~/bookshelf

This page reads a JSON file that I use to track my reading list. For reviews, please visit my weblog. See also: Influential papers.

Includes: Books; essays; short stories; historically important manifestos, speeches, lectures; and audio dramas.
Excludes: Most reference works, dictionaries, atlases, and magazines.
Last updated: 4 Feb 2026

Note

This compilation includes some highly controversial works. I do not agree with or endorse every message expressed in these books—my interest in them is purely driven by curiosity.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle?

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2026

Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley - 1986
Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets - Peter van der Linden - 1994

2025

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company - Patrick McGee - 2025 [♫]
Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure - Nadia Eghbal (Ford Foundation) - 2016
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 - Brian F. Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenji, Tsuji Yoshinobu, Ueda Kazue, David K. Yamaguchi - 2015
[#] Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface - David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy - 1993
[#] Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy - 2006
[#] Digital Design and Computer Architecture - David Money Harris, Sarah L. Harris - 2007
There Is No Antimemetics Division - Sam Hughes (qntm) - 2015-2016

2024

Longitude - Dava Sobel - 1995 [♫]
World Brain - H. G. Wells - 1938
[#] Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective - Randal E. Bryant, David Richard O'Hallaron - 2002
The Use of Knowledge in Society - Friedrich Hayek - 1945
I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read - Leonard Read - 1958
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1798
Donald Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices - Donald Knuth - 2003
Gibbet Hill - Bram Stoker - 1890
[~] Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers - Alexander Zvonkin - 2011
Measurement - Paul Lockhart - 2012
One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe - William Carpenter - 1885
What To Draw And How To Draw It - Edwin George Lutz - 1913
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World - Matt Parker - 2024
A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout - 2018
[#] The Woodpecker Method - Axel Smith, Hans Tikkanen - 2018
James Monroe's Seventh State of the Union Address (Monroe Doctrine) - James Monroe - 1823-12-02
Disqualified - Charles L. Fontenay - 1954
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life - David Foster Wallace - 2005-05-21
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons - Siegfried Engelmann - 1986
[#] Automotive Handbook - Robert Bosch GmbH - 1932
Flowers for Algernon (short story) - Daniel Keyes - 1959
Dada Manifesto - Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara - 1916-1918
[#] The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 1958-1968 [♫]
Pleasures - Aldous Huxley - 1920
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life - Susan Forward - 2002
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases - Tom Heehler - 2011
Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms - Marvin Terban - 1996
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond - Levy Rozman - 2023
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynne Truss - 2003
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - Araham Flexner - 1939
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer - 1960 [♫]
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder - 1981

