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Bret Victor's bookshelf

On January 5, 2016 Bret Victor tweeted a picture of his bookshelf. I’ve catalogued all of the books, by topic, below. They cover a wide variety of subjects, and I think they’re really interesting if you are a fan of Bret’s work.

Comics

• Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
• Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud
• Making Comics by Scott McCloud
• Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner (published by W. W. Norton & Company)
• Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner (published by Poorhouse Press)
• Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative by Will Eisner
• Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
• DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics by Mark Chiarello and Todd Klein
• Faster Than a Speeding Bullet by Stephen Weiner
• How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way by Stan Lee and John Buscema
• The Visual Language of Comics by Neil Cohn
• Perspective! for Comic Book Artists by David Chelsea
• The Comics of Chris Ware by David M. Ball and Martha B. Kuhlman
• Chris Ware by Daniel Raeburn
• Krazy Kat by George Herriman and Patrick McDonnell and Peter Maresca

Animation

• The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas
• How to Make Animated Films by Tony White
• Grammar of the Film Language by Daniel Arijon
• 3D Art Essentials by Ami Chopine
• 3D Animation Essentials by Andy Beane

Game design

• Chris Crawford on Game Design by Chris Crawford
• Racing the Beam by Nick Montfort
• How to Do Things with Videogames by Ian Bogost
• Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
• Theory of Fun for Game Design by Raph Koster

Type

• The Non-Designer’s Type Book by Robin Williams
• The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy by Abdelkebir Khatibi and Mohammed Sijelmassi
• The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
• Type by Simon Loxley
• Calligraphy by Arthur Baker

Interface design

• About Face by Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann
• The Art of Interactive Design by Chris Crawford
• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
• The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel
• The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin

Industrial design

• Human Engineering Guide for Equipment Designers by Wesley Woodson and Donald W. Conover
• Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss
• Cradle to Cradle by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Small Things Considered by Henry Petroski

Visual design

• Understanding Color by Linda Holtzschue
• Interaction of Color by Josef Albers and Nicholas F. Weber
• The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye
• Logic and Design by Krome Barratt
• A History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs
• Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell and Kritina Holden
• The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
• The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye

Visual thinking

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
• Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim
• Art and Visual Perception by Rudolf Arnheim
• The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry by Jay Hambidge
• The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by James J. Gibson
• Laws of Seeing by Wolfgang Metzger and Lothar Spillmann
• On the Rationalization of Sight by William Mills Ivins and Jean Pelerin
• The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
• Unflattening by Nick Sousanis

Information design

• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
• Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
• Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
• Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte
• Graphic Discovery by Howard Wainer
• Show Me the Numbers by Stephen Few
• Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few
• Playfair’s Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary by William Playfair
• The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland
• Visualizing Data by William S. Cleveland
• Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin
• Visual Complexity by Manuel Lima
• The Book of Trees by Manuel Lima and Ben Shneiderman
• Information Graphics by Robert L. Harris
• Graph Design for the Eye and Mind by Stephen M. Kosslyn
• The Grammar of Graphics by Leland Wilkinson and D. Wills
• Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton
• On the Map by Simon Garfield
• Exploratory Data Analysis by John W. Tukey
• Cartographic Relief Presentation by Eduard Imhof
• The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Volume I by John W. Tukey and William S. Cleveland
• The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Volume IV by John W. Tukey and L.V. Jones
• The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Volume V by John W. Tukey and William S. Cleveland

Architecture

• Introduction to Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching and James F. Eckler
• A Visual Dictionary of Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching
• How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
• How to Read Bridges by Edward Denison and Ian Stewart
• Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs and Jason Epstein
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander and Sara Ishikawa
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

Writing

• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Language Myths by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill
• Stein on Writing by Sol Stein
• Maps of the Imagination by Peter Turchi
• The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• The Art of Description by Mark Doty
• All The Fun’s In How You Say A Thing by Timothy Steele
• The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
• Roget’s Thesaurus by Princeton Language Institute
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster

Music theory

• Harmonic Experience by W. A. Mathieu
• On the Sensations of Tone by Hermann Helmholtz
• Temperament by Stuart Isacoff
• How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony by Ross W. Duffin
• Choreo-graphics by Ann Hutchinson Guest
• Traces Of Dance by Paul Virilio and Valerie Preston-Dunlop

Persuasion

• Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Getting More by Stuart Diamond
• Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

