This is a collection of some of the books that I own - in some way they've had an effect on me, be it inspirational, educational or simply making me feel things.
Many of the authors I own multiple books of, but for simplicities sake I've kept the first book of theirs that I read.


  • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Tender is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
  • The Place of Dead Roads - William S. Burroughs
  • The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
  • What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe
  • House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
  • A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
  • Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • The Gunslinger - Stephen King
  • When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut
  • Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
  • The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
  • The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre
  • A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
  • Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
  • The Fairy Gunmother - Daniel Pennac
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
  • Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
  • Mort - Terry Pratchett
  • The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
  • Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  • Perfume - Patrick Süskind
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
  • Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Butter - Asako Yuzuki
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  • Prison - Carl Cattermole
  • Invisible Women - Caroline Criado Perez
  • Revolting Prostitutes - Juno Mac & Molly Smith
  • Turn the Ship Around - David Marquet
  • The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
  • The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
  • Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans
  • Design Patterns - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
  • The Pragmatic Programmer - Andy Hunt & Dave Thomas
  • Code Complete - Steve McConnell
  • A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
  • Code - Charles Petzold
  • Inside the Machine - Jon Stokes
  • Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson
  • Watchmen - Alan Moore