| Most Highly Recommended: Cosmos
- !!! The Measure of Reality
- How quantification has completely changed the face of society. Very interesting stuff. This has probably been my favourite read this year. Nightfall
- Interesting ideas of the role of religion in society and mass hysteria Speaker for the Dead
- Really fascinating book. I love sci-fi where there is an alien species that humans have trouble understanding for whatever reason Books I unrecommend: Heretics of Dune
- Ugh. Tedious. I actually couldn't finish it. Didn't start Chapterhouse either. Information Doesn't Want to be Free
- Pretty basic. How many footnotes do you really need before you just include them in the text? Was on maternity leave this year so there are quite a few. Those marked * are also recommended. Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond * The Vital Question - Nick Lane * The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath * Convergent Series - Larry Niven * Cosmos - Carl Sagan * World of Ptaavs - Larry Niven The Integral Trees - Larry Niven The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeongseo Lee * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M Pirsig * The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage (Comic) - Sydney Padua The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 - Roger Zelazny The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250 - 1600 - Alfred W. Crosby * Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark * The Time Dweller - Michael Moorcock Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card * Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card * Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible - Tim Gunn * The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimon * The Hugo Winners vol. 3 - Various Between Planets - Robert A. Heinlen The Martian - Andy Weir * Perelandra - C S Lewis Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert (Unfinished, couldn't do it.) Nightfall - Isaac Asimov * Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov * Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov * Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlen * Information Doesn't Want to be Free - Corey Doctorow Currently Reading Engines of Creation: The Coming Era Of Nanotechnology - K. Eric Drexler * Planets for Sale - A.E. van Vogt For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald |