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Free and non free books all can learn from 📚 
Description 📕
Here is a curated list of all the interesting books one can read to learn new things and discover new insights. 🔭
The number before the book name stands for the year in which the book was written in. All books are put in their respective category and are sorted from oldest to newest. Emojis after the book show if the book is free or not.
📖 = book is freely available (read it 🎊)
📕 = book not freely available (buy or search for it elsewhere)
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Books
programming
general
- 1968-: the art of computer programming 📕
- 1971: the psychology of computer programming 📕
- 1974: the elements of programming style 📕
- 1976: software reliability: principles and practices 📕
- 1979: structure and interpretation of computer programs 📖
- 1980: mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas 📖
- 1985: communicating sequential processes 📖
- 1991: the art of the metaobject protocol 📕
- 1999: code: hidden language of computer hardware and software 📖
- 1999: the pragmatic programmer 📕
- 1999: the practice of programming 📕
- 1999: refactoring 📕
- 01: how to design programs 📕
- 08: clean code 📕
- 08: design concepts in programming 📕
- 10: apprenticeship patterns 📕
- 11: the art of readable code: simple and practical techniques for writing better code 📕
- 12: programming in the large with design patterns 📕
- 12: programming languages: application and interpretation 📖
- 15: crafting interpreters 📖
- composing programs 📖
C
C++
D
10: the d programming language 📕
go
12: network programming with go 📖
15: go in action 📖
15: the go programming language 📕
web app with go - anti text book 📖
build web application with golang 📖
14: the little go book 📖
perl
16: modern perl 📖
python
1999: python essential reference 📕
04: dive into python 3 📖
05: problem solving with algorithms and data structures using python 📖
13: data structures and algorithms in python 📕
14: test driven development with python 📕
15: effective python 📕
15: fluent python 📕
17: inside the python virtual machine 📖
automate the boring stuff with python 📖
java
01: effective java 📕
03: data structures and algorithms in java 📖
06: java concurrency in practice 📕
08: introduction to programming in java: an interdisciplinary approach 📖
14: java 8 in action 📕
15: test-driven java development 📕
rust
rust by example 📖
the rust programming language 📖
the rustonomicon 📖
scala
14: functional programming in scala 📕
lisp
1974: the little schemer 📕
1994: lisp in small pieces 📕
haskell
14: write you a haskell 📖
16: programming in haskell 📕
interviews
08: cracking the coding interview 📕
12: elements of programming interviews 📕
javascript
you don’t know js 📖
11: eloquent javascript 📖
12: effective javascript: 68 specific ways to harness the power of javascript 📕
13: secrets of the javascript ninja 📕
15: learning javascript design patterns 📖
17: the javascript way 📖
exploring js 📖
typescript
typescript deep dive 📖
swift
14: swift programming language 📖
ruby
09: the well grounded rubyist 📕
11: eloquent ruby 📕
12: practical object oriented design in ruby 📕
13: confident ruby 📕
smalltalk
1997: smalltalk best practice patterns 📕
ios
15: ios 10 programming fundamentals with swift 📕
vim
12: practical vim 📕
git
14: git in practice 📖
14: pro git 📖
unix
1992: advanced programming in the unix environment 📕
1993: unix power tools 📕
14: an introduction to unix 📖
linux
14: how linux works 📕
node.js
12: node up and running 📖
assembly
14: assembly language succinctly 📖
language design
beautiful racket 📖
fiction
1864: notes from underground 📕
1866: crime and punishment 📕
1869: the idiot 📕
1880: the brothers karamazov 📕
1884: flatland 📕
1890: the picture of dorian gray 📕
1892: the yellow wallpaper 📕
1908: the iron heel 📕
1914: the ragged trousered philanthropists 📕
1924: we 📕
1925: heart of a dog 📕
1925: the great gatsby 📕
1932: brave new world 📕
