Some of the best books I've read, sorted according to topic, with reviews linked where I've completed them.
Sometimes I write longer form book reviews! I'll link to these as I generate them.
Math
- A Mind for Numbers, Barbara Oakley
- Naive Set Theory, Paul Halmos
- Concepts of Modern Mathematics, Ian Stewart
- A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics, Jeremy Kun
- A History of Vector Analysis, Michael J. Crowe
- Adventures of a Mathematician, Stanislaw M. Ulam
Linear Algebra
- Linear Algebra Done Right, by Sheldon Axler
Deep Learning
- Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow
Reinforcement Learning
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Richard S. Sutton
Biology
- The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee
- A Genetic Switch, Phage Lambda Revisited, Mark Ptashne
SF
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1), Arthur C. Clarke
Minds
- On Having No Head, by Douglas Harding (my review)
Outside
- Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier, by Bruce Barcott (my review)
General, To File
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Mortimer J. Adler
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1), George R.R. Martin
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Christopher W. Alexander
- A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder, Michael Pollan
- A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, Ayelet Waldman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover from Great Success, Tracy Kidder
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
- Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3), James S.A. Corey
- About Face: Odyssey Of An American Warrior, David H. Hackworth
- Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta, Thomas Lin
- All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein
- Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1), Richard K. Morgan
- American Gods (American Gods, #1), Neil Gaiman
- An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R, Gareth James
- Anathem, Neal Stephenson
- Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Assault on Lake Casitas, Brad Alan Lewis
- Axiomatic, Greg Egan
- Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, #6), James S.A. Corey
- Bag of Bones, Stephen King
- Basin and Range, John McPhee
- Beyond the Mountain, Steve House
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
- Black House (The Talisman, #2), Stephen King
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall
- Caliban's War (Expanse, #2), James S.A. Corey
- Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1), Joseph Heller
- Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick
- Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4), James S.A. Corey
- Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman
- Code, Charles Petzold
- Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, Peter Seibel
- Coming Into the Country, John McPhee
- Confessions of a Public Speaker, Scott Berkun
- Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, Ryan Holiday
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age, Michael A. Hiltzik
- Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3), Liu Cixin
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
- Diaspora, Greg Egan
- Dichronauts, Greg Egan
- Different Seasons, Stephen King
- Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, Nathaniel Popper
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport
- Distress (Subjective Cosmology #3), Greg Egan
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, John McPhee
- Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1), Frank Herbert
- East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee
- Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1), Orson Scott Card
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Alex Hutchinson
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker
- Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb, Jim Ottaviani
- Feynman, Jim Ottaviani
- Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, Leonard Mlodinow
- Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solutions, Frederick Mosteller
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James P. Carse
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Michael Lewis
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
- Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It, Gabriel Wyner
- Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, Terence McKenna
- Foundation (Foundation #1), Isaac Asimov
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, Jessica Livingston
- Free Will, Sam Harris
- Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield
- Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War, Evan Wright
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick
- Ghost World, Daniel Clowes
- Gödel's Proof, Ernest Nagel
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy
- Hamlet, William Shakespeare
- Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
- Heavy Weather, Bruce Sterling
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1), Dan Simmons
- I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Ilium (Ilium, #1), Dan Simmons
- In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War, Tobias Wolff
- In the Beginning...Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson
- Intel Trinity,The: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company, Michael S. Malone
- Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
- Introduction to Mathematical Thinking, Keith J. Devlin
- Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway
- It, Stephen King
- Jesus and Yahweh, Harold Bloom
- John Adams, David McCullough
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
- Kafka, David Zane Mairowitz
- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, George Horace Lorimer
- Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
- Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47, Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1), James S.A. Corey
- Lido for Time, Brad Alan Lewis
- Lido for Time 14: 39: My Training Journal from October 1983 Through the Olympics in August '84, Brad Alan Lewis
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark
- Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology, Johnjoe McFadden
- Lincoln, David Herbert Donald
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos K. Doxiadis
- Looking for a Ship, John McPhee
- Lying, Sam Harris
- Macbeth, William Shakespeare
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
- Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian
- Master of the Senate, Robert A. Caro
- Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies, Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, David Kushner
- Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (Dover Books on Mathematics), A.D. Aleksandrov
- Mean Ol' Mr Gravity, Mark Rippetoe
- Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2), Robert A. Caro
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence, Rory Miller
- Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Books), Eric Temple Bell
- Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog, Ted Kerasote
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis
- Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
- Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, Paul Stamets
- Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5), James S.A. Corey
- Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning, Dan John
- Neverwhere (London Below, #1), Neil Gaiman
- Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
- North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail, Scott Jurek
- Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived, Laurence Shames
- Oceanic, Greg Egan
- Old School, Tobias Wolff
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
- On Power, Robert A. Caro
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
- On Trails: An Exploration, Robert Moor
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
- Once a Runner , John L. Parker Jr.