2023

[#] The Art of Electronics - Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill - 1980
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce - 1906
Pied Piper of Hamelin (Rat-Catcher of Hamelin)
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke - Arthur C. Clarke - 2001
Contents
- Travel by Wire!
- How We Went to Mars
- Retreat from Earth
- Reverie
- The Awakening
- Whacky
- Loophole
- Rescue Party
- Technical Error
- Castaway
- The Fires Within
- Inheritance
- Nightfall
- History Lesson
- Transience
- The Wall of Darkness
- The Lion of Comarre
- The Forgotten Enemy
- Hide-and-Seek
- Breaking Strain
- Nemesis
- Guardian Angel
- Time's Arrow
- A Walk in the Dark
- Silence Please
- Trouble with the Natives
- The Road to the Sea
- The Sentinel
- Holiday on the Moon
- Earthlight
- Second Dawn
- Superiority
- If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth
- All the Time in the World
- The Nine Billion Names of God
- The Possessed
- The Parasite
- Jupiter Five
- Encounter in the Dawn
- The Other Tiger
- Publicity Campaign
- Armaments Race
- The Deep Range
- No Morning After
- Big Game Hunt
- Patent Pending
- Refugee
- The Star - 1955
- What Goes Up
- Venture to the Moon
- The Starting Line
- Robin Hood, F.R.S.
- Green Fingers
- All That Glitters
- Watch This Space
- A Question of Residence
- The Pacifist
- The Reluctant Orchid
- Moving Spirit
- The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch
- The Ultimate Melody
- The Next Tenants
- Cold War
- Sleeping Beauty
- Security Check
- The Man Who Ploughed the Sea
- Critical Mass
- The Other Side of the Sky
- Special Delivery
- Feathered Friends
- Take a Deep Breath
- Freedom of Space
- Passer-by
- The Call of the Stars
- Let There Be Light
- Out of the Sun
- Cosmic Casanova
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- A Slight Case of Sunstroke
- Who's There?
- Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting...
- I Remember Babylon
- Trouble with Time
- Into the Comet
- Summertime on Icarus
- Saturn Rising
- Death and the Senator
- Before Eden
- Hate
- Love That Universe
- Dog Star
- Maelstrom II
- An Ape About the House
- The Shining Ones
- The Secret
- Dial F for Frankenstein
- The Wind from the Sun
- The Food of the Gods
- The Last Command
- Light of Darkness
- The Longest Science-fiction Story Ever Told
- Playback
- The Cruel Sky
- Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.
- Crusade
- Neutron Tide
- Reunion
- Transit of Earth
- A Meeting with Medusa
- Quarantine
- 'siseneG': 'Genesis' Spelled Backwards
- The Steam-powered Word Processor
- On Golden Seas
- The Hammer of God
- The Wire Continuum (with Stephen Baxter)
- Improving the Neighbourhood
[#] Letters of Pliny - Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems - David J. Agans - 2002
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age - Paul Graham - 2004
Contents
- Why Nerds Are Unpopular
- Hackers and Painters
- What You Can't Say
- Good Bad Attitude
- The Other Road Ahead
- How to Make Wealth
- Mind the Gap
- A Plan for Spam
- Taste for Makers
- Programming Languages Explained
- The Hundred-Year Language
- Beating the Averages
- Revenge of the Nerds
- The Dream Language
- Design and Research
Efficient Linux at the Command Line - Daniel J. Barrett - 2022
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation - Cory Doctorow - 2023 [♫]
Bentham's Mugging - Johan E. Gustafsson - 2022
Memento Mori - Jonathan Nolan - 2001
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI - Matthew Sadler, Natasha Regan - 2019
Famine, Affluence, and Morality - Peter Singer - 1971
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer - 1951
This Craft of Verse - Jorge Luis Borges - 1967 [♫]
Listened to the original audio lectures.
Nightfall - Isaac Asimov - 1941 [♫]
Youth - Isaac Asimov - 1952 [♫]
Profession - Isaac Asimov - 1957
How We Got to the Moon - John Rocco - 2020
First Woman: NASA's Promise For Humanity - NASA - 2021
Contents
- Issue 1: Dream to Reality - 2021
- Issue 2: Expanding Our Universe - 2023
Professor Dowell's Head - Alexander Belyaev - 1925
The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris - 2010 [♫]
The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin no Sho) - Miyamoto Musashi - 1645 [♫]
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience - Shaun Usher - 2013
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin - 1887
Discourse on the Method - René Descartes - 1637 [♫]
Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes - 1641 [♫]
[#] Classics Illustrated (series) - Various authors - 1941-
Contents
- #1 - The Three Musketeers - 1941
- #10 - Robinson Crusoe - 1943
- #27 - The Adventures of Marco Polo - 1946
[#] Great Illustrated Classics (series) - Various authors - 1977-
Contents
- Around the World in 80 Days - 1977
- The Time Machine - 1983
[#] The Papers of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
Contents
- Fart Proudly - 1781
- Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress - 1745-06-25
