The Great Book List


Books I like. Primarily sci-fi.

MODERN

Adrian Tchaikovsky - Alien Clay
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Elder Race
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Ogres
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Spiderlight
Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Expert System’s Brother
Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Expert System’s Champion
Andy Weir - The Martian
Charles Stross - The Laundry Files
Charles Stross - Equoid (read online)
Charles Stross - A Colder War (read online)
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
David Langford - BLIT (read online)
David Langford - Different Kinds of Darkness (read online)
Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon (read online)
Greg Egan - Crystal Nights (read online)
Greg van Eekhout - In the Late December (read online)
GRRM - A Song of Ice And Fire
Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
Jim Bernheimer - Tales of a D List Supervillain series
Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files
Jonathan Lethem - Lostronaut (read online)
Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Martha Wells - All Systems Red
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park/The Lost World
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Octavia Butler - Bloodchild
Peter Watts - Blindsight (read online)
Peter Watts - Echopraxia
Peter Watts - Bulk Food
Peter Watts - The Things (read online)
Peter Watts - Starfish
qntm - Lena (read online)
Richard K Morgan - Altered Carbon Trilogy (excerpt)
Seth Dickinson - Exordia
Seth Dickinson - The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson - The Monster Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson - The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
Ursula K LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K LeGuin - The Lathe of Heaven
Vernor Vinge - A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge - A Deepness in the Sky
Vernor Vinge - Original Sin
Zero HPL - The Gig Economy (read online)
Zero HPL - Eventual Consistency (read online)

CLASSICS

AE Vogt - Black Destroyer (read online)
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes (various) Frank Herbert - Dune
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis Fritz Leiber - A Pail of Air (read online)
George Orwell - 1984
George Orwell - Animal Farm
HG Wells - The War of the Worlds
HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness (read online)
HP Lovecraft - The Color Out of Space (read online)
Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Isaac Asimov - Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov - Profession (read online)
Isaac Asmimov - The Last Question (read online)
Isaac Asimov - Nightfall
John Campbell - Who Goes There? (read online)
John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids
JRRR Tolkien - The Silmarillion
JRRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
JRRR Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Orson Scott Card - Ender’s Game
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains (read online)
Ray Bradbury - A Sound of Thunder (read online)
Robert Heinlein - Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Robert Heinlein - Red Planet
Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Stanislaw Lem - The Invincible
Strugatsky brothers - Roadside Picnic
Terry Bisson - They’re Made Out of Meat (read online)

STAR WARS

Star Wars - Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
Star Wars - Traitor
Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith (novelization)
Star Wars - The Truce at Bakura
Star Wars - Heir to the Empire
Star Wars - Dark Force Rising
Star Wars - The Last Command
Star Wars - Specter of the Past
Star Wars - Vision of the Future Star Wars - X-Wing: Wraith Squadron
Star Wars - X-Wing: Iron Fist
Star Wars - X-Wing: Solo Commander
Star Wars - X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar

NON-FICTION

Parasite Rex - Carl Zimmer
A Choice of Catastrophes - Isaac Asimov
Days of Rage - Bryan Burrough
The WEIRDest People In the World - Joseph Henreich
McNamara’s Folly - Hamilton Gregory

EECS

Algorithms (Sedgewick)
The Algorithm Design Manual (Skiena)
Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)
Clean Code
Cracking the Coding Interview
Designing Data Intensive Applications
Eloquent JavaScript
YDKJS
Web Scalability for Startup Engineers (Artur Ejsmont)

EEbotics

Practical Electronics for Inventors
Circuit Problems and Solutions: Elementary Methods v. 1 - Gerard Lippin
Circuit Problems and Solutions: Network Theorems v. 2 - Gerard Lippin
Circuit Problems and Solutions-Volume 3: Transistor and Tube Circuits - Gerard Lippin
Robot Wars: Build Your Own Robot Manual (Haynes Manual)
RioBotz Combat Robot Tutorial Paperback - Marco Antonio Meggiolaro

STEM

Chemistry: The Central Science
Contemporary Technical Mathematics With Calculus - Richard S Paul
The Humongous Book of Calculus Problems
The Neuroscience of Intelligence - Richard J. Haier

CRAFTING

Classic Tailoring Techniques, a Construction Guide for Women’s Wear - Patricia Flaherty Meyers
Pattern Magic - Tomoko Nakamichi Tailoring: The Classic Guide To Sewing The Perfect Jacket