Management

• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister
• The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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• Computer Lib by Theodor H. Nelson
• ???
• The Last Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand
• Whole Earth Epilog by Stewart Brand
• The Next Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand
• The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog by Howard Rheingold
• Whole Earth Software Catalog by Stewart Brand
• What to Do After You Hit Return by People’s Computer Company
• My Computer Likes Me When I Speak in Basic by Robert Albrecht

Media

• Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
• Narrative across Media by Marie-Laure Ryan
• The Bias of Communication by Harold Innis
• The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
• Media and Symbols by D. R. Olson

The New Medium

• Hamlet on the Holodeck by Janet H. Murray
• Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel
• Computer Lib by Theodor H. Nelson
• Literary Machines by Theodor H. Nelson
• Mirror Worlds by David Gelernter
• ??? Data Management
• Human Interface: Where People and Computers Meet by Richard A. Bolt
• Libraries of the Future by J. C. R. Licklider
• Future Libraries by R. Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse
• Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
• From Memex To Hypertext by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn
• Artificial Reality 2 by Myron K. Krueger
• Software Takes Command by Lev Manovich
• Augmenting Human Intellect by D. C. Engelbart

Learning

• How Children Fail by John Holt
• How Children Learn by John Holt
• Learning All The Time by John Holt
• The End of Education by Neil Postman
• What’s Math Got to Do with It? by Jo Boaler
• How to Survive in Your Native Land by Jack Herndon
• Mindstorms by Seymour A. Papert
• The Children’s Machine by Seymour Papert
• The Connected Family by Seymour Papert
• Changing Minds by Andrea diSessa
• Getting It Wrong from the Beginning by Kieran Egan
• The Educated Mind by Kieran Egan
• Thought and Language by Lev S. Vygotsky
• Mind in Society by Lev S. Vygotsky
• Toward a Theory of Instruction by Jerome Bruner
• On Knowing by Jerome Bruner
• Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner
• Life in Classrooms by Philip W. Jackson
• What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
• Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
• A Different Kind of Teacher by John Taylor Gatto
• Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
• The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

Embodied thinking

• Where Mathematics Come From by George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez
• Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins
• The Hand by Frank R. Wilson
• The Hand Owner’s Manual by Roy A. Meals
• I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle
• The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
• Impro by Keith Johnstone
• Descartes’ Error by Anthony Damasio
• Being There by Andy Clark
• Where the Action Is by Paul Dourish
• Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle
• Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford

The mind

• Frames of Mind by Howard Gardner
• Origins of the Modern Mind by Merlin Donald
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
• The Quest for Consciousness by Koch Christof
• In Search of Memory by Eric R. Kandel
• The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
• On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
• Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson
• The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

Concepts and metaphysics

• Understanding Computers and Cognition by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
• Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff
• The Symbolic Species by Terrence W. Deacon
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
• The Way We Think by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
• Origins of Human Communication by Michael Tomasello

Creativity and ideas

• Common as Air by Lewis Hyde
• Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
• The Gift by Lewis Hyde
• Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Good Work by Howard E. Gardner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler

Scientific creativity

• How to Solve It by G. Polya
• Induction and Analogy in Mathematics by G. Polya
• Patterns of Plausible Inference by G. Polya
• Mathematical Discovery by G. Polya
• And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared by Genrich Altshuller
• Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming
• Creating Scientific Concepts by Nancy J Nersessian
• The Engelbart Hypothesis by Valerie Landau, Eileen Clegg, and Douglas Engelbart
• What Engineers Know and How They Know It by Walter G. Vincenti

Philosophy of Science

• Falling for Science by Sherry Turkle
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
• The Road since Structure by Thomas S. Kuhn
• What Is This Thing Called Science? by Alan F. Chalmers
• Scientific Discovery by Patrick W. Langley and Herbert A. Simon
• Against Method by Paul Feyerabend
• The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Jacob Bronowski
• Reliable Knowledge by John M. Ziman
• The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert U. Simon
• Science in Action by Bruno Latour
• Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar

Technology and culture

• What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
• Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
• The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• Technopoly by Neil Postman
• Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
• Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger
• Remix by Lawrence Lessig
• Code by Lawrence Lessig
• The Future of Ideas by Lawrence Lessig
• Computers and Society by Richard W. Hamming
• The Coming of the Body by Herve Juvin
• Condition of Man by Mumford Lewis
• The Identity of Man by Jacob Bronowski
• Interface Culture by Steven A. Johnson
• Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum
• The Computer Age by Joel Moses Michael L. Dertouzos
• Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski
• ???
• From Satori to Silicon Valley by Theodore Roszak
• The Cult of Information by Theodore Roszak
• The Clock Of The Long Now by Stewart Brand
• Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
• Free Software Free Society by Richard Stallman
• Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
• Science Is Not Enough by Vannevar Bush
• I Seem to Be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Utopia or Oblivion by R. Buckminster Fuller
• Synergetics by R. Buckminster Fuller

Ecology

• EcoCities by Richard Register
• The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Sustainable Energy by David JC MacKay
• Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
• Our Choice by Al Gore

Culture

• No Logo by Naomi Klein
• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
• Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
• The Omega Seed by Paolo Soleri
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• Born to Buy by Juliet B. Schor
• The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
• The Savage Mind by Claude Lévi-Strauss
• The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
• The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
• Seeing like a State by James C. Scott
• Reassembling the Social by Bruno Latour
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

Cultural history

• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared M. Diamond
• Collapse by Jared Diamond
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
• Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May
• Centuries of Change by Ian Mortimer

History of math

• Mathematics and Its History by John Stillwell
• Ways of Thought of Great Mathematicians by H. Meschkowski
• A Concise History of Mathematics by Dirk J. Struik
• Journey through Genius by William Dunham
• A History of Chinese Mathematics by Jean-Claude Martzloff
• King of Infinite Space by Siobhan Roberts
• Chaos by James Gleick
• The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salsburg
• Henri Poincaré by Jeremy Gray
• Henri Poincaré by Ferdinand Verhulst
• Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups by Thomas Hawkins
• The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved by Mario Livio
• Science Awakening by B. L. Van Der Waerden
• Mathematics by Morris Kline

History of numbers and notation

• The Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah
• Zero by Charles Seife
• An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin
• Gamma by Julian Havil
• Number Words and Number Symbols by Karl Menninger
• Enlightening Symbols by Joseph Mazur
• Numbers by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus et al.
• Before Writing, Volume I by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
• Before Writing, Volume II by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
• The History of Counting by Denise Schmandt-Bessert

1st Person Historical Math

• Euclid’s Elements by Euclid
• The Geometry by René Descartes
• An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead
• Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll
• Mathematical Logic by Stephen Cole Kleene
• An Investigation of the Laws of Thought by George Boole
• A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy
• The World of Mathematics Volume 1 by James R. Newman
• The World of Mathematics Volume 2 by James R. Newman
• The World of Mathematics Volume 3 by James R. Newman
• The World of Mathematics Volume 4 by James R. Newman

Math (Misc)

• Mathematics by A. D. Aleksandrov and A. N. Kolmogorov
• Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry by Felix Klein
• Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analytics by Felix Klein
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz
• Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
• Visual Complex Functions by Elias Wegert
• On Numbers and Games by John H. Conway
• Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays by Elwyn R. Berlekamp and John H. Conway
• Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth
• Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
• DIV, Grad, Curl, and All That by Harry M. Schey
• Measurement by Paul Lockhart
• Pearls of Discrete Mathematics by Martin Erickson
• Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota
• Discrete Thoughts by Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz
• ???

Geometric Algebra

• Geometric Algebra for Computer Science by Leo Dorst and Daniel Fontijne
• Geometric Algebra for Physicists by Chris Doran and Anthony Lasenby
• Linear and Geometric Algebra by Alan Macdonald
• Vector and Geometric Calculus by Alan Macdonald
• Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus by David Hestenes and Garret Sobczyk

Groups & Symmetry

• Visual Group Theory by Nathan Carter
• The Symmetries of Things by John H. Conway and Heidi Burgiel
• Groups and Their Graphs by Israel Grossman and Wilhelm Magnus
• Regular Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter
• Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
• Symmetry by Roy McWeeny

Geometry

• The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid by Oliver Byrne
• ???
• Turtle Geometry by Harold Abelson and Andrea diSessa
• The Geometry of Art and Life by Matila Ghyka
• The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
• New Horizons in Geometry by Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian
• Regular Polytopes by H. S. M. Coxeter

Geometric Construction

• Graphic Statics by Seibert Fairman, Chester Sherman Cutshall
• Engineering Descriptive Geometry by Frank William Bartlett
• Practical Geometry and Engineering Graphics by W. Abbott
• History of Engineering Drawing by P.J. Booker
• The History and Development of Nomography by Dr. H. A. Evesham and Brenda Riddell
• The design of diagrams for engineering formulas and the theory of nomography by Laurence I. Hewes

