My favorite books - all 30 of them
01 Aug 2022
A while ago, Wim Oosterlinck asked me to select my top 3 favorite books of all time so we could discuss them in his podcast show "Drie boeken". Before I was able to distill these 3 books though - one of the hardest things I had to do in my life, to be honest - I gathered a long list of no less than 30 books. Now, since we're still enjoying the Summer holidays and people tend to have a little more time to read now, I thought I'd share these 30 gems here on my blog. Enjoy!
These were my top three:
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- What Technology Wants - Kevin Kelly
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan
And these are the rest, not in any order of preference:
- Last Chance to see - Douglas Adams
- Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams en John Lloyd
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Solaris - Stanislas Lem
- We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (inspiration 1984)
- Neuromancer - William Gibson
- Thee body problem - Liu Cixin
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
- The Whole Earth Catalog - Stewart Brand
- Xanadu - Ted Nelson
- The Little Kingdom - Michael Moritz
- Revolution in The Valley - Andy Hertzfeld
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick
- Red Alert - Peter George (inspiration for Dr. Strangelove)
- World Order - Henry Kissinger
- Captain Scott - Ranulph Fiennes
- Huey Long - T. Harry Williams
- The Path between the Seas - David McCullough
- 1585 De Val Van Antwerpen - Gustaaf Assaert
- Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
- Setting Free the Bears - John Irving
- Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
- A Whack on the Side of the Head - Roger von Oech
- Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB)- Douglas Hofstadter
- Department of Mind-Blowing Theories - Tom Gauld
You can listen to my (Dutch) conversation with Wim Oosterlinck about my favorite books here: