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Contents
- Programming
- Functional programming
- Programming languages
- Programming language design
- Programming interviews
- Text editors
- Version Control
- Unix
- Fiction
- Physics
- Computer networking
- Nutrition
- Math
- Logic
- Type theory
- Category theory
- Fitness
- Biology
- Algorithms
- Mindset
- Machine learning
- Startups
- Economics
- Statistics
- Finance
- History
- Awareness
- Computer science
- Computational complexity
- Reverse engineering
- Web Development
- Chemistry
- Visualisation
- Regular Expressions
- Compilers
- Science
- Computer graphics
- SciFi
- Business
- Psychedelics
- Strategy
- Creativity
- Management
- Future
- Engineering
- Data Science
- Databases
- Psychology
- Philosophy
- Society
- Neuroscience
- Investing
- Spirituality
- Game Development
- Art
- Biographies
- Operating Systems
- Memoirs
- Security
- Design
- Graphic design
- Politics
- Computer Systems
- Writing
- Minimalism
- Poetry
- Evolution
- Film Making
- Non Fiction
- Cryptography
- Related
Programming
- 📕 The art of computer programming (1968-)
- 📕 The psychology of computer programming (1971)
- 📕 The elements of programming style (1974)
- 📕 Software reliability: principles and practices (1976)
- 📖 Structure and interpretation of computer programs (1979)
- 📖 Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas (1980)
- 📖 Communicating sequential processes (1985)
- 📕 The art of the metaobject protocol (1991)
- 📖 Code: hidden language of computer hardware and software (1999)
- 📕 The pragmatic programmer (1999)
- 📕 The practice of programming (1999)
- 📕 Refactoring (1999)
- 📕 How to design programs (2001)
- 📕 Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2002)
- 📕 Inside the machine (2006)
- 📕 Clean code (2008)
- 📕 Design concepts in programming (2008)
- 📕 Apprenticeship patterns (2010)
- 📕 The art of readable code: simple and practical techniques for writing better code (2011)
- 📕 Programming in the large with design patterns (2012)
- 📕 Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control (2012)
- 📖 How These Things Work (2016)
- 📖 Composing programs
Functional programming
Programming languages
C
C++
D
Go
- 📖 Network programming with Go (2012)
- 📖 The little go book (2014)
- 📖 Go in action (2015)
- 📕 The go programming language (2015)
- 📖 Go 101 (2018)
- 📖 Web app with go - anti text book
- 📖 Build web application with golang
Perl
Python
- 📕 Python essential reference (1999)
- 📖 Dive into python 3 (2004)
- 📖 Problem solving with algorithms and data structures using python (2005)
- 📖 Python cookbook (2011)
- 📕 Data structures and algorithms in python (2013)
- 📕 Test driven development with python (2014)
- 📕 Effective python (2015)
- 📕 Fluent python (2015)
- 📖 Inside the python virtual machine (2017)
- 📖 Full Speed Python (2018)
- 📖 Automate the boring stuff with python
Java
- 📕 Effective java (2001)
- 📖 Data structures and algorithms in java (2003)
- 📕 Java concurrency in practice (2006)
- 📖 Introduction to programming in java: an interdisciplinary approach (2008)
- 📕 Java 8 in action (2014)
- 📕 Test-driven java development (2015)
Rust
- 📖 Rust by example
- 📖 The rust programming language
- 📖 The rustonomicon
- 📖 Discovery - Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust.
- 📖 Rust and WebAssembly (2018)
R
Scala
Lisp
Haskell
- 📕 Haskell in Depth (2018) - Explores the important language features and programming skills you’ll need to build production-quality software using Haskell.
