Here’s my books wish list, in case an urge to buy me a gift overcomes you:

Professional

Nothing here at the moment.

Recreational

• Aldous Haxley — Brave new world
• Arthur Clarke — 2001: A space odyssey
• Ayn Rand — Atlas shrugged
• Bill Gates — The road ahead (*)
• Carl Sagan — Contact
• China Mieville — The city and the city
• Cliff Stoll — The cuckoo’s egg
• Douglas Adams — The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy
• Douglas Hofstadter — Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid
• Douglas Coopland — Microserfs
• G. Pascal Zachary — Show-Stopper
• Gordon Fyodor Lyon — Nmap network scanning
• H.G. Wells — The war of the worlds
• H.G. Wells — The time machine
• Isaak Asimov — Foundation
• Isaak Asimov — I, Robot
• Jules Verve — All books :)
• Kurt Vonnegut — Slaughterhouse five
• Neil Gaiman — American gods
• Neal Stephenson — Snow crash
• Philip K. Dick — Do androids dream of electric sheep?
• Ray Bradbury — Fahrenheit 451
• Robert M. Pirsig — Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
• Scott Adams — The Dilbert principle
• Stephen Hawking — A brief history of time
• Steven Levy — Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution
• Tracy Kidder — The soul of a new machine
• William Gibson — Neuromancer

* not decided which edition yet, preferably both