~/bookshelf
This page reads a JSON file that I use to track my reading list. For reviews, please visit my weblog.
Includes: Books, historically important manifestos, speeches, essays, short stories, papers, and audio dramas.
Excludes: Most reference works such as textbooks, dictionaries, atlases, and magazines.
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
2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 - Various authors - 1941-
- #1 - The Three Musketeers - 1941
- #10 - Robinson Crusoe - 1943
- #27 - The Adventures of Marco Polo - 1946
- Great Illustrated Classics - Various authors - 1977-
- Around the World in 80 Days - 1977
- The Time Machine - 1983
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
- 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
- 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 - Unknown
- Diamond Sutra - Unknown - Unknown
- L'anus solaire (The Solar Anus) - Georges Bataille - 1927
- Seneca's Consolations - Seneca - 40-45 AD
- 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
- 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 (The Wild Robot #1) - Peter Brown - 2016
- The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot #2) - Peter Brown - 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
- 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-
- 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
- *Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science - Harry Lewis - 2021
- Prior Analytics - Aristotle - ∼350 BCE
- The True Method - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1677
- Sketch of the Analytical Engine - L. F. Menabrea, with Notes by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace - 1843
- An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities - George Boole - 1854
- Mathematical Problems - David Hilbert - 1900
- On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem - Alan Mathison Turing - 1936
- A Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine - Howard Hathaway Aiken - 1937
- A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits - Claude Shannon - 1938
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity - Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts - 1943
- First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC - John von Neumann - 1945
- As We May Think - Vannevar Bush - 1945
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude Shannon - 1948
- Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes - R. W. Hamming - 1950
- Computing Machinery and Intelligence - Alan Mathison Turing - 1950
- The Best Way to Design an Automatic Calculating Machine - Maurice Wilkes - 1951
- The Education of a Computer - Grace Murray Hopper - 1952
- On the Shortest Spanning Subtree of a Graph and the Traveling Salesman Problem - Joseph B. Kruskal, Jr. - 1956
- The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization - Frank Rosenblatt - 1958
- Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation - Norbert Wiener - 1960
- Man–Computer Symbiosis - J. C. R. Licklider - 1960
- Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine - John McCarthy - 1960
- Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework - Douglas C. Engelbart - 1962
- An Experimental Time-Sharing System - Fernando Corbató, Marjorie Merwin Daggett, and Robert C. Daley - 1962
- Sketchpad - Ivan E. Sutherland - 1963
- Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits - Gordon Moore - 1965
- Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Program Control - Edsger Dijkstra - 1965
- ELIZA—A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine - Joseph Weizenbaum - 1966
- The Structure of the “THE”-Multiprogramming System - Edsger Dijkstra - 1968
- Go To Statement Considered Harmful - Edsger Dijkstra - 1968
- Gaussian Elimination is Not Optimal - Volker Strassen - 1969
- An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming - C. A. R. Hoare - 1969
- A Relational Model of Large Shared Data Banks - Edgar F. Codd - 1970
- Managing the Development of Large Software Systems - Winston W. Royce - 1970
- The Complexity of Theorem-Proving Procedures - Stephen A. Cook - 1971
- A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval - Karen Spärck Jones - 1972
- Reducibility among Combinatorial Problems - Richard Karp - 1972
- The Unix Time-Sharing System - Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson - 1974
- A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication - Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn - 1974
- Programming with Abstract Data Types - Barbara Liskov and Stephen Zilles - 1974
- The Mythical Man-Month - Frederick C. Brooks - 1975
- Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks - Robert Metcalfe and David R. Boggs - 1976
- New Directions in Cryptography - Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman - 1976
- Big Omicron and Big Omega and Big Theta - Donald E. Knuth - 1976
- Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs - Richard DeMillo, Richard Lipton, and Alan Perlis - 1977
- A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems - Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman - 1978
- How to Share a Secret - Adi Shamir - 1979
- Very Short Introductions (series) - Oxford University Press - 1995-
- #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".
