Monday, December 23, 2013

A list of books that have had an impact on my life

Fiction
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot, The End of Eternity, Foundation Series
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Arthur C. Clarke: 2001
Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, Air-frame, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next
A.C. Crispin: Yesterday's Son, Time for Yesterday
Greg Cox: The Eugenics Wars
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities
Diane Duane: My Enemy, My Ally
Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Joseph Heller: Catch-22
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon
Steven King: The Stand, Secret Windows
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
C.S. Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet, The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick
George Orwell: Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Chuck Palahniuk: Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Rant, Diary
Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens: Memory Prime, Millennium
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
William Shatner: Tek Series
Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sirens of Titan, The Breakfast of Champions
John Vornholt: Genesis Wave
H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man

Non-Fiction
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Maxwell Bennett: Neuroscience and Philosophy
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion, The Greatest Show on Earth
Norman Doidge: The Brain That Changes Itself
David Epstein: The "Sports Gene"
Cordelia Fine: Delusions of Gender
Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
Michael S. Gazzaniga: Who's in charge
Henry Gee: The Accidental Species
Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath
James Gleick: Chaos
Brian Greene: The Elegant Universe, The Hidden Reality
Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of Time, The Grand Design
Sam Harris: The Moral Landscape, Letter to a Christian Nation, Lying, Free Will
Christopher Hitchens: God Is Not Great, Arguably, Mortality
bell hooks: Feminism Is for Everybody
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought
Matt Ridley: Genome
Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot, The Demon Haunted World, Cosmos
Kim Sterelny: Dawkins vs. Gould

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