Unofficial Media Lab Summer Reading List

Recently I came across the following list, compiled in an informal email survey by someone on the MIT Media Lab's mailing list. I wanted to share it with you, just so that you don't have to take my word that each of these books is excellent (ones I've read are in italics):

Recommended by More Than One Person:

• Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• Godel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Also Recommended:

• Stiff - Mary Roach
• Dispatches - Michael Herr
• The Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
• Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• Deschooling Society - Iván D. Illich
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
• Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
• Assassin's Apprentice trilogy - Robin Hobb
• His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
• Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling
• The Way Things Work - David Macaulay
• The World is Flat - Tom Freidman
• The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
• I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• Princes in Amber series - Robert Zelazny
• Count Zero - William Gibson
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• Babbit and Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
• The Beautiful and Damned - Scott Fitzgerald
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
• How to Lie with Statistics - Darrell Huff
• Betting on the Muse - Charles Bukowski
• Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
• Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Levy
• The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
• The Code Book - Simon Singh
• On Beauty - Zadie Smith
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  
• Blink - Malcom Gladwell
• Tipping Point - Malcom Gladwell
• Freakonomics - Steven Levitt
• Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• You Got Nothing Coming - Jimmy Lerner
• The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

What's on your summer reading list?