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Fiction

Solar by Ian McEwan
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Diary of a Bad Year by J M Coetzee
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (originally Män som hatar kvinnor) by Stieg Larsson
Apples by Richard Milward
Exit Music by Ian Rankin (lovely to read about familiar places - maybe even some characters - in Edinburgh)
The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche (not all about body fluids, despite the media hype)
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby (FANTASTIC!)
The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
No Exit by Sartre
The Fall by Camus
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Friction by Joe Stretch (review in Newstateman)
Switch Bitch by Roald Dalh (excellent!)
Noir by Olivier Pauvert
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A selection by Brecht, including Baal and In the Jungle of Cities
Candide by Voltaire
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Elizabeth Costello by JM Coetzee
Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Thinks... by David Lodge
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Big Glass by Gabriel Josipovici
Fury by Salman Rushdie
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1984 by George Orwell
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Silence in October by Jens Christian Grøndahl, Anne Born (Translator)
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (Foreword)
Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, William Rees (Translator)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Outsider by Albert Camus, Joseph Laredo (Translator)
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Popular Classics) by Oscar Wilde
A collection of things, including The Happy Prince, whose name I can't remember by Oscar Wilde

Biographies

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges - also check out Andrew Hodges' web page on Turing

Also good if you're into logic (Richard Montague, very interesting character, gets mentioned here):

Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic by Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman

Another biography I liked:

The Wing of Madness: the Life and Work of R.D. Laing, by Daniel Burston

Non-fiction

Stasiland by Anna Funder
What's Left by Nick Cohen
Bash the Rich by Ian Bone
Couch Fiction by Philippa Perry
Trust by Anthony Seldon
The People's Manifesto by the People, channeled by Mark Thomas
Emotion Focused Cognitive Therapy by Mick Power (excellent)
GCHQ by Richard J. Aldrich
Conversations with Žižek by/between Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (very nice read)
The Parallex View by Slavoj Žižek (skipped a lot, but some good stuff)
Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward
Strangeland by Tracey Emin
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (Review in New Statesman.)
The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton
Anarchism by Seán Sheehan
The Communist Manifesto by Marx (and Engels?)
Why Not Socialism? by G A Cohen (need to give this book another bash, methinks)
Bozo Sapiens by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
What Should We Do With Our Brain? by Catherine Malabou
Create Your Own Economy by Tyler Cowen
Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
The Fragile Absolute by Slavoj Žižek (skipped bits, but some good stuff in there!)
The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and Other Conflicts I have Known by Craig Murray
The Art of Being by Erich Fromm
In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities by Jean Baudrillard
Fragments: Cool Memories III 1990-1995 by Jean Baudrillard
Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer
Dawkins vs. Gould by Kim Sterelny [must admit I found this a bit dull]
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
Simulations by Jean Baudrillard
Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett
Why Do People Get Ill? by Darian Leader and David Corfield
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
Self and Others by R. D. Laing - Look out for the epistemic logic in the appendix
Knots by R. D. Laing
The Geography of Thought by Richard E. Nisbett
Why do women write more letters than they post? by Darian Leader
Why People Die by Suicide by Thomas Joiner
The Robot's Rebellion by Keith Stanovich
Madness Explained by Richard Bentall
Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater

Note David Corfield's review over here - there is some controversy surrounding this book. See also here. Still, reading with a critical frame of mind and accepting that some of the stories may be exagerrated for effect, I enjoyed the book very much. Found another page here by Michael Miller, but less diplomatic!

The Language and Thought of the Child by Jean Piaget
The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
Pooh and the Philosophers by John Tyerman Williams
Conversation by Theodore Zeldin. Disappointed with this. Read it after reading his How work can be made less frustrating and conversation less boring on the BMJ.
Godel's Proof by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Foreword), Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
Mathematical Reasoning with Diagrams (CSLI Lecture Notes) by Mateja Jamnik
Philosophy: The Classics by Nigel Warburton
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks) by Marie McGinn (Editor)
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (bits off - skip the boring bits, especially most stuff before proposition 7.)
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds, John Eidinow
Language, Truth and Logic (Penguin Modern Classics) by A.J. Ayer, Ben Rogers (Editor)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) by Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton
Essays and Aphorisms (Classics S.) by Arthur Schopenhauer, R.J. Hollingdale (Editor)
Blue & Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Nørretranders - a bit boring in places
Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics by David Corfield
The danger of words and writings on Wittgenstein by Maurice O'Connor Drury