Poems by Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson - 1890-1945
Poems by James Joyce - James Joyce - 1907-1927
[#] Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1800
Contents
- The American Scholar (speech) - 1837-08-31
- Divinity School Address (speech) - 1838-07-15
- New England Reformers (lecture) - 1844-03-03
- Self-Reliance (essay) - 1841
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut - 1963 [♫]
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou - 2008
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade - Kurt Vonnegut - 1969 [♫]
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade - Ryan North - 2020
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein - 2019 [♫]
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus - 1942
Heart Sutra - Unknown
Diamond Sutra - Unknown
L'anus solaire (The Solar Anus) - Georges Bataille - 1927
Seneca's Consolations - Seneca - 40-45 AD
Contents
Day of Infamy - Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1941-12-08
The Dhammapada - Unknown [♫]
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare - 1597 [♫]
The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes - 1987 [♫]
Los Alamos Primer - Robert Serber, Edward Condon - 1992
The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories - Leo Szilard - 1901
[#] Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology - Isaac Asimov - 1964
This Book Will Put You to Sleep - K. McCoy, Dr. Hardwick - 2018
[~] Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities - Kevin Kelly - 2013
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier - Kevin Kelly - 2023
Common Sense - Thomas Paine - 1776 [♫]
Charters of Freedom - Founding Fathers - 1776-1791
Contents
- United States Declaration of Independence - 1776
- Constitution of the United States - 1788
- United States Bill of Rights - 1791
Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln - 1863-11-19
Give me liberty, or give me death! - Patrick Henry - 1775-03-23 [♫]
I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy - 2022 [♫]
On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt - 1986
On the Decay of the Art of Lying - Mark Twain - 1880
The Decay of Lying - Oscar Wilde - 1891
Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae - Isaac Newton - 1661
What Is Code? - Paul Ford - 2015
UNIX: A History and a Memoir - Brian W. Kernighan - 2019
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (Smyth Report) - Henry DeWolf Smyth - 1945
The Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman - 1988
The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1787 [♫]
Anti-Federalist Papers - Various authors - 1787 [♫]
[#] The Wild Robot (series) - Peter Brown - 2016-
Contents
- #1: The Wild Robot - 2016
- #2: The Robot Escapes - 2018
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air - David J.C. MacKay - 2008
Pricing Money - Julian D. A. Wiseman
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP) - Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1921
Philosophical Investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1953
Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion - Neil Gaiman - 1986
Short stories and novellas by Stefan Zweig - Stefan Zweig
Contents
- The Royal Game (Chess Story) - 1941
- Amok - 1922
- Confusion - 1927
- Fear - 1925
- The Burning Secret - 1913
- Letter from an Unknown Woman - 1922
- Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman - 1927
- Buchmendel - 1929
- Moonbeam Alley - 1922
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water - Marc Reisner - 1986
[#] The Manga Guides (series) - Various authors - 2003-
Contents
- The Manga Guide to Databases - 2005
- The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology - 2009
- The Manga Guide to Microprocessors - 2017
Industrial Society and Its Future (Unabomber Manifesto) - Ted Kaczynski - 1995
Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2021
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 2017
Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible - Arthur C. Clarke - 1962
[#] Very Short Introductions (series) - Oxford University Press - 1995-
Contents
- #46 - Wittgenstein - A. C. Grayling - 1998
- #116 - Anarchism - Colin Ward - 2004
- #128 - Dinosaurs - David Norman - 2005
- #187 - Sexuality - Veronique Mottier - 2008
Confession - Leo Tolstoy - 1879
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1886 [♫]
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare - 1623
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare - 1599
Macbeth - William Shakespeare - 1623
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde - 1895
Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov - 1901
Enchiridion - Epictetus - 125 CE
99 Variations on a Proof - Philip Ording - 2019
The Satanic Bible - Anton LaVey - 1969
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri, Stephen Wyatt - 2014 [♫]
Robot Visions - Isaac Asimov - 1990