- 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 ♫
- 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
- 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
- The Sandman: Act III - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs ♫
- Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
- Permutation City - Greg Egan - 1994
- Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang - 2019 ♫
- Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang - 2002 ♫
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- *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
- Neuromancer - William Gibson ♫
- My System - Aron Nimzowitsch
- FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings - Paul Van der Sterren
- *The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson ♫
- 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
- 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 Sandman: Act II - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs ♫
- 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
- 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 - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs ♫
- 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 UNIX Command Language - Ken Thompson - 1976
- 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
- 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 ♫
- 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 (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #1) - Jeff Kinney - 2007
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2) - Jeff Kinney - 2008 ♫
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #3) - Jeff Kinney - 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 - Tim Roughgarden - 2017-2020
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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) - Donald Knuth
- 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 - 1936-10 ♫
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson ♫
2017
- Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants - John Drury Clark - 1972
- *Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers - Claude Shannon, Aaron D. Wyner (Editor), N.J.A. Sloane (Editor) - 1993
- A mathematical theory of communication - 1948
- Communication theory of secrecy systems - 1949
- Analogue of the Vemam system for continuous time series
- The best detection of pulses
- (with B. M. Oliver and J. R. Pierce) The philosophy of PCM
- Communication in the presence of noise
- Communication theory - exposition of fundamentals
- General treatment of the problem of coding
- The lattice theory of information
- Discussion of preceding three papers
- Recent developments in communication theory
- Prediction and entropy of printed English
- Efficient coding of a binary source with one very infrequent symbol
- Information theory
- The zero error capacity of a noisy channel
- Certain results in coding theory for noisy channels
- Some geometrical results in channel capacity
- A note on a partial ordering for communication channels
- Channels with side information at the transmitter
- Probability of error for optimal codes in a Gaussian channel
- Coding theorems for a discrete source with a fidelity criterion
- Two-way communication channels
- (with R. G. Gallager and E. R. Berlekamp) Lower bounds to error probability for coding on discrete memoryless channels I
- (with R. G. Gallager and E. R. Berlekamp) Lower bounds to error probability for coding on discrete memoryless channels II
- Letter to Vannevar Bush
- (with B. M. Oliver) Circuits for a P.C.M. transmitter and receiver
- Some topics in information theory
- Concavity of transmission rate as a function of input probabilities
- The rate of approach to ideal coding
- The bandwagon
- A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits
- Mathematical theory of the differential analyzer
- The theory and design of linear differential equation machines
- (With John Riordan) The number of two-terminal series-parallel networks
- Network rings
- A theorem on coloring the lines of a network
- The synthesis of two-terminal switching circuits
- (with H. W. Bode) A simplified derivation of linear least square smoothing and prediction theory
- Programming a computer for playing chess - 1950
- A chess-playing machine
- Memory requirements in a telephone exchange
- A symmetrical notation for numbers
- A method of power or signal transmission to a moving vehicle
- Presentation of a maze solving machine
- A mind-reading (?) machine
- The potentialities of computers
- Throbac I
- (with E. F. Moore) Machine aid for switching circuit design
- Computers and automata
- Realization of all 16 switching functions of two variables requires 18 contacts
- (with D. W. Hagelbarger) A relay laboratory outfit for colleges
- (edited jointly with John McCarthy) Automata Studies (Preface, etc.)
- A universal Turing machine with two internal states
- (with Karel de Leeuw, Edward F. Moore and N. Shapiro) Computability by probabilistic machines
- Some results on ideal rectifier circuits
- The simultaneous synthesis of s switching functions of n variables
- (with D. W. Hagelbarger) Concavity of resistance functions
- Game playing machines
- (with Peter Elias and Amiel Feinstein) A note on the maximum flow through a network
- (with Edward F. Moore) Reliable circuits using less reliable relays I
- (with Edward F. Moore) Reliable circuits using less reliable relays II
- Von Neumann's contributions to automata theory
- Computers and automation - Progress and promise in the twentieth century
- Claude Shannon's no-drop juggling diorama
- Scientific aspects of juggling
- The use of the Lakatos-Hickman relay in a subscriber sender
- A study of the deflection mechanism and some results on rate finders
- Backlash in overdamped systems
- Some experimental results on the deflection mechanism
- (with C. L. Dolph) The transient behavior of a large number of four-terminal unilateral linear networks connected in tandem
