Reading List

• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
• Matt Ridley, The Agile Gene
• Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist
• Alasdair Gray, The Ends of Our Tethers
• William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
• Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas
• Reinhold Messner, The Naked Mountain
• Iain Banks, Raw Spirit
• Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
• Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
• George Soros, On Globalization
• Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
• Jeffrey Zeldman, Designing with web standards
• Robert Graves, The Greek Myths
• Irvine Welsh, Porno
• Arthur Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World
• H. W. Tilman, The Seven Mountain Travel Books (Snow on the Equator, The Ascent of Nanda Devi, When Men and Mountains Meet, Everest 1938, Two Mountains and a River, China to Chital, Nepal Himalaya)
• David McClung and Peter Schaerer, The Avalanche Handbook
• Tony Daffern, Avalanche Safety for Skiers, Climbers & Snowboarders
• Irvine Welsh, Glue
• Andrew Glassner, Principles of Digital Image Synthesis
• Elizabeth Bray, The Discovery of the Hebrides: Voyages to the Western Isles 1745-1883
• Edward R. Tufte, Visual Explanations
• Sumner Stone, On Stone: The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer
• Hans-Erik Eriksson and Magnus Penker, UML Toolkit
• A. K. Dewdney, The Turing Omnibus
• Ralph Payne-Gallwey, The Book of the Crossbow
• Molly Merryman, Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of Word War II
• Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
• Geoffrey Tailor, Changing Faces: A History of the Guardian 1956-1988
• D. J. Bruckner, Frederick Goudy
• Kevin Kelly, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines
• Robin Kinross, Modern Typography
• Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
• Philip Finch, F2F

• Caroline Alexander, The Endurance
• Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents
• Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider
• Salman Rushdie, Step across this line
• Martin Gardner, Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? : Debunking Pseudoscience
• John Sandford, The Hanged Man's Song
• David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic
• Ben Elton, Stark
• Torbjorn Lundmark, quirky QWERTY
• William Langewiesche, American Ground
• Philip K. Dick, Paycheck (and other classic stories)
• David Brin, Kiln People
• Matt Ridley, The Red Queen
• Niels Ferguson and Bruce Schneier, Practical Cryptography
• Joe Simpson, The Beckoning Silence
• Allan Massie, The Ragged Lion
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
• Pamela Stephenson, Billy
• Iain Banks, Dead Air
• Elliotte Rusty Harold, XML: Extensible Markup Language
• Atul Gawande, Complications
• Simon Yates, The Flame of Adventure
• Michael White, Leonardo: The First Scientist
• David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus
• David Brin, The Transparent Society
• Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation
• Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
• Michael Lynch, Scotland
• Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls, second edition
• Jeppeson, Instrument/Commercial Manual
• FAA, Aviation Weather Services AC 00-45D
• FAA, Aviation Weather AC 00-6A
• FAA, Instrument Flying Handbook AC 61-27C
• Homer, The Iliad, Translated by Robert Fagles
• Naomi Klein, No Logo
• Joe Simpson, Storms of Silence
• Lawrence Lessig, Code; and Other Laws of Cyberspace
• Valerian Albanov, In the Land of the White Death
• Joe Simpson, Dark Shadows Falling
• Paul Parker, Free-Heel Skiing
• Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma
• Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies
• Mark Kurlowski, Cod: A Fish that Changed the World
• William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties
• Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself
• Iain M. Banks, Inversions
• Matt Ridley, Genome
• Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger, The Year 1000
• Samantha Weinberg, A Fish Caught in Time
• Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere, Out of Their Minds
• Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos, Yeager
• Linda Greenlaw, The Hungry Ocean
• Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
• Reinhold Messner, The Crystal Horizon
• Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue
• Joe Simpson, This Game of Ghosts
• Joe Simpson, Touching the Void
• Sir Ernest Shackleton, South
• Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Skyward
• Giles Foden, The Last King of Scotland
• Stephen Blanchard, Gagarin and I
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
• Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, Moon Shot
• James Hunter, A Dance Called America
• Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions
• John Horgan, The End of Science
• Richard Branson, Losing my Virginity
• Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden
• Mairi Hedderwick, An Eye on the Hebrides
• Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm
• Ian Stewart, Nature's Numbers
• Andrew Porter (translator), Richard Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung
• Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine
• Steve McConnell, Rapid Development
• Irvine Welsh, Filth
• Will Hutton, The State to Come
• Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
• Steven Cushing, Fatal Words: Communication Clashes and Aircraft Crashes
• Robert Buderi, The Invention that Changed the World
• Will Hutton, The State We're In
• Cdr. John Moore, USN Ret., The Wrong Stuff
• C. Marin Faure, Flying a Floatplane
• Sherwood Harris, The First to Fly
• Robert Bringhurst, Elements of Typographic Style (2nd Edition)
• Simon Singh, Fermat's Last Theorem
• Robert Wohl, A Passion for Wings
• Arnold, Gosling, The Java Programming Language
• Gamma, Helm, Johnson and Vlissedes, Design Patterns
• Scott Meyers, More Effective C++
• Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Language (3rd Edition)
• William Gibson, Idoru
• Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++
• Scott Meyers, Effective C++
• Alasdair Gray, Mavis Belfrage
• Nick Hornby, High Fidelity