Geek Literature

Maybe this is one of my most important posts ever. Literature for Geeks and Nerds. Wonderful books (books are those things made out of dead trees in case you forgot) on wonderful geeky topics. This list, of course, doesn't claim to be complete. I am sure I forgot some books, so I encourage the reader to add those books in the comment section (hey, I want some book recommendations as well). The range of the genres, however, will not only involve Sci-Fi stuff, but also some books on SW Engineering, Economics and, oh yes, oh yes, Computer Science with all that nice theory stuff like NP-Completeness and Cellular Automatons.

The books are in no particular order, they are written down in the order they entered my mind, so there's no grouping of books and using prime numbers as accessor keys :-)

• Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide through the Galaxy
• No further description
• Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
• Yes, this is a must-read as well
• Robert A. Wilson - Illuminatus trilogy
• Hey, what if not the Illuminatus trilogy is made for nerds
  
• Robert A. Wilson - Schrödingers Cat
• About an author who's name is Robert A. Wilson and who writes a book named "Schrödingers Cat". Go on Strange Loop
  
• Edgar Allen Poe - The Gold Bug (Short Story)
• The classical crypto Story, one of the best crypto stories ever
  
• Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum
• Simpliy fantastic
  
• Isaac Asimov - The Complete Robot
• You didn't yet read the robot stories? - SHAME ON YOU!!!!
  
• Isaac Asimov - Complete Foundation
• Hal Varian (Google's Chief Economist) said that this book made him study Economics
  
• William Gibson - Neuromancer
• Mona Lisa Overdrive and other classics
  
• Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
• The most extensive book about Enigma and modern Cryptology, packed into a superb Thriller
  
• Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
•  Living in the Metaverse
• Neal Stephenson - Diamond Age
• Every story where there is a Nanoscientist in it, is a must read
• Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (Part 1 of the Baroque Circle)
• 17th Century England, featuring Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz,...
  
• Neal Stephenson - The Confusion (Part 2 of the Baroque Circle)
• The story continues...
  
• Neal Stephenson - The System of the World (Part 3 and final part of the Baroque Circle)
• ...and finally ends in that fantastic book
  
• Neal Stephenson - Anathem
• Futuristic, fantastic, incredible
  
• Simon Singh - The Code Book
• The history of Cryptology from the ancient to RSA and Quantums
  
• Douglas R. Hofstaedter - Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid
• S T R A N G E   L O O P S (That is Hofstaedters description)
  
• Ray Kurzweil - The Age of spiritual Machines
• The godfather of AI
  
• Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity is near
• The godfather of AI 2
  
• Fred Brooks - The mythical man-month
• Essays on the human side of Software Engineering - so true
  
• George Orwell - 1984
• Everybody needs some more paranoia
  
• A.K. Dewdney - The new Turing Omnibus
• The Basics of Computer Science
  
• Chris Anderson - Free
• Economics in the Information Age
  
• Chris Anderson - The long tail
• How is inifinite shelf-space, democratisation of tools of production, democratisation of tools of distribution and powerful search-tools changing the World?
  
• Geoffrey Moore - Crossing the Chasm
• When you are somehow in the SW-Industry - this is an absolute MUST READ to understand the industry
  
• Stephen Wolfram - A new kind of Science
• An absolute classic
  
• Paul Graham - Hackers and Painters - Big ideas from the Computer Age
• He made predictions several years ago that now turn out to be completely true - fantastic book
  
• Steven Levy - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Probably the most important book for hackers, geeks and other creatures of the night ever
  
• John Markoff - What the doormouse said
• Feed your head, feed your heeeaaaaaaddd
• Konrad Zuse - The Computer
• The invention of the holy grail
• Rolf Hochhut - Alan Turing
• Biography in story form of the NP - Complete man himself
• Philip K. Dick - Blade Runner (aka Do Androids dream of electric sheep)
• The classic - am I human or mechanic question that keeps my head asking my brain every day?? 
• Simon Singh - Fermats last Theorem
• The mathematical offering of Mr. Andrew Wiles
• David Kahn - The Codebreakers
• The overall crypto-classic-bible
• Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing: The Enigma
• How the Bomb cracked the riddle
• Robert Harris - Enigma
• The story behind the deciphering
• John Graham Cumming - The Geek Atlas
• Already booked your next holiday?
• Thomas Pynchon - Against the Day
• Pynchons books cannot be described using ordinary language - one has to invent words which have to be described using a meta-inventory of rules which needs further be described by a meta-meta-inventory until your head implodes.

Thats the initial draft of my List. PLEASE, if you read my post, add all your favourite geeky-nerdy-favourite books in the comment section.

Cheerio