Books

I track books that I've read/started on the /bookshelf page. This page is my "to-read" list. Entries prepended by [f] are free-to-read.

Collections

• Open Syllabus Project
• OER Project - Free, Standards Based Online History Curriculum
• Approved Textbooks | American Inst. of Mathematics
• Textbooks - Kansas State University Department of Computer Science
• CK-12 Foundation
• Open Textbook Initiative | American Inst. of Mathematics

Computer science

• C++
  • C++ Primer - Stanley B. Lippman
  • A Tour of C++ - 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
• Python
  • [f] Dive Into Python 3 - Mark Pilgrim
  • [f] Python Data Science Handbook - Jake VanderPlas (GitHub)
  • [f] Intermediate Python - M.Yasoob Ullah Khalid (GitHub)
• Haskell
  • [f] Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Miran Lipovaca
  • [f] Real World Haskell - Bryan O'Sullivan
• Deep learning/ML
  • [f] Machine Learning from Scratch (GitHub)
• Cryptography
  • [f] A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography - By Dan Boneh, Victor Shoup
• *nix
  • [f] Linux Inside - 0xAX
  • [f] The Debian Administrator's Handbook - Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas
  • [f] Debian Reference - Debian Project
  • [f] The Art of Unix Programming - Eric S. Raymond.
  • [f] Bash Guide for Beginners - Machtelt Garrels
  • [f] Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - Mendel Cooper
  • Linux Kernel Development - Robert Love - 2003
• [f] Let's Build a Compiler - Jack Crenshaw
• [f] Game Programming Patterns - Bob Nystrom
• [f] Crafting Interpreters - Bob Nystrom
• [f] Tech Interview Handbook - Tangshun Tay
• [f] How to Make a Computer Operating System - Sammy Pesse
• [f] Adopting Erlang - Tristan Sloughter, Fred Hebert, Evan Vigil-McClanahan
• [f] The Erlang Runtime System (GitHub)
• [f] Essential Image Optimization - Addy Osmani (GitHub)
• [f] Building Secure and Reliable Systems - Google
• [f] The Architecture of Open Source Applications - Authors of four dozen open source applications
• [f] Enterprise Open Source: A Practical Introduction - The Linux Foundation
• [f] An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language - Stephen Wolfram
• [f] A Primer on Bézier Curves (GitHub)
• [f] Readings in Database Systems
• [f] The Book of Shaders (GitHub)
• [f] Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference, and prediction
• [f] Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib - Nicolas P. Rougier
• [f] Web Browser Engineering - Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson
• [f] Mathematics for Machine Learning - Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, Cheng Soon Ong
• [f] Algorithms for Decision Making
• [f] Machine Learning - Tom Mitchell
• [f] DLMF: NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• [f] Conway's Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction
• [f] Essential C
• [f] What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory - Ulrich Drepper (2007)
• [f] Computer Manuals (Hardware and Software) - Internet Archive
• [f] Practical Python Projects - Yasoob Khalid
• [f] quii/learn-go-with-tests: Learn Go with test-driven development
• [f] Python for Data Analysis - Wes McKinney
• [f] Learn TLA+ - Hillel Wayne
• [f] Algorithmica
• [f] Nuclear War Survival Skills - Cresson H. Kearny - 1979
• [f] Physics-based Deep Learning
• [f] The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide - Peter Jay Salzman, Michael Burian, Ori Pomerantz, Bob Mottram, Jim Huang
• [f] The Little Book of Deep Learning - François Fleuret
• [f] Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming - Peter Norvig
• [f] A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing - Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Benjamin S. Lerner, Joe Gibbs Politz
• [f] How to Design Programs - Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi
• [f] Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Mathematics - Brendan W. Sullivan - 2013
• [f] Infinite Descent - Clive Newstead
• [f] Data-Driven Science and Engineering - Steve Brunton, Nathan Kutz
• [f] Ultimate Electronics Book
• [f] The Computer Science Book - Tom Johnson
• [f] Ray Tracing in One Weekend - Peter Shirley - 2018
• [f] Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction - Oscar Levin
• [f] Open Data Structures
• [f] Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems - Ross Anderson
• [f] Nature of Code - Daniel Shiffman
• The Practice of Programming - Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike - 1999
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma
• The Elements of Typographic Style - Robert Bringhurst
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Dragon Book) - Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman
• Operating Systems: Design and Implementation - Andrew S. Tanenbaum - 1987
• Database System Concepts - Avi Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
• Database Management Systems - Raghu Ramakrishnan
• The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System - Marshall Kirk McKusick
• Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time - Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright - 2020
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values - Brian Christian - 2020
• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C - Bruce Schneier - 1993
• Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications - Niels Ferguson, Bruce Schneier, Tadayoshi Kohno - 2010
• TCP/IP Illustrated (series) - W. Richard Stevens
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister - 1987
• The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold - 2008
• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol - Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow - 1991

Mathematics

• [f] Immersive Linear Algebra - J. Ström, K. Åström, T. Akenine-Möller
• [f] Mathematics All-in-One Cheat Sheet - Alex Spartalis
• [f] The Probability and Statistics Cookbook - Matthias Vallentin (Source)
• [f] The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations - Boris A. Kordemsky - 1954
• [f] Linear Algebra - Stephen H. Friedberg, Arnold J. Insel, Lawrence E. Spence
• Disquisitiones Arithmeticae - Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Euclid's Elements
• 102 Combinatorial Problems: From the Training of the USA IMO Team - Titu Andreescu
• 103 Trigonometry Problems: From the Training of the USA IMO Team - Titu Andreescu
• 104 Number Theory Problems: From the Training of the USA IMO Team - Titu Andreescu
• Generatingfunctionology - Herbert S. Wilf
• Proofs and Refutations - Imre Lakatos - 1976
• Textbooks
  • A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory - Kenneth F. Ireland
  • A First Course in Probability - Sheldon M. Ross
  • Introduction to Probability - Dimitri P. Bertsekas
  • An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R - Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani - 2013

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
• Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks - Persi Diaconis
• Pure effect: Direct mind reading and magical artistry - Derren Brown - 2000
• Learned pigs and fireproof women - Ricky Jay - 1986
• Cards as Weapons - Ricky Jay - 1977

Physics

• [f] Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics - Gerald Jay Sussman, Jack Wisdom (reformatted)
• [f] Course of Theoretical Physics - Lev Landau
• [f] Relativity: A Modern Primer - Kevin Han
• Fundamentals of Physics - David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker - 1960
• University Physics with Modern Physics - Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman - 2004

Science

• 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
  • Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity - Sean Carroll
  • General Relativity - Robert M. Wald
  • Fundamentals of Astrodynamics - Roger R. Bate
  • 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
• Understanding Physics - Isaac Asimov - 1966
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays - Stephen Hawking - 1993
• Black Holes and Time Warps - Kip Thorne - 1994

