| Favorite Books |
| My favorite books by genre. If you know of books you think I would like please email me their names. |
| Non - Fiction Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere - Westbrook & O Ratti Lost In Place: Growing up Absurd in Suburba - Mark Salzman How to Play Go Series (9 books) - Janice Kim How to Want What you Have: Discoverying the Magic and Grandier of Ordinary Existence - Timothy Miller The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzwiel The Spike - Damien Broderick Chicken Soup for the Soul (and sequals) All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum Disorderly Conduct (very funny) - Rodney Jones Cartoon History of the World Surely You Must Be Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman (available on tape too) You Know What they Say... - A Kohn Building Robots with Lego Mindstorms - Mario Ferrari Lego Mindstorms Idea Book - Joe Nagata The Art of War - Sun Tzu Go Rin No Sho (Book of Five Rings) - Musashi Powers of Ten The Laws of Life - Templeton Aha! - Martin Gardener (puzzles) 101 Things You Don't Know About Science (and no one else does either) - Trefil Ponzi Schemes, and other Popular delusions - Bulgatz Its Getting Better All the Time - Moore, Simon Sparks of Genius - Robert and Michele Root-Berstein Mortgage Free - Rob Roy The Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser The Laws of Life - Templeton Just for Fun - Linus Torvalds The Promise - Oral B Brown Freedom Writers - Erin Gruwell There are no Shortcuts - Rafe Esquith Educating Esme - Esme Codel A Randome Walk Down Wallstreet - Burton Malkiel Technical Ruminations of a Numbers Man - John Allen Paulos Calculated Risks: How to Know when Number Deceive You - Gerd Gigerenzer Mathematical Go - Berlekamp and Wolfe Patterns in Java - Mark Grand Computer Graphics: Principals and Practice - Foley and VanDam Design Patterns - Gang of Four Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick (Text I used in my high school computer class in 1986) Java Development with Ant - Hatcher and Loughran Mastering the JFC - Geary (The best book on understanding Swing) The Art of Computer Science - Donald Knuth Thinking in Java - Bruce Eckel The Millenium Problems - Keith Devlin Head First Java - Good introduction The Grammar of Graphics - Wilkensen Advanced Engineering Mathematics - Kreyszig Fiction Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa Ninja, The Miko, and other books by Eric Van Lustbader Sensei - David Charney Shike: Last of the Zinja - Robert Shea The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Steven Chbosky Mad Scientists Club (Junior Fiction) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Dave Barry Does Japan - Dave Barry Holes - Louis Sachar The Laughing Sutra - Mark Salzman Narnia - C. S. Lewis Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach Davinci Code - Dan Brown Deception Point - Dan Brown Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Album The Taiko - Eiji Yoshikawa Science Fiction Contact - Carl Sagan The Green Futures Of Tycho - William Sleater Interstellar Pig - William Sleater Enders Game - Orson Scott Card Black Sun Diaspora - Greg Egan Kindred - Octavia Butler Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Fantasy Hobbit, Ring Trilogy - J.R.R Tolkien Bored of the Rings - Harvard Lampoon The Chronicles of Thomas Covenent (10 books) - Stephen R. Donaldson The Xanth Series (12 books) - Piers Anthony (and many others by him) Childrens Angry Moon Picture Books by Richard Scary The Giant Jam Sandwitch (or something like that) The Raja's Rice - Dave Barry Fortunately/Unfortinately Ritchie Ritch comic books Powers of Ten Mad Scientists Club - Bertrand Brinley Books to read soon --------------------------- moving zen I Robot Life 2.0 |