- 📕 Programming in haskell (2016)
- 📖 Write you a haskell (2014)
- 📖 Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! (2011)
JavaScript
- 📖 You don’t know JS
- 📖 Eloquent javascript (2011)
- 📕 Effective javascript: 68 specific ways to harness the power of javascript (2012)
- 📕 Secrets of the javascript ninja (2013)
- 📖 Learning javascript design patterns (2015)
- 📖 The javascript way (2017)
- 📖 Exploring js
- 📖 Builder Book: Build a Full Stack JavaScript Web App from Scratch (2018)
TypeScript
Swift
Ruby
- 📕 The well grounded rubyist (2009)
- 📕 Eloquent ruby (2011)
- 📕 Practical object oriented design in ruby (2012)
- 📕 Confident ruby (2013)
Purescript
Prolog
Smalltalk
ReasonML
Assembly
Programming language design
Programming interviews
Text editors
Vim
- 📕 Practical vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought (2012)
- 📖 Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
- 📖 Vim user manual - Must read for anyone new to vim.
Git
Unix
- 📕 Advanced programming in the unix environment (1992)
- 📕 Unix power tools (1993)
- 📖 An introduction to unix (2014)
Fiction
- 📕 Notes from underground (1864)
- 📕 Crime and punishment (1866)
- 📕 The idiot (1869)
- 📕 The brothers karamazov (1880)
- 📕 Flatland (1884)
- 📕 The picture of dorian gray (1890)
- 📕 The yellow wallpaper (1892)
- 📕 The iron heel (1908)
- 📕 The ragged trousered philanthropists (1914)
- 📕 We (1924)
- 📕 Heart of a dog (1925)
- 📕 The great gatsby (1925)
- 📕 Brave new world (1932)
- 📕 The glass bead game (1943)
- 📕 Animal farm (1945)
- 📕 The plague (1947)
- 📕 No longer human (1948)
- 📕 Nineteen eighty-four (1949)
- 📕 Bel: An essay on man in revolt (1951)
- 📕 East of eden (1952)
- 📕 Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- 📕 The doors of perception (1954) - Details Aldous Huxley’s own experiences when taking mescaline.
- 📕 Lolita (1955)
- 📕 Doctor zhivago (1957)
- 📕 Flowers for algernon (1959)
- 📕 Catch-22 (1961)
- 📕 Pale fire (1962)
- 📕 Island (1962)
- 📕 We have always lived in the castle (1962)
- 📕 One day in the life of ivan denisovich (1962)
- 📕 Monday begins on saturday (1964)
- 📕 Dune (1965)
- 📕 Stoner (1965)
- 📕 Master and margarita (1967)
- 📕 One hundred years of solitude (1967)
- 📕 Slaughterhouse five (1969)
- 📕 Roadside picnic (1972)
- 📕 Augustus (1972)
- 📕 The forever war (1974)
- 📕 The shining (1977)
- 📕 1978: hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
- 📕 The soul of new machine (1981)
- 📕 The wasp factory (1984)
- 📕 Blood meridian (1985)
- 📕 The silence of the lambs (1988)
- 📕 Geek love (1989)
- 📕 The remains of the day (1989)
- 📕 The story of B: an adventure of the mind and spirit (1996)
- 📕 Infinite jest (1996)
- 📕 The perks of being a wallflower (1999)
- 📕 Cryptonomicon (1999)
- 📕 House of leaves (2000)
- 📕 The Bug (2003)
- 📕 The road (2006)
- 📖 The metamorphosis of prime intellect (2007)
- 📕 The passage (2010)
- 📖 Harry potter and the methods of rationality (2015)
- 📖 Unsong (2017)
Comedy
Adventure
Thriller
Fantasy
Fantasy series
Short Stories
- 📕 Ficciones (1941-1956)
- 📕 The little prince (1943)
- 📖 The last question (1956)
- 📕 Franz kafka: the complete stories (1971)