Science fiction

• [f] The Rapture of the Nerds - Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross - 2012
• [f] Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow - 2003
• [f] Vernor Vinge's annotated copy of A Fire Upon the Deep
• Isaac Asimov
  • Galactic Empire series
• Arthur C. Clarke
  • Rendezvous with Rama
• Robert A. Heinlein
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Starship Troopers
• Neal Stephenson
  • The Big U - 1984
  • Reamde - 2011
  • The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - 1995
  • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - 2017
  • Termination Shock - 2021
  • Anathem - 2008
  • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell - 2019
• 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
• Greg Egan
  • Diaspora - 1997
  • Incandescence - 2008
  • Distress - 1995
  • Schild's Ladder - 2002
  • Axiomatic - 1995
  • Quarantine - 1992
• Short stories
  • The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - 1951
• Contact - Carl Sagan
• The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
• The Expanse (series) - James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck)
• The Nix - Nathan Hill
• The Mars Project - Wernher von Braun
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 1931
• The Difference Engine - William Gibson, Bruce Sterling - 1990
• The Last Man - Mary Shelley - 1826
• The October Country: Stories - Ray Bradbury - 1955
• The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson - 2020
• The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick
• Roadside Picnic - Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky - 1971
• Dead Mountaineer's Hotel - Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky - 1970
• The Doomed City - Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky - 1972
• Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delany - 1966
• The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi - 2015
• Remembrance of Earth's Past - Liu Cixin - 2006-2010
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu - 2016
• The Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle - 1957
• Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - 2005
• Amphibian Man - Alexander Belayev - 1928
• The Air Seller - Alexander Belayev - 1929
• Ariel - Alexander Belayev - 1941
• The Garin Death Ray - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy - 1927
• The Island of Doctor Moreau - H. G. Wells - 1896
• To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers
• Metropolis - Thea von Harbou - 1925
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - 1985
• Flowers for Algernon (novel) - Daniel Keyes - 1966
• Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge - 2006
• Dark Matter - Blake Crouch - 2016
• Recursion - Blake Crouch - 2019
• A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr. - 1959
• Exodus: The Archimedes Engine - Peter F. Hamilton - 2024
• Accelerando - Charles Stross - 2005
• Two Planets - Kurd Lasswitz - 1897
• The Murderbot Diaries (series) - Martha Wells - 2017-
• Culture (series) - Iain M. Banks
• Hyperion Cantos (series) - Dan Simmons
• Silo (series) - Hugh Howey - 2011-
• Ware Tetralogy (series) - Rudy Rucker - 1982-2000
• Wayfarers (series) - Becky Chambers
• Monk and Robot (series) - Becky Chambers
• Red Rising Saga (series) - Pierce Brown

Novels

• [f] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• [f] Erebus: The Story of a Ship - Michael Palin - 2018
• [f] Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King - 1982
• [f] The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand - 1943
• [f] Deliverance - James Dickey - 1970
• [f] Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - 1929
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Witcher (series) - Andrzej Sapkowski
• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• The Hunger Games (series) - Suzanne Collins - 2008-
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
• The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - 1980
• The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov - 1928
• All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot - 1970
• The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone - 1961
• American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis - 1991
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - 1972
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera - 1984
• Immortality - Milan Kundera - 1990
• The Joke - Milan Kundera - 1967
• The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly - 2005
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson - 1971
• Millennium series - Stieg Larsson
• Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman - 1996
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - 1962
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 2003
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini - 2007
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• Hyouka - Honobu Yonezawa - 2001
• A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Newton Peck - 1972
• Daemon series - Daniel Suarez - 2006
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - 2009
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris - 2018
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy - 2006
• No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy - 2005
• Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy - 1985
• Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - 1985
• It Ends with Us - Colleen Hoover - 2016
• Anxious People - Fredrik Backman - 2019
• The Bug - Ellen Ullman - 2003
• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - 1989
• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane - 1895
• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe - 1719
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1883
• Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era - Eiji Yoshikawa - 1935
• Asian Saga - James Clavell - 1962-1993
• Hawaii - James A. Michener - 1959
• The Covenant - James A. Michener - 1980
• The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis - 1945
• The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño - 1998
• 2666 - Roberto Bolaño - 2004
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal - 2017
• Circe - Madeline Miller - 2018
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller - 2011
• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami - 1987
• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 2003
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac - 1957
• Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher - 2007
• The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie - 1988
• The Jungle - Upton Sinclair - 1906
• Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis - 1992
• The Mummy! - Jane Webb - 1827
• Lanark: A Life in Four Books - Alasdair Gray - 1981
• Poor Things - Alasdair Gray - 1992
• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 1958
• The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy - 1984
• Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf - 1925
• Ulysses - James Joyce - 1922
• Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 1959
• Junkie - William S. Burroughs - 1953
• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn - 2012
• Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates - 1961
• Stoner - John Williams - 1965
• In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust - 1913-1927
• Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin - 1968–2001
• Airframe - Michael Crichton - 1996
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - 1996
• The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino - 2005
• The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - 2002
• The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah - 2015
• The Women - Kristin Hannah - 2024
• Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice - 1976
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
• Coin Locker Babies - Ryū Murakami - 1980
• Satantango - László Krasznahorkai - 1985
• Bobiverse (series) - Dennis E. Taylor

Short stories

• Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 1999
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - 1892
• The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien - 1977
• Seven Gothic Tales - Karen Blixen - 1934