Omitted stories collected in "I, Robot".
Contents
- Robot Visions (story) - 1990
- Too Bad! (story) - 1989
- Feminine Intuition (story) - 1969
- The Bicentennial Man (story) - 1976
- Someday (story) - 1956
- Think! (story) - 1977
- Segregationist (story) - 1967
- Mirror Image (story) - 1972
- Lenny (story) - 1958
- Galley Slave (story) - 1957
- Christmas Without Rodney (story) - 1988
- Robots I Have Known (essay) - 1954
- The New Teachers (essay) - 1976
- Whatever You Wish (essay) - 1977
- The Friends We Make (essay) - 1977
- Our Intelligent Tools (essay) - 1977
- The Machine and the Robot (essay) - 1978
- The Laws of Robotics (essay) - 1979
- The New Profession (essay) - 1979
- The Robot As Enemy? (essay) - 1979
- Intelligences Together (essay) - 1979
- My Robots (essay) - 1987
- The Laws of Humanics (essay) - 1987
- Cybernetic Organism (essay) - 1987
- The Sense of Humor (essay) - 1988
- Robots in Combination (essay) - 1988
- Future Fantastic (essay) - 1989
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 1950 [♫]
Contents
- Robbie - 1940
- Runaround - 1942
- Reason - 1941
- Catch That Rabbit - 1944
- Liar! - 1941
- Little Lost Robot - 1947
- Escape! - 1945
- Evidence - 1946
- The Evitable Conflict - 1950
[~] Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler - 1925
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway - 1951 [♫]
Cathedral - Raymond Carver - 1983
Contents
- Feathers
- Chef's House - 1981
- Preservation
- The Compartment
- A Small, Good Thing
- Vitamins - 1984
- Careful
- Where I'm Calling From
- The Train
- Fever
- The Bridle
- Cathedral
Weaving the Web - Tim Berners-Lee - 1999
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius - Donald J. Robertson - 2019 [♫]
De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) - Seneca - 49 [♫]
What I Believe - Bertrand Russell - 1925
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - 1996 [♫]
The Healing of America - T. R. Reid - 2010
Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
Permutation City - Greg Egan - 1994
Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang - 2019 [♫]
Contents
- The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - 2007
- Exhalation - 2008
- What's Expected of Us - 2005
- The Lifecycle of Software Objects - 2010
- Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny - 2011
- The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling - 2013
- The Great Silence - 2015
- Omphalos
- Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang - 2002 [♫]
Contents
- Tower of Babylon - 1990
- Understand - 1991
- Division by Zero - 1991
- Story of Your Life - 1998
- Seventy-Two Letters - 2000
- The Evolution of Human Science - 2000
- Hell Is the Absence of God - 2001
- Liking What You See: A Documentary - 2002
Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan - 1997
Contents
- Billions and Billions
- The Persian Chessboard
- Monday-Night Hunters
- The Gaze of God and the Dripping Faucet
- Four Cosmic Questions
- So Many Suns, So Many Worlds
- The World That Came in the Mail
- The Environment: Where Does Prudence Lie?
- Croesus and Cassandra
- A Piece of the Sky Is Missing
- Ambush: The Warming of the World
- Escape from Ambush
- Religion and Science: An Alliance
- The Common Enemy
- Abortion: Is it Possible to Be Both “Pro-Life” and “Pro-Choice”?
- The Rules of the Game
- Gettysburg and Now
- The Twentieth Century
- In the Valley of the Shadow
Of Time and Space and Other Things - Isaac Asimov - 1965
Contents
- C for Celeritas - 1959
- Just Mooning Around - 1963
- Welcome, Stranger! - 1963
- Roll Call - 1963
- Round and Round and... - 1964
- The Slowly Moving Finger - 1964
- Forget It! - 1964
- A Piece of the Action - 1964
- Ghost Lines in the Sky - 1964
- The Heavenly Zoo - 1964
- Nothing Counts - 1964
- The Days of Our Years - 1964
- The Haste-Makers - 1964
- First and Rearmost - 1964
- The Black of Night - 1964
- A Galaxy at a Time - 1964
- Begin at the Beginning - 1965
The Relativity of Wrong - Isaac Asimov - 1988
Contents
- The Moon and We - 1986
- The Minor Objects - 1986
- The Second Lightest - 1986
- Labels on the Molecules - 1986
- The Consequences of Pie - 1986
- The Enemy Within - 1986
- The Relativity of Wrong - 1986
- The Unmentionable Planet - 1986
- The Dead-End Middle - 1986
- Opposite! - 1987
- Sail On! Sail On! - 1987
- The Incredible Shrinking Planet - 1987
- The Light-Bringer - 1987
- Beginning With Bone - 1987
- New Stars - 1987
- Brightening Stars - 1987
- Super-Exploding Stars - 1987
[#] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter - 1979
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Letters from a Stoic) - Seneca - 65 AD [♫]
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies - Tim Urban - 2023
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction - William Zinsser - 1976
Journals - Kurt Cobain - 2002
I am Ozzy - Ozzy Osbourne - 2010 [♫]
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - Michael Moynihan, Didrik Søderlind - 1998

