The Guardian's 20 "Geek" Novels

[mikekn]

The Guardian's Top Twenty Geek Novels.
Bold what you've read and liked, strike what you've read and disliked, italicize what you want to read.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K. Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett (mixed reaction, liked the world but not the main character)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland (heard about it - no interest)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham (looked it up - no interest)

Comments

[beththeevilone.livejournal.com]

Ok i've read pretty much every book on that list..does that mean i'm a true geek?

I totally recommend Neal Stephenson's stuff his books are amazing. Cryptonomicon tried to make my esplode tho.