The Essential Guide to Cyberpunk
http://io9.com/the-essential-cyberpunk-reading-list-1714180001

It's not a bad starting point and you could do worse than read everything any of those authors have ever written. Or just start with Mirrorshades and follow the links to each author. But also these books and everything by these people as well.

Paul Di Filippo - Ribofunk
Lucius Shephard - Life During Wartime
Michael Swanwick - Vacuum Flowers
Mink Mole - Alligator Alley
Jeff Noon - Needle in the Groove
Walter Jon Williams - Hardwired
Ken Macleod - The Execution Channel
Jack Womack - Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Samuel Delaney - Dhalgren
Ian McDonald - The Dervish House
Misha - Red Spider White Web
Martin Bax - The Hospital Ship
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl
St. Jude (R.U.Sirius, Mondo2000) - Cyberpunk handbook : the real cyberpunk fakebook

http://www.librarything.com/tag/cyberpunk

Back in the 80s and 90s I read everything cyberpunk I could find. My tastes veered off though towards Slipstream and the sort of cross breed between Cyberpunk, Slipstream, Magical Realism and the late 60s New worlds crew like JG Ballard. Part of the reason for that is that the writing is generally better. It's a common criticism of early books by new SciFi authors that the writing is often terrible even while the ideas are interesting.

What's a bit sad is how much of that stuff is getting really hard to find now, long since out of print and pulped. Anyone got a copy of Lewis Shiner - Deserted Cities of the Heart?
 The Essential Cyberpunk Reading List »
It’s now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we’ve seen gorgeous movies, read fascinating books, and seen dozens of offshoots like steampunk (and my new favorite, deco punk) develop. Here are the 21 cyberpunk books you absolutely must read.

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