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unmissable 1 1.5 great stuff 2 2.5 worth reading 3 3.5 passes the time 4 4.5 waste of time 5 5.5 unfinishable 6 ]
unmissable 1
Milton Abramowitz, Irene A. Stegun. Handbook of Mathematical FunctionsH. W. Fowler, Sir Ernest Gowers. A Dictionary of Modern English UsageSir Ernest Gowers, Sir Bruce Fraser. The Complete Plain WordsDouglas R. Hofstadter. Godel, Escher, BachStuart A. Kauffman. InvestigationsEdward R. Tufte. Envisioning Information The Visual Display of Quantitative Informationunmissable 1.5
Daniel C. Dennett. Consciousness Explained Darwin's Dangerous IdeaStephen Jay Gould. Wonderful LifeI. S. Gradshteyn, I. M. Ryzhik. Table of Integrals, Series and ProductsBrian Greene. The Elegant UniverseDouglas R. Hofstadter. Le Ton beau de MarotDouglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett. The Mind's IGeorge Lakoff. Women, Fire, and Dangerous ThingsBenoit B. Mandelbrot. The Fractal Geometry of NatureMarvin L. Minsky. The Society of MindHans Moravec. Mind ChildrenDonald A. Norman. The Psychology of Everyday ThingsHeinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jurgens, Dietmar Saupe. Fractals for the Classroom Part 1 Fractals for the Classroom Part 2Edward R. Tufte. Visual ExplanationsJoseph M. Williams. Stylegreat stuff 2
Robert P. Abelson. Statistics as Principled ArgumentChristopher Alexander. The Timeless Way of BuildingChristopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel. A Pattern LanguageW. Brian Arthur. The Nature of TechnologyPhilip Ball. The Self-Made TapestryMichael F. Barnsley. Fractals EverywhereMichael Benson. BeyondK. G. Binmore. Logic, Sets and Numbers Topological IdeasSusan Blackmore. The Meme MachineDavid Brin. The Transparent SocietyFrederick P. Brooks Jr. The Mythical Man-MonthSean B. Carroll. Endless Forms Most BeautifulGregory J. Chaitin. The Limits of MathematicsIrun R. Cohen. Tending Adam's GardenRichard E. Cytowic. The Man Who Tasted ShapesRichard Dawkins. The God Delusion The Selfish GeneDavid Deutsch. The Fabric of RealityK. Eric Drexler. Engines of CreationErich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph E. Johnson, John Vlissides. Design PatternsGeorge Gamow. Mr Tompkins in PaperbackBrian Greene. The Fabric of the CosmosFranklin M. Harold. The Way of the CellDouglas R. Hofstadter. Fluid Concepts and Creative AnalogiesDarrell Huff. How to Lie with StatisticsStuart A. Kauffman. At Home in the UniverseKevin Kelly. Out of ControlJ. A. Scott Kelso. Dynamic PatternsTracy Kidder. The Soul of a New MachineGeorge Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez. Where Mathematics Comes FromManuel De Landa. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear HistoryBertrand Meyer. Object-oriented Software ConstructionTom Peters. Liberation ManagementRobert M. Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenancePrzemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Aristid Lindenmayer. The Algorithmic Beauty of PlantsRudy Rucker. Mind ToolsOliver Sacks. An Anthropologist on Mars The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatMarcus du Sautoy. The Music of the PrimesLee Smolin. The Life of the Cosmos Three Roads to Quantum GravityNassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black SwanR. D. Tennent. Principles of Programming Languages Semantics of Programming LanguagesLynne Truss. Eats, Shoots & LeavesRobert L. Weber. A Random Walk in ScienceGerald M. Weinberg. The Psychology of Computer ProgrammingDavid Weinberger. Everything is Miscellaneousgreat stuff 2.5