2022

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow - Aurélien Géron - 2017
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book - Andriy Burkov - 2019
[#] Rust for Rustaceans - Jon Gjengset - 2021
[#] Hacker's Delight - Henry S. Warren, Jr. - 2002
The World: A Brief Introduction - Richard Haass - 2020
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values - Robert M. Pirsig - 1974 [♫]
Essays of George Orwell - George Orwell - 2010
Contents
- Notes on Nationalism - 1945
- Review of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" - 1940
- Politics and the English Language - 1946
- Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels - 1946
- The Prevention of Literature - 1946
- Why I Write - 1946
- Writers and Leviathan - 1948
- Poetry and the Microphone - 1943
- Confessions of a Book Reviewer - 1946
- My Country Right or Left - 1940
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions - Sabine Hossenfelder - 2022 [♫]
[#] Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual - Mark Dvoretsky - 2004
Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman - 2006
Chessable course by IM Alex Banzea.
[#] The Soviet Chess Primer - Ilya Maizelis - 1936
The Complete Manual of Positional Chess – Opening and Middlegame - Konstantin Sakaev, Konstantin Landa - 2016
The Complete Manual of Positional Chess – Middlegame Structures and Dynamics - Konstantin Sakaev, Konstantin Landa - 2017
Chess Strategy for Club Players - Herman Grooten - 2009
Dark Days: My Tribulations and Trials - D. Randall Blythe - 2015
Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good - Corey Taylor - 2011
README.txt: A Memoir - Chelsea Manning - 2022 [♫]
What If? 2 - Randall Munroe
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher - Charles Babbage - 1864
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels - 1848-02-21 [♫]
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin - 1791 [♫]
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization - Neil deGrasse Tyson - 2022 [♫]
Ubik - Philip K. Dick - 1969 [♫]
Animal Farm - George Orwell - 1945 [♫]
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl - 1946 [♫]
Outgrowing God - Richard Dawkins - 2019 [♫]
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond [♫]
Siddhartha: An Indian novel - Hermann Hesse [♫]
The Stranger - Albert Camus [♫]
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins [♫]
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet - Julian Assange
True Names - Vernor Vinge
Free Will - Sam Harris [♫]
[?] Asimov's Guide to the Bible - Isaac Asimov - 1968
[#] 100 Endgames You Must Know - Jesús de la Villa - 2008
Chessable course by IM John Bartholomew.
Neuromancer - William Gibson [♫]
My System - Aron Nimzowitsch
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings - Paul Van der Sterren
[#] The Baroque Cycle (series) - Neal Stephenson - 2003-2004 [♫]
Contents
- Vol. I (#1: Quicksilver, #2: King of the Vagabonds, #3: Odalisque)
- Vol. II (#4: Bonanza, #5: The Juncto)
- Vol. III (#6: Solomon's Gold, #7: Currency, #8: The System of the World)
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess - Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Donn Mosenfelder - 1966
[#] Modern Operating Systems - Andrew Tanenbaum - 1992
[#] Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition (Lions Book) - John Lions - 1977
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games - László Polgár - 1994
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari [♫]
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess - Murray Chandler - 1998
Ur-Fascism - Umberto Eco - 1995-06-22

2021

Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and Pytorch - Jeremy Howard, Sylvain Gugger - 2020
Machine Learning Yearning - Andrew Ng - 2018
[#] Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Christopher M. Bishop - 2006
Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Michael Nielson - 2013
[#] Deep Learning - Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville - 2016
[#] Dive into Deep Learning - Aston Zhang, Zack C. Lipton, Mu Li, Alex J. Smola - 2019
[#] The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws - Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto - 2007
[#] Hacking: The Art of Exploitation - Jon Erickson - 2003
Regular Expressions Cookbook - Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan - 2009
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr., E. B. White - 1918
[#] The Chicago Manual of Style - University of Chicago Press - 1906
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman - 2009
[#] Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann - 2015
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays - Bertrand Russell - 1935
Contents
- In Praise of Idleness - 1932
- 'Useless' Knowledge
- Architecture and Social Questions
- The Modern Midas
- The Ancestry of Fascism
- Scylla and Charybdis, or Communism and Fascism
- The Case for Socialism
- Western Civilisation
- On Youthful Cynicism
- Modern Homogeneity - 1930
- Men versus Insects - 1933
- Education and Discipline
- Stoicism and Mental Health - 1928
- On Comets
- What is the Soul? - 1928
The Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft - 1926 [♫]
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy [♫]
The Devil - Leo Tolstoy [♫]
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy [♫]
The Linux Command Line - William Shotts - 2009
No Longer Human - Ozamu Dazai - 1948 [♫]
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman - 2017 [♫]
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick - 1968 [♫]
Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose - 1954 [♫]
Coraline - Neil Gaiman - 2002 [♫]
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion - Derek Sivers - 2021
The Discourses - Epictetus [♫]
A Programmable Web: An Unfinished Work - Aaron Swartz - 2013
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari [♫]
The Tau Manifesto - Michael Hartl
SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner - 2009 [♫]
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 - 1927
Contents
- Why I am not a Christian - 1927
- Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilisation? - 1930
- Do We Survive Death? - 1936
- Seems, Madam? Nay, it is - 1899
- On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics - 1928
- Life in the Middle Ages - 1925
- The Fate of Thomas Paine - 1934
- Nice People - 1931
- The New Generation - 1930
- Our Sexual Ethics - 1936
- Freedom and the Colleges - 1940
- The Existence of God--a Debate Between Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston, SJ - 1948
- Can Religion Cure Our Troubles - 1954
- Religion and Morals - 1952
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days - Jessica Livingston
Coders at Work - Peter Seibel - 2009
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky [♫]
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky [♫]
The Sandman (series) - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs - 2020-2022 [♫]
Contents
- The Sandman - 2020
- The Sandman: Act II - 2021
- The Sandman: Act III - 2022
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 [♫]
God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens - 2007 [♫]

