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1984
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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4.38 avg rating — 335,852 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Lord of the Rings
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Watchmen
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4.39 avg rating — 589,221 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 982,840 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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Contact
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,880 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 559,926 ratings
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Starship Troopers
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4.01 avg rating — 243,254 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 556,633 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 372,775 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 115,932 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 501,901 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,036,062 ratings
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Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 127,662 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Are
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4.25 avg rating — 1,047,928 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Dune (Dune #1)
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The Illustrated Man
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4.13 avg rating — 106,171 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 357,484 ratings
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 585,791 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,792,674 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 332,330 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 343,694 ratings
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
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3.87 avg rating — 9,974 ratings
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 94,129 ratings
score: 190,
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 14,924 ratings
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,446 ratings
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The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10)
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4.31 avg rating — 26,913 ratings
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Microserfs
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Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 24,520 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 51,932 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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4.28 avg rating — 15,448 ratings
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The Fountainhead
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3.89 avg rating — 335,051 ratings
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If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
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3.95 avg rating — 18,731 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 404,151 ratings
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His Dark Materials (His Dark Materials, #1-3)
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4.29 avg rating — 167,209 ratings
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
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Brent Schlender (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 17,005 ratings
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The Gates (Samuel Johnson, #1)
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John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 13,559 ratings
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 290,099 ratings
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The Sword of Shannara (The Original Shannara Trilogy, #1)
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Terry Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 100,847 ratings
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Shards of a Broken Crown (The Serpentwar Saga, #4)
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4.06 avg rating — 23,418 ratings
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Rage of a Demon King (The Serpentwar Saga, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 27,423 ratings
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Rise of a Merchant Prince (The Serpentwar Saga, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 30,755 ratings
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Shadow of a Dark Queen (The Serpentwar Saga, #1)
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Magician: Master (The Riftwar Saga, #2)
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Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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4.12 avg rating — 129,991 ratings
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Anathem
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 74,892 ratings
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The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
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3.82 avg rating — 3,921 ratings
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 5,089 ratings
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The City & the City
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 77,036 ratings
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Little, Big
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The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
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3.86 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 60,645 ratings
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Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
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Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals (Phaedrus, #2)
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3.84 avg rating — 7,393 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 242,764 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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1632
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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The Road Ahead
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Bill Gates (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 4,341 ratings
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The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time
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Show-stopper!: Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
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Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
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Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 314 ratings
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
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Shadows over Innsmouth (Shadows Over Innsmouth #1)
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4.42 avg rating — 14,218 ratings
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
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The Soul of a New Machine
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,906 ratings
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Jun 21, 2012 10:19PM
I don't know how "Where the Wild Things Are" is geeky. Great, but not geeky, in my opinion :)
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I just copied the list. Don't kill the messenger. :-)This guy suggested it: http://www.techrepublic.com/members/p...
Oh, I know. I read the list description, it was just my added commentary to it :)
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