Historical fiction

• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - 2005

Non-fiction novels

• The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes - 1981

Fantasy

• Perfume - Patrick Süskind
• The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
• Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
• Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
• Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift - 1726
• American Gods - Neil Gaiman - 2001
• The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini - 2003-2011
• Cradle Series - Will Wight

Non-fiction

• Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
• Watchmaking - George Daniels
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
• Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare - Isaac Asimov
• Asimov's Chronology of the World - Isaac Asimov
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay - 1841
• Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer - 1997
• Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins - Garry Kasparov - 2017
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing - 1959
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker - Kevin D. Mitnick - 2011
• Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams - Barbara Sher - 2006
• How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler - 1940
• Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman - 1985
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard Feynman - 1964
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - Richard Feynman - 1985
• What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman - 1988
• Why Evolution is True - Jerry Coyne - 2009
• The Know-It-All - A. J. Jacobs - 2004
• The Year of Living Biblically - A. J. Jacobs - 2007
• The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs - 2022
• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates - 2015
• The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil - 1999
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs - Ken Kocienda - 2018
• The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence - Gavin de Becker - 1997
• This Is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay - 2017
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert - 2014
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling - 2018
• The Working Poor: Invisible in America - David K. Shipler - 2004
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy - 1984
• Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by - Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb - 1981
• Manufacturing Consent - Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky - 1988
• Annapurna: A Woman's Place - Arlene Blum - 1980
• The Singularity Is Near - Ray Kurzweil - 2005
• 102 Minutes - Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn - 2005
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal - Nick Bilton - 2013
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann - 2017
• The Machinery of Life - David S. Goodsell - 1992
• The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology - Horace Freeland Judson - 1979
• Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall - 2015
• King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery - G. Wayne Miller - 2000
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Steve Brusatte - 2018
• Technological Slavery - Theodore Kaczynski - 2010
• The Peregrine - J.A. Baker - 1967
• World Order - Henry Kissinger - 2014
• Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing - Peter Robison - 2021
• Cinema Speculation - Quentin Tarantino - 2022
• Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting - Syd Field - 1979
• Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting - Robert McKee - 1997
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo - 2018
• John Adams - David McCullough - 2001
• 1776 - David McCullough - 2005
• The Wright Brothers - David McCullough - 2015
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey K. Liker - 2003
• Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes - Paul Watzlawick - 1967
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert Sapolsky - 2017
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology - Chris Miller - 2022
• How to Solve It - George Pólya - 1945
• Selected Non-Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges - 1999
• The Disappearing Act - Florence de Changy - 2021
• Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Hannah Fry - 2018
• Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle - Daniel L. Everett - 2008
• Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement - Katy Bowman - 2014
• Decoding the Heavens - Jo Marchant - 2008
• The Eighth Day of Creation - Horace Freeland Judson - 1979

History

• Histories - Herodotus - 430 BC
• Rights of Man - Thomas Paine - 1791
• Decisive Moments in History - Stefan Zweig - 1927
• White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg - 2016
• Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - John Bloom - 2016
• Band of Brothers- Stephen E. Ambrose - 1992
• Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History - William Safire - 1992
• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb - Richard Rhodes - 1995
• Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry - Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff - 2015
• The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop - 2001
• Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft - G. Pascal Zachary - 1994
• Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt - 1963
• They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 - Milton Mayer - 1955
• Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen - 1995
• Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives - Alan Bullock - 1991

Prehistory

• Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock - 1995
• Magicians of the Gods - Graham Hancock - 2015

Economics

• Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber - 2011
• The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson - 2008
• The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy - Mervyn A. King - 2016
• Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing - Jacob Goldstein - 2020
• Naked Series - Charles Wheelan - 2002-2016
• The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen - 1899
• Principles of Corporate Finance - Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen, Alex Edmans - 1980
• Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History - Liam Vaughan - 2020
• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt - Michael Lewis - 2014
• The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - 1776
• Das Kapital - Karl Marx - 1867-1894
• Knowledge and Decisions - Thomas Sowell - 1980
• The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek - 1944
• Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt - 1946
• Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson - 2012