Harold Abelson, Andrea diSessa. Turtle GeometryChristopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Shlomo Angel, Sara Ishikawa, Denny Abrams. The Oregon ExperimentRobert Axelrod. The Evolution of Co-operationRobert Axelrod, Michael D. Cohen. Harnessing ComplexityPer Bak. How Nature WorksJulian B. Barbour. The End of TimeKent Beck. Extreme Programming Explained Smalltalk Best Practice PatternsLudwig von Bertalanffy. General System TheoryK. G. Binmore. Mathematical AnalysisMary L. Boas. Mathematical Methods in the Physical SciencesSteven J. Brams. Superior BeingsJulian R. Brown. The Quest for the Quantum ComputerBill Buxton. Sketching User ExperiencesAndy Clark. Being ThereAlistair Cockburn. Agile Software Development Writing Effective Use CasesJohn Horton Conway, Richard K. Guy. The Book of NumbersFrederick C. Crews. Postmodern Pooh The Pooh PerplexMihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Beyond Boredom and AnxietyRichard Dawkins. A Devil's Chaplain The Blind WatchmakerDaniel C. Dennett. BrainstormsDavid Deutsch. The Beginning of InfinityGuy Deutscher. Through the Language GlassJoshua M. Epstein, Robert Axtell. Growing Artificial SocietiesRichard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton. 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' 'What Do YOU Care What Other People Think?'Robert L. Forward, Joel Davis. Mirror MatterMartin Fowler. Analysis Patterns Domain-Specific Languages RefactoringMartin Fowler, Kendall Scott. UML DistilledSteve Freeman, Nat Pryce. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by TestsPercival Frost. Curve TracingAtul Gawande. Complications The Checklist ManifestoHenry Gee. Deep TimeMurray Gell-Mann. The Quark and the JaguarJames Gleick. ChaosJonathan Glover. Causing Death and Saving LivesStephen Jay Gould. The Mismeasure of ManTemple Grandin. Thinking in PicturesAlan H. Guth. The Inflationary UniverseJ. Storrs Hall. NanofutureDavid Harel. AlgorithmicsRobert L. Harris. Information GraphicsDouglas R. Hofstadter. Metamagical ThemasAndrew Hunt, David Thomas. The Pragmatic ProgrammerMichael Jackson. Software Requirements and SpecificationsSteven Johnson. Emergence Everything Bad is Good for YouRichard A. L. Jones. Soft MachinesEdward Kasner, James R. Newman. Mathematics and the ImaginationTracy Kidder. HouseGeorge Lakoff, Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live BySteven Levy. Artificial LifeDavid Lindley. Where Does the Weirdness Go?John E. Littlewood, Bela Bollobas. Littlewood's MiscellanySeth Lloyd. Programming the UniverseBenoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson. The (Mis)Behaviour of MarketsJohn McWhorter. The Power of BabelDonella H. Meadows. Thinking in SystemsBertrand Meyer. Introduction to the Theory of Programming LanguagesMarvin L. Minsky. The Emotion MachinePatrick Niemeyer, Joshua Peck. Exploring JavaDenis Noble. The Music of LifeArika Okrent. In the Land of Invented LanguagesPaul Ormerod. Butterfly EconomicsTom Peters. Thriving on ChaosIvars Peterson. Newton's Clock The Mathematical TouristMassimo Piattelli-Palmarini. Inevitable IllusionsSteven Pinker. The Language Instinct The Stuff of Thought Words and RulesKarl R. Popper. The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 1William Poundstone. The Recursive UniverseV. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee. Phantoms in the BrainEric S. Raymond. The Cathedral and the Bazaar The New Hacker's DictionaryMatt Ridley. The Red QueenRudy Rucker. Infinity and the MindKarl Sabbagh. Dr. Riemann's ZerosOliver Sacks. A Leg to Stand On Seeing VoicesCarl Sagan. The Demon-Haunted WorldEric D. Schneider, Dorian Sagan. Into the CoolLee Smolin. The Trouble with PhysicsIan Stewart. Does God Play Dice? Life's Other SecretIan Stewart, Jack Cohen. Figments of RealityNassim Nicholas Taleb. Fooled by RandomnessThe Times. Britain from SpaceLinus Torvalds, David Diamond. Just for FunUnicode-Consortium. The Unicode StandardLeonard M. Wapner. The Pea and the SunDavid A. Watt. Programming Language ProcessorsRobert L. Weber. More Random Walks in ScienceColin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater. Ultimate Zero and OneDonna Williams. Nobody Nowhere Somebody Somewhereworth reading 3
