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Contents
- Key
- Programming
- Programming languages
- Programming language design
- Programming interviews
- Text editors
- Version Control
- Unix
- Fiction
- Physics
- Computer networking
- Nutrition
- Math
- Fitness
- Algorithms
- Mindset
- Artificial Intelligence
- Startups
- Economics
- Statistics
- Finance
- History
- Awareness
- Computer science
- 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
- Evolution
- Film Making
- Non Fiction
- Cryptography
- 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.
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The subdashes after the book may include notes and other useful material related to the book.
Programming
π The art of computer programming (1968-)π The psychology of computer programming (1971)π The elements of programming style (1974)π Software reliability: principles and practices (1976)π Structure and interpretation of computer programs (1979)π Mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas (1980)π Communicating sequential processes (1985)π The art of the metaobject protocol (1991)π Code: hidden language of computer hardware and software (1999)π The pragmatic programmer (1999)π The practice of programming (1999)π Refactoring (1999)π How to design programs (2001)π Clean code (2008)π Design concepts in programming (2008)π Apprenticeship patterns (2010)π The art of readable code: simple and practical techniques for writing better code (2011)π Programming in the large with design patterns (2012)π Composing programs
Programming languages
C
C++
π C++ primer (1989)π Beginning c++ through game programming (2004π C++ core guidelines (2017)
D
Go
π Network programming with Go (2012)π The little go book (2014)π Go in action (2015)π The go programming language (2015)π Web app with go - anti text bookπ Build web application with golang
Perl
Python
π Python essential reference (1999)π Dive into python 3 (2004)π Problem solving with algorithms and data structures using python (2005)π Data structures and algorithms in python (2013)π Test driven development with python (2014)π Effective python (2015)π Fluent python (2015)π Inside the python virtual machine (2017)π Automate the boring stuff with python
Java
π Effective java (2001)π Data structures and algorithms in java (2003)π Java concurrency in practice (2006)π Introduction to programming in java: an interdisciplinary approach (2008)π Java 8 in action (2014)π Test-driven java development (2015)
Rust
Scala
Lisp
Haskell
Javascript
π You donβt know JSπ Eloquent javascript (2011)π Effective javascript: 68 specific ways to harness the power of javascript (2012)π Secrets of the javascript ninja (2013)π Learning javascript design patterns (2015)π The javascript way (2017)π Exploring js
Typescript
Swift
Ruby
π The well grounded rubyist (2009)π Eloquent ruby (2011)π Practical object oriented design in ruby (2012)π Confident ruby (2013)
Smalltalk
Assembly
Programming language design
Programming interviews
Text editors
Vim
Version Control
Git
Unix
π Advanced programming in the unix environment (1992)π Unix power tools (1993)π An introduction to unix (2014)
Fiction
π Notes from underground (1864)π Crime and punishment (1866)π The idiot (1869)π The brothers karamazov (1880)π Flatland (1884)π The picture of dorian gray (1890)π The yellow wallpaper (1892)π The iron heel (1908)π The ragged trousered philanthropists (1914)π We (1924)π Heart of a dog (1925)π The great gatsby (1925)π Brave new world (1932)π The glass bead game (1943)π Animal farm (1945)π The plague (1947)π No longer human (1948)π Nineteen eighty-four (1949)π Bel: An essay on man in revolt (1951)π East of eden (1952)π Fahrenheit 451 (1953)π The doors of perception (1954) - Details Aldous Huxleyβs own experiences when taking mescaline.π Lolita (1955)π Doctor zhivago (1957)π Flowers for algernon (1959)π Catch-22 (1961)π Pale fire (1962)π Island (1962)π We have always lived in the castle (1962)π One day in the life of ivan denisovich (1962)π Monday begins on saturday (1964)π Dune (1965)π Stoner (1965)π Master and margarita (1967)π One hundred years of solitude (1967)π Slaughterhouse five (1969)π Roadside picnic (1972)π Augustus (1972)π The forever war (1974)π The shining (1977)π 1978: hitchhikers guide to the galaxyπ The soul of new machine (1981)π The wasp factory (1984)π Blood meridian (1985)π The silence of the lambs (1988)π Geek love (1989)π The remains of the day (1989)π The story of B: an adventure of the mind and spirit (1996)π Infinite jest (1996)π The perks of being a wallflower (1999)π Cryptonomicon (1999)π House of leaves (2000)π The road (2006)π The metamorphosis of prime intellect (2007)π The passage (2010)π Harry potter and the methods of rationality (2015)π Unsong (2017)
Comedy
Adventure
Thriller
Fantasy
Fantasy series
Short Stories
π Ficciones (1941-1956)π The little prince (1943)π The last question (1956)π Franz kafka: the complete stories (1971)π Understand (1991)π Story of your life (1998)π The fable of the dragon-tyrant (2005)
Physics
