Books Bucket List

Kiyosaki's two fathers and assets versus liabilities; the personal finance book most people started with.

Csikszentmihalyi on the state of total absorption and how to live in it.

Allen's system of inboxes, next actions and weekly reviews; the productivity book.

A smuggler in the only city on the Moon takes a job that turns into sabotage; Weir after The Martian.

A Cultural Revolution scientist contacts an alien civilisation; Liu Cixin's Hugo winner.

A science teacher wakes alone on a starship with amnesia and meets an alien engineer; Weir's best.

Mark Watney stranded on Mars grows potatoes in his own waste; Weir's self-published hit.

Clarke's novel written alongside Kubrick's film, and it explains the ending.

Ten years of Odysseus getting home: the Cyclops, the Sirens, and the bow only he can string.

Paul Atreides on Arrakis: spice, sandworms and the most imitated world in science fiction.

The boy who would not grow up, Neverland and Captain Hook.

Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and the map with an X; every pirate cliche starts here.

Dostoevsky's tense moral descent of a guilty student (1866).

Shelley's gothic birth of science fiction (1818).

Huxley's chilling vision of an engineered utopia (1932).

Dumas's grand tale of revenge and escape (1844).

Harari's sweeping history of humankind (2011).

The same idea drawn rather than written - panels connected by tubes and arrows that send you across the page or back three pages. Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile is the one everybody means.

One murder, a grid of suspects, weapons and locations, and just enough clues to eliminate everything but the answer. There are hundreds, in books and one a day online.

A book you play: numbered paragraphs, a choice at the end of each, a pencil for your inventory and dice if it has them. Start with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Lone Wolf or any Choose Your Own Adventure.

Sapkowski goes back to a Geralt of eighteen, fresh out of Kaer Morhen and bad at the job.