2005-2006

I didn't update this for a while... books I can think of include:

• The Vinyl Cafe series by Stuart Mc Lean - gentle, humorous books of short stories based on a Canadian Radio Series
• To my shame... just about everything that Dan Brown has written. I know they're not good, but they are "page turners"
• All the Rebus books by Ian Rankin
• About half of the Sherlock Holmes books By Conan Doyle
• Various Bill Bryson books

2002

Off the top of my head (quite a lot missing):

Fiction

• Jeeves in the Spring - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
• Dog - John Hegley
• Belphagor - Niccolo Machiavelli
• Tales Of Super Natural Terror - Guy De Maupassant (selected by Arnold Kellett)
• The Sleeper Awakes - Herbert George Wells
• Very Good Jeeves, Heavy Weather - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Non Fiction

• Everyday Life In Ancient Mesopotamia
• The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
• The Code Book
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• The Consolations of Philosophy -- Alain De Botton
• Lots of copies of New Scientist

Winter 2001/2

Non Fiction

• Books I've read recently include the Pragmatic Programmer, The Code Book,

Fermats Last Theorem and Crypto Secrecy And Privacy In The New Code War.

Fiction

• Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (Fantastic), The Man Upstairs (Short Stories)
• Herbert George Wells - Selected Short Stories, The Time Machine, The First Men In The Moon
• Douglas Adams - The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Life The Universe And Everything, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Mostly Harmless, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
• Meetings With Remarkable Trees - Thomas Pakenham
• This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
• The Language Of The Genes - Steve Jones

Articles

Fred Nickols has written some interesting articles - I initially found the one on Prototyping, but the others sound interesting too - http://home.att.net/~nickols/articles.htm

Other Favourites

Other favourites include Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hoffstadter, Extreme Programming Explained and Refactoring.