User:Lar/Wikipedian Bookshelf

 The Wikipedian Bookshelf

The Wikipedian Bookshelf aims to provide a collection of books that fellow Wikipedians read, enjoy, or think are important to culture and history. Consider yourself the librarian for the day, and construct the ultimate bookshelf, or just tell us what you like to read.

This page has been blatantly plagiarised from Phaedriel's fantastic Soundtrack of Wikipedians page, many thanks for the great idea. Please add your favourite books here and share your literary gems. Of course, anyone can change their selection at any time, since we all evolve from day to day, and our book loves evolve with us. ++Lar: t/c 13:52, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

A few suggestions

• Please limit your list to no more than 35 - 50 entries! You may of course post as many as you want, but other people will be unlikely to go through a list of 100 or more books.
• List your favorites, and those you feel are important. Please don't comment on others' selections on this page (or your own selection), but please do so on the talk page.
• You may or not want to post an image, either your pic or whatever you want to present yourself - that's entirely up to you (no fair use images please!)
• Please add yourself following alphabetic order. The easiest way to add your entry is to copy and paste an existing one, and then replacing the proper information with your own. Don't be afraid to mess up! This is just for fun - if you malformed your entry, somebody else will fix it later for you, don't worry.
• If you have any doubts and/or suggestions, please contact me at my talk page. Have fun! :)

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  Lar

Lar	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Startide Rising by David Brin

  Buchanan-Hermit

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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson Rose Madder by Stephen King Pet Sematary by Stephen King The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney Whatever Happened to Janie? by Caroline B. Cooney

  Cactus.man

Cactus.man

The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men Kidnapped Down and Out in Paris and London Nineteen Eighty-Four Catch-22 Lord of the Flies Heart of Darkness Brave New World Fahrenheit 451 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy A Brief History of Time

Smiley's People The Russia House The Onion Field The Choirboys Gorky Park The Falls High Fidelity Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Nature's End (by Whitley Strieber) The End of Eternity Dune The Naked Ape

  DavidCane

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell The Jungle - Upton Sinclair The Code of the Woosters - P. G. Wodehouse The Difference Engine - William Gibson/Bruce Sterling A Dance to the Music of Time - Anthony Powell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Time Machine - H. G. Wells The Shape of Things to Come - H. G. Wells Brighton Rock - Graham Greene Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Adventures in the Screen Trade - William Goldman

Mars trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson Galactic Milieu Series - Julian May Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Scoop - Evelyn Waugh The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad Wilt - Tom Sharpe Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

  Dorftrottel

I'm not so much into books.

I watch Bill O'Reilly a lot.

  Dfrg.msc

On Paper Anything by my main man, Terry Pratchett Tom Clancy: Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit Eoin Colfer: Artemis Fowl (series) Eoin Colfer: The Supernaturalist Anthony Horowitz: Ark Angel How to Rule the World: Andre De Guillaume The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells Commodore 1541 Operation Manual Sun-Tzu The Art of War PCPP Off Paper Street signs Sky writing Will you marry me? What? Alphabet Spaghetti Number plates Messages in the Sand Graffiti

  Draicone

The Prometheus Deception Second Foundation The Amulet of Samarkand Northern Lights Mao's Last Dancer (by Li Cunxin) The Girl Most Likely (by Rebecca Sparrow) The Bourne Identity

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mostly Harmless 366 Readings from Buddhism What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School Managing at the top Airborne Boy (by Roald Dahl)

  Jersey Devil

Read Failed States-Noam Chomsky Hegemony or Survival-Noam Chomsky Animal Farm-George Orwell Homage to Catalonia-George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four-George Orwell The Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith Calculus: Early Trancendentals-James Stewart (2/3 read) Slaughterhouse-Five-Kurt Vonnegut Weavers of Revolution-Peter Winn Open Veins of Latin America-Eduardo Galeano Currently Reading No One Writes to the Colonel-Gabriel García Márquez To Read List General Theory of Employment Interest and Money-John Maynard Keynes A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture-Marguerite Feitlowitz The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy-Marifeli P'erez-Stable On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation-David Ricardo

  Kyoko

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Villette by Charlotte Brontë Tam Lin by Pamela Dean Poetry by Emily Dickinson Middlemarch by George Eliot Moonheart by Charles de Lint Yarrow by Charles de Lint Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Poetry by Émile Nelligan The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe Illuminations (poems) by Arthur Rimbaud The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lkjhgfdsa

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Animorphs Baseball trivia books, especially by the Lyons brothers the Bible The Eight Ender's Game Godel, Escher, Bach Harry Potter Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Homecoming Saga works of Martin Gardner Redwall works of Raymond Smullyan

  OldManRivers

OldManRivers

The Wretched of the Earth We Say No Pedagogy of the Oppressed Our Word is Our Weapon Instead of Education Dune Che: A Revolutionary Life Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Brave New World 1984

  Owen

Fiction Amerika The Bell Jar The Castle Catch-22 Company The Foundation Series Franny and Zooey The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series House of Leaves Jennifer Government The Jungle Kiss Kiss Lolita The Master and Margarita Michael Kohlhaas The Monkey Wrench Gang One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Plague The Stranger

Survivor Syrup Ubu Roi V for Vendetta The Word for World is Forest "The Burrow" "In the Penal Colony" Non-fiction A People's History of the United States Amérique Anarchism & Other Essays Asylums Desert Solitaire Down the River Ecofeminism The Feminist Case Against Bureaucracy Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Last Chance to See The Politics of Individualism The Second Sex

  RhinoMind

Else Roesdahl: Vikingernes Verden, Gyldendal (2012) (in Danish). The 8th and newest edition of her 1987 book. She is a former professor of Archaeology and this book gives a superb introduction and overview. The 7th edition has been translated into English and titled "The Vikings", which I haven't read. Rudolf Broby Johansen: Kunstvejviser over Danmark (Vol. 1-15), Hamlet (1978-86) (in Danish) A 15 volume art and history guide to Denmark. Richly illustrated, covering all local regions of the country and written by one of the most influential and controversial art mediators in Danish history.

  Smurrayinchester

A Series of Unfortunate Events Alex Rider series Animal Farm Coping With Cash Coping With The Family Coping With Teachers Flatland Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Murderous Maths Nineteen Eighty-Four

  Springeragh

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These are not in alphabetical order! (Thank you, you may now read my list) C. D. Baker The List A Journey of Souls: Crusade of Tears Quest of Hope Pilgrims of Promise Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Hard Times, for These Times David Copperfield J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King The Silmarillion

  Steinbach

These are just a few of the books I like, some of which actually are on my nightstand right now. Thomas Brussig, Helden wie wir Anton Chekhov, Chayka - Dyadya Vanya - Tri Sestry - Vishnevyy Sad Louis Couperus, Eline Vere Charles Dickens, David Copperfield James Joyce, Finnegans Wake Ulrich Plenzdorf, Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. Annie M. G. Schmidt, Jip en Janneke Joost van den Vondel, Lucifer - Adam in ballingschap - Noah

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It's anarchy!

Fiction A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre Animorphs series, K. A. Applegate Brave New World, Aldous Huxley Candide, Voltaire Catch-22, Joseph Heller Discworld series, Terry Pratchett Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick Ender's Game series, Orson Scott Card Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes Foundation series, Isaac Asimov Frankenstein, Mary Shelley Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Leo Tolstoy The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells Logan's Run, William F. Nolan The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, Willuam Gibson Nightfall, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle Ringworld, Larry Niven The Running Man, Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) The Secret of the League, Ernest Bramah (for ironic reasons) The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner The Sleeper Awakes, H. G. Wells Swastika Night, Katharine Burdekin (as Murray Constantine) The Time Machine, H. G. Wells To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee Non-fiction A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift Anarchism & Other Essays, Emma Goldman The Darwin Awards, Wendy Northcutt Days of War, Nights of Love, CrimethInc. L'existentialisme est un humanisme, Jean-Paul Sartre Metamagical Themas, Douglas R. Hofstadter Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Peter Kropotkin Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook, CrimethInc. The Soul of Man under Socialism, Oscar Wilde Voices of a People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

The Halo

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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht The Empty Space by Peter Brook A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley Ulysses by James Joyce Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller The Crucible by Arthur Miller V for Vendetta by Alan Moore Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre Hamlet by William Shakespeare Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare The Tempest by William Shakespeare Gunsmith Cats by Kenichi Sonoda The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

  The Ungovernable Force

Oooh, scary... Oooh, scary...

Fiction A Midsummer Night's Dream Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Black Cat Brave New World Breakfast of Champions The Cask of Amontillado The Color Purple Empire of the Ants (by Bernard Werber, not the H. G. Wells short story) Fahrenheit 451 The Glass Menagerie God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian The Grapes of Wrath Harry Potter series The Illustrated Man Ishmael Nineteen Eighty-Four (wait, does that really go in the fiction section?) The Lorax Lord of the Flies

Macbeth The Martian Chronicles Parable of the Sower (Sci-fi story by Octavia Butler, not the Biblical parable) Slaughterhouse-Five The Tell-Tale Heart The Time Machine To Kill a Mockingbird Non-fiction and Essays A Modest Proposal Anarchism & Other Essays Days of War, Nights of Love Evasion Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America Off the Map Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook Voices of a People's History of the United States

  Webdinger ^†

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card Fire Bringer, David Clement-Davies The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers The House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov Mémoires, Hector Berlioz The Trial, Franz Kafka The Twenty-One Balloons, William Pène du Bois Watership Down, Richard Adams

  William Thweatt

"Ancient" version of the MacThomas Tartan

Non-Fiction The Journal of Benjamin Randall Developing the Leaders Around You - John C. Maxwell From Old English to Standard English - Dennis Freeborn The Story of English - Robert McCrum, et al. Running with the Giants - John C. Maxwell A Calendar of Wisdom - Tolstoy Republic - Plato De re publica - Cicero The City of God - Augustine of Hippo Politics - Aristotle Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Bias - Bernard Goldberg To Gettysburg and Beyond - Michael Golay A National Party No More - Zell Miller Racing to Win - Joe Gibbs Builders of England's Glory - Godfrey Turton Personal Work - R. A. Torrey The Battle of Gettysburg - Haskell The Civil War - Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns

Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History - Alistair Moffat A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides - Samuel Johnson & James Boswell Flodden 1513: Scotland's greatest defeat - John Sadler The Scottish Highlands: A Contested Country/Gaidhealtachd Alba: Tir fo Dheasbad - James Hunter The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History - Norman Owen & David Chandler International Relations in Southeast Asia: The Struggle for Autonomy - Donald Wetherbee Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia - Dougald J.W. O'Reilly Fiction The Book of Lost Tales - J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King Star Trek TNG: War Drums - John Vornholt Star Trek TNG: Here There Be Dragons - John Peel Star Trek TNG: The Romulan Prize - Simon Hawke Star Trek DS9: Antimatter - John Vornholt Star Trek TNG: Masks - John Vornholt Macbeth William Shakespeare Beowolf

  Wooyi

Fiction Heaven Eyes - David Almond Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson Catalyst - Laurie Halse Anderson Miracle At Philadelphia - Catherine Drinker Bowen The Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon Paint it Black - Janet Fitch The Day They Came to Arrest the Book - Nat Hentoff Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Gammage Cup - Carol Kendall To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov The Violent Bear It Away - Flannery O'Connor Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Nonfiction A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau

  Abe Lincoln

Abe Lincoln

Fiction Immortality and the other novels and essays - Milan Kundera Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Castle - Franz Kafka