- 📕 Understand (1991)
- 📕 Story of your life (1998)
- 📖 The fable of the dragon-tyrant (2005)
Physics
- 📕 Relativity: the special and the general theory (1916)
- 📕 University physics with modern physics
- 📕 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos (1994)
- 📕 Pale blue dot (1994)
- 📕 Black holes and time warps (1994)
- 📕 The fabric of the cosmos (2004)
- 📕 Fields of colour: the theory that escaped Einstein (2010)
- 📕 The theoretical minimum (2013)
- 📖 The feynman lectures on physics (2013)
Computer networking
- 📕 TCP/IP network administration (1992)
- 📕 Tcp/IP illustrated (1993)
- 📕 Interconnections: bridges, routers, switches, and internetworking protocols (1999)
- 📕 Computer networking: a top-down approach (2000)
- 📕 Unix network programming, volume 1: the sockets networking api (2003)
- 📕 TCP/IP guide (2005)
- 📖 High performance browser networking (2013)
- 📖 Openssl cookbook (2015)
- 📖 Beej's guide to network programming (2016)
- 📖 Distributed Systems 3rd edition (2017)
- 📖 An introduction to computer networks
Nutrition
- 📕 Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism (1995)
- 📕 The Poor, Misunderstood Calorie: Calories Proper (2012)
- 📕 Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ (2014)
- 📕 How not to die (2015)
Math
- 📖 A mathematician's apology (1940)
- 📕 Handbook of mathematics (1945)
- 📕 Fantasia mathematica (1958)
- 📕 Gödel's proof (1958)
- 📕 Sphereland (1965)
- 📖 Topology from a differentiable viewpoint (1965)
- 📖 An introduction to commutative algebra (1969)
- 📕 Mathematics made difficult (1972)
- 📖 A course in arithmetic (1973)
- 📖 Introductory functional analysis with applications (1978)
- 📕 A book of abstract algebra (1982)
- 📕 To mock a mockingbird (1985)
- 📖 Proofs and types (1989)
- 📕 Primes of the Form X2 + Ny2: Fermat, Class Field Theory, and Complex Multiplication (1989)
- 📕 Algebraic Number Theory (1992)
- 📕 Concrete mathematics (1994)
- 📕 How to prove it (1994)
- 📕 Linear algebra done right (1995)
- 📕 Algebraic Curves and Riemann Surfaces (1995)
- 📕 Visual complex analysis (1997)
- 📕 Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction To Categories (1997)
- 📕 Geometry and the imagination (1999)
- 📕 Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency (2002)
- 📖 Sets for Mathematics (2003)
- 📕 A first course in linear algebra (2004)
- 📕 The art of problem solving (2006)
- 📕 The princeton companion to mathematics (2008)
- 📕 Visual group theory (2009)
- 📕 Algebra: Chapter 0 (2009)
- 📕 Essentials of discrete mathematics (2009)
- 📕 Computational Topology: An Introduction (2010)
- 📕 Foundations of analysis (2012)
- 📖 Homotopy type theory (2013)
- 📖 The napkin project (2017)
- 📖 Mathematics for computer science (2017)
- 📖 Immersive linear algebra (2017)
- 📕 Physically based rendering: from theory to implementation
- 📕 Invitation to ergodic theory
- 📖 Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications
- 📖 Linear algebra
Logic
- forallx: Cambridge (2017) - Covers both truth-functional logic and first-order logic, introducing students to semantics and to a Fitch-style natural deduction system.
