books i remember reading that aren't necessarily in pda_db.txt already, 
in no particular order and not necessarily complete, just what i happen to remember

if there's no title, please help me figure out what it is!

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buckminster fuller:
operating manual for spaceship earth

orson scott card:
ender's game

*that book about empire of machines and biotech "flesh shaper" villages, 
wa-kinema, football stadium full of tree'd people (except their teeth), 
rumps of synthetic flesh cultured from her own skin patch template, axes 
at the meat market


zilpha keatley snyder:
and all between

*novella, physics grad student discovers secret to teleporting spherical chunk of space and 
matter to a new universe; ("class C ripper") steals half of a sorority and founds a 
mormon-esque civilization. generations later someone is concerned about weak ecology of 
invaded universes and resolves to bring no new flora or fauna
asimov:
bicentennial man/positronic man

bradbury:
golden apples of the sun
fahrenheit 451
martian chronicles

mark twain:
adventures of huckleberry finn
adventures of tom sawyer?

george orwell:
homage to catalonia



pratchett:
the light fantastic?

omar khayyam ravenhurst:
principia discordia

J.R.R.Tolkein:
the hobbit
*silvernonanonanon (well, some of it)
lord of the rings series
*some other stuff

lawrence watt evans:
the misenchanted sword
with a single spell
the unwilling warlord
the blood of a dragon
taking flight
the spell of the black dagger
night of madness
ithanalin's restoration
the spriggan mirror
the vondish ambassador
the unwelcome warlock



*short story about 7 minds fused in a gigantic nuclear tank, a few 
thousand years hence, set in a graveyard (analog) (cemetery world, clifford simak)

*earth as a graveyard planet (analog)



stephen king:
*gunslinger/dark tower trilogy
*hungry athletes hyper gubmint induced aggression

douglas adams:
hitchiker's guide trilogy (all four)
dirk gently's holistic detective agency
long dark teatime of the soul

neil gaiman:
american gods

ted chiang:
stories of your life
understand

greg egan:
diaspora
permutation city
luminous (short story collection)
schild's ladder
teranesia
transition dreams


charles stross:
accelerando
lobsters

cory doctorow:
someone comes to town someone leaves town
makers
themepunks
printcrime
down and out in the magic kingdom
a place so foreign
i row-boat
craphound
eastern standard tribe
little brother
when sysadmins ruled the earth
content
truncat
andas game
after the siege
neither e nor book
0wnz0red
dechlorinating the moderator


*nanotech infection of a space station; they forge a strategic alliance 
with one of the characters; large genengineered dude

robert charles wilson:
spin

robert anton wilson:
prometheus rising
schroedinger's cat
quantum psychology

the cthulhu mythos

jean auel:
clan of the cave bear
valley of horses
mammoth hunters
plains of passage


cs lewis:
*narnia and on and on



red mars
green mars?
blue mars?

arthur clarke
rendesvous with rama
rama II
the garden of rama
rama revealed?
childhood's end
a fall of moondust
a walk in the dark
profiles of the future
beyond the fall of night



robert a. heinlein:
cat who walked through walls
starship troopers
farnham's freehold
glory road
stranger in a strange land (unabridged)
lives of lazarus long
moon is a harsh mistress
time enough for love
space cadet
have space suit will travel
podkayne of mars
i will fear no evil
expanded universe
gulf
friday
all you zombies
by his bootstraps
number of the beast
orphans of the sky
tunnel in the sky
blowups happen
the long watch
the unpleasant profession of johnathan hoag
waldo & magic, inc
take back your government
farmer in the sky

eleanor cameron:
the wonderful flight to the mushroom planet

michael crichton:
aliens cause global warming
the terminal man
sphere
terminal man


*story about post-post-nuclear armageddon, battling mutants and 
giant crocodiles, kids from scientist priesthood discover buried 
teaching computers sealed with solder scattered around

*white fuzzy fungus infects human lung tissue in the exposed world; 
humanity has retreated to sealed artificial biospheres

herman hesse:
siddhartha

franz kafka:
*story collection

chaim potok:
the chosen
my name is asher lev

stephenie meyer:
twilight series



john mcloughlin:
the helix and the sword

theodore sturgeon:
skills of xanadu

james hogan:
voyage from yesteryear

iain banks:
use of weapons
consider phlebas
the player of games
excession
surface detail

a zillion dragonlance books

*book about the real beowulf, grendel slave roman empire

philip pullman:
golden compass
subtle knife
amber spyglass

homeward bound

where the red fern grows

*a zillion boxcar kids books



haruhi suzumiya (book 1 and part of 2?)

