Brian's Recommended Reading
Fiction
- Time's Arrow, Martin Amis [Penguin].
- The Fermata, Nicholas Baker [Vintage].
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut.
- I, Claudius, Robert Graves.
- A Treasury of Modern Fantasy, ed. T. Carr & M.H. Greenberg [Avon].
- The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard, J.G. Ballard [Holt Rinehart Winston].
- The Best of H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft [Del Rey].
History
- The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius.
- In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Woods [Penguin].
- In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Woods [U of California Press].
Science
- Genome, Matt Ridley [Bantam].
- Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould [Norton].
- The Dinosaur Heresies, Robert T. Bakker [Morrow].
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav [Bantam].
Philo-psycho
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl [Washington Square].
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung [Vintage].
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, S. Covey [].
- The Road Less Travelled, M. Scott Peck [Rider].
Techno
- Introduction to Mathematical Logic, E. Mendelson [Wadsworth & Brooks].
- Computers and Intractability, M.R. Gary & D.S. Johnson [Freeman].
- Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, J.R. Koza [MIT Press].
- Genetic Programming: An Introduction, Banzhaf, Nordin, Keller, Francone [Morgan Kaufmann].
- Essentials of Logic Programming, C.J. Hogger [Oxford].
- The New Turing Omnibus, A.K. Dewdney [W.H.Freeman].
- Who is Fourier?, Transnational College of LEX [Language Research Found]
The Arts
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards [Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc].
- Drawing on the Artist Within, Betty Edwards [Fontana].
- Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers Leonard Koren.
- Evolutionary Art and Computers, Todd and Latham [Academic Press].
Misc
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson [Random House].
- Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke.