my personal canon

canon.txt

1984 by Orwell
*Act of Creation by Koestler
AEgypt by John Crowley
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Architecture of Symbolic Computers by Kogge
Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Kiczales, et al.
Baron in the Trees by Calvino
Babel-17 by Delany
Bill James' Baseball Abstract, 1985 by Bill James
Bootstrapping by Thierry Bardini
Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
Broken Mirrors / Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento by Maitland McDonagh 
Case of Charles Dexter Ward by Lovecraft
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Chton by Anthony
Code of the Woosters by Wodehouse
Computer Lib / Dream Machines by Ted Nelson
Creative Computer by Donald Michie
Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson
Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by D'Aulaire
Dungeons & Dragons: 1st edition boxed set
Expert Systems: Principles and Practice by Giarantino and Riley
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Ficciones by Borges
Finite and Infinite Games by Carse
Foundation by Asimov
From Hell by Alan Moore
Funk & Waggnels Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend
Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson
Gateless Gate
Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Grendel by John Gardner
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand
Idiot by Dostoyevsky
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Interzonal Chess Tournament: Palma de Malorca 1970 by Wade
Jacket by Jack London
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
King Lear by Shakespeare
Labyrinths by Borges
LISP 1.5 User Manual by John McCarthy, et al.
Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec and Kathleen Callaway
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground by Michael Moynihan 
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
MMURTL by Burgess
Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein
Name of the Rose by Eco
Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky
On Lisp by Paul Graham
Over the Edge by Jonathan Tweet
Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde
Programmer's Guide to the 1802 by Tom Swan
Recursive Universe by Poundstone
Remains of the Day by Ishiguro
Rendezvous with Rama by Clarke
Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Shadow of the Torturer by Wolfe
Siddhartha by Hesse
Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Stranger by Albert Camus
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima
Things Fall Apart by Achebe
Thinking Forth by Brodie
Third Policeman by O'Brian
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
Urban Structures for the Future by Justus Dahinden 
Ulysses by James Joyce
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Wollstonecraft
Vegetable Root Discourses by Hong Zicheng
Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte