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
(1953).
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
(1952).
2014
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
(1951).
White Noise by Don DeLillo
(1985).
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
(1961).
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
(1959).
Dune by Frank Herbert
(1965).
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
(1969).
Gilgamesh by Unknown
.
Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield
(2001).
Consciousness by Christof Koch
(2012).
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
(1957).
1984 by George Orwell
(1949).
Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth
by Buckminster Fuller (1968).
Forever War by Joe Haldeman
(1974).
Starship Trooper by Robert Heinlein
(1959).
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks
(2009).
The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks
(2007).
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
(2005).
Howl by Allen Ginsburg
(1955).
On the Road by Jack Kerouak
(1957).
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzuchelli
(2009).
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
(1969).
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
(1932).
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
(1961).
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by
Robert Heinlein (1966).
Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
(1943).
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introdution
by Simon Critchley (2001).
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
(1992).
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
(2011).
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave
Gibbons (1987).
2013
Neuromancer by William Gibson
(1984).
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
(1985).
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
(1990).
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
(1997).
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
(1992).
Shadow of the Hegemon by Orsen Scott Card
(2001).
Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
(1884).
Xenocide by Orsen Scott Card
(1991).
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
(2008).
Speaker for the Dead by Orsen Scott Card
(1986).
Ender's Shadow by Orsen Scott Card
(1999).
Ender's Game by Orsen Scott Card
(1985).
Fight Club by Chuch Palahiuk
(1996).
2012
1984 by George Orwell
(1949).
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
(1974).
Art of Mathematics by Jerry King
(2006).
Phi by Giulio Tononi
(2012).
The Astonishing Hypothesis by Francis Crick
(1994).
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
(1953).
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
(2006).