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2022

*Asimov's Guide to the Bible - Isaac Asimov ♫
*100 Endgames You Must Know - Jesús de la Villa
Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie ♫
Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie ♫
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
Neuromancer - William Gibson ♫
*My System - Aron Nimzowitsch
*FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings - Paul Van der Sterren
*The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson

2021

The Discourses - Epictetus
The Dogfather: My Love of Dogs, Desserts and Growing up Italian - Joe Gatto
A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work - Aaron Swartz
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto - Aaron Swartz
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari ♫
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari ♫
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir ♫
A Promised Land - Barack Obama ♫
Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects - Bertrand Russell
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days - Jessica Livingston
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky ♫
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky ♫
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs ♫
Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe
What If? - Randall Munroe
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche ♫
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche ♫
Dune - Frank Herbert ♫
Dracula - Bram Stoker ♫

2020

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Prof. Shoshana Zuboff
*A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram
A Mathematician's Lament - Paul Lockhart
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey ♫
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life - Massimo Pigliucci
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka ♫
The Art of War - Sun Tzu ♫
The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking ♫
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury ♫
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card ♫
Diary of a Wimpy Kid [1-3] - Jeff Kinney

2019

Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, Albert R. Meyer
The Rust Programming Language - Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features - Dan Bader
Learn Vimscript the Hard Way - Steve Losh
Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought - Drew Neil
Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim - Drew Neil
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python - Kenneth Reitz, Tanya Schlusser
Web Hacking 101 - Peter Yaworski
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F ck - Mark Manson ♫
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins ♫
The Martian - Andy Weir ♫
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson ♫
The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
iWoz - Steve Wozniak
Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking ♫
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom ♫
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Perterson ♫
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley ♫
Bhagavad Gita - Vyasa ♫
Tao Te Ching - Laozi ♫
*Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
The Jargon File
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt, Davis Thomas
*Code Complete - Steve McConnell
The Mythical Man-Month - Fred Brooks

2018

Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python - John Guttag
*Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
*Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
*The Art of Computer Programming - Donald Knuth
*Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago
*The Linux Programming Interface - Michael Kerrisk
*The UNIX Programming Environment - Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell ♫
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell ♫
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
Our Final Invention - James Barret
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance ♫
Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson ♫
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
The Code Book - Simon Singh
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson ♫
Atomic Habits - James Clear ♫
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart
Cracking Code with Python - Al Sweigart
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald ♫

2017

Foundation series - Isaac Asimov
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Thanks to Prof. Philip Moriarty and Numberphile.
My Inventions - Nikola Tesla
The C Programming Language - Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson ♫
Death by Black Hole - Neil deGrasse Tyson
Zero to One - Peter Thiel ♫
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins ♫
The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman
Cracking the Cube - Ian Scheffler
*One Piece - Eiichiro Oda

2016

20000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne ♫
Thanks to Dr. Emmet Brown.
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells ♫
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells ♫
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Martin Gardner
Calculus Made Easy - Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Ralph Leighton, Richard Feynman
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Why There Is No God - Arman Navabi
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller

2015

Martin Gardner
Discovering Martin Gardner for the first time was a joy. Thank you Vsauce.
Ian Stewart
Secrets of Mental Math - Arthur Benjamin
Just Six Numbers - Martin Rees
Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

2014

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane

2013

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Last updated: Jun 14, 2022