- Review of "Transformations on Lattices and Structures of Logic" by Stephen A. Kiss
- Review of "Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine" by Norbert Wiener
- Review of "Description of a Relay Calculator", by the staff of the [Harvard] Computation Laboratory
- (with E. F. Moore) The relay circuit analyzer
- (with E. F. Moore) The relay circuit synthesizer
- An algebra for theoretical genetics
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System - Satoshi Nakamoto - 2008
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - Eugene Wigner - 1960
- Dubliners - James Joyce - 1914
- The Sisters
- An Encounter
- Araby
- Eveline
- After the Race
- Two Gallants
- The Boarding House
- A Little Cloud
- Counterparts
- Clay
- A Painful Case
- Ivy Day in the Committee Room
- A Mother
- Grace
- The Dead
- Short stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov
- The Bet - 1889
- The Lady with the Dog - 1899
- The Teacher of Literature - 1894
- Kashtanka - 1887
- The Student - 1894
- The Huntsman - 1885
- A Dreary Story - 1889
- The Man in the Case (The Little Trilogy #1) - 1898
- About Love (The Little Trilogy #2) - 1898
- Gooseberries (The Little Trilogy #3) - 1898
- Surreal Numbers - Donald E. Knuth - 1974
- Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension - Matt Parker - 2014
- The Art of Problem Solving, Volume 1: The Basics - Sandor Lehoczky, Richard Rusczyk - 1993
- The Art of Problem Solving, Volume 2: And Beyond - Sandor Lehoczky, Richard Rusczyk - 1994
- I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King Jr. - 1963-08-28
- Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku - 2008 ♫
- Second Foundation (Foundation #3) - Isaac Asimov - 1953 ♫
- Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
- My Inventions - Nikola Tesla
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan ♫
- The C Programming Language (K&R) - Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald ♫
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson ♫
- Death by Black Hole - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Black Hole War - Leonard Susskind - 2008 ♫
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel ♫
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins ♫
- The Magic of Reality - Richard Dawkins - 2011 ♫
- The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman
- Cracking the Cube - Ian Scheffler
- The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube - James G. Nourse - 1981
- +One Piece - Eiichiro Oda
- The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller - 1986
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #2) - Douglas Adams - 1985 ♫
2016
- Poems by Charles Bukowski - Charles Bukowski
- +Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton - 1687
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci - 1452-1519
- We choose to go to the Moon (Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort) - John F. Kennedy - 1962-09-12
- Foundation (Foundation #1) - Isaac Asimov - 1951
- Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2) - Isaac Asimov - 1952
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) - Douglas Adams - 1979
Thanks to Prof. Philip Moriarty and Numberphile.
- 20000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne ♫
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain - 1876 ♫
- *The Bible - Unknown - Unknown
- The Time Machine - H.G. Wells ♫
- The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells ♫
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science - Martin Gardner
- Calculus Made Easy - Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
- Infinity and the Mind - Rudy Rucker - 1982
- A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy - 1940
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Ralph Leighton, Richard Feynman
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell ♫
- Why There Is No God - Arman Navabi
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein
- The Sandman - Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs - 1989-1996
2015
- To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles - Raymond Smullyan - 1985
- *Grimms' Fairy Tales - Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm - 1812–1858
- Mathematics, Magic and Mystery - Martin Gardner - 1956
Discovering Martin Gardner for the first time was a joy. Thank you Vsauce.
- *Encyclopedia of Card Tricks - Jean Hugard - 1961
- Mathematical Circus - Martin Gardner - 1981
- Magic Squares And Cubes - William Symes Andrews
- The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions - Martin Gardner - 1959
- The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions - Martin Gardner - 1987
- Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions - Martin Gardner - 1988
- The Colossal Book of Mathematics - Martin Gardner - 2001
- Mathematical Magic Show - Martin Gardner - 1978
- In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World - Ian Stewart - 2012
- Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities - Ian Stewart - 2008
- Secrets of Mental Math - Arthur Benjamin
- Just Six Numbers - Martin Rees
- Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
2014
- Mud, Sweat, and Tears - Bear Grylls - 2011
- Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
- Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
2013
- A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking - 1988
2012
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UHDR) - United Nations - 1948-12-10
2011
- Poems by Robert Frost - Robert Frost - 1913-1969
2010
- Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe - 1824-1849
- Stories and essays of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
- Some Words With A Mummy - 1845
- The Tell-Tale Heart - 1843
- The Imp of the Perverse - 1845
- The Gold-Bug - 1843
- Maelzel's Chess Player (essay) - 1836
- Aesop's Fables - Aesop - 640 BC