Note: Don’t judge this digital bookshelf by its cover! While I’ve gathered a variety of books in this digital library, it’s worth noting that I haven’t read each one, and not all of the ones I’ve read align with my personal preferences. Nevertheless, this collection represents an array of topics that have sparked my interest. I warmly welcome any book recommendations you may have or discussions about the literature presented here. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Many books in the public domain can be accessed at Gutenberg.org.

Non-technical books

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Biographies:

• Grant, Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend (1983)
• Gandhi, An Autobiography (1948)
• Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin (2003)
• Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci(2017)

Computer Science:

• Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer (1999)
• Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999)
• Petzold, The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (2008)
• Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
• Stallman, Free as in Freedom (2002)
• Torvalds and Diamond, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (2001)
• Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming (1971)

Cryptocurrency/DeFi/Blockchain:

• Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard (2018)
• Ammous, The Fiat Standard (2021)
• Buterin, Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains (2022)
• Greenberg, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency (2022)
• Harvey, DeFi and the Future of Finance (2021)
• Lipton, Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, and Economics (2021)
• Srinivasan, The Network State: How To Start A New Country (2022)

Economics:

• Mokyr, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
• Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
• Schumpeter, The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory
• Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (2020)
• Shiller, Narrative Economics
• Helpman, The Mystery of Economic Growth
• Angner, A Course in Behavioral Economics
• Caplan, The Myth of the Rational Voter
• Caplan, The Case Against Education
• Akerlof and Shiller, Animal Spirits
• Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers
• Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
• Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit
• Kuran, Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
• Thaler, Nudge
• Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
• Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• Jackson, Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet

Engineering

• Truszkowski et al. Autonomous and Autonomic Systems: With Applications to NASA Intelligent Spacecraft Operations and Exploration Systems (2009)

Fiction:

• Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958)
• Fowles, The Magus (1965)
• Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878)

• Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869)

  Fantasy:

• J.R.R. Tolkien

• Pullman, His Dark Materials Trilogy (1995-2000)

  Finance:

• Harris, The Fear Index (2011)

• Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923)

  Historical Fiction:

• Harris, Imperium Triology (2006-2016)

  Science Fiction:

• Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
• Asimov, Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953)
• Brin, The Uplift Stories (1980-1998)
• Brunner, The Shockwave Rider (1975)
• Card, Ender’s Game (1985)
• Cixin, The Dark Forest (2008)
• Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (1990-2001)
• Crichton, Jurassic Park (1990)
• Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
• Gibson, Burning Chrome (1986)
• Gibson, Sprawl Trilogy (1984-1988)
• Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
• Herbert, Dune (1965)
• Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
• Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness (1936)
• Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
• Scalzi, Old Man’s War Series (2005-2015)
• Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (1999)
• Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)
• Vinge, True Names (1981)
• Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
• Wells, The Time Machine (1895)

• Zelazny, Lord of Light (1967)

  Philosophical fiction:

• Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
• Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Finance:

• Ilmanen, Expected Returns: An Investor’s Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
• Pfaff, Financial Risk Modelling and Portfolio Optimisation with R
• Pollock, Finance and Philosophy
• Lewis, Liar’s Poker
• Mehrling, The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
• Black, Business Cycles and Equilibrium
• Black, Exploring General Equilibrium
• Marks, The Most Important Thing
• Klarman, Margin of Safety
• Bernstein, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
• Mandelbrot, The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
• Admati and Hellwig, The Bankers’ New Clothes: Whats Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
• Reinhart and Rogoff, This Time is Different

• Lowenstein, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

  Behavioral finance:

• Tuckett, Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability (2011)

  Financial history:

• Furguson, High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg (2010)

• Furguson, The Ascent of Money (2008)

  Monetary finance:

