“Snow Crash,” Neal Stephenson
“Neuromancer,” William Gibson
“I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov
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“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Douglas Adams
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Philip K. Dick
“Ender’s Game,” Orson Scott Card
“The Time Machine,” H.G. Wells
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“Microserfs,” Doug Coupland
“Flatland,” Edwin A. Abbott
“1984,” George Orwell
“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley
“iCon,” Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon
“iWoz,” Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
“Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire,” Jim Erickson
“The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,” Edward Tufte
“Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability,” Steve Krug
“The Non-Designer’s Design Book,” Robin Williams
“Tog on Interface,” Bruce Tognazzini
“User Interface Design for Programmers,” Joel Spolsky
“Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made,” Andy Hertzfeld
“The Soul of a New Machine,” Tracy Kidder
“Where Wizards Stay Up Late,” Hafner and Lyon
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“Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age,” Michael A. Hiltzik
“The Cuckoo’s Egg,” Cliff Stoll
“The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness,” Steven Levy
“Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,” Dava Sobel
“The Code Book,” Simon Singh
“Cryptonomicon,” Neal Stephenson
“Crypto,” Steven Levy
“The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master,” Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
“Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction,” Steve McConnell
“Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software,” Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides
“Dreaming in Code,” Scott Rosenberg
“The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering,” Frederick P. Brooks
“Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think,” Andy Oram
“Cathedral and the Bazaar,” Eric S. Raymond
“The Long Tail,” Chris Anderson
“The Future of Ideas,” Lawrence Lessig
“On Intelligence,” Jeff Hawkins
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“In the Beginning was the Command Line,” Neal Stephenson
“Code: Version 2.0,” Lawrence Lessig
“The Wisdom of Crowds,” James Surowiecki
“The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology,” Ray Kurzweil
“Gödel, Escher, Bach,” Douglas Hofstadter
“Gut Feelings,” Gerd Gigerenzer
“A Brief History of Time,” Stephen Hawking
“Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age,” Paul Graham
“The Evolution of Useful Things,” Henry Petroski
“Getting Things Done,” David Allen
“Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better,” Gina Trapani
“Flatland” – Available lots of places, since it’s now public domain. Here’s one of the better locations.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/flatland/
“Revolution in The Valley” – Began its life on folklore.org, where it continues to live on.
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Revolution_in_the_Valley.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date
“In the Beginning Was the Command Line” – Stephenson’s essay’s widely available online, and continues to live at the site for one of his books.
http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
“Code: Version 2.0” – Was written and edited in wiki format and is available under a Creative Commons license at codev2.cc.
http://codev2.cc/
“The Future of Ideas” – The other Lessig book on our list is similarly available under a Creative Commons license.
http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/
“The Cathedral and the Bazaar” – Raymond’s essay on open source and hacker culture can be found on catb.org.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
I’m not a geek, but I have read 6 on the list.