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Contents

• Key

• Programming

• Programming languages

  • C
  • C++
  • D
  • Go
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Java
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Lisp
  • Haskell
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • Swift
  • Ruby

• Related

Key

The number after 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 before the books show if the book is free or not.

Emoji	Meaning
📖	Book is freely available
📕	Book not freely available

The subdashes after the book may include notes and other useful material related to the book.

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)
  • SICP in Emacs Lisp
• 📖 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)
• 📕 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)
• 📖 Composing programs

Programming languages

• 📖 Programming languages: application and interpretation (2012)
• 📖 Crafting interpreters (2012)

C

• 📕 The C programming language (1975)
• 📕 21st century C (2014)

C++

• 📕 C++ primer (1989)
• 📕 Beginning c++ through game programming (2004
• 📖 C++ core guidelines (2017)

D

• 📕 The D programming language (2010)
• 📖 Programming in D (2015)

Go

• 📖 Network programming with Go (2012)
• 📖 The little go book (2014)
• 📖 Go in action (2015)
• 📕 The go programming language (2015)
  • Notes
• 📖 Web app with go - anti text book
• 📖 Build web application with golang

Perl

• 📖 Modern Perl (2016)

Python

• 📕 Python essential reference (1999)
• 📖 Dive into python 3 (2004)
• 📖 Problem solving with algorithms and data structures using python (2005)
• 📕 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)
• 📖 Automate the boring stuff with python

Java

• 📕 Effective java (2001)
  • Code examples
  • Notes
• 📖 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

Scala

• 📕 Functional programming in scala (2014)

Lisp

• 📕 The little schemer (1974)
• 📕 Lisp in small pieces (1994)

Haskell

• 📖 Write you a haskell (2014)
  • Implementation in code
• 📕 Programming in haskell (2016)

Javascript

• 📖 You don’t know JS
  • 📖 Up and going
  • 📖 Scope and closures
  • 📖 This and object prototypes
  • 📖 Types and grammar
  • 📖 Async and performance
  • 📖 ES6 and beyond
• 📖 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

Typescript

• 📖 Typescript deep dive

Swift

• 📖 Swift programming language (2014)
  • Swift Cheat sheet

Ruby

• 📕 The well grounded rubyist (2009)
• 📕 Eloquent ruby (2011)
• 📕 Practical object oriented design in ruby (2012)
  • Code solutions
  • Notes
  • Go implementation
• 📕 Confident ruby (2013)

Smalltalk

• 📕 Smalltalk best practice patterns (1997)

Assembly

• 📖 Assembly language succinctly (2014)

Programming language design

• 📖 Beautiful racket

Programming interviews

• 📕 Cracking the coding interview (2008)
  • Solutions in swift
• 📕 Elements of programming interviews (2012)
  • Solutions in Go
  • Solutions in Python
  • Solutions in Java
  • solutions in c++

iOS

• iOS 10 programming fundamentals with swift (2015) 📕

Vim

• 📕 Practical vim (2012)
  • Notes

Git

• 📖 Git in practice (2014)
• 📖 Pro git (2014)

Unix

• 📕 Advanced programming in the unix environment (1992)
• 📕 Unix power tools (1993)
• 📖 An introduction to unix (2014)

Linux

• 📕 How linux works (2014)

node.js

• 📖 Node up and running (2012)

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)
• 📕 1951: Bel: an essay on man in revolt (the )
• 📕 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 road (2006)
• 📖 The metamorphosis of prime intellect (2007)
• 📕 The passage (2010)
• 📖 Harry potter and the methods of rationality (2015)
• 📖 Unsong (2017)

Comedy

• 📕 A confederacy of dunces (1980)

Adventure

• 📕 The count of monte cristo (1844)

Thriller

• 📕 And then there were none (1939)

Physics

• 📕 Relativity: the special and the general theory (1916)
• 📕 University physics with modern physics
  • Notes
• 📕 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)
• 📖 An introduction to computer networks

Alt history

• 📕 The man in the high castle (1962)

Nutrition

• 📕 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)
• 📕 A book of abstract algebra (1982)
• 📕 To mock a mockingbird (1985)
• 📖 Proofs and types (1989)
• 📕 Concrete mathematics (1994)
• 📕 Linear algebra done right (1995)
• 📕 Visual complex analysis (1997)
• 📕 Geometry and the imagination (1999)
• 📕 A first course in linear algebra (2004)
• 📕 The art of problem solving (2006)
• 📖 Logicomix (2008)
• 📕 The princeton companion to mathematics (2008)
• 📕 Visual group theory (2009)
• 📕 Essentials of discrete mathematics (2009)
• 📕 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
• 📖 Linear algebra

