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Revision as of 04:50, 23 November 2022
My love of books runs deep. I try to read for at least an hour every day (books unrelated to my studies). This category will contain a list of the books I have read or am reading.
Contents
Titles (completed)
Note: These are a list of books I have read in their entirety. This is nowhere near a complete list and the following list is in no particular order.
- From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life — by Jacques Barzun
- The Invention of Science: The Scientific Revolution from 1500 to 1750 — by David Wootton
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions — by Dan Ariely (2008)
- The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor — by William Easterly
- The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution — by Francis Fukuyama
- Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy — by Francis Fukuyama
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World — by Bruce Schneier
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — by Nick Bostrom
- Smashing Physics — by Jon Butterworth
- The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome — by Susan Wise Bauer
- The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade — by Susan Wise Bauer
- The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople — by Susan Wise Bauer
- The Well Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had — by Susan Wise Bauer
- The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory — by Susan Wise Bauer (2015)
- Countdown to Zero Day — by Kim Zetter
- The Revenge of Geography — by Robert D. Kaplan
- The Master of Disguise — by Antonio J. Mendez
- To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science — by Steven Weinberg (2015)
- The Fall of the Roman Empire — by Peter Heather
- The Shadow Factory — by James Bamford
- Operation Shakespeare — by John Shiffman
- No Place to Hide — by Glenn Greenwald
- Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes — by Svante Pääbo (2014)
- Constantine the Emperor — by David Potter
- A Troublesome Inheritance — by Nicholas Wade
- The Selfish Gene — by Richard Dawkins
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich — by Timothy Ferriss (2007)
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution — by Steven Levy
- Wealth, Poverty, and Politics: An International Perspective — Thomas Sowell
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win — by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Paper: Paging Through History — by Mark Kurlansky
- Salt: A World History — by Mark Kurlansky
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — by Jared Diamond (1997)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed — by Jared Diamond (2005)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined — by Steven Pinker
- How to Win Friends & Influence People — by Dale Carnegie (1936)
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — Eric Hoffer (1951)
- An Economic History of the World since 1400 — by Professor Donald J. Harreld
- The End of the Cold War 1985-1991 — by Robert Service
- Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 — by Christopher Clark
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty — by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson (2012)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII — by Alison Weir (1991)
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — by Carl Sagan (1996)
- Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War — by Fred Kaplan (2016)
- A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485 — by Nicholas Vincent (2012)
- The History of Science: 1700-1900 — by Professor Frederick Gregory (2003)
- Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire — by Peter H. Wilson (2016)
- The Story of Civilization - Volume 2: The Life of Greece — by Will Durant (1939)
- The Story of Civilization - Volume 3: Caesar and Christ — by Will Durant (1944)
- The Story of Civilization - Volume 4: The Age of Faith — by Will Durant (1950)
- Red Sparrow — by Jason Matthews (2013)
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time — by Dava Sobel (1995)
- The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance — by Paul Strathern (2016)
- The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova — by Paul Strathern (2013)
- The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization — by Anthony Everitt (2016)
- Red Mars — by Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)
- The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, The Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World — by Edward Dolnick (2011)
- The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake — by Steven Novella (2018)
- New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World — by Dagogo Altraide (2019)
- Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe — by George Friedman (2015)
- The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It — by Shawn Lawrence Otto (2016)
- Permanent Record — by Edward Snowden (2019)
- Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined — by Stephen Fry (2019)
- Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined — by Stephen Fry (2020)
- Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined — by Stephen Fry (2021)
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life — by Ed Yong (2016)
- How to Read a Book — by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (1940)
- The Order: A Novel — by Daniel Silva (2020)
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need — by Bill Gates (2020)
- The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World — by David W. Anthony (2007)
- The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found — by Violet Moller (2019)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — by Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World — by Niall Ferguson (2008)
- Civilization: The West and the Rest — by Niall Ferguson (2011)
- Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World — by Niall Ferguson (2017)
- The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook — by Niall Ferguson (2018)
- The House of Rothschild, Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 — by Niall Ferguson (2019)
- Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe — by Niall Ferguson (2021)
- The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder — by Peter Zeihan (2014)
- The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam — by Douglas Murray (2017)
- The War on the West — by Douglas Murray (2022)
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos — by Jordan B. Peterson (2018)
- The Historian — by Elizabeth Kostova (2009)
- The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order — by Benn Steil (2013)
Titles (textbooks)
Note: These are some of the textbooks I not only read in their entirety whilst in university, but studied them thoroughly. This is very much an incomplete list.