- 📖 Logicomix (2008)
- 📖 The Haskell road to logic, math and programming (2004)
- 📖 Introduction to Lambda Calculus (2000)
Type theory
- 📕 Type Theory and Formal Proof: An Introduction (2014)
- 📖 Type Theory & Functional Programming (1999)
Category theory
- 📖 Category Theory for Programmers (2018)
- 📖 Basic Category Theory (2016)
- 📖 Category Theory in Context (2016)
- 📖 Category Theory (2006)
Music production
Fitness
Biology
Algorithms
- 📖 Algorithm design manual (1987)
- 📕 Introduction to algorithms (1990)
- 📕 Algorithm design (2005)
- 📖 Algorithms etc by jeff erickson (2015)
- 📖 Algorithm design: parallel and sequential
Mindset
- 📕 Tao te ching (6th century BC)
- 📕 Meditations (161)
- 📕 The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind (857)
- 📕 Siddhartha (1922)
- 📕 How to win friends and influence people (1936)
- 📕 Think and grow rich (1937)
- 📕 The stranger (1942)
- 📕 Man’s search for meaning (1946)
- 📖 The wisdom of insecurity: a message for an age of anxiety (1951)
- 📕 The first and last freedom (1954)
- 📕 The way of zen (1957)
- 📕 The book on the taboo against knowing who you are (1966)
- 📕 Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (1970)
- 📕 Be here now (1971)
- 📕 The Way of the Bodhisattva (1971)
- 📕 The inner game of tennis (1974)
- 📕 The 7 habits of highly effective people (1989)
- 📕 The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (1989)
- 📕 Peace is every step (1990)
- 📖 Mindfulness in plain english (1992)
- 📕 Mastery: the keys to success and long term fulfilment (1992)
- 📕 The Four Noble Truths (1992)
- 📕 No Ajahn Chah: Reflections (1994)
- 📕 The Art of Happiness (1998)
- 📕 The Quantum and the Lotus (2000)
- 📕 Emptiness dancing (2004)
- 📕 Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook (2006)
- 📕 Eating animals (2009)
- 📕 The happiness advantage (2010)
- 📕 Models (2011)
- 📕 Mastery (2012)
- 📕 A mind for numbers: how to excel at math and science (2014)
- 📕 Spaciousness: The Radical Dzogchen of the Vajra-Heart: Longchenpa's Treasury of the Dharmadhatu (2014)
- 📕 Waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion (2014)
- 📕 Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016)
- 📕 The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity (2016)
- 📖 Concentration and meditation
Drugs
- 📕 A Primer of Drug Action (1975)
- 📕 Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs (2013)
- 📕 Pleasures of the Brain (2009)
Psychedelics
- 📖 LSD: My Problem Child (1979)
- 📕 Tryptamine Palace: 5-MeO-DMT and the Sonoran Desert Toad (2009)
- 📖 Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved: The Chemistry Continues
Machine learning
- 📕 Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming (1991)
- 📕 Artificial intelligence a modern approach (1994)
- 📕 Machine learning (1997)
- 📖 The quest for artificial intelligence - a history of ideas and achievements (2009)
- 📕 Introduction to artificial intelligence (2011)
- 📕 Machine learning: a probabilistic perspective (2012)
- 📕 Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies (2014)
- 📖 Understanding machine learning: from theory to algorithms (2014)
- 📖 Neural Networks and Deep Learning (2015)
- 📕 Deep Larning with Python (2017)
- 📕 Tensorflow machine learning cookbook (2017)
- 📕 Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow (2017)
- 📖 Deep learning
Reinforcement learning
Startups
Economics
- 📕 Capital (1867)
- 📕 Reading capital
- 📖 Kapitalism 101
- 📕 Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (1917)
- 📕 The worldly philosophers (1953)
- 📕 Principles of economics (1997)
- 📕 Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach (1999)
- 📕 Microeconomics and behaviour (2000)
- 📕 Debt: first 5000 years (2011)
- 📕 How asia works: success and failure in the world’s most dynamic region (2013)
- 📕 Capital in the twenty first century (2013)
- 📕 Economics: the user's guide (2014)
Statistics
- 📕 The visual display of quantitative information (1983)
- 📕 Bayesian Data Analysis (1995)
- 📖 The elements of statistical learning (2001)
