Books of Interest
Over the years, we have all pursued a number of titles that are of interest for varying reasons. This is a poor attempt to try and list a few of our favorites out to share with others. We can also use this as a reference for books with which we should stock the Noisebridge shelf.
In the interest of chronologic significance, we should not include books of a limited technical nature (for example, PHP5 for Dummies), but instead those which grant a broader outlook on life.
The current format is book title, author, and your name. If multiple people like a book, you can add your names into the "Suggested By" field. We should probably also have some way to denote whether it is on the shelf at Noisebridge. Also, there is no real categorization yet, I am including technical as well as nontechnical.
| Title | Author | Suggested By | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R Hofstader | aestetix | |
| The Art of Computer Programming | Don Knuth | aestetix | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | aestetix | |
| Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution | Steven Levy | aestetix | |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | aestetix | |
| The Code Book | Simon Singh | aestetix | |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | aestetix | |
| Code | Charles Petzold | aestetix | |
| The Annotated Turing | Charles Petzold | aestetix | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | aestetix | |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | aestetix | |
| The Magus | John Fowles | aestetix | |
| The Collector | John Fowles | aestetix | |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | aestetix | |
| Technopoly | Neil Postman | aestetix | |
| The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson | aestetix | |
| Shrodinger's Cat | Robert Anton Wilson | aestetix | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | aestetix | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | aestetix | |
| The Hacker Crackdown | Bruce Sterling | aestetix | |
| I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | aestetix | |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | aestetix | |
| The Gold Bug Variations | Richard Powers | aestetix | |
| The Codebreakers | David Kahn | aestetix | |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | aestetix | |
| V | Thomas Pynchon | Mitch | |
| Little Brother | Cory Doctorow | aestetix | |
| Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | Mitch | |
| White Noise | Don DeLillo | Mitch | |
| In Search of Lost Time | Marcel Proust | Mitch | |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | Mitch | |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | Mitch | |
| Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture | Arthur Evans | Mitch | |
| Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco | Mitch | |
| Quantum Psychology | Robert Anton Wilson | Mitch | |
| In the Absence of the Sacred | Jerry Mander | Mitch | |
| Dancer From the Dance | Andrew Holleran | Mitch | |
| An Arrow's Flight | Mark Merlis | Mitch | |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Mitch | |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | Mitch | |
| Passage to India | E. M. Forster | Mitch |