J. L. Austin. How to do Things with WordsJon Barwise, John Etchemendy. The LiarLaurie Bauer, Peter Trudgill, editors. Language MythsKent Beck. Test-Driven DevelopmentKent Beck, Martin Fowler. Planning Extreme ProgrammingSandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee. The Body has a Mind of Its OwnSteven J. Brams. Biblical GamesDamien Broderick. The SpikeMark Buchanan. Small World UbiquityA. G. Cairns-Smith. Seven Clues to the Origin of LifeJames P. Carse. Finite and Infinite GamesJack Cohen, Ian Stewart. The Collapse of ChaosJames O. Coplien, Douglas C. Schmidt, editors. Pattern Languages of Program DesignPaul C. W. Davies. The Last Three MinutesTom DeMarco, Timothy Lister. PeoplewareDaniel C. Dennett. Freedom Evolves Kinds of MindsRoland Duncan, Miranda Weston-Smith, editors. The Encyclopaedia of IgnorancePeter Elbow. Writing With PowerDaniel L. Everett. Don't Sleep, There are SnakesRichard P. Feynman, Anthony J. G. Hey, Robin W. Allen. Feynman Lectures on ComputationGary William Flake. The Computational Beauty of NatureAtul Gawande. BetterDavid Gelernter. The Aesthetics of ComputingNeil A. Gershenfeld. When Things Start to ThinkMalcolm Gladwell. Blink Outliers The Tipping PointJames Gleick. FasterNeal Goldstein, Jeff Alger. Developing Object-Oriented Software for the MacintoshBrian C. Goodwin. How the Leopard Changed Its SpotsStephen Jay Gould. Ever Since DarwinTemple Grandin, Catherine Johnson. Animals in TranslationStephen W. Hawking. A Brief History of TimeDee Hock. Birth of the Chaordic AgeDouglas R. Hofstadter. I am a Strange LoopMichael R. A. Huth, Mark D. Ryan. Logic in Computer ScienceHarold Jeffreys, Bertha Jeffreys. Methods of Mathematical PhysicsRon Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson. Extreme Programming InstalledJeff Johnson. GUI BloopersNeil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft. Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program GenerationEvelyn Fox Keller. Making Sense of LifeJoshua Kerievsky. Refactoring to PatternsGordon Laing. Digital RetroRobert B. Laughlin. A Different UniverseRalph Leighton. Tuva or Bust!Douglas B. Lenat, R. V. Guha. Building Large Knowledge-Based SystemsC. S. Lewis. Studies in WordsN. David Mermin, editor. Boojums All the Way ThroughBertrand Meyer. Eiffel: the LanguageMary Midgley. Utopias, Dolphins and ComputersHans Moravec. RobotNationalGeographic. Satellite Atlas of the WorldDonald A. Norman. Turn Signs are the Facial Expressions of AutomobilesOnora O'Neill. A Question of TrustPaul Ormerod. Why Most Things FailTom Peters. The Pursuit of Wow!Tom Peters, Nancy Austin. A Passion for ExcellenceTom Peters, Robert H. Waterman Jr. In Search of ExcellenceKarl R. Popper. The Open Society and Its Enemies Volume 2Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Greak Eskimo Vocabulary HoaxEdward Regis. Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition Nano!Matt Ridley. GenomeOliver Sacks. MusicophiliaSusan Schaller. A Man without WordsRicardo Semler. Maverick!Simon Singh. Fermat's Last TheoremSuzanne Skublics, Edward J. Klimas, David A. Thomas. Smalltalk with StyleN. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe. The Encyclopedia of Integer SequencesNeil V. Smith. The Twitter MachineRaymond M. Smullyan. What Is the Name of This Book?Ricard V. Sole, Brian C. Goodwin. Signs of LifeIan Sommerville, Pete Sawyer. Requirements EngineeringJoel Spolsky. Joel on SoftwareIan Stewart, Martin Golubitsky. Fearful SymmetryClifford Stoll. The Cuckoo's EggSteven H. Strogatz. SyncStephen Todd, William Latham. Evolutionary Art and ComputersEdward R. Tufte. Beautiful EvidenceSherry Turkle. Life on the ScreenDavid A. Watt. Programming Language Concepts and ParadigmsPeter Wayner. Disappearing CryptographyRobert L. Weber. Science with a SmileGerald M. Weinberg. The Secrets of ConsultingE. T. Whittaker, G. N. Watson. A Course of Modern AnalysisTerry Winograd, Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and CognitionArnold M. Zwicky, Peter H. Salus, Robert I. Binnick, Anthony L. Vanek. Studies Out in Left Fieldworth reading 3.5
