To Read : Fiction
- Cannery Row John Steinbeck
- The Quiet Earth Craig Harrison
- In the name of the rose Umberto Eco
- The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
- While I Live John Marsden
- The Prestige Christopher Priest
- Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Robert Loius Stephenson
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Shadow of the Hedgemon Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game, part III.
- Still Life A. S. Byatt
- The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde
- Down & out in Paris & London George Orwell
- Complete Stories, Vol. 1 Isaac Asimov
- Nemesis Isaac Asimov
- The book of laughter & forgetting Milan Kundera
- Rage/The Long Walk/Roadwork/The Running Man Stephen King
- Enigma Robert Harris
- Gridlock Ben Elton
To Re-read : Fiction
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Jules Verne
Maybe Read:
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The Magicians J. B. Priestly
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The Island Aldous Huxley
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Stand On Zanzibar John Brunner
Almost definitely read. (part II: The Jagged Orbit, part III: The Sheep Look Up)
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The Third Policeman
Maybe. 1967.
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News From Nowhere William Morris
1890.
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Inter Ice Age 4 Kobe Noe
1970.
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This Perfect Day Ira Levin
1970.
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The Man In The High Castle Philip K. Dick
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Men Like Gods H. G. Wells
Dystopia.
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Walden Two Skinner
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Great Men & their environment William James
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The Genius & the Goddess Aldous Huxley
- On Love Stendhal
- Essays Montaigne
- On the Wisdom of Life Schopenhauer
- The Unquiet Grave Cyril Connolly
- Yellow Peril Wang Lixiong
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See also http://www.iblist.com/list.php?type=book&by=genre&genre=81.
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See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature.
To Read : Biographies
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Yes Man Danny Wallace
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Alan Turing: the enigma Andrew Hodges
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A Beautiful Mind
John Nash biography.
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The Bishops Boys Tom Crouch
Wright Brothers biography.
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A Life In Science John Gribbin
Stephen Hawking biography.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Robert Hooke biography.
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Strange Beauty George Johnson
Murray Gell-Man biography. (Mr. Quark.)
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Knowledge is power John Henry
Francis Bacon
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The Map that changed the World Simon Winchester
- Point to Point Navigation Gore Vidal
- The Beginner's guide to winning the Nobel Prize Peter Doherty
To Read : Non-fiction
Science
- Alpha Beta John Man
- Chronicles of the Radiation Age Catherine Caufield
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Crystal Fire
History of the transistor.
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery Karl Popper
- Rockets Peter Macinnis
- The beauty of fractals Peitgen & Richter
- Newton: the making of genius Patricia Fara
- Alpha & Omega: the search for the beginning and the end of the universe Charles Seife
- Radiative Transfer in Stellar Atmospheres R. J. Rutten
- Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould
- The Collapsing Universe Isaac Asimov
- Five equations that changed the world Michael Gullen
Gardening
- Smart Permaculture Design Jenny Allen
- How to build your own Greenhouse Roger Marshall
- Earth User's guide to Permaculture (2nd ed.) Rosemary Morrow
- The Fruit & Vegetable Garden Richard Bird
- Hydroponics: soilless gardening Richard E. Nicholls
- The Gaia book of Organic Gardening
- Organic Gardening Peter Bennett
- The Organic Gardener Christine & Michael Lavelle
- Hydroponic Home Food Gardens Howard Resh
- Beyond Organics Helen Cushing
- Home fruit growing Dept. of Ag. NSW
- Better Fruit Growing for Australian Gardens Duncan Brown
- Permaculture Two Bill Mollison
- Permaculture Bill Mollison
- Backyard organic gardening in Australia Brenda Little
- Attracting frogs to your garden Kevin Casey
- Companion Planting Richard Bird
- Organic gardening in Australia Jaqueline French
- Successful organic gardening Geoff Hamilton
- A practical guide to composting Frank Haddon
- Backyard self sufficiency Jackie French
- Growing uncommon fruits & Vegetables in Australia Keith Smith
- Recycle Your Garden Tim Marshall
- No-dig gardening Allen Gilbert
- Habitat Garden Peter Grant
- The Gardening Australia Book Gardening Australia
- Success with your garden pond Peter Stadelmann
- What garden pest or disease is that? Judy McMaugh
- Growing without digging Esther Dean
- The Natural Gardener Jeffrey Hodges
Other
- A Treasury of the world's best loved poems
- Handy Farm & House Devices & how to make them
- The Root of All Evil Richard Dawkins
- Form & Feeling Hamilton & Livingston
- The Elements of Style Strunk & White
- The new rulers of the world John Pilger
- The Titanic : end of a dream Wyn Craig Wade
- Sleepfaring : the Secrets & Science of a good night's sleep Jim Home
- Red sky in mourning Tami Oldham Ashcraft & Susea McGearhart (2002)
- Survive: stories of castaways & cannibals Nate Hardcastle (2001)
- Desparate journeys, abandoned souls Edward E Leslie (1988)
- Airman's Odyssey Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1942)
- A year of slow food David & Gerda Foster
- How to write poetry