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The following are some of the books I have read and which (in a perfect world) I'd like everybody to have read:

fiction (and sf and fantasy)

• Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

• The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)

• Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)

• Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)

• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)

• Across Realtime (Vernor Vinge)
  (older releases contained The Peace War, The Ungoverned, Marooned in Realtime, but the re-release (which I have) published by Millenium UK doesn't include The Ungoverned.)

• A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge)

non-fiction

• The Society of Mind (Marvin Minsky)

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert M. Pirsig)

• No Contest (Alfie Kohn)

• Punished by Rewards (Alfie Kohn)

• Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)

programming books

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  Harold Abelson & Gerald J. Sussman
  (generally referred to as SICP)

• Applied Cryptography
  Bruce Schneier

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  Stuart Russel & Peter Norvig

• Computer Graphics: Principles And Practice
  Foley, van Dam, Feiner & Hughes

• Introduction to the Theory of Computation
  Michael Sipser

• Purely Functional Data Structures
  Chris Okasaki

• The Art of Computer Programming
  Volume I-III
  Donald E. Knuth