- X-ray Structure Determination — by Stout and Jensen
- Inferring Phylogenies — by Joseph Felsenstein, Sinauer Associates, Inc. (2003)
- A Biologist's Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data
- Molecular Cell Biology — by Scott MP, Matsudaira P, Lodish H, Darnell J, Zipursky L, Kaiser CA, Berk A, and Krieger M. W. H. Freeman, 5th Edition (2003)
- Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data — by Knudsen S, 2nd Edition (2004)
- General Chemistry — by Darrell D. Ebbing and Steven D. Gammon, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 6th Edition (1999)
- Organic Chemistry — by Paula Yurkanis Bruice, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 3rd Edition (2001)
- Principles and Techniques for an Integrated Chemistry Laboratory — by David A. Aikens, et. al., Waveland Press, Inc., Prospect Heights (1984)
- Physical Chemistry — by Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 7th Edition (2002)
- Biochemistry — by Christopher K. Mathews, K. E. van Holde, and Kevin G. Ahern, Addison Wesley Longman, San Fransisco, 3rd Edition (2000)
- Biology — by Neil A. Campbell, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc., Redwood City, 5th Edition (1999)
- Essential Cell Biology — by Bruce Alberts, et. al., Garland Publishing, Inc. New York (1998)
- Genetics: From Genes to Genomes — by Leland H. Hartwell, et. al., McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Boston (2000)
- Evolution: An Introduction — by Stephen C. Stearns and Rolf F. Hoekstra, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2000)
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers — by Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia, 5th Edition (2000)
- Physical Biochemistry — by Kensal E. van Holde, W. Curtis Johnson, and P. Shing Ho, Prentice Hall, New Jersey (1998)
- Object-Oriented Software Development Using Java — by Xiaoping Jia, Addison-Wesley, 2nd Edition
- Calculus — by James Stewart
- Calculus: Early Transcendentals — by James Stewart
- Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals — by James Stewart
Titles (uncategorized)
Note: These are some of my favourite books that I have read. I have read others, but these stood out to me. This does not mean, in any way, that I necessarily agree with everything these books have to say; they just interested me.
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — by Edward Gibbon (1776-1788) [1][2]
- The House of Intellect — by Jacques Barzun
- Also sprach Zarathustra ("Thus Spoke Zarathustra") — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-5)
- Jenseits von Gut und Böse ("Beyond Good and Evil") — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1886)
- Zur Genealogie der Moral ("On the Genealogy of Morals") — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1887)
- Götzen-Dämmerung ("Twilight of the Idols") — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
- Der Antichrist ("The Antichrist") — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
- Ecce Homo — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)
- Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben ("On the Use and Abuse of History for Life") — by Friedrich Nietzsche (1874)
- Die Traumdeutung ("The Interpretation of Dreams") — by Sigmund Freud (1899)
- Das Ich und das Es ("The Ego and the Id") — by Sigmund Freud (1923)
- Die Zukunft einer Illusion ("The Future of an Illusion") — by Sigmund Freud (1927)
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ("Civilization and Its Discontents") — by Sigmund Freud (1929)
- A History of the English-Speaking Peoples — by Winston Churchill (1956–58)
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto — by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Die Waffen nieder! ("Lay Down Your Arms!") — Baroness Bertha von Suttner (1889)
- Europe's Optical Illusion (also: "The Great Illusion") — Sir Norman Angell (1909)
- Night — by Elie Wiesel (1960)
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason — by Sam Harris
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization — by Thomas L. Friedman
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century — Thomas L. Friedman
- The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century — by Michael Mandelbaum
- Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War And on the Civil War — by Julius Caesar
- Cem Escovadas Antes de Ir para Cama ("One Hundred Strokes of the Brush before Bed") — by Melissa Panarello
- Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels — by Thomas Coryat (1611)
- Italian Hours — by Henry James (1909)
- Italienische Reise ("Italian Journey") — by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1816/1817).
- Diarios de motocicleta ("The Motorcycle Diaries") — by Che Guevara (1951).
- The Prince of Tides — by Pat Conroy (1986).
- Il Nome Della Rosa ("The Name of the Rose") — by Umberto Eco (1980).
- Il Pendolo di Foucault ("Foucault's Pendulum") — by Umberto Eco (1988).
- The Book of the Courtier ("Il Cortegiano") — by Baldassare Castiglione (1528) [3].