- One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer, Nathaniel Fick
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
- Oranges, John McPhee
- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English, John McWhorter
- Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark
- Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1), Octavia E. Butler
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman, Richard P. Feynman
- Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2), Greg Egan
- Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7), James S.A. Corey
- Phases of Gravity, Dan Simmons
- Post-Truth, Lee McIntyre
- Practical Programming for Strength Training, Mark Rippetoe
- Programming Clojure, Stuart Halloway
- Quarantine (Subjective Cosmology #1), Greg Egan
- Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing & Working With Fungi, Peter McCoy
- Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals, Karen Pryor
- Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody
- Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- ReWork, Jason Fried
- Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team, Chris Lear
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
- Schild's Ladder, Greg Egan
- Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1), James Clavell
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
- So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Cal Newport
- Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2), Orson Scott Card
- Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, Wolfgang Langewiesche
- Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
- Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
- Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, Gerald Jay Sussman
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Harold Abelson
- Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1), Dan Simmons
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The 4 Hour Workweek, Expanded And Updated: Expanded And Updated, With Over 100 New Pages Of Cutting Edge Content, Timothy Ferriss
- The Amateurs, David Halberstam
- The American Religion, Harold Bloom
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Richard Hamming
- The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, John Gardner
- The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Josh Waitzkin
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch
- The Black Cloud, Fred Hoyle
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
- The Body, Stephen King
- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan
- The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Shelby Foote
- The Craftsman, Richard Sennett
- The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island, John McPhee
- The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor, John McPhee
- The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin, Peter H. Salus, Jeremy C. Reed, Jon Hall
- The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2), Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- The Design of Design, Frederick P. Brooks Jr.,
- The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks, Susan Casey,
- The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson, Pedro Jorge Romero
- The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley,
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, M. Mitchell Waldrop,
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe,
- The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us, Richard O. Prum,
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
- The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1), Stephen King,
- The High Lonesome: Epic Solo Climbing Stories, John Long, Hai-Van K. Sponholz
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1), Douglas Adams,
- The Hobbit or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien,
- The Homeowner's Handbook to Energy Efficiency: A Guide to Big and Small Improvements, John Krigger,
- The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, Richard Preston, Αλέκος Μανωλίδης
- The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm, Ian Jack
- The Joy of Clojure, Michael Fogus, Chris Houser
- The Last Car in the Parking Lot, Brad Alan Lewis,
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Marie Kondō, Cathy Hirano
- The Little Prover, Daniel P. Friedman, Carl Eastlund
- The Little Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth, Paul Hoffman,
- The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare, Robert Smith, Jonathan Morris
- The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America, Langdon Cook,
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks Jr.,
- The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, Michael Lewis,
- The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition, William Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katherine Eisaman Maus
- The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Judith Rich Harris,
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan,
- The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King #1-4), T.H. White,
- The One-Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka,
- The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli,
- The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs, Patricia B. McConnell,
- The Passage of Power, Robert A. Caro,
- The Patch, John McPhee,
- The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life, Robert Fritz,
- The Path to Power, Robert A. Caro,
- The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It, Neal Bascomb,
- The Pine Barrens, John McPhee, James Graves
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro,
- The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta, Thomas Lin,
- The Princess Bride, William Goldman,
- The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch, Jonathan Gottschall,
- The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys, James Fadiman,
- The Reasoned Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov
- The Seasoned Schemer, Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen
- The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter, Paul J. Steinhardt,
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins,
- The Shell Game: Reflections on Rowing and the Pursuit of Excellence, Stephen Kiesling,
- The Shining (The Shining, #1), Stephen King,
- The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Shaw
- The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder,
- The Stand, Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson
- The Talisman (The Talisman, #1), Stephen King, Peter Straub
- The Terror, Dan Simmons,
- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1), Liu Cixin, Ken Liu
- The Tommyknockers, Stephen King,
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, Steven Pressfield, Robert McKee
- The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228, Dick Couch, Cliff Hollenbeck
- The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945, R.V. Jones,
- The World According to Garp, John Irving,
- The Wright Brothers, David McCullough,
- Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8), James S.A. Corey,
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger,
- True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna,
- Ulysses, James Joyce,
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand,
- Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee,
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, Sam Harris,
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
- Why We Run: A Natural History, Bernd Heinrich,
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker,
- Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon,
- Wool (Wool, #1), Hugh Howey,
- Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1), Hugh Howey,
- Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig,
- Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel, D.T. Suzuki, Φοίβος Ι. Πιομπίνος, R.F.C. Hull
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel, Blake Masters