2020

[#] Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi H. and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau - 2012
[#] Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig - 1994
The Humble Programmer - Edsger W. Dijkstra - 1972
[#] The Elements of Computing Systems - Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken - 2005
[#] Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (Translator) - 1998
Contents
- A Universal History of Iniquity
- The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell
- The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro
- The Widow Ching - Pirate
- Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities
- The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan
- The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke
- Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv
- Man on Pink Corner
- Et cetera
- Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim
- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
- The Circular Ruins
- The Lottery in Babylon
- A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain
- The Library of Babel
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- Funes, His Memory
- The Shape of the Sword
- The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
- Death and the Compass
- The Secret Miracle
- Three Versions of Judas
- The End
- The Cult of the Phoenix
- The South
- The Immortal
- The Dead Man
- The Theologians
- Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
- A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz
- Emma Zunz
- The House of Asterion
- The Other Death
- Deutsches Requiem
- Averroes' Search
- The Zahir
- The Writing of the God
- Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
- The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
- The Wait
- The Man on the Threshold
- The Aleph
- The Maker
- Dreamtigers
- A Dialog About a Dialog
- Toenails
- Covered Mirrors
- Argumentum Ornithologicum
- The Captive
- The Mountebank
- Delia Elena San Marco
- A Dialog Between Dead Men
- The Plot
- A Problem
- The Yellow Rose
- The Witness
- Martin Fierro
- Mutations
- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
- Paradiso, XXXI, 108
- Parable of the Palace
- Everything and Nothing
- Ragnarok
- Inferno, I, 32
- Borges and I
- On Exactitude in Science
- In Memoriam, J.F.K.
- The Ethnographer
- Pedro Salvadores
- Legend
- A Prayer
- His End and His Beginning
- The Interloper
- Unworthy
- The Story from Rosendo Juarez
- The Encounter
- Juan Murana
- The Elderly Lady
- The Duel
- The Other Duel
- Guayaquil
- The Gospel According to Mark
- Brodie's Report
- The Other
- Ulrikke
- The Congress
- There Are More Things
- The Sect of the Thirty
- The Night of the Gifts
- The Mirror and the Mask
- "Undr"
- A Weary Man's Utopia
- The Bribe
- Avelino Arredondo
- The Disk
- The Book of Sand
- August 25, 1983
- Blue Tigers
- The Rose of Paracelsus
- Shakespeare's Memory
Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About - Donald E. Knuth - 2001 [♫]
Listened to the original audio lectures available on the official site.
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke - 1968 [♫]
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker - 2019 [♫]
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine - 2008 [♫]
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray - Sabine Hossenfelder - 2018 [♫]
Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx - 1997 [♫]
Proofs from THE BOOK - Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler - 1998
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner - 2005 [♫]
How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later - Philip K. Dick - 1978
Remember It! - Nelson Dellis - 2018
Competitive Programmer's Handbook - Antti Laaksonen
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Prof. Shoshana Zuboff [♫]
[?] A New Kind of Science - Stephen Wolfram
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook - Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann - 1994
A Mathematician's Lament - Paul Lockhart - 2009
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin - 1859 [♫]
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius [♫]
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan - 1995 [♫]
Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold - 1999
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 [♫]
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison - 1967 [♫]
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut - 1968 [♫]
Contents
- Where I Live - 1964
- Harrison Bergeron - 1961
- Who Am I This Time? - 1961
- Welcome to the Monkey House - 1968
- Long Walk to Forever - 1960
- The Foster Portfolio - 1951
- Miss Temptation - 1956
- All the King's Horses - 1951
- Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog - 1953
- New Dictionary - 1966
- Next Door - 1955
- More Stately Mansions - 1951
- The Hyannis Port Story - 1900
- D.P. - 1953
- Report on the Barnhouse Effect - 1950
- The Euphio Question - 1951
- Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son - 1962
- Deer in the Works - 1955
- The Lie - 1962
- Unready to Wear - 1953
- The Kid Nobody Could Handle - 1955
- The Manned Missiles - 1958
- EPICAC - 1950
- Adam - 1954
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - 1954
[#] Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) - Jeff Kinney - 2004-
Contents
- #1: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid - 2007
- #2: Rodrick Rules - 2008
- #3: The Last Straw - 2009

