Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks - Dr. Seuss

This is a list of books I own. They are better organised over on Goodreads, but having a plain list on a single page is nice. Books that have been an influence, are marked in bold. Ones with an ‘e’ are electronic, not so easily lent. At the end is a subset of books I own related to my work in software and here due to the quality of writing.

I love books - when I was quite young it was some miles to the library and back again; each book brought back to read was a joy. Today one can carry more books on a device as were in that library. Reading is part of what makes us human; I doubt one can have read enough books or have enough books to read.

Non-Fiction

Fiction

  • Classics of the Macabre, Daphne du Maurier

  • Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy

  • The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

  • Enemy of All Mankind, Steven Johnson [e]

  • Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir [e]

  • Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges

  • Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

  • The Lost World, Michael Crichton

  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

  • V2, Robert Harris

  • Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

  • The Stranger, Albert Camus

  • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke [e]

  • Full Throttle, Joe Hill [e]

  • Inhibitor Phase, Alastair Reynolds [e]

  • Holly, Stephen King [e]

  • Fairy Tale, Stephen King [e]

  • Troy, Stephen Fry

  • Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie

  • The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury

  • Down Cemetery Road, Mick Herron [e]

  • Slow Horses, Mick Herron [e]

  • Slough House, Mick Herron [e]

  • Joe Country, Mick Herron [e]

  • London Rules, Mick Herron [e]

  • Bad Actors, Mick Herron [e]

  • Spook Street, Mick Herron [e]

  • Real Tigers, Mick Herron [e]

  • Dead Lions, Mick Herron [e]

  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

  • Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

  • Exhalation, Ted Chiang

  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

  • Red Square, Martin Cruz Smith [e]

  • The Possession, Michael Rutger [e]

  • The Institute, Stephen King [e]

  • The Testaments, Margaret Atwood

  • Mythos, Stephen Fry [e]

  • Good Omens, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

  • The Anomaly, Michael Rutger [e]

  • A Book of Bones, John Connolly [e]

  • Dissolution, C. J. Sansom [e]

  • Tiamat's Wrath, James S. A. Corey [e]

  • Deeper, Jeff Long [e]

  • The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie

  • City of Ghosts, Victoria Schwab

  • The ABC Murders, Agatha Christie

  • The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy

  • Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel

  • Dracul, Dacre Stoker [e]

  • Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

  • The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco [e]

  • Wool, Hugh Howey [e]

  • Shift, Hugh Howey [e]

  • Dust, Hugh Howey [e]

  • Books of Blood 1-3, Clive Barker [e]

  • Animal Farm, George Orwell

  • The Big Sleep and Other Novels, Raymond Chandler

  • Good Omens, Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett [e]

  • The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

  • The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

  • Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd

  • The Princess Bride, William Goldman

  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino

  • Picture This, Joseph Heller

  • The Táin, Thomas Kinsella

  • Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne

  • The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Ulysses, James Joyce

  • The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien

  • At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien

  • The Big Knockover, Dashiell Hammett

  • The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

  • The Trial, Franz Kafka

  • The Castle, Franz Kafka

  • The Periodic Table, Primo Levi

  • The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

  • Hard Times, Charles Dickens

  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

  • A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, Charles Dickens

  • Prey, Michael Crichton

  • Next, Michael Crichton

  • State of Fear, Michael Crichton

  • Eaters of The Dead, Michael Crichton

  • Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton

  • Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane

  • The Given Day, Dennis Lehane

  • Operation Red Jericho, Joshua Mowll

  • The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman

  • The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman

  • The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman

  • Count Karlstein, Philip Pullman

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

  • Lila, Robert M. Pirsig

  • Dracula, Bram Stoker

  • Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  • I Am Legend, Richard Matheson

  • Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke

  • Dune, Frank Herbert [e]

  • House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

  • The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl

  • The Ruins, Scott B. Smith

  • A Simple Plan, Scott B. Smith

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake

  • Matilda, Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake

  • The BFG, Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake

  • The Witches, Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake

  • Coraline, Neil Gaiman

  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller

  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick

  • Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

  • The Road, Cormac McCarthy

  • No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

  • Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan

  • Ready Player One, Ernest Cline [e]

  • 1984, George Orwell

  • Tales Of Mystery & Imagination, Illustrated By Arthur Rackham, Edgar Allan Poe

  • Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe [e]

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

  • Macbeth, William Shakespeare

  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare

  • Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Caliban's War, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Abaddon's Gate, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Cibola Burn, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Nemesis Games, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Babylon's Ashes, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Persepolis Rising, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Leviathan Falls, James S.A. Corey [e]

  • Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer [e]

  • Authority, Jeff VanderMeer [e]

  • Acceptance, Jeff VanderMeer [e]

  • The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

  • Provenance, Ann Leckie [e]

  • The Strain, Guillermo del Toro

  • The Fall, Guillermo del Toro

  • The Night Eternal, Guillermo del Toro

  • Necroscope, Brian Lumley

  • New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson [e]

  • Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

  • American Gods, Neil Gaiman

  • Marvel 1602, Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert

  • Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore & Brian Bolland

  • Plastic Forks, Ted McKeever

  • The Walking Dead, Book One, Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore & Charlie Adlard

  • Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls, Michael Carroll

  • Judge Dredd: Origins, John Wagner, Kevin Walker & Carlos Ezquerra

  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore

  • The Peripheral, William Gibson [e]

  • Neuromancer, William Gibson [e]

  • Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

  • The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann

  • An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears

  • Mind Prey, John Sandford

  • Red Dragon, Thomas Harris

  • The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris

  • Hannibal, Thomas Harris

  • The Descent, Jeff Long

  • Year Zero, Jeff Long

  • Thunder God, Paul Watkins

  • Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith

  • One Of Us, Michael Marshall Smith

  • Spares, Michael Marshall Smith

  • The Straw Men, Michael Marshall

  • Blood of Angels, Michael Marshall

  • The Intruders, Michael Marshall

  • The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

  • The Martian, Andy Weir [e]

  • Artemis, Andy Weir [e]

  • Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie [e]

  • 11.22.63, Stephen King [e]

  • Carrie, Stephen King

  • Cell, Stephen King

  • Christine, Stephen King

  • Danse Macabre, Stephen King

  • The Dead Zone, Stephen King

  • Desperation, Stephen King [e]

  • Different Seasons, Stephen King

  • Doctor Sleep, Stephen King [e]

  • Everything's Eventual, Stephen King

  • Four Past Midnight, Stephen King

  • Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King

  • Misery, Stephen King

  • The Mist, Stephen King

  • Night Shift, Stephen King

  • Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King

  • Needful Things, Stephen King

  • The Outsider, Stephen King [e]

  • Pet Sematary, Stephen King

  • The Stand, Stephen King

  • 'Salem's Lot, Stephen King

  • The Shining, Stephen King

  • Skeleton Crew, Stephen King

  • The Talisman, Stephen King

  • The Tommyknockers, Stephen King

  • Under the Dome, Stephen King

  • Mr. Mercedes, Stephen King [e]

  • Finders Keepers, Stephen King [e]

  • End of Watch, Stephen King [e]

  • The Gunslinger, Stephen King [e]

  • The Waste Lands, Stephen King [e]

  • The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King [e]

  • Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons

  • Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist

  • Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist

  • Harbor, John Ajvide Lindqvist

  • The Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi [e]

  • The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

  • Deception Point, Dan Brown

  • The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown

  • Inferno, Dan Brown [e]

  • Baudolino, Umberto Eco [e]

  • Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card [e]

  • The Ritual, Adam Nevill [e]

  • Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks

  • The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks

  • The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld

  • The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney

  • World War Z, Max Brooks

  • Drood, Dan Simmons

  • The Passage, Justin Cronin

  • The Twelve, Justin Cronin [e]

  • Every Dead Thing, John Connolly

  • Dark Hollow, John Connolly

  • The Killing Kind, John Connolly

  • The White Road, John Connolly

  • The Black Angel, John Connolly

  • The Unquiet, John Connolly

  • The Reapers, John Connolly

  • The Lovers, John Connolly

  • The Whisperers, John Connolly

  • The Wrath of Angels, John Connolly [e]

  • The Wolf in Winter, John Connolly [e]

  • A Song of Shadows, John Connolly [e]

  • A Time of Torment, John Connolly [e]

  • A Game of Ghosts, John Connolly [e]

  • The Woman in the Woods, John Connolly [e]

  • Bad Men, John Connolly

  • The Gates, John Connolly

  • Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

  • Halting State, Charles Stross

  • The Apocalypse Codex, Charles Stross [e]

  • The Fireman, Joe Hill [e]

  • NOS4A2, Joe Hill [e]

  • Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith

  • Wolves Eat Dogs, Martin Cruz Smith

  • Three Stations, Martin Cruz Smith

  • Rose, Martin Cruz Smith

  • Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson [e]

  • Reamde, Neal Stephenson

  • Seveneves, Neal Stephenson [e]

  • Anathem, Neal Stephenson

  • The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson

  • Three Seconds, Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström

  • The Innocent, Harlan Coben

  • Man Gone Down, Michael Thomas

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt

  • The Bone People, Keri Hulme

  • The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

Programming & Computer Science

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs JavaScript Edition, Harold Abelson

  • Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport, Dahlia Malkhi (editor), Leslie Lamport

  • Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers, David L. Paras

  • Crafting Interpreters, Bob Nystrom

  • Bandit Algorithms, John Myles White

  • Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, Peter Norvig

  • On Lisp, Paul Graham

  • Programming Pearls, Jon L. Bentley

  • Dive Into Python, Mark Pilgri

  • Speech and Language Processing, Dan Jurafsky

  • Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell

  • Beep, Marshall T. Rose

  • Expert C Programming, Peter van der Linden

  • A Little Java, a Few Patterns, Matthias Felleisen

  • The Little Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman

  • The Practice of Programming, Brian W. Kernighan

  • The Algorithm Design Manual, Steve S. Skiena

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Harold Abelson

  • The C Programming Language, Brian W. Kernighan

  • Code Complete, Steve McConnell

  • Code, Charles Petzold