Exercise

• 📕 Starting strength: basic barbell training (2005)

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) 📕
• 📕 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)
• 📕 Be here now (1971)
• 📕 The inner game of tennis (1974)
• 📕 The 7 habits of highly effective people (1989)
• 📕 Peace is every step (1990)
• 📕 Mindfulness in plain english (1992)
• 📕 Mastery: the keys to success and long term fulfilment (1992)
• 📕 Emptiness dancing (2004)
• 📕 Eating animals (2009)
• 📕 Models (2011)
• 📕 Mastery (2012)
• 📕 A mind for numbers: how to excel at math and science (2014)
• 📕 The happiness advantage (2010)
• 📕 Waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion (2014)

AI

• 📕 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)
• 📕 Reinforcement learning: an introduction (2016)
• 📕 Tensorflow machine learning cookbook (2017)
  • Code
• 📖 Deep learning

Startups

• 📕 Zero to one (2014)

Economics

• 📕 Capital (1867)
• 📕 Reading capital
• 📖 Kapitalism 101
• 📕 Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (1917)
• 📕 The worldly philosophers (1953)
• 📕 Principles of economics (1997)
• 📕 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)
• 📖 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)
  • Lectures
• 📖 Computational and inferential thinking (2017)

Finance

• 📕 The richest man in babylon (1926)
• 📕 Rich dad poor dad (1997)

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)
  • 📕 The coming of the third reich
  • 📕 The third reich in power
  • 📕 The third reich at war
• 📕 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)
• 📕 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)

Awareness

• 📕 Last chance to see

Computer science

• 📕 The new turing omnibus (1989)
• 📕 Introduction to the theory of computation (1996)
  • Solutions
• 📖 Purely functional data structures (1996)
• 📕 Types and programming languages (2002)
• 📕 Advanced topics in types and programming languages (2004)
• 📕 The elements of computing systems (2005)
  • Computer implementation
• 📕 Annotated turing (2008)
• 📕 The nature of computation (2011)
• 📖 Software foundations (2011)
• 📖 Introduction to data compression (2012)

Web Development

React.js

• 📖 The Road to learn React

Web design

• 📕 Don’t make me think (2000)

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

• 📕 Envisioning information (1990)

Regex

• 📕 Regular expressions cookbook (2009)

Compilers

• 📕 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)

Graphics

• 📖 The book of shaders (2017)

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

• 📕 The baroque cycle
• 📕 Hyperion cantos
• 📕 The dark tower
• 📕 Foundation
• 📕 Red rising
• 📕 Culture
• 📕 Rama

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

• ~The art of war (500 BC)📕

Creativity

• 📕 Creativity, inc (2014)

Management

• 📕 The mythical man-month (1975)
  • Notes
• 📕 High output management (1983)
• 📕 The essential drucker

Future

• 📕 The second machine age (2014)

Engineering

• 📕 Structures: or why things don't fall down (1978)

Data Science

• 📕 Designing data intensive applications (2014)

Databases

• 📕 The data warehouse toolkit (1996)

Psychology

• 📕 Influence: the psychology of persuasion (1984)
• 📕 On intelligence (2004)

Philosophy

• 📕 Godel, escher, bach (1979) - Explores fundamental concepts of mathematics, symmetry and intelligence and how they interlink.
  • Lecture notes
  • Course on the book
  • Python implementation of formal systems from the book
• 📕 Prometheus rising (1983)
• 📕 Finite and infinite games (1986)
• 📕 The stuff of thought (2007)

Fantasy

• 📕 The stand (1978)
• 📕 American gods (2001)
• 📕 The night circus (2011)

Fantasy series

• 📕 A song of ice and fire
• 📕 The stormlight archive
• 📕 The wheel of time

Society

• 📕 The utopia of rules (2015)

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)
• 📕 Thinking, fast and slow (2011)

Investing

• 📕 The intelligent investor (1949)

Spirituality

• 📕 Journey of souls: case studies of life between lives (1994)

Game Development

• 📕 Tricks of the 3D game programming gurus-advanced 3D graphics and rasterisation (2003)

Art

• 📕 Drawing on the right side of the brain (1979)

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)

Biography

• 📕 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)
• 📖 An efficient implementation of fundamental operating system services (1992)

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 📕

Graphic design

• 📕 The elements of typographic style (1992)
• 📕 Logo design love (2015)

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

• 📕 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

• 📕 On film making: an introduction to the craft of the director (2005)

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)

Crypto

• 📕 The code book (1999)
• 📖 Engineering security (2014)
• 📖 A graduate corse in applied cryptography (2016)

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