- 📖 All of statistics (2004)
- 📕 Introduction to bayesian statistics (2007)
- 📖 Think bayes: bayesian statistics made simple (2012)
- 📖 An introduction to statistical learning: with applications in r (2013)
- 📕 Statistical rethinking: a bayesian course with examples in R and Stan (2015)
- 📖 Computational and inferential thinking (2017)
Finance
History
- 📕 The souls of black folk (1903)
- 📕 Gravity’s rainbow (1973)
- 📕 The gulag archipelago (1973)
- 📕 American slavery, american freedom (1975)
- 📕 A people’s history of the united states (1980)
- 📕 The making of atomic bomb (1986)
- 📕 Lenin's tomb: the last days of the soviet empire (1993)
- 📕 Why the allies won (1995)
- 📕 Lies my teacher told me (1995)
- 📕 Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies (1997)
- 📕 Two hundred years together (2002)
- 📕 Masters of doom (2003)
- 📕 Stalin: the court of the red tsar (2003)
- The Third Reich trilogy (2003-2008)
- 📕 Sapiens: a brief history of humankind (2011)
- 📕 The origins of political order (2011)
- 📕 The idea factory: bell labs and the great age of american innovation (2012)
- 📕 Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (2013)
- 📕 The sixth extinction: an unnatural history (2014)
- 📕 Political order and political decay (2014)
- 📕 Conquerors: how portugal forged the first global empire (2015)
- 📕 Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow (2015)
Alternative history
Awareness
Computer science
- 📖 Introduction to data compression (2012)
- 📖 Software foundations (2011)
- 📕 The nature of computation (2011)
- 📕 Annotated turing (2008)
- 📕 The elements of computing systems (2005)
- 📕 Advanced topics in types and programming languages (2004)
- 📕 Types and programming languages (2002)
- 📕 Gems of Theoretical Computer Science (1998)
- 📕 Introduction to the theory of computation (1996)
- 📖 Purely functional data structures (1996)
- 📕 The new Turing Omnibus (1989)
Computational complexity
- 📕 The Nature of Computation (2011)
- 📖 Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach (2007)
- 📕 Computational Complexity (1993)
Reverse engineering
macOS
Web Development
CSS
React.js
Node.js
Web design
Chemistry
- 📕 Modern quantum chemistry: introduction to advanced electronic structure theory (1982)
- 📕 Tryptamines i have known and loved: the chemistry continues (1997)
- 📕 Drugs 2.0: the web revolution that's changing how the world gets high (2013)
Visualisation
Regular Expressions
Compilers
- 📕 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986)
- 📖 Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth (1996)
- 📕 Modern Compiler Implementation in ML (1997)
- 📕 Advanced compiler design and implementation
Science
- 📕 The structure of scientific revolutions (1962)
- 📕 Cosmos (1980)
- 📕 A brief history of time (1988)
- 📕 The demon-haunted world (1995)
- 📕 A short history of nearly everything (2003)
- 📕 What if? (2014)
Computer graphics
Scifi
- 📕 The sirens of titan (1959)
- 📕 Stranger in a strange land (1961)
- 📕 Cat’s cradle (1963)
- 📕 Do androids dream of electric sheep? (1968)
- 📕 Ubik (1969)
- 📕 The mote in god's eye (1974)
- 📕 Neuromancer (1984)
- 📕 Ender’s game (1985)
- 📕 The player of games (1988)
- 📕 A fire upon the deep (1992)
- 📕 Snow crash (1992)
- 📕 Permutation city (1994)
- 📕 The diamond age (1995)
- 📕 The martian (2011)
- 📕 Golden son (2015)
- 📕 The dispossessed
- 📕 Blindsight
SciFi Series
Business
- 📕 The effective executive (1967)
- 📕 The hard things about hard things (2014)
- 📕 Give and take: why helping others drives our success (2014)
Psychedelics
- 📕 The invisible landscape: mind, hallucinogens, and the i ching (1994)
- 📖 The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the origins of knowledge (1998)
- 📕 Breaking open the head (2002)
- 📕 Supernatural: meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind (2005)
Strategy
Creativity
Management
Future
Engineering
Data Science
Databases
Psychology
Philosophy
- 📕 Godel, escher, bach (1979) - Explores fundamental concepts of mathematics, symmetry and intelligence and how they interlink.