*warhammer 40k compilation
warhammer 40k the rogue trader

gulliver's travels

robert l forward:
saturn rukh
timemaster
starquake
dragon's egg
rocheworld
return to rocheworld
marooned on eden
rescued from paradise
camelot 30k
flight of the dragonfly
future magic
indistinguishable from magic

anne mccaffrey:
dragonriders of pern

joe haldeman:
hero (analog, part 1 of forever war)
1968
the forever war
you can never go back
forever free
none so blind
blood sisters
more than the sum of his parts
a mind of his own
trading futures


vinge:
deepness in the sky
rainbows end
synthetic serendipity
fast times at ridgemont high
the peace war
the ungoverned
marooned in realtime
fire upon the deep
children of the sky


neal stephenson:
cryptonomicon
diamond age
anathem
snow crash
jipi and the paranoid chip
in the beginning there was the command line


gibson:
neuromancer
dogfight

oliver butterworth:
the enormous egg

madeleine l'engle:
wrinkle in time
many waters
wind in the door
swiftly tilting planet


richard scarry:
cars and trucks and things that go

tess of the d'urbervilles

the great gatsby

gabriel garcia marquez:
100 years of solitude

borges:
the old man with wings on his back (in spanish)
i, borges
the library of babel
the aleph

p.k.dick:
autofac
the man in the high castle
valis
roog
the defenders
the divine invasion

walter millter:
a canticle for liebowitz

*guy who thinks he's a computer AI but somehow his cameras are allowed 
to gaze upon his unseeing unfeeling human body attached to various 
machinery (analog; alpha...?)

harlan ellison:
i have no mouth and i must scream? (summary unfamiliar)


niven and/or pournelle:
the puppeteers
ringworld
ringworld engineers
footfall
integral trees

harry turtledove:
worldwar in the balance



everything in 'battlefields beyond tomorrow'

vonnegut:
cat's cradle
*handicapper general

terry bisson:
bears discover fire

ursula leguin:
a wizard of earthsea

books i tried to read but immediately became too depressed/wearied to finish:
asimov foundation
leguin the dispossessed
herbert dune

agatha christie:
and then there were none

richard adams:
watership down

karl schroeder:
ventus
pirate sun
permanence

stephen baxter:
raft

peter watts:
blindsight

nancy kress:
beggars in spain (sleepless)

cj cherryh:
foreigner 1-7

octavia butler:
xenogenesis



ractor:
the policeman's beard is half constructed

sam harris:
the moral landscape

peter pearce:
structure in nature is a strategy for design

dave krieger:
the masque of the heat death

anita sands hernandez:
confessions of a bottom feeder

electricity from wind water sunshine

1800 movements

catch-22

machine man

the quiet girl

the teenage liberation handbook

the space shuttle

the next shuttle

fast food nation

pigs might fly

crimethinc

dino kraspedon:
my contact with ufos

gigamonkeys:
practical common lisp

richard hamming:
you and your research


l.e. modesitt:
the eternity artifact
gravity dreams


joan slonczewski:
the brain plague

r.u. sirius:
the cyberpunk fakebook

marshall brain:
manna

david brin:
naturalife
otherness
reality check
aficionado
stones of significance

richard lupoff:
sun's end

david zindell:
neverness

lafargue:
the right to be lazy

melissa scott:
dreamships

charles sheffield:
the nimrod hunt


ken macleod: 
the sky road

antoine de saint-euxpery:
the little prince

julian todd:
mine the primes

robert read:
how to be a programmer

viruscomix:
captain estar goes to heaven

william kent:
data and reality

peter hamilton:
misspent youth

richard feynman:
the meaning of it all
surely you're joking, mr feynman
physics lectures

building scientific apparatus

stephen wolfram:
a new kind of science

leo alting:
computerized manufacturing process planning systems
manufacturing process reference guide

james albus:
people's capitalism
the robot revolution

johann borenstein:
where am i

neil gershenfeld:
fab
things that think

tim ferriss:
the four hour workweek
the four hour body


paul graham:
hackers and painters

murray leinster:
a logic named joe

jef hawking:
on intelligence

eliezer yudkowsky:
creating friendly ai


robert reed:
starbuck
555
billion eyes

why:
poignant guide to ruby

donella meadows:
leverage points