Amir D. Aczel. EntanglementChristoph Adami. Introduction to Artificial LifeWallace Arthur. Biased Embryos and EvolutionKen Auer, Roy Miller. Extreme Programming AppliedAndre Bacard. The Computer Privacy HandbookJon Barwise, Lawrence Moss. Vicious CirclesKent Beck. Guide to Better SmalltalkPeter J. Bentley. Digital BiologyMichael Blastland, Andrew Dilnot. The Tiger that Isn'tWilliam Goldbloom Bloch. The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of BabelMargaret A. Boden, editor. The Philosophy of Artificial LifeValentino Braitenberg. VehiclesRodney A. Brooks. Cambrian Intelligence RobotColin Bruce. Conned Again, Watson!Armin Bunde, Shlomo Havlin, editors. Fractals in ScienceJeremy Butterfield. Damp SquidGeorge L. Campbell. Concise Compendium of the World's LanguagesJohn L. Casti, Anders Karlqvist, editors. Mission to AbiskoLuigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. Genes, Peoples and LanguagesGregory J. Chaitin. Meta Math!John Cheesman, John Daniels. UML ComponentsAndy Clark. Mindware Natural-Born CyborgsJack Cohen. The Privileged ApeJack Cohen, Graham Medley. Stop Working and Start ThinkingJack Cohen, Ian Stewart. Evolving the AlienLeah Hager Cohen. Train Go SorryMatthew B. Crawford. The Case for Working with Your HandsMihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Finding FlowH. Martyn Cundy, A. P. Rollett. Mathematical ModelsAntoine Danchin. The Delphic BoatRobyn M. Dawes. Everyday IrrationalityRichard Dawkins. River Out of Eden Unweaving the RainbowTom DeMarco. Slack The DeadlineDaniel C. Dennett, editor. Brainchildren Breaking the Spell Elbow Room Sweet Dreams The Intentional StanceKeith Devlin. Logic and InformationApostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou. LogicomixLyn Dupre. BUGS in WritingGeorge Dyson. Darwin among the MachinesGerald M. Edelman. Bright Air, Brilliant FireA. W. F. Edwards. Cogwheels of the MindClaus Emmeche. The Garden in the MachineBruno Ernst. The Eye BeguiledKatrina S. Firlik. Another Day in the Frontal LobeVincent Flanders, Michael Willis. Web Pages the SuckIra R. Forman, Scott H. Danforth. Putting Metaclasses to WorkRichard P. Gabriel. Patterns of SoftwareDavid Gelernter. The Muse in the MachineNeil A. Gershenfeld. FabGerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC_Research_Group. Simple Heuristics That Make Us SmartMalcolm Gladwell. What the Dog SawRobert L. Glass. Facts and Fallacies of Software EngineeringLarry Gonick, Mark Wheelis. The Cartoon Guide to GeneticsDeborah M. Gordon. Ants at WorkStephen Jay Gould. Questioning the MillenniumJeremy J. Gray. The Hilbert ChallengeJulian Havil. Nonplussed!Mark Haw. Middle WorldRay Hemmings, Dick Tahta. Images of InfinityPaul Hoffman. The Man Who Loved Only NumbersJohn Henry Holland. Hidden OrderMartin Hollis. Trust Within ReasonJim Holmes. Object-Oriented Compiler ConstructionBill Jensen. Work 2.0Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen. Self-Organized CriticalitySteven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come FromMichio Kaku. HyperspaceStephen H. Kellert. In the Wake of ChaosKevin Kelly. New Rules for the New EconomyJames Kennedy, Russell C. Eberhart. Swarm IntelligenceNancy Kline. Time to ThinkDonald E. Knuth. Surreal NumbersLeonard Koren. Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and PhilosophersBart Kosko. Fuzzy ThinkingPhilippe Kruchten. The Rational Unified ProcessSteve Krug. Don't Make Me ThinkGeorge Lakoff, Mark Turner. More than Cool ReasonSteven E. Landsburg. More Sex is Safer SexShaughan Lavine. Understanding the InfiniteJanna Levin. How the Universe Got Its SpotsA. R. Luria. The Mind of a MnemonistStewart Mader. WikipatternsPete McBreen. Questioning Extreme Programming Software CraftsmanshipJim McCarthy, Michele McCarthy. Software for Your HeadWil McCarthy. Hacking MatterRobert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil. The Story of EnglishGary McGraw, Edward W. Felten. Java SecurityPeter J. R. Millican, Andy Clark, editors. Machines and ThoughtMelanie Mitchell. Analogy-Making as PerceptionLeonard Mlodinow. Some Time with FeynmanRichard Morris. Artificial WorldsDavid Mumford, Caroline Series, David Wright. Indra's PearlsNicholas Negroponte. Being DigitalDonald A. Norman. Emotional Design The Invisible Computer Things That Make Us SmartMichael O'Neill, Conor Ryan. Grammatical EvolutionSusan Oyama. The Ontogeny of InformationJohn Allen Paulos. Once Upon a NumberDaniel Pennac. The Rights of the ReaderDavid Perkins. The Eureka EffectTom Peters. The Circle of InnovationIvars Peterson. Islands of TruthRosalind W. Picard. Affective ComputingClifford A. Pickover. Computers, Pattern, Chaos and BeautyRichard A. Posner. The Little Book of PlagiarismWilliam Poundstone. Labyrinths of