1943: the glass bead game 📕
1945: animal farm 📕
1947: the plague 📕
1948: no longer human 📕 🌐
1949: nineteen eighty-four 📕
1951: the rebel: an essay on man in revolt 📕
1952: east of eden 📕
1953: fahrenheit 451 📕
1954: the doors of perception 📕
details Aldous Huxley’s own experiences when taking mescaline
1955: lolita 📕
1957: doctor zhivago 📕
1959: flowers for algernon 📕
1961: catch-22 📕
1962: pale fire 📕
1962: island 📕
1962: we have always lived in the castle 📕
1962: one day in the life of ivan denisovich 📕
1964: monday begins on saturday 📕
1965: dune 📕
1965: stoner 📕
1967: master and margarita 📕
1967: one hundred years of solitude 📕
1969: slaughterhouse five 📕
1972: roadside picnic 📕
1972: augustus 📕
1974: the forever war 📕
1977: the shining 📕
1978: hitchhikers guide to the galaxy 📕
1981: the soul of new machine 📕
1984: the wasp factory 📕
1985: blood meridian 📕
1988: the silence of the lambs 📕
1989: geek love 📕
1989: the remains of the day 📕
1996: the story of B: an adventure of the mind and spirit 📕
1996: infinite jest 📕
1999: the perks of being a wallflower 📕
1999: cryptonomicon 📕
00: house of leaves 📕
06: the road 📕
10: the passage 📕
15: harry potter and the methods of rationality 📖
comedy
1980: a confederacy of dunces 📕
adventure
1844: the count of monte cristo 📕
physics
1916: relativity: the special and the general theory 📕
university physics with modern physics 📕
1994: nonlinear dynamics and chaos 📕
1994: pale blue dot 📕
1994: black holes and time warps 📕
04: the fabric of the cosmos 📕
10: fields of colour: the theory that escaped Einstein 📕
13: the theoretical minimum 📕
13: the feynman lectures on physics 📖
thriller
1939: and then there were none 📕
computer networking
1992: TCP/IP network administration 📕
1993: tcp/ip illustrated 📕
1999: interconnections: bridges, routers, switches, and internetworking protocols 📕
00: computer networking: a top-down approach 📕
03: unix network programming, volume 1: the sockets networking api 📕
05: TCP/IP guide 📕
13: high performance
15: openssl cookbook 📖
16: beej's guide to network programming 📖
an introduction to computer networks 📖
alt history
1962: the man in the high castle 📕
nutrition
15: how not to die 📕
math
1940: a mathematician's apology 📖
1945: handbook of mathematics 📕
1958: fantasia mathematica 📕
1958: gödel's proof 📕
1965: sphereland 📕
1965: topology from a differentiable viewpoint 📖
1969: an introduction to commutative algebra 📖
1972: mathematics made difficult 📕
1973: a course in arithmetic 📖
1982: a book of abstract algebra 📕
1985: to mock a mockingbird 📕
1989: proofs and types 📖
1994: concrete mathematics 📕
1995: linear algebra done right 📕
1997: visual complex analysis 📕
1999: geometry and the imagination 📕
04: a first course in linear algebra 📕
06: the art of problem solving 📕
08: logicomix 📖
08: the princeton companion to mathematics 📕
09: visual group theory 📕
09: essentials of discrete mathematics 📕
12: foundations of analysis 📕
13: homotopy type theory 📖
17: the napkin project 📖
17: mathematics for computer science 📖
17: immersive linear algebra 📖
physically based rendering: from theory to implementation 📕
invitation to ergodic theory 📕
linear algebra 📖
exercise
05: starting strength: basic barbell training 📕
algorithms
1987: algorithm design manual 📖
1990: introduction to algorithms 📕
05: algorithm design 📕
algorithm design: parallel and sequential 📖
mindset
meditations 📕
6th century bc: tao te ching 📕
1922: siddhartha 📕
1936: how to win friends and influence people 📕
1937: think and grow rich 📕
1942: the stranger 📕
1946: man’s search for meaning 📕
1951: the wisdom of insecurity: a message for an age of anxiety 📕
1954: the first and last freedom 📕
1957: the way of zen 📕
1966: the book on the taboo against knowing who you are 📕
1971: be here now 📕
1974: the inner game of tennis 📕
1989: the 7 habits of highly effective people 📕
1990: peace is every step 📕
1992: mindfulness in plain english 📕
1992: mastery: the keys to success and long term fulfilment 📕
04: emptiness dancing 📕
09: eating animals 📕
11: models 📕
12: mastery 📕
14: a mind for numbers: how to excel at math and science 📕
10: the happiness advantage 📕
14: waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion 📕
ai
1991: paradigms of artificial intelligence programming 📕
1994: artificial intelligence a modern approach 📕
1997: machine learning 📕
09: the quest for artificial intelligence - a history of ideas and achievements 📖
11: introduction to artificial intelligence 📕
12: machine learning: a probabilistic perspective 📕
14: superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies 📕
14: understanding machine learning: from theory to algorithms 📖
16: reinforcement learning: an introduction 📕
17: tensorflow machine learning cookbook 📕
code 🐙
deep learning 📖
startups
14: zero to one 📕
economics
1867: capital 📕
reading capital
kapitalism 101
1917: imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism 📕
1953: the worldly philosophers 📕
1997: principles of economics 📕
00: microeconomics and behaviour 📕
11: debt: first 5000 years 📕
13: how asia works: success and failure in the world’s most dynamic region 📕
13: capital in the twenty first century 📕
14: economics: the user's guide 📕
statistics
1983: the visual display of quantitative information 📕
01: the elements of statistical learning 📖
04: all of statistics 📖
07: introduction to bayesian statistics 📕
12: think bayes: bayesian statistics made simple 📖
13: an introduction to statistical learning: with applications in r 📖
15: statistical rethinking: a bayesian course with examples in R and Stan 📕
lectures 👀
17: computational and inferential thinking 📖
finance
1926: the richest man in babylon 📕
1997: rich dad poor dad 📕
history
1903: the souls of black folk 📕
1973: gravity’s rainbow 📕
1973: the gulag archipelago 📕
1975: american slavery, american freedom 📕
1980: a people’s history of the united states 📕
1986: the making of atomic bomb 📕
1993: lenin's tomb: the last days of the soviet empire 📕
1995: why the allies won 📕
1995: lies my teacher told me 📕
1997: guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies 📕
02: two hundred years together 📕
03: masters of doom 📕
03: stalin: the court of the red tsar 📕
03-08: the third reich trilogy
the coming of the third reich 📕
the third reich in power 📕
the third reich at war
11: sapiens: a brief history of humankind 📕
11: the origins of political order 📕
12: the idea factory: bell labs and the great age of american innovation 📕
14: the sixth extinction: an unnatural history 📕
14: political order and political decay 📕
15: conquerors: how portugal forged the first global empire 📕
15: homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow 📕
awareness
last chance to see 📕
computer science
1989: the new turing omnibus 📕
1996: introduction to the theory of computation 📕
solutions 🐙
1996: purely functional data structures 📖
02: types and programming languages 📕
04: advanced topics in types and programming languages 📕
05: the elements of computing systems 📕
computer implementation 🐙
08: annotated turing 📕
11: the nature of computation 📕
11: software foundations 📖
12: introduction to data compression 📖
web design
00: don’t make me think 📕
chemistry
1982: modern quantum chemistry: introduction to advanced electronic structure theory 📕
1997: tryptamines i have known and loved: the chemistry continues 📕
13: drugs 2.0: the web revolution that's changing how the world gets high 📕
visualisation
1990: envisioning information 📕
regex
09: regular expressions cookbook 📕
compilers
advanced compiler design and implementation 📕
science
1962: the structure of scientific revolutions 📕
1980: cosmos 📕
1988: a brief history of time 📕
1995: the demon-haunted world 📕
03: a short history of nearly everything 📕
14: what if? 📕
graphics
17: the book of shaders 📖
scifi
1959: the sirens of titan 📕
1961: stranger in a strange land 📕
1963: cat’s cradle 📕
1968: do androids dream of electric sheep? 📕