π Relativity: the special and the general theory (1916)π University physics with modern physicsπ Nonlinear dynamics and chaos (1994)π Pale blue dot (1994)π Black holes and time warps (1994)π The fabric of the cosmos (2004)π Fields of colour: the theory that escaped Einstein (2010)π The theoretical minimum (2013)π The feynman lectures on physics (2013)
Computer networking
π TCP/IP network administration (1992)π Tcp/IP illustrated (1993)π Interconnections: bridges, routers, switches, and internetworking protocols (1999)π Computer networking: a top-down approach (2000)π Unix network programming, volume 1: the sockets networking api (2003)π TCP/IP guide (2005)π High performance browser networking (2013)π Openssl cookbook (2015)π Beej's guide to network programming (2016)π An introduction to computer networks
Nutrition
Math
π A mathematician's apology (1940)π Handbook of mathematics (1945)π Fantasia mathematica (1958)π GΓΆdel's proof (1958)π Sphereland (1965)π Topology from a differentiable viewpoint (1965)π An introduction to commutative algebra (1969)π Mathematics made difficult (1972)π A course in arithmetic (1973)π A book of abstract algebra (1982)π To mock a mockingbird (1985)π Proofs and types (1989)π Concrete mathematics (1994)π Linear algebra done right (1995)π Visual complex analysis (1997)π Geometry and the imagination (1999)π A first course in linear algebra (2004)π The art of problem solving (2006)π Logicomix (2008)π The princeton companion to mathematics (2008)π Visual group theory (2009)π Essentials of discrete mathematics (2009)π Foundations of analysis (2012)π Homotopy type theory (2013)π The napkin project (2017)π Mathematics for computer science (2017)π Immersive linear algebra (2017)π Physically based rendering: from theory to implementationπ Invitation to ergodic theoryπ Linear algebra
Fitness
Algorithms
π Algorithm design manual (1987)π Introduction to algorithms (1990)π Algorithm design (2005)π Algorithms etc by jeff erickson (2015)π Algorithm design: parallel and sequential
Mindset
π Tao te ching (6th century BC)π Meditations (161)π Siddhartha (1922)π How to win friends and influence people (1936)π Think and grow rich (1937)π The stranger (1942)π Manβs search for meaning (1946)π The wisdom of insecurity: a message for an age of anxiety (1951)π The first and last freedom (1954)π The way of zen (1957)π The book on the taboo against knowing who you are (1966)π Be here now (1971)π The inner game of tennis (1974)π The 7 habits of highly effective people (1989)π Peace is every step (1990)π Mindfulness in plain english (1992)π Mastery: the keys to success and long term fulfilment (1992)π Emptiness dancing (2004)π Eating animals (2009)π Models (2011)π Mastery (2012)π A mind for numbers: how to excel at math and science (2014)π The happiness advantage (2010)π Waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion (2014)
Artificial Intelligence
π Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming (1991)π Artificial intelligence a modern approach (1994)π Machine learning (1997)π The quest for artificial intelligence - a history of ideas and achievements (2009)π Introduction to artificial intelligence (2011)π Machine learning: a probabilistic perspective (2012)π Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies (2014)π Understanding machine learning: from theory to algorithms (2014)π Reinforcement learning: an introduction (2016)π Tensorflow machine learning cookbook (2017)π Deep learning
Startups
Economics
π Capital (1867)π Reading capitalπ Kapitalism 101π Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (1917)π The worldly philosophers (1953)π Principles of economics (1997)π Microeconomics and behaviour (2000)π Debt: first 5000 years (2011)π How asia works: success and failure in the worldβs most dynamic region (2013)π Capital in the twenty first century (2013)π Economics: the user's guide (2014)
Statistics
π The visual display of quantitative information (1983)π The elements of statistical learning (2001)π All of statistics (2004)π Introduction to bayesian statistics (2007)π Think bayes: bayesian statistics made simple (2012)π An introduction to statistical learning: with applications in r (2013)π Statistical rethinking: a bayesian course with examples in R and Stan (2015)π Computational and inferential thinking (2017)
Finance
History
π The souls of black folk (1903)π Gravityβs rainbow (1973)π The gulag archipelago (1973)π American slavery, american freedom (1975)π A peopleβs history of the united states (1980)π The making of atomic bomb (1986)π Lenin's tomb: the last days of the soviet empire (1993)π Why the allies won (1995)π Lies my teacher told me (1995)π Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies (1997)π Two hundred years together (2002)π Masters of doom (2003)π Stalin: the court of the red tsar (2003)- The Third Reich trilogy (2003-2008)
π Sapiens: a brief history of humankind (2011)π The origins of political order (2011)π The idea factory: bell labs and the great age of american innovation (2012)π The sixth extinction: an unnatural history (2014)π Political order and political decay (2014)π Conquerors: how portugal forged the first global empire (2015)π Homo deus: a brief history of tomorrow (2015)