ReasonTerry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen. Darwin's Watch The Globe The Science of DiscworldMartin J. Rees. Just Six NumbersByron Reeves, Clifford Nass. The Media EquationEdward Regis. What Is Life?K. F. Riley. Mathematical Methods for the Physical SciencesAmanda Ripley. The UnthinkableMark Ronan. Symmetry and the MonsterRudy Rucker. The Fourth DimensionJulie Rugg, Lynda Murphy. A Book Addict's TreasuryDonald G. Saari. Decisions and ElectionsOliver Sacks. The Island of the Colour-blind The Mind's EyeMatthias Scheutz, editor. ComputationalismAl Seckel. Masters of DeceptionYen-Ping Shan, Ralph H. Earle. Enterprise Computing with ObjectsNeil Shubin. Your Inner FishTom Siegfried. The Bit and the PendulumNeil V. Smith, Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. The Mind of a SavantRobert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores. Building TrustJoel Spolsky. More Joel on Software Smart and Gets Things DoneG. Stephenson. Mathematical Methods for Science StudentsIan Stewart. Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into...Leonard Susskind, James Lindesay. An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory RevolutionJohn Vlissides. Pattern HatchingGerald M. Weinberg. An Introduction to General Systems ThinkingGarnett P. Williams. Chaos Theory TamedTerry Winograd, editor. Bringing Design to SoftwareMaryanne Wolf. Proust and the SquidRicardo Salem Zebulum, Marco Aurelio C. Pacheco, Marley Maria B. R. Vellasco. Evolutionary Electronicspasses the time 4
Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman. A Perfect MessJohn Bear. Send This Jerk the Bedbug LetterKevin Beresford. Roundabouts of Great BritainMark Breier, Armin A. Brott. The Ten Second Internet ManagerWilliam J. Brown, Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III, Scott W. Thomas. AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration ManagementBill Bryson. Mother TonguePeter Cochrane. Tips for Time TravellersChristopher Day. Places of the SoulKeith Devlin. All the Math That's Fit to PrintDietrich Dorner. The Logic of FailurePaul Evitts. A UML Pattern LanguageRichard P. Feynman. The Meaning of it AllMartin Gardner. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?Betty Lehan Harragan. Games Mother Never Taught YouRobert L. Jolles. The Way of the Road WarriorJohn Kay. ObliquityScott Kim. InversionsJeffrey Kluger. SimplexityRoger Lewin, Birute Regine. Weaving Complexity and BusinessAlan Lewis. Pundemoniam!Robin Mitchell. Adam Lyal's Witchery TalesWill C. Mooney. Chinese Names for Oriental DogsHarold J. Morowitz. The Emergence of EverythingMugumogu. I am MaruHaruki Murakami. What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningWendy Northcutt. The Darwin AwrdsPentagram. PuzzlegramsGavin Pretor-Pinney. A Pig with Six LegsMichael Quinion. Port Out, Starboard HomeGarr Reynolds. Presentation Zen DesignRudy Rucker. Artificial Life LabKeith Selkirk, William Wynne Willson. Fifty per cent ProofRichard Sennett. The CraftsmanIan Stewart. Nature's NumbersMichael Swift, George Grant. Britain from the AirNassim Nicholas Taleb. The Bed of ProcrustesLinda Arms White. Log Spiritpasses the time 4.5
Scott W. Ambler. Agile ModelingWilliam J. Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III, Thomas J. Mowbray. AntiPatternsCretien van Campen. The Hidden SenseUmberto Eco. SerendipitiesTino Gramss, Stefan Bornholdt, Michael Gross, Melanie Mitchell, Thomas Pellizzari, editors. Non-Standard ComputationStefan Helmreich. Silicon Second NatureMaria Leach. The Ultimate InsultWilliam J. Majeski, Ralph Butler. The Lie Detection BookMark Monmonier. How to Lie with MapsDonald E. Simanek, John C. Holden. Science AskewDavid Weeks, Jamie James. Eccentricswaste of time 5
Java-SIG-Team. Java-SIG's 100 Best AppletsClifford A. Pickover. Computers and the ImaginationJonathan Pletzke. Advanced SmalltalkIan Vince, Dan Kieran. The Myway CodeMark Ward. Virtual Organismswaste of time 5.5
Miyamoto Musashi. A Book of Five Ringsunfinishable 6
Richard J. Bird. Chaos and LifeTara Calishain, Rael Dornfest. Google HacksJostein Gaarder. Sophie's WorldMichael D. McMaster. The Intelligence AdvantageDavid Shenk. Data Smog