- 📕 Prometheus rising (1983)
- 📕 Finite and infinite games (1986)
- 📕 The stuff of thought (2007)
Society
Neuroscience
- 📕 The man who mistook his wife for a hat (1985)
- 📕 Descartes' error (1994)
- 📕 Principles of neural science (2000)
- 📕 Molecular basis of neuropharmacology: a foundation for clinical neuroscience (2001)
- 📕 Synaptic self: how our brains become who we are (2002)
- 📕 The Brain That Changes Itself (2007)
- 📕 Thinking, fast and slow (2011)
Investing
Spirituality
Game Development
- 📕 Tricks of the 3D game programming gurus-advanced 3D graphics and rasterisation (2003)
- 📕 Game programming patterns
Art
Biographies
- 📕 The autobiography of malcolm x (1965)
- 📕 Napoleon bonaparte: an intimate biography (1971)
- 📕 The power broker (1974)
- 📕 Surely you’re joking mr Feynman (1984)
- 📕 The man who knew infinity: a life of the genius ramanujan (1991)
- 📕 Speak, memory (1951)
- 📕 Madame curie: a biography (2001)
- 📕 Benjamin franklin: an american life (2004)
- 📕 Team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln (2005)
- 📕 Einstein: his life and universe (2007)
- 📕 The strangest man (2009)
- 📕 Steve jobs (2011)
- 📕 Elon musk: tesla, spacex, and the quest for a fantastic future (2015)
- 📕 Trump revealed: the definitive biography of the 45th president (2017)
Operating Systems
- 📕 Operating system concepts (1983)
- 📕 Modern operating systems (1992)
- 📕 Programming with Posix Threads (1993)
- 📖 An efficient implementation of fundamental operating system services (1992)
- 📖 Operating Systems: From 0 to 1
- 📖 intermezzOS
Linux
iOS
Memoirs
- 📕 Walden (1854)
- 📕 The world of yesterday (1942)
- 📕 On writing (2000)
- 📕 A thousand tiny failures: memoirs of a pickup artist (2014)
Security
- 📕 The database hacker’s handbook (2005) - Most detailed book available for attacking databases (covers basic through advanced topics).
- 📕 A guide to kernel exploitation (2010) - Advanced exploitation of a range of operating systems.
- 📕 The tangled web (2011) - Detailed look at the foundations of web protocols followed by a thorough examination of their weakness.
- 📖 The web application hackers handbook (2014)
- 📕 The browser hacker's handbook (2014) - A detailed look into many web security topics.
Design
- 📕 The non-designer's design book (1994)
- 📕 Design meets disability (2009)
- 📕 The design of everyday things
- 📕 The best interface is no interface: the simple path to brilliant technology
- 📖 The Shape of Design
Graphic design
Politics
- 📕 The road to serfdom (1944)
- 📕 The anatomy of the state (1974)
- 📕 Understanding power: the indispensable chomsky (2002)
- 📕 The dictator's handbook: why bad behaviour is almost always good politics (2011)
- 📕 The democracy project: a history, a crisis, a movement (2013)
Computer Systems
- 📖 Distributed systems (2013)
- 📕 General Systems Thinking (2015)
- 📖 NASA System Engineering (2007)
- 📕 Computer systems: a programmer’s perspective
Evolution
- 📕 The selfish gene (1976)
- 📕 Darwin's dangerous idea (1995)
- 📕 Life ascending: the ten great inventions of evolution (2009)
Film Making
Non Fiction
- 📕 Homage to catalonia (1938)
- 📕 Into thin air (1997)
- 📕 Damned lies and statistics (2001)
- 📕 Coders at work: reflections on the craft of programming (2009)
Writing
Minimalism
Poetry
Cryptography
- 📕 The code book (1999)
- 📖 Engineering security (2014)
- 📖 A graduate corse in applied cryptography (2016)
Cryptocurrencies
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