books.md

Wishlist

Physics

• The troubles with Physics

Learning/Thinking

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• The Organized Mind

History

• A Mind At Play
• Ice Age
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• The Pentium Chronicles
• The Annotated Turing
• The Cathedral & the Bazaar

Personal

• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball
• The Second Age of Computer Science
• Code
• On Writing Well
• Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas
• God and Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
• Understanding Power
• The Information
• Tao of Jeet Kune Do
• Shoe Dog
• PayOff
• A Torch Kept Lit
• Chaos Monkeys
• The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age
• The Psychopath Code
• Culture and Empire: Digital Revolution
• Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
• Bruce Lee's Fighting Method
• Defeat Into Victory
• Into the Magic Shop
• These Strange Criminals
• Alan Turing: The Enigma
• Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• Science for sale
• Freedom from the Known

Architecture and Design Outside Computing

• The Timeless Way of Building
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form
• A Pattern Language
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Engineers of Dreams
• The Design of Design

Economy

• Economics One Lesson

Psychology / Philosophy

• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• The Rational Male
• Ride the Tiger
• Eye and Brain
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
• Ghost in The Machine
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind
• Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
• The Psychology of Computer Programming
• Mind in society
• The Antichrist
• A Handbook of Traditional Living

Team / People

• The Mythical Man-Month
• Slack
• Peopleware
• Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

Health

• Why We Sleep
• Crooked
• The Healthy Programmer

Data

• Data and Reality: A Timeless Perspective on Perceiving and Managing Information in Our Imprecise World
• Information Science and Statistics

Databases

• Refactoring Databases
• PostgreSQL 14 Internals

Streaming

• Streaming Systems

Relational Theory

• Time and Relational Theory
• SQL and Relational Theory

Algorithms

• Grokking Algorithms
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
• Common Sense Guide To Data Structures
• The Algorithm Design Manual
• Data Structures and Algorithms

Artificial Intelligence

• THE LITTLE BOOK OF DEEP LEARNING

Languages

• Crafting Interpreters
• Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
• Let's Build a Compiler
• Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
• Language Implementation Patterns
• Compiling with Continuations
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
• Interpreter Book
• Concepts of Programming Languages
• Functional Thinking
• Domain-Specific Languages
• Parsing Techniques

Rust

• The Little Book of Rust Macros

Erlang

• Programming Erlang

Lisp / Scheme

• Lisp in small pieces
• The Reasoned Schemer
• The Little Schemer
• Lisp in Small Pieces
• Scheme 9 from Empty Space

C

• Scalable C
• 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School

Concurrency

• The Theory and Practice of Concurrency

Legacy code

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
• Beyond Legacy Code

Embedded

• Patterns in the Machine: A Software Engineering Guide to Embedded Development
• Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++
• The Art of Designing Embedded Systems, Second Edition

Math

• What is Mathematics
• Concrete Mathematics
• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
• An Illustrated Theory of Numbers
• The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing
• Mathematics of GIS
• Think Bayes
• Statistics in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
• A First Course in Graph Theory
• Graph Theory
• Graph Analysis and Visualization

Development Process

• Shape Up
• The Nature of Software Development
• The Machine That Changed The World

Distributed Systems

• Hypermedia Systems
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

Networking

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach
• Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals
• Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks
• Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
• Introduction to Computer Networks

Software Design

• Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
• The Software Engineer's Guidebook
• Structured Design: Fundamentals of a Discipline of Computer Program and Systems Design
• The Elements of Programming Style
• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
• Structured Programming
• The Problem With Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code
• System Design Interview
• Domain Driven Design
• The Systems Bible
• Structured Programming
• Software Fundamentals
• Your Code as a Crime Scene

Performance/Profiling

• Understanding Software Dynamics
• Systems Performance

Security

• The Codebreakers
• Cryptography Engineering
• Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know

Games

• Game Engine Black Book: DOOM: v1.1
• Game Engine Black Book: Wolfstein 3D

Doing

• The Shinning
• The Fountainhead
• Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner
• The Rust Programming Language

Done

2024

• Dave Grohl The Storyteller
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Two Towers
• The End Of Faith
• The Return of the King
• Brave New World
• The Hobbit
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Atlas Shrugged

2023

• Masters of Doom
• The God Delusion
• Hackers and Painters
• Man search for meaning
• Elon Musk
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
• 1984
• Philosophy: who needs it
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late

2022

• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Animal Farm
• Hands on Rust
• Founders at Work
• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
• The Pragmatic Programmer: 2nd edition
• The Way of Men

2021

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• The Dream Machine
• The Robots of Dawn
• The Naked Sun
• The Making of Prince of Persia

2020

• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Foundation
• Foundation And Empire
• Second Foundation
• Dealers of Lightining
• The Body Keeps the Score
• The Caves of Steel

2019

• Algorithms to Live By
• The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
• The Soul of A New Machine
• Rework
• Modern Vim
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

2018

• Coders at Work
• The Better Angels of Our Nature
• Compiler Construction
• The Idea Factory
• Practice of Programming

2017

• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
• The Go Programming Language
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Fire in the valley
• Seven concurrency models in seven weeks
• The Book

2016

• Web Scraping with Python
• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Masters of Doom
• Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
• Iron John: A Book About Men
• Extreme Programming Explained
• Talent is overrated

2015

• Effective Python
• Building Microservices
• I lov logs
• Anticancer
• Hackers and Painters

2014

• NodeJS The right way
• REST in practice
• Automate with Grunt
• Web API Design
• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software

On a galaxy far far away

• Lua Gems
• Test Driven Development for Embedded C
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• How Google Tests Software
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
• Practical Vim