2019

English Grammar in Use - Raymond Murphy - 1985
Algorithms - Jeff Erickson - 2019
[#] Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Michael Sipser - 1996
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems - Google - 2016
[#] Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler - 1999
[#] The Algorithm Design Manual - Steven S. Skiena - 1997
Algorithms - S. Dasgupta, C. H. Papadimitriou, and U. V. Vazirani - 2006
[#] Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin - 2007
[#] Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman - 2004
[#] Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach - James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross - 2000
Algorithms Illuminated (series) - Tim Roughgarden - 2017-2020
Contents
- Part 1: The Basics - 2017
- Part 2: Graph Algorithms and Data Structures - 2018
- Part 3: Greedy Algorithms and Dynamic Programming - 2019
- Part 4: Algorithms for NP-Hard Problems - 2020
[~] Etudes for Programmers - Charles Wetherell - 1978
Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba - 2003-2006
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant - Nick Bostrom - 2005
The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs - 1902
Toki Pona: The Language of Good - Sonja Lang - 2004
[#] Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese - Eri Banno, Yoko Ikeda, Yutaka Ohno, Yoko Sakane, Chikako Shinagawa, Kyoko Tokashiki - 1999
[#] Remembering the Kanji - James Heisig - 1977
[#] The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering 2300 Characters - Andrew Scott Conning - 2013
Robot Dreams - Isaac Asimov - 1986
Contents
- Little Lost Robot - 1947
- Robot Dreams - 1986
- Breeds There a Man...? - 1951
- Hostess - 1951
- Sally - 1953
- Strikebreaker - 1957
- The Machine that Won the War - 1961
- Eyes Do More Than See - 1965
- The Martian Way - 1952
- Franchise - 1955
- Jokester - 1956
- The Last Question - 1956
- Does a Bee Care? - 1957
- Light Verse - 1973
- The Feeling of Power - 1958
- Spell My Name with an S - 1958
- The Ugly Little Boy - 1958
- The Billiard Ball - 1967
- True Love - 1977
- The Last Answer - 1980
- Lest We Remember - 1982
Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python - Brett Slatkin - 2019
Refactoring UI - Adam Wathan - 2018
Mathematics for Computer Science - Eric Lehman, F. Thomson Leighton, Albert R. Meyer
[#] Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky - 2010 [♫]
The Rust Programming Language - Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
[#] Cracking the Coding Interview - Gayle Laakmann McDowell - 2008
Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features - Dan Bader
[#] Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming - Luciano Ramalho - 2015
Learn Vimscript the Hard Way - Steve Losh
Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought - Drew Neil - 2015
Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim - Drew Neil - 2018
Django for Beginners: Learn web development with Python and Django - William S. Vincent - 2018
Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django - William S. Vincent - 2019
Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python & Django - William S. Vincent - 2018
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python - Kenneth Reitz, Tanya Schlusser
[#] The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader - 2008
Web Hacking 101 - Peter Yaworski
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins [♫]
The Martian - Andy Weir [♫]
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson [♫]
[?] Seveneves - Neal Stephenson - 2015
The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
iWoz - Steve Wozniak [♫]
Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking [♫]
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden - 2019
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom [♫]
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley [♫]
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris [♫]
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris [♫]
Lying - Sam Harris [♫]
Bhagavad Gita - Vyasa [♫]
Tao Te Ching - Laozi [♫]
[#] Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs (SICP) - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
The Jargon File
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition - Andrew Hunt, Davis Thomas - 1999
Code Complete - Steve McConnell - 1993
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Fred Brooks - 1975
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck - Mark Manson - 2016 [♫]

2018

Calculus - Gilbert Strang - 1991
Introduction to Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang - 1993
Linear Algebra Done Right - Sheldon Axler - 1995
Introduction to Probability - Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang - 2014
Ich bin ein Berliner - John F. Kennedy - 1963-06-26
Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing - Neal Stephenson - 2012
Contents
- Arsebestos - 2012
- Slashdot Interview - 2004
- Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 - 2010
- It's All Geek to Me - 2007
- Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out - 2006
- Gresham College Lecture - 2008
- Spew - 1994
- In the Kingdom of Mao Bell (selected excerpts) - 1994
- Under-Constable Proudfoot - 2012
- Mother Earth Mother Board - 1996
- The Salon Interview - 2004
- Blind Secularism - 1993
- Time Magazine Article About Anathem - 2012
- Everything and More Foreword - 2003
- The Great Simoleon Caper - 1995
- Locked In - 2011
- Innovation Starvation - 2011
- Why I Am a Bad Correspondent - 1998
CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems - Lea Verou - 2014
Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python - John Guttag
The Egg - Andy Weir - 2009
They're Made Out of Meat - Terry Bisson - 1991
[#] The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustrup - 1985
Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup - 2008
Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Loiane Groner - 2014
Pro Git - Scott Chacon - 2009
Eloquent JavaScript - Marijn Haverbeke
You Don't Know JS - Kyle Simpson
[#] Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS) - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
[#] Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
[#] The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) (series) - Donald Knuth - 1968-
Contents
- Volume 1: The Basics - 1968
- Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms - 1969
- Volume 3: Sorting and Searching - 1973
- Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1 - 2011
- Volume 4B: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 2 - 2023
[#] Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago
How Linux Works - Brian Ward - 2004
[#] The Linux Programming Interface - Michael Kerrisk
[#] The UNIX Programming Environment - Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike - 1984
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 [♫]
The Code Book - Simon Singh
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson [♫]
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - Al Sweigart
Cracking Code with Python - Al Sweigart - 2018
Atomic Habits - James Clear [♫]
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie - 1948 [♫]
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie - 1936 [♫]
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson [♫]