Damien Conway – Senior Lecturer, Computer Science, Monash University

Biography
Frank Abagnale  Catch Me If You Can
Clive James  Unreliable Memoires
Robert Twigger  Angry White Pyjamas
Peter Ustinov  Dear Me

Sciences
Jared Diamond  Guns, Germs and Steel
Stephen W Hawking  A Brief History of Time
Douglas R Hofstadter  Godel, Escher, Bach
David Keirsey & Marilyn Bates  Please Understand Me
Donald Norman  The Design of Everyday Things
Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen  The Science of Discworld

Management
Fredrick P Brookes  The Mythical Man Month 
Niccolo Machiavelli  The Prince

Language
Peter Bowler  The Superior Person's Little Book of Words
HW Fowler  Modern English Usage
Robert McCrum, William Cran & Robert MacNeil  The Story of English
William Strunk & EB White  The Elements of Style

Philosophy
Raymond M Smullyan  The Tao is Silent

Fiction
David Brin  Startide Rising
Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter  The Light of Other Days
Stephen Donaldson  Lord Foul's Bane
David Feintuch  Midshipman's Hope
Raymond E Feist  Magician
Neil Gaiman  American Gods
Julian May  The Many Coloured Land
Janet Morris & David Drake  Target
Larry Niven, Jenny Pournelle & Steven Barnes  The Legacy of Heorot
Steve Perry  The Man Who Never Missed
Dan Simmons  Darwin's Blade
Neal Stephenson  Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson  The Diamond Age
Vernor Vinge  A Fire Upon the Deep
TH White  The Once and Future King

Music
JJ Cale  Five
Enya  Watermark
Peter Gabriel  Shaking the Tree
Otmar Liebert  Neuvo Flamenco
Jean-Michel Jarre  Oxygene
Sarah McLachlan  Surfacing
Sky  Sky