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel — by Milan Kundera
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — by Milan Kundera
- Masters of Rome (series) — by Colleen McCullough
- The Wishing Game — by Patrick Redmond
- The Measure Of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World — by By Ken Alder (2002)
- De la démocratie en Amérique ("On Democracy in America") — by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
- The Anatomy of Revolution — by Crane Brinton (1938)
- God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World — by Walter Russell Mead (2007)
- Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia — by John Gray (2007)
- The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives — by Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998)
- Kim — by Rudyard Kipling (1901)
- The Lotus and the Wind — by John Masters
Authors (uncategorized)
- Aldous Huxley — Wikiquote:Aldous Huxley
- Edgar Allen Poe — Wikiquote:Edgar Allen Poe
- Oscar Wilde — Wikiquote:Oscar Wilde
- George Orwell — Wikiquote:George Orwell
- William Shakespeare — Wikiquote:William Shakespeare
- Thomas Jefferson — Wikiquote:Thomas Jefferson
- Mark Antony — Wikiquote:Mark Antony
- Jane Austen — Wikiquote:Jane Austen ([4])
- Albert Einstein — Wikiquote:Albert Einstein
- Friedrich Nietzsche — Wikiquote:Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sigmund Freud — Wikiquote:Sigmund Freud
- Plato — Wikiquote:Plato
- Aristotle — Wikiquote:Aristotle
- Baruch Spinoza (Benedictus de Spinoza; 1632–1677) — Wikiquote:Baruch Spinoza
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — Wikiquote:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Niccolò Machiavelli — Wikiquote:Niccolò Machiavelli
- Immanuel Kant — Wikiquote:Immanuel Kant
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron) — Wikiquote:Lord Byron
- Mary Shelley — Wikiquote:Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley — Wikiquote:Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593): English dramatist and poet. — Wikiquote:Christopher Marlowe
- Francis Bacon — Wikiquote:Francis Bacon
- Eric Hoffer — Wikiquote:Eric Hoffer
- Milton Friedman — Wikiquote:Milton Friedman
- Roger Bacon (c. 1214-1294) — wikiquote:Roger Bacon
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) — wikiquote:Charles Baudelaire
Authors (I have not read yet)
- Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986): French existentialist, writer, and social essayist. (Author of The Necessity of Atheism [5].)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832): British jurist, eccentric, philosopher and social reformer, founder of utilitarianism. He had John Stuart Mill as his disciple. (Quoted as saying "The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches". ~ [6].)
- Albert Camus (1913–1960): French philosopher and novelist, a luminary of existentialism.
- Auguste Comte (1798–1857): French philosopher, considered the father of sociology. (Quoted as saying "The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton". ~ [7].)
- André Comte-Sponville (1952–): French materialist philosopher.
- Paul Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789): French homme de lettres, philosopher and encyclopedist, member of the philosophical movement of French materialism, attacked Christianity and religion as counter to the moral advancement of humanity.
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794): French philosopher and mathematician of the Enlightenment.
- Daniel Dennett (1942–): American philosopher, leading figure in evolutionary biology and cognitive science, well-known for his book Darwin's Dangerous Idea.
- Denis Diderot (1713–1784): French philosopher, author, editor of the first encyclopedia. Known for the quote "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest".
- Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach (1804–1872): German philosopher, postulated that God is merely a projection by humans of their own best qualities.
- Paul Kurtz (1926–): American philosopher, skeptic, founder of Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism.
- Sir Karl Popper (1902–1994): Austrian-born British philosopher of science, who claimed that empirical falsifiability should be the criterion for distinguishing scientific theory from non-science.
- Richard Rorty (1931–): American philosopher, whose ideas combine pragmatism with a Wittgensteinian ontology that declares that meaning is a social-linguistic product of dialogue. He actually rejects the theist/atheist dichotomy and prefers to call himself "anti-clerical".
- Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (1872–1970): British mathematician, philosopher, logician, political liberal, activist, popularizer of philosophy, and 1950 Nobel Laureate in Literature. On the issue of atheism/agnosticism, he wrote the essay "Why I Am Not a Christian".
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980): French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic.
- Peter Singer (1946–): Australian philosopher and teacher, working on practical ethics from a utilitarian perspective, controversial for his opinions on abortion and euthanasia.
- James Lovelock (1919-) wikiquote:James Lovelock
External links
- Top 100 - Project Gutenberg
- The Modern Library - 100 Best - Talking Points
- The Modern Library - 100 Best - Nonfiction
- The Modern Library - 100 Best - Novels
- NY Times Best-Seller Lists
- BookMooch — a free book trade and exchange community
- BookCrossing — a free book club
- Notable Names Database (NNDB) — an online database of biographical details of notable people.
- WikiSummaries — provides free book summaries
- fullbooks.com
- Umberto Eco: His Own Writings
- UDL: Universal Digital Library — has over 1.5 million books digitised.
- wikipedia:List of historical novels
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Subcategories
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Pages in category "Books"
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