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

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
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• Artemis (novel) - Andy Weir
• Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
• The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• The Expanse - James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham, Ty Franck)
• The Nix - Nathan Hill
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Biography

• Walter Isaacson
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Innovators
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • The Code Breaker
• 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! - Nelson Dellis

Philosophy and religion

• Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Notes from Underground
  • Crime and Punishment
  • The Idiot
• 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
• The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
• Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects - Bertrand Russell
• Why There Is No God - Armin Navabi

History

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer

Fantasy

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

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
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• What If? - Randall Munroe
• Thing Explainer - Randall Munroe
• Bourne - Robert Ludlum

Children

• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Papers

• Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008.
• Properties of Expanding Universes - Stephen Hawking, 1965.
• A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation? - Stephen Hawking, Thomas Hertog, 2018.
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Eugene Wigner, 1960.
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude E. Shannon, 1948.