• Bagehot, Lombard Street (1873)
• Bernanke, The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath (2015)
• Brunnermeier, James, and Landau The Euro and the Battle of Ideas (2016)
• Cargill, The Financial System, Financial Regulation and Central Bank Policy (2017)
• Hayek, Prices and Production (1931)
• James, Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 (2020)
• James, Making the European Monetary Union (2006)
• James, The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (2001)
• James, The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank (2004)
• Keynes, A Treatise on Money (1930)
• Keynes, How to Pay for the War (1940)
• Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
• King, The End of Alchemy (2017)
• Krugman, End This Depression Now! (2012)
• Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912)
• Moenjak, Central Banking: Theory and Practice in Sustaining Monetary and Financial Stability (2017)
• Paulson, On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (2010
• Rothbard, The Case Against Fed (1994)
• Ryan-Collins et al., Where Does Money Come From?: A Guide To The Uk Monetary And Banking System (2011)
• Volcker, Keeping at it (2018)
• Werner, Princes of the Yen (2001)
• Wicksell, Interest and Prices (1936)
• Wicksell, Value, Capital, and Rent (1893)

Games:

Chess:

• Chernev, Logical Chess: Move by Move (1998)
• Maizelis, The Soviet Chess Primer (2014)
• Silamn, Amateur’s Mind (1999)
• Silman, How to Reassess Your Chess (2010)
• Silman, Silman’s Complete Endgame Course (2006)

Health/Fitness

• Jujimufu, Legendary Flexibility (2016)
• Low, Overcoming Gravity (2022)
• MacLeod, 9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes (2009)
• McDougall, Born to Run (2009)
• Patrick, Knee Ability Zero (2021)
• Rippetoe, Practical Programming (2006)
• Rippetoe, Starting Strength (2005)
• Starrett, Becoming a Supple Leopard (2013)

History:

• Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
• Castillo, The True History of The Conquest of New Spain
• Cicero, On Moral Ends
• Cicero, Selected Political Speeches
• Clausewitz, On War
• Ehrman, How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee (2014)
• Green, The Greco-Persian Wars
• Gaius Julius Caesar, The War for Gaul
• Gaius Julius Caesar, The Civil War
• Sturluson, History of the Kings of Norway
• Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution

Linguistics:

• Bodmer, The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (1943)
• Worman, New First Spanish Book (1916)
• Ørberg, Lingua Latīna Per Sē Illūstrāta (1955)

Maths/Science:

• Bell, Men of Mathematics
• Blom, Problems and Snapshots from the World of Probability
• Dunham, Euler
• Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics
• Finetti, Philosophical Lectures on Probability
• Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
• Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature
• Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
• Rudin, The Way I Remember It
• Singh, Fermat’s Last Theorem
• Smith, An Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems

Non-fiction:

• Assange, Cypherpunks
• Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• Gilder, Life After Google
• Haidt, The Righteous Mind
• Kling, The Three Landuages of Politics
• Knuth, Surreal Numbers
• McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary
• Newport, Deep Work
• Schneier, A Hacker’s Mind (2023)
• Snowden, Permanent Record
• Taleb
• Thiel, Zero to One

Philosophy:

• Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
• Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
• Aurelius, Meditations
• (Zeno, The Republic)
• Bahm, Philosophy of the Buddha
• Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery
• Henri Bergson
• Feyerabend, Against Method
• Fodor, The Modularity of Mind
• Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

• Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

  Political Philosophy:

• Frédéric Bastiat
• Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• William Godwin
• Peter Kropotkin
• Rothbard
• Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
• Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed
• Peron, The Liberal Tide From Tyranny To Liberty
• Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Arendt, On Revolution
• Robertson, The Dispossessed Majority

• Spencer, The Man Versus the State

  Philosophical Theology:

• Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1265-1274)
• Aslan, God: A Human History (2017)
• Augustine, Confessions (397-400)
• Birgitta of Vadstena, Revelaciones Celestes (1492)
• Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation (1998)
• Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2004)
• Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014)
• Kowalska, The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (1925-1938)
• MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981)
• Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy (2016)
• Therese of Lisieux, Story of a Soul (1898)
• Topelius, Blad ur Min Tänkebok (1898)
• Woods, The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (2005)
• Woods, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (2005)
• Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Psychology:

