Fiction
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Cryptonomicon
- - Neal Stephenson - ISBN-10 : 0380973464
- Snow Crash
- - Neal Stephenson - ISBN-10 : 0241953189
- The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
- - Neal Stephenson
- Anathem
- - Neal Stephenson - ISBN-10 : 0061474096
- Red Mars
- - Kim Stanley Robinson - ISBN-10 : 0007310161
- Green Mars
- - Kim Stanley Robinson - ISBN-10 : 000731017X
- Blue Mars
- - Kim Stanley Robinson - ISBN-10 : 0007310188
- Neuromancer
- - William Gibson
- Count Zero
- - William Gibson
- Mona Lisa Overdrive
- - William Gibson
- Burning Chrome
- - William Gibson
- Alastair Reynolds
- - Revelation Space - Redemption Ark - Absolution Gap - then any and all Reynolds books in Revelation space universe... - then the Revenger series
- Charles Stross
- - start with Singularity Sky, the glasshouse, and Accelerando - then move to the Laundry series (modern day Cathulu)
- Tolkien, J.R.R
- - The Hobbit - Lord of the Rings - really don't bother with anything else
Non-Fiction
Text Books
- The Art Of Computer Programming
- - Donald Knuth - ISBN-10 : 0137935102
- The Art Of Electronics
- - Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill - ISBN-10 : 0521809266
History
- Fire in the valley
- - Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine - ISBN-10: 0071358951