reading list

2017

• Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude - P. Nahin
• Hamlet's Blackberry - W. Powers
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs & the Great Age of American Innovation - J. Gertner [notes]
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - R. Heinlein
• The Shallows - N. Carr
• Fences - A. Wilson
• No Ordinary Genius - C. Sykes
• Salt to the Sea - R. Sepetys

2016

• Paradox - J. Al Khalili
• How to Make a Spaceship - J. Guthrie
• Microcosm - G. Gilder
• The Art of Doing Science & Engineering - R. Hamming [notes]
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - E. Tufte
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - T. Kuhn
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet - K. Hafner & M. Lyon
• The Character of Physical Law - R. Feynman [notes]
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas - S. Papert [notes]
• Alexander Hamilton - R. Chernow
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams
• Hackers: The Heroes of the Computer Revolution - S. Levy
• Failure is Not an Option - G. Kranz
• The Name of the Wind - P. Rothfuss
• The Prince - N. Machiavelli, translated by T. Parks
• Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed - J. Diamond
• Naked Economics - C. Wheelan
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - N. Bostrom
• Moneyball - M. Lewis
• The Signal and the Noise - N. Silver
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life - W. Isaacson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - D. Kahneman
• The Aeneid - Virgil, translated by R. Fagles
• What If? - R. Munroe
• Fahrenheit 451 - R. Bradbury
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies - J. Diamond
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel
• Einstein: His Life and Universe - W. Isaacson
• All the Light We Cannot See - A. Doerr
• The Boys in the Boat - D. Brown
• A Mind for Numbers - B. Oakley

2015

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - A. Vance
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - B. Bryson
• The Code Book - S. Singh
• How to Solve It: A new aspect of the mathematical method - G. Polya
• The Annotated Turing - C. Petzold
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter - R. Feynman
• The Martian - A. Weir
• The Innovators - W. Isaacson
• Space - J. Michener
• To Kill a Mockingbird - H. Lee
• The Soul of a New Machine - T. Kidder
• Unbroken - L. Hillenbrand

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