Books I Have Read

I read a lot. This is an incomplete list of books I have read over my lifetime, sorted by authors. I am in the process of updating this list with all the books I have in my bookcase (this would probably take some time). If you want read any of the books listed below, shoot me an email.

Last updated: 24th May 2008

• The Unmaking of Malaysia

• Brave New World

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Rendezvous with Rama
• 2010: Odessey Two
• 2061: Odessey Three
• 3001: The Final Odyssey
• The Nine Billion Names of God

• Memoirs of a Geisha

• The God of Small Things

• Infidel: My Life

• The Intelligent Investor

• The Moscow Puzzles

• The C Programming Language

• Thinking in C++
• Thinking in Java

• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More

• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

• Slumber Party
• The Last Vampire
• The Last Vampire 2: Black Blood
• The Last Vampire 3: Red Dice
• The Last Vampire 4: Phantom
• The Last Vampire 5: Evil Thirst
• The Last Vampire 6: Creatures of Forever

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

• sed & awk

• Robinson Crusoe

• Fine Things

• The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A Treasury of Myths, Legends and Fascinating Facts

• SSH: The Secure Shell

• The Art of Computer Programming (read this in bits and pieces)

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
• Life, the Universe and Everything
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
• Mostly Harmless
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• The Salmon of Doubt

• The Rule Of Four

• The Art of Unix Programming

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

• The Rise of Illiberal Democracies

• Dune

• 1984
• Animal Farm

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• On The Duty of Civil Disobedience

• The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

• Trainspotting

• I, Robot
• Profession
• The Caves of Steel

• The Black Dahlia

• DNA

• Darkly Dreaming Dexter
• Dearly Devoted Dexter
• Dexter in the Dark

• Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less
• Shall We Tell The President?
• Kane and Abel
• A Quiver Full of Arrows
• The Prodigal Daughter
• First Among Equals
• A Matter of Honour
• A Twist in the Tale
• As The Crow Flies
• Honour Among Thieves
• Twelve Red Herrings
• The Fourth Estate
• Sons of Fortune
• False Impression

• The End of Poverty

• User Interface Design for Programmers

• A Time to Kill
• The Firm
• The Pelican Brief
• The Client
• The Chamber
• The Rainmaker
• The Runaway Jury
• The Partner
• The Street Lawyer
• The Testament

• Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

• Sophie's World

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Silmarillion

• MAY 13: Declassified Documents

• Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

• Bygones

• Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

• The Dark Arena
• The Fortunate Pilgrim
• The Godfather
• Fools Die
• The Sicilian
• The Fourth K
• The Last Don
• Omerta
• The Family

• Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
• Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

• A Case of Need
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Terminal Man
• The Great Train Robbery
• Eaters of the Dead
• Congo
• Sphere
• Jurassic Park
• Rising Sun
• Disclosure
• The Lost World
• Airframe
• Timeline
• Prey
• State of Fear
• Next

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

• In The Beginning Was the Command Line
• Zodiac
• Snow Crash
• The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
• Cryptonomicon
• The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver
• The Baroque Cycle: The Confusion
• The Baroque Cycle: The System of the World

• American Gods
• Anansi Boys

• Long Walk to Freedom

• First Meetings
• Ender's Game
• Speaker for the Dead
• Xenocide
• Ender's Shadow
• Shadow of the Hegemon
• Shadow Puppets
• Shadow of the Giant
• The Memory of Earth
• Lost Boys
• Seventh Son
• Red Prophet
• Prentice Alvin
• Alvin Journeyman
• Heartfire
• The Crystal City
• Master Alvin
• Enchantment

• The Jains

• Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer

• DOS 6 For The Guru Wannabe

• Body of Evidence
• The Body Farm
• From Potter's Field
• Predator

• The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories

• Roald Dahl: Collected Stories

• The Puppet Masters
• Double Star
• Starship Troopers
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• I Will Fear No Evil
• Time Enough for Love
• The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
• Requiem

• The 48 Laws of Power

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
• Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

• The Blind Watchmaker
• The Selfish Gene
• The Ancestor's Tale
• The God Delusion

• Freedomland

• Midnight Children

• Extending and Embedding PHP

• The Elephant, The Tiger and The Cellphone

• Fermat's Last Theorem

• Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

• The Language Instinct
• Word and Rules
• How the Mind Works
• The Blank Slate

• Malaysia and the Club of Doom: The Collapse of The Islamic Countries

• Starship Titanic

• The World Is Flat

• Black Sunday
• Red Dragon
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Hannibal
• Hannibal Rising

• The Undercover Economist