| 2010 |
Cyberabad Days | Ian McDonald |
2009 |
Master and Commander | Patrick O'Brien |
River of Gods | Ian McDonald |
Prolog Programming in Depth | Covington, Nute, & Vellino |
Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan |
The Age of Wonder | Richard Holmes |
Netherland | Joseph O'Neill |
Windpower Workshop | Hugh Piggott |
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science | Edwin Jaynes (author) and G. Larry Bretthorst (editor) |
God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy | George Cooper |
Of Beetles and Angels | Mawi Asgedom |
Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie |
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond |
Princeton Companion to Mathematics | Timothy Gowers, Editor |
Dhammapada | Glenn Wallis (translator, commentator) |
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary | Linus Torvalds and David Diamond |
| 2008 |
Hot, Flat and Crowded | Thomas Friedman |
Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication | Neil Gershenfeld |
Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins | Tom Perkins |
Anathem | Neal Stephenson |
Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh |
Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes | Mark Penn & E. Kinney Zalesne |
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things | William McDonough |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas | Matthew O'Brien & Danny Mollohan |
The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe | Donal O'Shea |
The Mathematician's Brain: A Personal Tour Through the Essentials of Mathematics and Some of the Great Minds Behind Them | David Ruelle |
The Immune System | Peter Parham |
Genomic Signal Processing | Ilya Shmulevich, Edward Dougherty |
| 2007 |
The High Performance Entrepreneur | Subroto Bagchi |
| The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad | Fareed Zakaria |
| The Blue Nowhere | Jeffrey Deaver |
| Super Crunchers: Why Thinking by Numbers is the New Way to be Smart | Ian Ayres |
| Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA... | Steve Coll |
| Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire | Chalmers Johnson |
| Spook Country | William Gibson |
| Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills | Paul Nahin |
| 2006 |
| Business Consulting: A Guide to How it Works and How to Make it Work | Gilbert Toppin and Fiona Czerniawska |
| Fischer Black And the Revolutionary Idea of Finance | Perry Mehrling |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Babbit | Sinclair Lewis |
| Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega | Gregory Chaitan |
| The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century | Thomas Friedman |
| Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant | Julian Havil |
| 2005 |
| An Introduction to Support Vector Machines | Cristianini, Shawe-Taylor |
| Introduction to Protein Structure and Function | Gregory Petsko |
| On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen | Harold McGee |
| System of the World | Neal Stephenson |
| 2004 |
| Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability | Peter Pesic |
| Practical Cryptography | Schneier, Ferguson |
| Fabric of the Universe | Brian Greene |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Farenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood |
| The Confusion | Neal Stephenson |
| Pattern Recognition | William Gibson |
| Quicksilver | Neal Stephenson |
| Advanced Object Oriented Analysis & Design Using UML | James J. Odell |
| Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML | Doug Rosenberg |
| Linked | Albert-Laszlo Barabasi |
| 2003 |
| Building Embedded Linux Systems | Karim Yaghmour |
| Prime Obsession | John Derbyshire |
| Microbiology of the Cell, 4th Ed. | Bruce Alberts et al. |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson |
| Virtual Light | William Gibson |
| Idoru | William Gibson |
| The Millenium Problems | Keith Devlin |
| Five More Golden Rules | John Casti |
| Five Golden Rules | John Casti |
| Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson |
| All Tomorrow's Parties | William Gibson |
| Where Mathematics Comes From | George Lakoff |
| 802.11 Security | Potter & Fleck |
| The Unified Modeling Language User's Guide | Booch, et al |
| 2002 |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| lots of FAA Private Pilot license books
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| 2001 |
| Concurrent Programming in Java, 2nd Ed. | Doug Lea |
| Inside the Java2 Platform Security | Li Gong |
| The Big U | Neal Stephenson |
| Neither East Nor West | Christiane Bird |
| Secrets & Lies | Bruce Schneier |
| The Russia House | John LeCarre |
| Investigations | Stuart Kauffman |
| An Unquiet Mind | Kay Redfield Jamison |
| Abduction | Robin Cook |
| On Laughter and Forgetting | Milan Kundera |
| 2000 |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| Pattern Hatching | John Vlissides |
| Sons of Profits | William Speidel |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson |
| Zodiac | Neal Stephenson |
| Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson |
| An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms | Melanie Michell |
| E : The Story of a Number | Eli Maor
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| 1999 |
| Emergence : From Chaos to Order | John Holland |
| The World According to Wavelets | Barbara Burke Hubbard
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| The End of Certainty | Ilya Prigogine
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| The Astonishing Hypothesis | Francis Crick |
| Dune: House Atreides | Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson |
| Faster | James Gleick |
| Mathematical Encounters of the 2nd Kind | Philip Davis |
| The Visionary Position | Fred Moody |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| Night of January 16th | Ayn Rand |
| Smilla's Sense of Snow | Peter Hoeg |
| Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity | John Holland |
| Firewalls and Internet Security | William R. Cheswick & Steven M. Bellovin |
| Applying UML and Patterns | Craig Larman |
| Learning the Bash Shell | Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt |
| Pthreads Programming | Nichols, Buttlar, and Farrell |
| 1998 |
| For the New Intellectual | Ayn Rand |
| Inside Windows NT 2nd Edition | David Solomon |
| Inside Windows NT | Helen Custer |
| PCI System Architecture | Tom Shanley & Don Anderson |
| 1997 |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| Undaunted Courage | Stephen Ambrose |
| Overdrive: Bill Gates & the Race to Control Cyberspace | James Wallace |
| At Home in the Universe | Stuart Kauffman |
| Inside the C++ Object Model | Stanley Lippman |
| Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software | Erich Gamma |
| The Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual | Rikk Carey and Gavin Bell |
| TCP/IP Blueprints | Burk/ Bligh/ and Lee |
| 1996 |
| Windows NT Device Driver Book | Art Baker |
| C++ Programmers' Guide to STL | Mark Nelson |
| The Road Ahead | Bill Gates |
| Code Complete | Steve McConnell |
| Rapid Development | Steve McConnell |
| Dynamics of Software Development | Jim McCarthy |
| Debugging the Development Process | Steve Maguire |
| Writing Solid Code | Steve Maguire |
| 1995 |
| Anthem | Ayn Rand |
| We the Living | Ayn Rand |
| The 21st Century Jet | Karl Sabbagh |
| Design and Evolution of C++ | Bjarne Stroustrup |
| Thinking in C++ | Bruce Eckel |
| Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies | Douglas Hofstadter |
| Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand |
| Powershift | Alvin Toffler |
| Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad |
| 1994 |
| Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| Nuremberg Diary | Gustave M. Gilbert |
| A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsen |
| Cancer Ward | Alexander Solzhenitsen |
| Gulag Archipelago I & II | Alexander Solzhenitsen |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig |
| Inside the Third Reich | Albert Speer |
| Eudaemonic Pie | Thomas A. Bass |
| Out of Control: The New Biolog of Machines... | Kevin Kelly |
| Closing Time | Joseph Heller |
| Coming Plague | Laurie Garrett |
| In the Wake of Chaos | Stephen Kellert |
| What I can remember pre-'93 |
| Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Chapterhouse: Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Children of Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Dune Messiah | Frank Herbert |
| God Emperor of Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Heretics of Dune | Frank Herbert |
| Thus Spoke Zarathstra | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Ecce Homo : How One Becomes What One Is | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Human All Too Human | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| Portable Nietzsche | Friedrich Nietzsche & Walter Kaufmann
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| Red Dragon | Thomas Harris |
| Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevski |
| Fathers and Sons | Turgenev |
| Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman | Richard Feynman |
| What Do You Care What Other People Think | Richard Feynman |
| God and the New Physics | Paul Davies |
| The Mathematical Experience | Phillip Davis & Reuben Hersch |
| Turbulent Mirror | Briggs & Peat |
| Mathematics: The New Golden Age | Keith Devlin |
| The Tao of Physics | Fritjof Capra |
| Dancing Wu Li Masters | Gary Zukov |
| Does God Place Dice | Ian Stewart |
| Mathematics and the Unexpected | Ivars Ekeland |
| Archimedes Revenge | Paul Hoffman |
| Chaos | James Gleick |
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller |
| Walden Two | BF Skinner |
| Exploring Complexity | Gregoire Nicolas & Ilya Prigogine |
| Order Out of Chaos | Isabelle Stengers & Ilya Prigogine |
| Complexity | Mitchel Waldrop |
| Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos | Roger Lewlyn |
| Media Lab | Steward Brand |
| Lost Horizons | Joseph Heller |
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