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Next time I'm bored, here's a recommended reading list from people at WetaDigital.

• (!) - Means at the top of the list.
• (./) - Means already read.
• {OK} - Means already read, and highly recommended.

Non-Fiction

• The little red school book

Philosophy / Psychology / Science

• Man and his Symbols, by Carl Jung.
• The Hero of a Thousand Faces + The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell.
• The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard.
• The Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu.
• (!) Godel,Escher,Bach. by Douglas Hofstadter.
• The Art of War, by Sun Tzu.
• Tao of Physics by Fritzof Capra.
• (OK) A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson.
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche.
• "S, M, L, XL" rem koolhaas.
• The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle.
• Be Here Now.
• A Thousand Plateaus, by Deleuze abd Guattari.
• The Perfect Crime, by Jean Baudrillaird.
• Out of Control, by Kevin Kelly.
• The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.
• The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins.
• On Human Nature, by Edward O Wilson.

Literary Fiction / Fiction

• Invisible cities + Cosmicomics + (./) If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino.
• The Book Of Imaginary Beings + A Universal History of Infamy + Labrynths, by J L Borges
• Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Marquez.
• The Western Lands + (./) Naked Lunch, William Burroughs.
• (./) 1984 + (./) Animal Farm, George Orwell.
• Joy of Man's Desiring, by Jean Giono.
• Perfume, by Patrick Suskind.
• the alchemist by Paolo Cuehlo.
• life of Pi....Yann .martel.
• The Saddlebag, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani.
• Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.
• Norwegian Wood + Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World + the Elephant Vanishes + {OK} Wild Sheep Chase + Dance dance dance, by Hiruki Murakami.
• Walden, by H.D. Thoreau.
• Don't read this book if your stupid + The Thought Gang, by Tibor Fischer.
• Cheese Monkeys, by Chip Kidd.
• My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist + Et Tu Babe, Mark Leyner.
• To the elephant graveyard, by tarquin hall.
• {OK} White Noise, by Don Delillo.
• Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov.
• To the Wedding, John Berger.
• A Confederate General from Big Sur,Dreaming of Babylon,
• The Hawkline Monster(3books in one volume), by Richard Brautigan

Science Fiction / Cyberpunk

• Dune messiah, Frank Herbert.
• (./) Neuromancer, WilliamGibson.
• (./) Cryptonomicon + {OK} Zodiac + (./) The Big U + {OK} Snowcrash, (./) Diamond Age by NealStephenson.
• ubik + Radio Free Albemuth + the three stigmata of palmer eldritch, by philip k. dick.
• (./) Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan.
• (./) Vurt, By Jeff Noon.
• {OK} Schismatrix, by BruceSterling.
• (./) Antarctica, by Kim Stanely Robinson.
• Tales of Pirx the Pilot, by Stanislaw Lem.
• The Player Of Games, by Iain M Banks.
• The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell.
• (./) The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Leguin.
• the centauri device, by m. john harrison.
• {OK} The Forever War + Mindbridge, by Joe Haldeman.
• the demolished man + the stars my destination, by alfred bester.
• {OK} Hyperion + Fall of Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.
• The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon.
• House of Leaves + The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce.
• {OK} Down and out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow.
• Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield.
• Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams.

From an old random text I found (dated Feb 14, 1998)

• The Outsider by Colin Wilson (1956)
• The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts (1957)
• The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Casteneda
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1950's)
• The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas. (1990's)
• The Wasteland by T S Eliot
• Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer
• Apocalypse Now & Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
• Dumbing Us Down by John Gatto Taylor
• The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
• Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder
• (./) A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking (and the other)
• Future Magic, Dragon's Egg, Starquake by Robert Forward (physics stuff on mass faster then light)
• Sword martial arts: Kenjitsu, Shinkendo, Aikido, Karate, Kungfu