Books

I track books that I've read/started on the /bookshelf page. This page is my "to-read" shelf.

Free-to-read

CS

• Python
  • Dive Into Python 3 - Mark Pilgrim
  • Python Data Science Handbook - Jake VanderPlas (GitHub)
  • Intermediate Python - M.Yasoob Ullah Khalid (GitHub)
• Haskell
  • Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Miran Lipovaca
  • Real World Haskell - Bryan O'Sullivan
• Deep learning/ML
  • Machine Learning from Scratch (GitHub)
• Cryptography
  • A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography - By Dan Boneh, Victor Shoup
• Linux
  • Linux Inside - 0xAX
  • The Debian Administrator's Handbook - Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas
  • Debian Reference - Debian Project
• The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond. (reformatted)
• Bash Guide for Beginners - Machtelt Garrels
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - Mendel Cooper
• Let's Build a Compiler - Jack Crenshaw
• Game Programming Patterns - Bob Nystrom
• Crafting Interpreters - Bob Nystrom
• Tech Interview Handbook - Tangshun Tay
• How to Make a Computer Operating System - Sammy Pesse
• Adopting Erlang - Tristan Sloughter, Fred Hebert, Evan Vigil-McClanahan
• The Erlang Runtime System (GitHub)
• Essential Image Optimization - Addy Osmani (GitHub)
• Building Secure and Reliable Systems - Google
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications - Authors of four dozen open source applications
• Enterprise Open Source: A Practical Introduction - The Linux Foundation
• An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language - Stephen Wolfram
• A Primer on Bézier Curves (GitHub)
• Readings in Database Systems
• The Book of Shaders (GitHub)
• Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference, and prediction

Mathematics

• Immersive Linear Algebra - J. Ström, K. Åström, T. Akenine-Möller
• Mathematics All-in-One Cheat Sheet - Alex Spartalis
• The Probability and Statistics Cookbook - Matthias Vallentin (Source)

Physics

• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics - Gerald Jay Sussman, Jack Wisdom (reformatted)

Philosophy

• The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
• The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
• The Critique of Practical Reason - Immanuel Kant
• Critique of Judgement - Immanuel Kant

Novels

• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

CS

• C++
  • C++ Primer - Stanley B. Lippman
  • A Tour of C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup
  • The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 - Scott Meyers
  • Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied - Andrei Alexandrescu
  • More Exceptional C++: 40 New Engineering Puzzles, Programming Problems, and Solutions - Herb Sutter
  • The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference - Nicolai M. Josuttis
  • C++ Templates: The Complete Guide - David Vandevoorde
• Java
  • Effective Java Programming Language Guide - Joshua Bloch
  • Head First Java - Kathy Sierra
• Vim
  • Learning the vi and Vim Editors - Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma
• The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst

Mathematics

• Disquisitiones Arithmeticae - Carl Friedrich Gauss

Recreational mathematics

• Ian Stewart
  • Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
  • Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
  • Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers
• 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems - Henry Ernest Dudeney

Physics and non-fiction

• Carl Sagan
  • Pale Blue Dot
• Stephen Hawking
  • The Universe in a Nutshell
  • God Created the Integers
  • A Briefer History of Time
  • The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
• Max Tegmark
  • Our Mathematical Universe
• Brian Greene
  • The Elegant Universe
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos
  • The Hidden Reality
• Richard Dawkins
  • The Extended Phenotype
  • The Blind Watchmaker
• Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The Pluto Files
  • Welcome to the Universe
• Michio Kaku
  • Hyperspace
  • Parallel Worlds
  • Physics of the Future
  • The Future of the Mind
  • The Future of Humanity
  • Beyond Einstein
• Leonard Susskind
  • The Theoretical Minimum
  • The Cosmic Landscape
• Textbooks
  • Gravitation - Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, John Archibald Wheeler
  • A First Course in General Relativity - Bernard Schutz
  • Fundamentals of Astrodynamics - Roger R. Bate
  • Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity - Sean Carroll
  • General Relativity - Robert M. Wald
  • Rocket Propulsion Elements - George P. Sutton
  • Elements of Propulsion: Gas Turbines and Rockets - Jack D. Mattingly
• Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Novels

• Sci-Fi
  • Isaac Asimov
    • Galactic Empire series
  • Arthur C. Clarke
    • Rendezvous with Rama
  • Robert A. Heinlein
    • Stranger in a Strange Land
    • Starship Troopers
  • Neal Stephenson
    • Reamde
    • The Diamond Age
    • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
    • Termination Shock
    • Anathem
    • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
  • Douglas Adams
    • Dirk Gently
  • Philip K. Dick
    • A Scanner Darkly
  • Jules Verne
    • Around the World in Eighty Days
    • Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Andy Weir
    • Artemis
  • Contact - Carl Sagan
  • The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
  • The Expanse - James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck)
  • The Nix - Nathan Hill
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski
• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
• Bobiverse Series - Dennis E. Taylor

Biography

• Walter Isaacson
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • The Innovators
  • The Code Breaker
  • Elon Musk - 2023

Entrepreneurship and life

• Malcolm Gladwell
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
• The Law of Success - Napoleon Hill
• Everything Is Fucked - Mark Manson

Philosophy

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Idiot
  • The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Fantasy

• Perfume - Patrick Süskind
• The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
• Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

Children

• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Misc

• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• Iliad - Homer
• Odyssey - Homer
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• Bourne - Robert Ludlum

Papers

• Properties of Expanding Universes - Stephen Hawking (1965)
• A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? - Stephen Hawking, Thomas Hertog (2018)