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SmartBomb
24th October 2006, 12:06
I apologise for having no taste at all.

Earlier books are just listed, and I'll add a little more detail to books as I update them in the future. Feel free to mock and deride my sorry choice of reading materials.


JANUARY:
- Otherland – Tad Williams
- The Meaning of Tingo – Adam Jacot de Boinod
- Dying Inside – Robert Silverberg
- Consider Phlebas – Ian M. Banks
- The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom
- Stardust – John Gribbin

FEBRUARY:
- The Immoralist – Andre Gide
- The Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan
- The Sleeper Awakes – H. G. Wells
- Parallel Worlds – Michio Kaku
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K. Dick

MARCH:
- Homeward Bound – Harry Turtledove
- The Wonder of Things – A. C. Grayling
- Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- Buddhism, Plain and Simple – Steve Hagen
- The Oxford Book of Death - Misc.

APRIL:
- Man Plus – Frederik Pohl
- A Hole in Space – Larry Niven
- Night Warriors – Graham Masterton
- Gateway – Frederik Pohl
- Einstein for Dummies

MAY:
- Night Plague: Graham Masterton
- Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
- Mapping the Mind: Rita Carter
- If on a Winter Night a Traveller – Italo Calvino
- The Horror in the Museum - H. P. Lovecraft

JUNE:
- The Shapes of Sleep: J. B. Priestly
- The Norse Myths: collected
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings - Edgar Allen Poe
- A Bottomless Grave: Victorian Tales of Terror - Hugh Lamb (Ed.)

JULY:
- The Collected Poems - Christine Rossetti
- Science, Skepticism and the Search for God - Michael Shermer
- Lucky Wander Boy - D. B. Weiss
- Power Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World and Extra Life - Chris Kohler
- The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells

AUGUST:
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- Does Anything Eat Wasps? - New Scientist
- Tales of Unease - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol

SEPTEMBER:
- The Conan Chronicles - R. E. Howard
- The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
- The Blackstone Chronicles - John Saul

OCTOBER:
- Atomised - Michel Houllebecq
- Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

princessponti
24th October 2006, 18:57
ooo I really enjoyed Girlfriend in a coma! What did you make of it? have you read any other Coupland? I'm all for the flat food obsession in Microserfs, makes me chuckle just thinking of it!