1969: ubik 📕
1974: the mote in god's eye 📕
1984: neuromancer 📕
1985: ender’s game 📕
1988: the player of games 📕
1992: a fire upon the deep 📕
1992: snow crash 📕
1994: permutation city 📕
1995: the diamond age 📕
11: the martian 📕
15: golden son 📕
the dispossessed 📕
blindsight 📕
series
the baroque cycle 📕
hyperion cantos 📕
the dark tower 📕
foundation 📕
red rising 📕
culture 📕
rama 📕
business
1967: the effective executive 📕
14: the hard things about hard things 📕
14: give and take: why helping others drives our success 📕
psychedelics
1994: the invisible landscape: mind, hallucinogens, and the i ching 📕
1998: the cosmic serpent: dna and the origins of knowledge 📕
02: breaking open the head 📕
05: supernatural: meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind 📕
strategy
~500 BC: the art of war 📕
creativity
14: creativity, inc 📕
management
1975: the mythical man-month 📕
notes 🐙
1983: high output management 📕
the essential drucker 📕
future
14: the second machine age 📕
engineering
1978: structures: or why things don't fall down 📕
data science
14: designing data intensive applications 📕
databases
1996: the data warehouse toolkit 📕
psychology
1984: influence: the psychology of persuasion 📕
04: on intelligence 📕
philosophy
1979: godel, escher, bach 📕
explores fundamental concepts of mathematics, symmetry and intelligence and how they interlink
lecture notes
course on the book 👀
python implementation of formal systems 🐙
1983: prometheus rising 📕
1986: finite and infinite games 📕
07: the stuff of thought 📕
fantasy
1978: the stand 📕
01: american gods 📕
11: the night circus 📕
series
a song of ice and fire 📕
the stormlight archive 📕
the wheel of time 📕
society
15: the utopia of rules 📕
neuroscience
1985: the man who mistook his wife for a hat 📕
1994: descartes' error 📕
00: principles of neural science 📕
01: molecular basis of neuropharmacology: a foundation for clinical neuroscience 📕
02: synaptic self: how our brains become who we are 📕
11: thinking, fast and slow 📕
investing
1949: the intelligent investor 📕
spirituality
1994: journey of souls: case studies of life between lives 📕
gamedev
03: tricks of the 3D game programming gurus-advanced 3D graphics and rasterisation 📕
art
1979: drawing on the right side of the brain 📕
short stories
1941-1956: ficciones 📕
1943: the little prince 📕
1956: the last question 📖
1971: franz kafka: the complete stories 📕
1991: understand 📕
1998: story of your life 📕
05: the fable of the dragon-tyrant 📖
biography
1965: the autobiography of malcolm x 📕
1971: napoleon bonaparte: an intimate biography 📕
1974: the power broker 📕
1984: surely you’re joking mr Feynman 📕
1991: the man who knew infinity: a life of the genius ramanujan 📕
1951: speak, memory 📕
01: madame curie: a biography 📕
04: benjamin franklin: an american life 📕
05: team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln 📕
07: einstein: his life and universe 📕
09: the strangest man 📕
11: steve jobs 📕
15: elon musk: tesla, spacex, and the quest for a fantastic future 📕
the book really inspired me to think bigger and to optimise for impact
17: trump revealed: the definitive biography of the 45th president 📕
operating systems
1983: operating system concepts 📕
1992: modern operating systems 📕
1992: an efficient implementation
of fundamental
operating system services 📖
memoirs
1854: walden 📕
1942: the world of yesterday 📕
00: on writing 📕
2014: a thousand tiny failures: memoirs of a pickup artist 📕
security
05: the database hacker’s handbook 📕
most detailed book available for attacking databases
covers basic through advanced topics
10: a guide to kernel exploitation 📕
advanced exploitation of a range of operating systems
11: the tangled web 📕
detailed look at the foundations of web protocols followed by a thorough examination of their weakness
14: the web application hackers handbook 📖
14: the browser hacker's handbook 📕
a detailed look into many web security topics
covers basic through advanced topics