Geoffrey Mainland

Computer “scientist” and professor.

Reading List

Last updated March 20, 2022

2022

4 books

Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
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Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder
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2021

9 books

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
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Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
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A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
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Thieves' World by Robert Asprin
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Down in the Black Gang by Philip Jose Farmer
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100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
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Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
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Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
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The Library Book by Susan Orlean
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2020

2 books

Oranges by John McPhee
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Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
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2019

2 books

Less by Andrew Sean Greer
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The Uncollected David Rakoff by David Rakoff
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2017

2 books

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
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2016

2 books

The Sympathizer by Viet Nguyen
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Tokyo Vice by Jake Adelstein
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2015

3 books

The Reawakening by Primo Levi
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Survivial in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer
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2014

5 books

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
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Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
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Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
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The City & The City by China Mieville
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In Bed with Gore Vidal by Tim Teeman
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2013

6 books

Bad News by Edward St Aubyn
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Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn
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Palimpsest by Gore Vidal
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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Full Service by Scotty Bowers
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Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carré
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2012

3 books

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
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Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
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A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
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2011

6 books

Gweilo by Martin Booth
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington
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Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
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The Accidental Theorist by Paul Krugman
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2010

8 books

Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
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The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
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The Big Short by Michael Lewis
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Trick or Treatment by Simon Singh
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The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
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Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
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2009

7 books

Great Plains by Ian Frazier
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Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
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Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
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The Year of Eating Dengerously by Tom Parker Bowles
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
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The Trouble With Physics by Lee Smolin
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2008

7 books

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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The Gathering by Anne Enright
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Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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This Common Secret by Susan Wicklund
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Washington Story by Adam Langer
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2007

11 books

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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Crossing California by Adam Langer
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
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Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
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The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
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The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch
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How to be alone by Jonathan Franzen
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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2006

9 books

Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
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Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edmund White
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Jesus' Son by Dennis Johnson
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Pearl by Mary Gordon
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
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Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
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2005

8 books

Fat Land by Greg Critser
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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Native Speaker by Change-Rae Lee
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The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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Naked by Devid Sedaris
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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2004

22 books

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
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Where I Was From by Joan Didion
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
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Banana Republicans by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
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A Thief in the Night by John Cornwell
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Calculated Bets by Steven Skiena
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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart
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Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
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All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
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Beyond Beef by Jeremy Rifkin
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Pot Planet by Brian Preston
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Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
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A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
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The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth
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My War Gone By, I Miss it So by Anthony Lloyd
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The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind
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The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 by Dave Eggers, ed.
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2003

15 books

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
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Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian
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Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos
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Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them): A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
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The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow
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Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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In America by Susan Sontag
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Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories by Saul Bellow
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