This page contains a list of books I have read or am planning to read. Dates in parentheses are dates that I finished reading the book.
Since December 2006:
- The Giver
- Flowers for Algernon
- Deception Point
- A Scanner Darkly
- I Am The Messenger
- Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes On An Imperfect Science
- The Medical Science of House, M.D.
- 1984
- Waiting For Godot
- Atlas Shrugged
- The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
- The Rule of Four
- The Gun Seller
- The Book Thief
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (6/28/07)
- Survivor (7/4/07)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde (7/7/07)
- Middlesex (7/22/07)
- The Bluest Eye (7/31/07)
- Confederacy of Dunces (8/13/07)
- Cat’s Cradle (8/22/07)
- Digital Fortress (8/31/07)
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (10/29/07)
- I, Robot (11/22/07)
- The Book of Lost Things (12/21/07)
- Lullaby (12/30/07)
- Free Culture (4/19/08)
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (7/2/08)
- The Road (7/9/08)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (8/29/08)
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1/11/09)
- A Man Without a Country (3/19/09)
- The Kite Runner (6/20/09)
- The Lost Symbol (12/28/09)
- Breakfast of Champions: A Novel (12/31/09)
- Ender’s Game (01/10/10)
- The Man in the High Castle (9/12/10)
- Beat The Reaper (9/22/10)
- Fahrenheit 451 (10/4/10)
- The Savage Garden (10/13/10)
- Little Brother (10/26/10)
- The Fountainhead (12/18/10)
- Boneshaker (1/7/11)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1/17/11)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1/22/11)
- Mother Night (1/24/11)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1/30/11)
- The Hunger Games (1/30/11)
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich (3/22/11)
- The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (4/3/11)
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson (5/13/11)
- A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (5/21/11)
- The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read by Daniel Solin (5/28/11)
- The Bogleheads’ Guide To Investing by Taylor Larimore, et. al. (6/7/11)
- Currently Reading: The Magic of Thinking Big
- Currently Reading: The House of God
Previous (pre-December 2006) [abridged]:
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (including all 5 novels)
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Hobbit
- The Three Musketeers
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Of Mice and Men
- The Da Vinci Code
- Angels & Demons
- The Catcher in the Rye
On Deck (waiting on my shelf):
- Catching Fire | Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley
- Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Good Thief: A Novel by Hannah Tinti
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
- Burying Father Tim by Tom Robertson
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
- The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs
- Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte (thanks Dad)
- Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman by Richard Stallman (thanks FSF)
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years) by Gregory Maguire
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with Any Camera by Bryan Peterson
You can also check out a select few of my favorites.
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