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Books I’d like to own

Non-Technical and/or Fiction

  1. Down There (Short Story) - Damon Knight
  2. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
  3. The Scientist As Rebel - Freeman Dyson
  4. Roots - Alex Haley
  5. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
  6. God’s Demon - Wayne Barlowe
  7. Roadside Picnic - Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
  8. The City and The City - China Mieville
  9. Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
  10. Dimension of Miracles - Robert Sheckley
  11. The Road to Endor - E. H. Jones
  12. Le Autre Monde: ou les États et Empires de la Lune - Cyrano de Bergerac
  13. The Guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman
  14. The Kouga Ninja Scrolls - Futaro Yamada
  15. The Tale of the Hollow Tree - Unknown
  16. A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
  17. Totto-Chan - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (translated by Dorothy Britton)
  18. Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke
  19. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
  20. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  21. Ringworld - Larry Niven
  22. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem, Joanna Kilmartin, Steve Cox
  23. Blindsight - Peter Watts
  24. The City at the End of Time - Greg Bear
  25. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
  26. Glasshouse - Charles Stross
  27. Dark Hope - David Shulman
  28. Vermillion Sands - J. G. Ballard
  29. The Witch Watch - Shamus Young
  30. Free Radical - Shamus Young
  31. The Information - Martin Amis
  32. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
  33. The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
  34. Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories - Kurt Vonnegut
  35. Wild Swans - Jung Chang
  36. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
  37. 7 Against Chaos - Harlan Ellison
  38. Good-Bye to All That - Robert Graves
  39. The Insider - P. V. Narasimha Rao
  40. The Sea Wolf - Jack London
  41. Virtual Light - William Gibson
  42. Idoru - William Gibson
  43. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
  44. Snowpiercer: Vols. 1, 2, & 3 - Jacques Lob
  45. On the Beach - Nevil Shute
  46. The Terror - Dan Simmons
  47. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
  48. The Death of Stalin - Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin
  49. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  50. Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman

Historical and/or Semi-Technical

  1. I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years - Victor Klemperer (2 parts)
  2. Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
  3. Technium - Kevin Kelly
  4. Whole Earth Discipline - Stewart Brand
  5. The Wayfinders - Wade Davis
  6. Don’t Sleep There are Snakes - Daniel Everett
  7. How Language Began - Daniel Everett
  8. Numbers and the Making of Us - Caleb Everett
  9. Hacking Exposed - Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz
  10. Wired for War - P. W. Singer
  11. Unequal Protection - Thom Hartmann
  12. Wealth and Democracy - Kevin Philips
  13. Fab - Neil Gershenfeld
  14. Light and Color in the Outdoors - Marcel Minnaert
  15. The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 - Paul M. Johnson
  16. The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
  17. Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
  18. Cartographies of Time - Daniel Rosenberg
  19. Made by Hand - Mark Frauenfelder
  20. Geek Dad - Ken Denmead
  21. The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
  22. Finite and Infinite Games - James P. Carse
  23. Punished By Rewards - Alfie Kohn
  24. What Technology Wants - Kevin Kelly
  25. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
  26. Lies My Teacher Taught Me - James Loewen
  27. Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
  28. New Model Army - Adam Roberts
  29. Hertzian Tales - Anthony Dunne
  30. The Art of the Long View - Peter Schwartz
  31. The Social Conquest of Earth - E. O. Wilson
  32. What we must know about Communism - Harry Overstreet
  33. Symmetry and the Monster - Mark Ronan
  34. The Rediscovery of Man - Cordwainer Smith
  35. The Transparent Society - David Brin
  36. Urban Dynamics - Jay W. Forrester
  37. The Ants - Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
  38. Gaia - James Lovelock
  39. A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
  40. Why We Buy - Paco Underhill
  41. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  42. The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
  43. Unspeak - Steven Poole
  44. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View - Stanley Milgram
  45. The Soundscape - Murray Schafer
  46. The Knowledge - Lewis Dartnell
  47. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
  48. Glittering Images - Camille Paglia
  49. Sexual Personae - Camille Paglia
  50. Expert Political Judgement - Philip Tetlock
  51. The Big Sort - Bill Bishop
  52. The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
  53. Them - Jon Ronson
  54. Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man - Norah Vincent
  55. How to Lie with Statistics - Darrell Huff
  56. Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky
  57. The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men - Lucrezia Marinella
  58. Tenured Radicals - Roger Kimball
  59. Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier - Suelette Dreyfus
  60. Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World - Gillen D’Arcy Wood
  61. Prone to Violence - Erin Pizzey, Jeff Shapiro
  62. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  63. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  64. Why We Get Sick - Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams
  65. Wages of Guilt - Ian Buruma
  66. You Can’t Read this Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom - Nick Cohen
  67. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - Brian Krebs
  68. The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State - Shane Harris
  69. @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex - Shane Harris
  70. Anti-intellectualism in American Life - Richard Hofstadter
  71. The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom
  72. On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
  73. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal
  74. Galileo’s Middle Finger - Alice Dreger
  75. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Eric H. Cline
  76. Trading with the Enemy - Charles Higham
  77. Everybody Loves a Good Drought - P. Sainath
  78. The New Media Monopoly - Ben H. Bagdikian
  79. How to lie with Maps - Mark Monmonier
  80. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Charles C. Mann
  81. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
  82. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
  83. Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
  84. Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
  85. Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an tar.png
  86. Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea - Teffi
  87. Three Felonies a Day - Harvey A. Silverglate
  88. The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses - Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. Silverglate
  89. The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
  90. The Golden Bough - James George Frazer
  91. The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University - Steven P. Remy
  92. The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
  93. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan B. Peterson
  94. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland - Christopher R. Browning
  95. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang
  96. The Gulag Archipelago Vols. II, & III - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  97. An Era of Darkness - Shashi Tharoor
  98. The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
  99. IBM and the Holocaust - Edwin Black
  100. Confluences: Forgotten Histories from East and West - Ranjit Hoskote, Ilia Trojanow
  101. Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum
  102. The Master and the Emissary - Iain McGilchrist
  103. A System of Logic - John Stuart Mill
  104. On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
  105. Explaining Postmodernism - Stephen R. C. Hicks
  106. The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi
  107. The Invention of Science - David Wootton
  108. The Origins and History of Consciousness - Erich Neumann
  109. Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization - Heinrich R. Zimmer, Joseph Campbell
  110. The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
  111. Christian and Oriental Philosophy - Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
  112. Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 - Romila Thapar
  113. Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas - Romila Thapar
  114. Sex and Cognition - Doreen Kimura
  115. The Old Regime and the French Revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville
  116. The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen - Andrew ’Bunnie’ Huang
  117. Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp
  118. My Left Foot - Christy Brown
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  120. The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Jay Gould
  121. The Nurture Assumption - Judith Rich Harris
  122. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 - Charles Murray
  123. Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI - Rodney A. Brooks
  124. The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
  125. A History of Religious Ideas Vols. I, II, & III - Mircea Eliade
  126. The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Andrew Robinson
  127. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies - Geoffrey West
  128. The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness - Oren Harman
  129. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky
  130. Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do - Dan Olweus
  131. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger
  132. WAR - Sebastian Junger
  133. The Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom
  134. The Genius of the Beast - Howard Bloom
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  136. The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
  137. The Storm before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
  138. Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons - Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner
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  140. From the City, from the Plough - Alexander Baron
  141. The Great Leveler - Walter Scheidel
  142. Scapegoats of the Empire - Edward Witton
  143. The Best Teacher I ever had - Alex Michalos (editor)
  144. The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
  145. The Evolution of Desire - David M. Buss
  146. The Adapted Mind - Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby
  147. Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought - Jonathan Rauch
  148. Suicide of the West - Jonah Goldberg
  149. The Rise of Victimhood Culture - Bradley Campbell, Jason Manning
  150. A Billion Wicked Thoughts - Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
  151. The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
  152. Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E. Lawrence
  153. Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee
  154. War is a Racket - Smedley Butler
  155. Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  156. The Physics of Wall Street - James Owen Weatherall
  157. Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin - Alexandra Richie
  158. No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War - Hiroo Onoda
  159. The Capacity Contract - Stacy Clifford Simplican
  160. Merchants of Death - H. C. Engelbrecht, F. C. Hanighen
  161. Iron, Blood, and Profits - George Seldes
  162. Why Knowledge Matters - E. D. Hirsch Jr.
  163. Power and the Idealists - Paul Berman
  164. Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 - David Bronstein
  165. Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner
  166. Private Truths, Public Lies - Timur Kuran
  167. Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War - Kaveh Farrokh
  168. Anabasis (The Persian Expedition) - Xenophon
  169. Identity - Francis Fukuyama
  170. Defying Hitler - Sebastian Haffner
  171. The Great Mother - Erich Neumann
  172. The Social Leap - William von Hippel
  173. Blueprint - Robert Plomin
  174. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception - James J. Gibson
  175. Cannibal Island - Nicolas Werth
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  177. The Open Society and its Enemies - Karl Popper
  178. The Rebel - Albert Camus
  179. Dialectic of Enlightenment - Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno
  180. Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network - David Montero
  181. Winners Take All - Anand Ghiridaradas
  182. Baboon Metaphysics - Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth
  183. Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society - Micholas A. Christakis
  184. The Butchering Art - Lindsey Fitzharris
  185. The Fear Problem - Patrick Lockwood
  186. How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
  187. Surpise, Kill, Vanish - Annie Jacobsen
  188. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David S. Landes
  189. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia - Orlando Figes
  190. The Conquest of New Spain - Diaz Del Castillo
  191. The Peregrine - J. A. Baker
  192. Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed - Paul Cronin
  193. On Killing - Dave Grossman
  194. The Deep History of Ourselves - Joseph LeDoux
  195. Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought - Barbara Tversky
  196. The Whole-Brain Child - Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson
  197. Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil
  198. Forty Ways to look at Winston Churchill - Gretchen Rubin
  199. Russia’s Steppe Frontier - Michael Khodarkovsky
  200. Science since Babylon - Derek J. de Solla Price
  201. Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar - Heather E. Heying
  202. The Darkest Web - Eileen Ormsby
  203. So You’ve been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
  204. Irreversible Damage - Abigail Shrier
  205. Strange Contagion - Lee Daniel Kravetz
  206. Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes – the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists - Napoleon A. Chagnon

Technical

  1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
  2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
  3. Atlas of Finite Groups - John H. Conway, Robert T. Curtis, Simon P. Norton, Richard A. Parker, Robert A. Wilson
  4. The Discovery of Dynamics - Julian Barbour
  5. Mach’s Principle - Julian Barbour
  6. The End of Time - Julian Barbour
  7. Caveman Chemistry - Kevin M. Dunn
  8. Applied Cryptography - Bruce Schneier
  9. The Quantum Vacuum - Peter W. Milonni
  10. The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanics - Max Jammer
  11. Change is the only Constant - Ben Orlin
  12. Einstein Manifolds - Arthur L. Besse
  13. Spin Geometry - H. Blaine Lawson, Marie-Louise Michelsohn
  14. Gravitation, Gauge Theories and Differential Geometry - T. Eguchi, P. B. Gilkey, A. J. Hanson
  15. Geometric Quantization - N. M. J. Woodhouse
  16. Heat Kernels and Diract Operators - Nicole Berline, Ezra Getzler, Michele Vergne
  17. Solid State Design for the Radio Amateur - Wes Hayward, Doug DeMaw