• Gigerenzer, Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty
• Jaynes, The Origin of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Penfield, Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain
• Jung, Civilization in Transition
• Freud, Totem and Taboo
• Levine, Resisting Illegitimate Authority
• Kahneman and Tversky, Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
• Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow
• Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Reference/technical books

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Computer Science:

• Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman, Structure and interpretation of computer programs (1996)
• Aho, Sethi, and Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (1986)
• Cormen et al., Introduction to Algorithms (1990)
• Hopcroft and Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (1979)
• Kernighan and Ritchie, The C Programming Language (1978)
• Kleppman, Designing Data Intensive Applications (2017)
• McConnell, Code Complete (2004)

Cryptocurrency/DeFi:

• Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin (2014)
• Antonopoulos and Wood, Mastering Ethereum (2018)

Cryptography:

• Schneier, Applied Cryptography (1995)

Electronics:

• Floyd, Electronic Devices (1984)
• Horowitz, The Art of Electronics (1980)
• Platt, Make: Electronics (2009)

Financial Economics:

Asset pricing:

• Back, Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory (2010)
• Campbell, Financial Decisions and Markets (2018)
• Campbell, Lo, and MacKinlay, The Econometrics of Financial Markets (1997)
• Cochrane, Asset Pricing (2005)
• Duffie, Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory (2001)

Financial econometrics:

• Tsay, Analysis of Financial Time Series (2010)

Market microstructure:

• Durbin, All About High-Frequency Trading (2010)
• Foucault, Pagano, and Roell, Market Liquidity: Theory, Evidence, and Policy
• Gregoriou, Handbook of High Frequency Trading (2015)
• Harris, Trading and Exchanges (2002)
• Hasbourck, Empirical Market Microstructure (2007)
• O’Hara, Market Microstructure Theory (1995)

Financial Engineering:

• Lopez de Prado, Advances in Financial Machine Learning (2018)
• Shreve, Stochastic Calculus for Finance I (2004)
• Shreve, Stochastic Calculus for Finance II (2004)
• Strickland and Clewlow, Implementing Derivative Models (1998)

Game Theory:

• Fudenberg and Tirole, Game Theory (1991)
• Tadelis, Game Theory An Introduction (2013)
• Weibull, Evolutionary Game Theory (1997)

GNU/Linux:

• Hertzog and Mas, The Debian Administrator’s Handbook (2015)
• Shotts, The Linux Command Line (2012)

Macroeconomics:

• Acemoglu, An Introduction to Modern Economic Growth (2009)
• Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics (2005)
• Taylor and Uhlig, Handbook of Macroeconomics (2016)

Machine Learning:

• Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2011)
• Murphy, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (2012)

Microeconomics:

• Mas-Colell, Microeconomic Theory (1995)
• Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (1992)

Natural Language Processing:

• Bird et al., Natural Language Processing with Python (2009)
• Eisenstein, Natural Language Processing (2018)
• Goldberg, Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing (2017)
• Jurafsky and Martin, Speech and Language Processing (2020)
• Manning et al., Introduction to Information Retrieval (2008)
• Manning and Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (1999)
• Mitkov, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics (2005)

Numerical Analysis:

• Bishop, Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995)
• Powell, Approximation Theory and Methods (1981)
• Süli and Mayers, An Introduction to Numerical Analysis (2003)
• Trefethen, Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice (2013)
• Trefethen, Numerical Linear Algebra (1997)

Statistics and Econometrics:

• Cameron and Trivedi, Microeconometrics (2005)
• Hayashi, Econometrics (2000)
• Nelsen, An Introduction to Copulas (2006)
• White, Asymptotic Theory for Econometricians (2000)