Autobiography/Memoir

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou - 1969
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X, Alex Haley - 1965
• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson - 2014
• What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography - Bruce Dickinson - 2017
• Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir - Dave Mustaine - 2010
• I. Asimov: A Memoir - Isaac Asimov - 1994
• The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner - Daniel Ellsberg - 2017
• Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers - Daniel Ellsberg - 2002
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed - Ben R. Rich - 1994
• The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner - Daniel Ellsberg - 2017
• Confessions - Saint Augustine - 397-400 AD
• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight - 2016
• Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey - 1968
• Know My Name: A Memoir - Chanel Miller - 2019
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano - 1789
• Finding Me - Viola Davis - 2022
• Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia - Joseph D. Pistone - 1988
• How To Build A Car - Adrian Newey - 2017
• The Hiding Place - Corrie ten Boom - 1971
• Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet - Brian Shul - 1991
• Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir - Werner Herzog - 2022
• Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela - 1994
• Dark Squares: How Chess Saved My Life - Danny Rensch - 2025

Biography

• Walter Isaacson
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - 2003
  • The Innovators - 2014
  • The Code Breaker - 2021
  • Elon Musk - 2023
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou - 2018
• American Prometheus - Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin - 2005
• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman - 2017
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - Ray Monk - 1990
• The Power Broker - Robert Caro - 1974
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy - Eric Metaxas - 2010
• Truman - David McCullough - 1992
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert Caro - 1982-
• Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin - Paul Cronin - 2003
• Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians - Ettore Biocca, Helena Valero - 1965

Philosophy

• [f] The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1868
• [f] The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 1880
• [f] The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - 1887
• [f] Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant - 1781
• [f] Critique of Practical Reason - Immanuel Kant - 1788
• [f] Critique of Judgement - Immanuel Kant- 1790
• [f] Politics - Aristotle - 400 BC
• [f] Republic - Plato - 375 BCE
• [f] Metaphysics - Aristotle
• [f] Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes - 1651
• Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1938
• A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell - 1946
• A Secular Age - Charles Taylor - 2007
• The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell - 1912
• Against Method - Paul Feyerabend - 1975
• The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch - 2011
• Animal Liberation - Peter Singer - 1975
• The Life You Can Save - Peter Singer - 2009
• The Art of Being Right - Arthur Schopenhauer - 1831
• The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer - 1818
• Blue and Brown Books - Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1833-1935
• On Certainty - Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1969
• Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard - 1981
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life - Daniel Dennett - 1995
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel Dennett - 2006
• Consciousness Explained - Daniel Dennett - 1991
• Difference and Repetition - Gilles Deleuze - 1968
• Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard - 1981
• Violence and the Sacred - René Girard - 1972
• I See Satan Fall Like Lightning - René Girard - 1999

Religion

• [f] Quran
• [f] Vedas
• [f] Guru Granth Sahib
• [f] Kama Sutra - Vātsyāyana
• Book of Kells - 800 AD
• Analects - Confucius - 475–221 BCE
• Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis - 1952
• The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1937
• Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1939
• Letters and Papers from Prison - Dietrich Bonhoeffer - 1951
• The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt - 2012
• The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict - Josh McDowell - 1972

Politics

• [f] The Papers of Abraham Lincoln
• [f] The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• [f] The Papers of James Madison
• [f] The Washington Papers
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein - 2007
• Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped - Garry Kasparov - 2015
• A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order - Richard N. Haass - 2017
• Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville - 1835
• Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman - 1910
• What's the Matter with Kansas? - Thomas Frank - 2004
• The State and Revolution - Vladimir Lenin - 1917
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Lenin - 1916
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott - 1998
• La Loi (The Law) - Frédéric Bastiat - 1850

