Meme: Guardian Top 20 Geek Books List

[serenissima]

Meme caught from 403.
The ones I've read are in bold.

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 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
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
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

Comments

[faeri.livejournal.com]

i saw this somewhere else as well and was vaguely suprised that "nineteen eighty-four" and "brave new world" (two of my all-time fvaourite books!) were on the list.

i've only read four of them. :)

[copperwolf.livejournal.com]

Funny, of the ones I've read, I liked those least. :) We were assigned _Brave New World_ in 9th grade English. I read _1984_ years later, mostly because I felt I should. _Dune_ was kind of a drag too, but I liked it well enough to read the second book in the series and part of the third.