Alternative history
Awareness
Computer science
π The new turing omnibus (1989)π Introduction to the theory of computation (1996)π Purely functional data structures (1996)π Types and programming languages (2002)π Advanced topics in types and programming languages (2004)π The elements of computing systems (2005)π Annotated turing (2008)π The nature of computation (2011)π Software foundations (2011)π Introduction to data compression (2012)
Web Development
React.js
Node.js
Web design
Chemistry
π Modern quantum chemistry: introduction to advanced electronic structure theory (1982)π Tryptamines i have known and loved: the chemistry continues (1997)π Drugs 2.0: the web revolution that's changing how the world gets high (2013)
Visualisation
Regular Expressions
Compilers
Science
π The structure of scientific revolutions (1962)π Cosmos (1980)π A brief history of time (1988)π The demon-haunted world (1995)π A short history of nearly everything (2003)π What if? (2014)
Computer graphics
Scifi
π The sirens of titan (1959)π Stranger in a strange land (1961)π Catβs cradle (1963)π Do androids dream of electric sheep? (1968)π Ubik (1969)π The mote in god's eye (1974)π Neuromancer (1984)π Enderβs game (1985)π The player of games (1988)π A fire upon the deep (1992)π Snow crash (1992)π Permutation city (1994)π The diamond age (1995)π The martian (2011)π Golden son (2015)π The dispossessedπ Blindsight
SciFi Series
π The baroque cycleπ Hyperion cantosπ The dark towerπ Foundationπ Red risingπ Cultureπ Rama
Business
π The effective executive (1967)π The hard things about hard things (2014)π Give and take: why helping others drives our success (2014)
Psychedelics
π The invisible landscape: mind, hallucinogens, and the i ching (1994)π The cosmic serpent: dna and the origins of knowledge (1998)π Breaking open the head (2002)π Supernatural: meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind (2005)
Strategy
Creativity
Management
Future
Engineering
Data Science
Databases
Psychology
Philosophy
π Godel, escher, bach (1979) - Explores fundamental concepts of mathematics, symmetry and intelligence and how they interlink.π Prometheus rising (1983)π Finite and infinite games (1986)π The stuff of thought (2007)
Society
Neuroscience
π The man who mistook his wife for a hat (1985)π Descartes' error (1994)π Principles of neural science (2000)π Molecular basis of neuropharmacology: a foundation for clinical neuroscience (2001)π Synaptic self: how our brains become who we are (2002)π Thinking, fast and slow (2011)
Investing
Spirituality
Game Development
Art
Biographies
π The autobiography of malcolm x (1965)π Napoleon bonaparte: an intimate biography (1971)π The power broker (1974)π Surely youβre joking mr Feynman (1984)π The man who knew infinity: a life of the genius ramanujan (1991)π Speak, memory (1951)π Madame curie: a biography (2001)π Benjamin franklin: an american life (2004)π Team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln (2005)π Einstein: his life and universe (2007)π The strangest man (2009)π Steve jobs (2011)π Elon musk: tesla, spacex, and the quest for a fantastic future (2015)π Trump revealed: the definitive biography of the 45th president (2017)
Operating Systems
π Operating system concepts (1983)π Modern operating systems (1992)π An efficient implementation of fundamental operating system services (1992)
Linux
iOS
Memoirs
π Walden (1854)π The world of yesterday (1942)π On writing (2000)π A thousand tiny failures: memoirs of a pickup artist (2014)
Security
π The database hackerβs handbook (2005) - Most detailed book available for attacking databases (covers basic through advanced topics).π A guide to kernel exploitation (2010) - Advanced exploitation of a range of operating systems.π The tangled web (2011) - Detailed look at the foundations of web protocols followed by a thorough examination of their weakness.π The web application hackers handbook (2014)π The browser hacker's handbook (2014) - A detailed look into many web security topics.
Design
π The non-designer's design book (1994)π Design meets disability (2009)π The design of everyday thingsπ The best interface is no interface: the simple path to brilliant technology
Graphic design
Politics
π The road to serfdom (1944)π The anatomy of the state (1974)π Understanding power: the indispensable chomsky (2002)π The dictator's handbook: why bad behaviour is almost always good politics (2011)π The democracy project: a history, a crisis, a movement (2013)
Computer Systems
Evolution
π The selfish gene (1976)π Darwin's dangerous idea (1995)π Life ascending: the ten great inventions of evolution (2009)
Film Making
Non Fiction
π Homage to catalonia (1938)π Into thin air (1997)π Damned lies and statistics (2001)π Coders at work: reflections on the craft of programming (2009)
Cryptography
π The code book (1999)π Engineering security (2014)π A graduate corse in applied cryptography (2016)
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