Children

• Moomins - Tove Jansson - 1945
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - 1865
• Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll - 1871
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - 1884
• Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery - 1908
• Animorphs series - Katherine Applegate - 1996
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume - 1972
• Have Space Suit—Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein - 1958
• Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss - 1960
• The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss - 1957
• Charlotte's Web - E. B. White - 1952
• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster - 1961
• Danny Dunn - Raymond Abrashkin, Jay Williams - 1956
• The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet - Eleanor Cameron - 1954
• Treehouse (series) - Andy Griffiths - 2011-
• Just! (series) - Andy Griffiths - 1998
• Matilda - Roald Dahl - 1988
• The BFG - Roald Dahl - 1982
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - 1964
• The Witches - Roald Dahl - 1983
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
• Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls - 1961
• Picture books
  • Where's Wally? (Where's Waldo?) - Martin Handford - 1987–
  • The Snail and the Whale - Julia Donaldson - 2003
  • Stick Man - Julia Donaldson - 2008
  • The Gruffalo - Julia Donaldson - 1999
  • Room on the Broom - Julia Donaldson - 2001
  • Giraffes Can't Dance - Giles Andreae - 2012

Hacking

• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon - Kim Zetter - 2014
• The Hacker Playbook: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing - Peter Kim - 2014

Chess

• My 60 Memorable Games - Bobby Fischer - 1969
• Logical Chess Move By Move: Every Move Explained - Irving Chernev
• How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course - Jeremy Silman
• The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery - Jeremy Silman
• Fundamental Chess Endings - Karsten Müller, Frank Lamprecht - 2001
• Endgame Strategy - Mikhail Shereshevsky - 1985

Music

• Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal - Ian Christe - 2003
• Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture - Deena Weinstein - 1991

Horror

• The Turn of the Screw - Henry James - 1898

Poetry

• A Thousand Mornings: Poems - Mary Oliver - 2012

Plays

• The Tempest - William Shakespeare - 1610

Self-help

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
• The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
• The Law of Success - Napoleon Hill
• Everything Is Fucked - Mark Manson
• Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday - 2016
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman - 2010
• You Can Negotiate Anything - Herb Cohen - 1982
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey - 1989

Essays

• A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf - 1929

Misc

• Iliad - Homer
• Odyssey - Homer
• Paradise Lost - John Milton
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• Bourne (series) - Robert Ludlum
• Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker
• A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America - Kurt Vonnegut - 2005
• An Instinct for Dragons - David E. Jones
• The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer - 1387
• The Society of Mind - Marvin Minsky - 1986
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks - 1985
• Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes - Jacques Ellul - 1962
• John Dies at the End - David Wong - 2011
• Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber - 2018
• Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber - 2011
• Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace - 2005
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace - 1997
• The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin - 1839
• The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - Charles Darwin - 1871
• The Anarchist Cookbook - William Powell - 1971
• The Animate and the Inanimate - William James Sidis - 1925
• Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott - 1884

Pseudoscience

• Zetetic astronomy: Earth not a globe! - Samuel Birley Rowbotham "Parallax" - 1881

Lipogrammatic

• [f] Gadsby - Ernest Vincent Wright - 1939
• [f] La Disparition (A Void) - Georges Perec - 1969

Atlases

• National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World - National Geographic Society - 1990
• The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World - The Times - 1990
• Oxford Atlas of the World - Oxford University Press - 1992

Dictionaries

• English
  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary - 1843
  • The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary - 2005
  • Oxford English Dictionary - 1884
  • Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) - 1948
  • A Dictionary of Modern English Usage - H. W. Fowler - 1926
  • Garner's Modern American Usage (GMEU) - Bryan A. Garner - 1998
  • Roget's Thesaurus - Peter Mark Roget - 1805
  • McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs - Richard A. Spears - 2003
• Japanese Grammar Dictionary (series) - Seiichi Makino
• The Klingon Dictionary - Marc Okrand - 1985

Papers

• Turing's proof
• On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems - Kurt Gödel - 1931
• Properties of Expanding Universes - Stephen Hawking - 1965
• A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? - Stephen Hawking, Thomas Hertog - 2018
• Best Paper Awards in Computer Science
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine - Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page - 1998
• How did Dennis Ritchie Produce his PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery - David F. Brailsford, Brian W. Kernighan, William A. Ritchie - 2022
• The UNIX Time-Sharing System - Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson
• Attention Is All You Need
• Jewish Problems - Tanya Khovanova, Alexey Radul - 2011
• Donald Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices - 2003