Bookshelf

Updated 02/23/2025

Currently Reading

Nothing

Below is an incomplete list of some books that I currently have on my shelves, or have owned in the past. Many I’ve read, others I’ve started yet left unfinished ¹.

List

• Fallout: The True Story of the CIA’s Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking, Catherine Collins & Douglas Frantz

• The Winds of Change…And Other Stories, Isaac Asimov

• The Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov

• I, Asimov: A Memoir, Isaac Asimov

• Robots and Empire, Isaac Asimov

• Enemies, A Love Story, Isaac Singer

• The Stars, Like Dust, Isaac Asimov

• The Great SF Stories, Isaac Asimov

• Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov

• Foundation, Isaac Asimov

• The Best of Wednesday Crosswords, Will Shortz

• The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein

• Deception Point, Dan Brown

• When the Air Hits Your Brain, Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

• The Fabric of the Cosmos, Brian Greene

• The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene

• From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll

• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman

• The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James

• The King of the Fields, Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Dialogues Conerning Natural Religion, David Hume

• The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

• The Annotated Turing, Charles Petzold

• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman

• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Richard Feynman, With A.Zee (Introduction)

• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

• The Particle at the End of the Universe, Sean Carroll

• Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant

• On Liberty, John Stuart Mill

• Atheism: A Very Short Introduction, Julian Baggini

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

• Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin

• The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks

• Awakening, Oliver Sacks

• Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan

• Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks

• Black Holes and Time Warps, Kip Thorne

• The Perfect Theory, Pedro G. Ferreira

• A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

• Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier

• You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier

• Plato at the Googleplex, Rebecca Goldstein

• Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Golstein

• Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris

• The End of Faith, Sam Harris

• The Meaning of Human Existence, E.O. Wilson

• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

• The Call of the Wild and Other Stories, Jack London

• A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

• Essays in Skepticism, Bertrand Russell

• The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr

• The Shallows, Nicholas Carr

• Alone Together, Sherry Turkle

• Going to Meet the Man: Stories, James Baldwin

• The Alchemy of Air, Thomas Hager

• Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane

• Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

• Paris in the Twentieth Century, Jules Verne

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

• A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

• Persuasion, Jane Austin

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates

• Girl With Curious Hair, David Foster Wallace

• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace

• The Ancestors Tale, Richard Dawkins

• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter

• I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter

• The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins

• How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, Daniel J. Velleman

• Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach, Morris Kline

• A Book of Abstract Algebra, Charles C. Pinter

• Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook, Jay Cummings

• Introduction to Graphy Theory, Richard J. Trudeau

• Introductoin to Algorithms, 3rd Edition, Cormen et al

• Gravitation, MTW (Misner, Thorne, Wheeler)

• General Relativity, Robert M. Wald

• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch

• The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch

• The Trial, Franz Kafka

• On The Road, Jack Kerouac

• The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac

• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Ideas and Opinions, Albert Einstein

• The Naked Sun, Isaac Asimov

• Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner

• Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov

• Foundation’s Edge, Isaac Asimov

• Asimov on Physics, Isaac Asimov

• Nemesis, Isaac Asimov

• The Metamorhosis, Franz Kafka

• The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis

• The Sea Wolf, Jack London

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

• The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler

• The Rosie Project, Graeme Simpsion

• The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

• Common Sense and Other Writings, Thomas Paine

• Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis

• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

• The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay

• The Impact of Science on Society, Bertrand Russell

• The Myth of the Framework, Karl Popper

• It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis

• The Martian, Andy Weir

• Walden and Other Writings, Henry David Thoreau

• The Giver, Lois Lowry

• The Things They Carried, O’Brien

• The Postmortal, Drew Magary

• Love and Other Near Death Experiences, Mil Millington

• All The King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren

• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Awakening, Kate Chopin

• Catch 22, Joseph Heller

• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris

• The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris

• Waking Up, Sam Harris

• The Mind’s I, Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett

• Metamagical Themas, Douglas R. Hofstadter

• The Plague, Albert Camus

• Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel C. Dennett

• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

• The Republic, Plato

• The Symposium, Plato

• The Stranger, Albert Camus

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

• The Wasteland and Other Poems, T.S. Elliot

• Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Mindfulness in Plain English, Gunaratana

• Breaking the Spell, Daniel C. Dennett

• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

• The Confessions, Saint Augustine

• The Divine Comedy, Dante

• Holy Bible

• The Book of Mormon

• Crime and Punishment, Dosteoevsky

• The Better Angels of our Nature, Steven Pinker

• The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker

• The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker

• How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker

• The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, 2 Volumes

• The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

• The Complete Sherklock Holmes, Sir Arthu Conan Doyle

• Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges

• East of Eden, John Steinbeck

• Becoming, Michelle Obama

• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond

• Collapse, Jared Diamond

• A People’s History of The United States, Howard Zinn

• Introduction to Real Analysis, Bartle & Sherbert

• Vector Analysis, Louis Brand

• Advanced Calculus, Wilfred Kaplan

• Topology, 2nd Edition, James Munkres

• Introduction to Electrodynamics, Griffiths

• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Griffiths

• Electricity and Magnetism, Purcell

• Introduction to Classical Mechanics, Morin

• Special Relativity for the Enthusiastic Beginner, Morin

• A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations, Daniel Fleisch

• Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Scott Aaronson

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Nielsen & Chuang

• Introduction to Linear Algebra, Gilbert Strang

• Spacetime Physics, Taylor & Wheeler

• Basic Training in Mathematics, R. Shankar

• Cracking the Coding Interview, Gayle McDowell

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

• Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur, Tom Lancaster

• Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals, Richard Feynman

• An Introduction to Information Theory, John R. Pierce

• Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Michael Sisper

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

• Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity, Sean M. Carroll

• A Tour of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup

• CompTIA Security+: SY0-601 Certification Guide, 2nd Edition, Ian Neil

• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, Nicole Perlroth. I highly recommend listening to Nicole Perlroth on the Darknet Diaries podcast, EP 98: Zero Day Brokers.

• The Cuckoos Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, Cliff Stoll

• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech, Jeff Kosseff

• The Hardware Hacking Handbook: Breaking Embedded Security with Hardware Attacks

• Zero to Production in Rust: An opinionated introduction to backend development