Books

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Physics and Non-Fiction

• Carl Sagan

  • Cosmos
  • Pale Blue Dot

• Stephen Hawking

  • A Brief History of Time
  • The Universe in a Nutshell
  • God Created the Integers
  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions
  • A Briefer History of Time
  • The Grand Design
  • The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe

• Max Tegmark

  • Our Mathematical Universe
  • Life 3.0

• Brian Greene

  • The Elegant Universe
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos
  • The Hidden Reality

• Richard Dawkins

  • The Selfish Gene
  • The God Delusion
  • The Extended Phenotype
  • The Blind Watchmaker

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
  • The Pluto Files
  • Death by Black Hole
  • Welcome to the Universe

• Michio Kaku

  • Hyperspace
  • Parallel Worlds
  • Physics of the Impossible
  • Physics of the Future
  • The Future of the Mind
  • The Future of Humanity
  • Beyond Einstein

• Leonard Susskind

  • The Theoretical Minimum
  • The Black Hole War
  • The Cosmic Landscape

• The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman.

• On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin.

• Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein.

• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom.

• Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Martin gardner.

• The End of Faith - Sam Harris.

• Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe - Martin J. Rees.

• Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - J.E. Gordon.

• Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants - John Drury Clark.

• Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God - Armin Navabi.

Novels

• Sci-Fi

  • Isaac Asimov

    • Foundation series
    • Robot series
    • Galactic Empire series

  • Arthur C. Clarke

    • Space Odyssey
    • Rendezvous with Rama

  • Robert A. Heinlein

    • Stranger in a Strange Land
    • Starship Troopers

  • Neal Stephenson

    • Snow Crash
    • Cryptonomicon
    • Reamde
    • Seveneves

  • Douglas Adams

    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    • Dirk Gently

  • Philip K. Dick

    • Ubik
    • A Scanner Darkly
    • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  • Orson Scott Card

    • Ender's Game

  • Frank Herbert

    • Dune

  • Jules Verne

    • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    • Around the World in Eighty Days
    • Journey to the Center of the Earth

• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien.

• The Witcher - Andrzej Sapkowski.

• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell.

• Contact - Carl Sagan.

• Dune - Frank Herbert.

• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.

• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.

• Neuromancer - William Gibson.

• Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane.

• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut.

• The Martian - Andy Weir.

• The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells.

• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins.

• The Nix - Nathan Hill.

• Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell.

Biography

• Walter Isaacson

  • Einstein: His Life and Universe
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Innovators
  • Leonardo da Vinci

• Hackers & Painters - Paul Graham.

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance.

• The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll.

• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton.

• My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla.

• Mud, Sweat, and Tears - Bear Grylls.

• iWoz - Steve Wozniak.

• Permanent Record - Edward Snowden.

Mathematics

• Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh.
• The Code Book - Simon Singh.
• Infinity and the Mind - Rudy Rucker.
• In Pursuit of the Unknown - Ian Stewart.

Mathematics Textbooks

• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Princeton University Press.
• Linear Algebra Done Right - Sheldon Axler.

Programming and CS

• AI, ML

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig.

• Linux

  • The Unix Programming Environment - Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike.
  • Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment - W. Richard Stevens.
  • The Linux Programming Interface - Michael Kerrisk.
  • How Linux Works - Brian Ward.

• C

  • The C Programming Language (K&R) - Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie.

• C++

  • C++ Primer - Stanley B. Lippman.
  • Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup.
  • 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.

• Algorithms

  • Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein. (GitHub: kevin-wayne/algs4)
  • The Art of Computer Programming - Donald Knuth.
  • The Algorithm Design Manual - Steven S. Skiena.
  • Algorithms - Sanjoy Dasgupta.
  • Algorithms Illuminated: Part 1: The Basics - Tim Roughgarden.
  • Algorithms Illuminated (Part 2): Graph Algorithms and Data Structures - Tim Roughgarden.
  • Algorithms Illuminated (Part 3): Greedy Algorithms and Dynamic Programming - Tim Roughgarden.
  • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian.
  • Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Loiane Groner.

• JavaScript

• CSS

  • Refactoring UI - Adam Wathan.

• Vim

  • Learning the vi and Vim Editors - Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, Linda Lamb.
  • Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought - Drew Neil.

• Python

  • Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming - Luciano Ramalho. (GitHub: fluentpython/example-code)
  • Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python - Brett Slatkin. (GitHub: bslatkin/effectivepython)
  • Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features - Dan Bader.
  • Django for Beginners: Learn web development with Django 2.0 - William S. Vincent.
  • Django for Professionals: Production websites with Python & Django - William S. Vincent.
  • Django for APIs: Build web APIs with Python & Django - William S. Vincent.

• Mathematics for CS

• Haskell

  • Real World Haskell: Code You Can Believe In - Bryan O'Sullivan.

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold.

• The Mythical Man-Month - Fred Brooks.

• Code Complete - Steve McConnell.

• Cracking the Coding Interview - Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

• The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt, David Thomas.

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma.

• Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman.

• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days - Jessica Livingston.

Entrepreneurship and Life

• Malcolm Gladwell

  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  • Outliers
  • The Tipping Point

• Zero to One - Peter Thiel.

• Our Final Invention - James Barrat.

• Start With Why - Simon Sinek.

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff.

• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie.

• The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene.

• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill.

• The Law of Success - Napoleon Hill.

• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Amy Wallace, Edwin Catmull.

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F ck - Mark Manson.

• Everything Is F cked - Mark Manson.

• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter.

• 12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson.

Recreational Mathematics

• Martin Gardner

  • The Colossal Book of Mathematics
  • Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions
  • The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
  • Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
  • The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
  • Mathematical Circus
  • Mathematical Magic Show
  • New Mathematical Diversions

• Ian Stewart

  • In Pursuit of the Unknown
  • Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
  • Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
  • Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics
  • Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers

• Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks - Arthur T. Benjamin.

• 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems - Henry Ernest Dudeney.

• Magic Squares And Cubes - William Symes Andrews.

• More Puzzles to Puzzle You - Shakuntala Devi.

• Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget - Nelson Dellis.

Philosophy and Religion

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

• Marcus Aurelius

  • Meditations

• The Bhagavad Gita - Eknath Easwaran.

• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl.

• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca.

• Enchiridion - Epictetus.

• The Discourses - Epictetus.

Physics 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.

Misc

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney.
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson.
• Iliad - Homer
• Odyssey - Homer
• Paradise Lost - John Milton.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig.

Papers

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto.
• Properties of Expanding Universes - Stephen Hawking.
• A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? - Stephen Hawking, Thomas Hertog.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Eugene Wigner.