Probability and Artificial Intelligence

• Theory of Probability by Harold Jeffreys
• Probability Theory by E. T. Jaynes
• Data Analysis by Devinderjit Sivia
• Probabilistic Graphical Models by Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman
• Perceptrons by Marvin Minsky and Seymour A. Papert
• Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell
• Heuristics by Judea Pearl

Systems & Modeling

• The Systems Bible by John Gall
• General Principles of Systems Design by Gerald M. Weinberg and Daniela Weinberg
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
• Theory of Modelling and Simulation by Bernard P. Zeigler
• Dynamics of Physical Systems by Robert H. Jr. Cannon
• Introduction to Engineering Design by T.T. Woodson
• The Nature of Mathematical Modeling by Neil Gershenfeld
• Alternate Realities by John L. Casti
• Living Control Systems III by William T. Powers
• Six Degrees by Duncan J. Watts
• Emergence by Steven Johnson
• Cybernetics by Norbert Wiener
• The Human Use Of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener
• Selected Papers of Norbert Wiener by Norbert Wiener

Signal Processing

• Signals and Systems by Alan V. Oppenheim and Alan S. Willsky
• Discrete-Time Signal Processing by Alan V. Oppenheim and Ronald W. Schafer
• Multirate Systems And Filter Banks by P. P. Vaidyanathan

Information theory

• Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas
• An Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications by Simon Haykin and Michael Moher
• Introduction to Data Compression by Khalid Sayood
• Information and Randomness by Cristian S. Calude
• Grammatical Man by Jeremy Campbell

Graphics

• 3D Computer Graphics by Alan Watt
• 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development by Fletcher Dunn and Ian Parberry
• The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman

Numerical Analysis

• Introduction to Applied Numerical Analysis by Richard W. Hamming
• Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers by R. W. Hamming
• Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe

Circuit Design

• Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics by Simon Ramo and John R. Whinnery
• Analog Integrated Circuit Design by David Johns and Kenneth Martin
• Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits by Paul R. Gray and Paul J. Hurst
• Analog Circuit Design by Bob Dobkin and John Hamburger
• Digital Integrated Circuits by Jan M Rabaey
• Logic Synthesis by Srinivas Devadas and Abhijit Ghosh
• Introduction to VLSI Systems by Carver Mead and Lynn Conway
• Analog VLSI and Neural Systems by Carver Mead

Architecture of Operating Systems

• Computer Architecture by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
• The Architecture of Symbolic Computers by Peter M. Kogge
• The Design of the UNIX Operating System by Maurice J. Bach
• Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• Capability-based computer systems by Henry M Levy
• Hard Real-Time Computing Systems by Giorgio C. Buttazzo

History of Science

• The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
• Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B. Eds. Silvers
• The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by E. A. Burtt
• The Man Who Saw Through Time by Loren C. Eiseley
• A History of Mechanical Inventions by Abbott Payson Usher
• The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick
• Longitude by Dava Sobel
• John Von Neumann by Norman MacRae
• A Force of Nature by Richard Reeves
• Tesla by Margaret Cheney
• The Mystery of Metamorphosis by Frank Ryan
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Genius by James Gleick
• Francis Crick by Matt Ridley
• Warmth Disperses and Time Passes by Von Baeyer, Hans Christian
• Suspended In Language by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis
• A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
• The Birth Of The Modern by Paul Johnson
• Great Physicists by William H. Cropper
• The Codex Leicester by Leonardo da Vinci
• ???
• Clocks And Culture by Carlo M. Cipolla
• Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
• Wind Wizard by Siobhan Roberts
• Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
• Einstein by Walter Isaacson
• Bell Laboratories innovation in telecommunications, 1925-1977 by Roland Mueser
• The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt
• Oliver Heaviside by Paul J. Nahin
• Renaissance Engineers from Brunelleschi to Leonardo da Vinci by Paolo Galluzzi
• Laser by Nick Taylor
• John Dalton and the Atom by F Greenaway
• The Copernican Revolution by Thomas S. Kuhn

First person historical science

• Discourse On Bodies In Water by Thomas Salusbury
• Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass by Galileo Galilei
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
• The Principia by Isaac Newton
• Faraday’s Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday
• Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
• A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field by James Clerk Maxwell
• The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vol. I by James Clerk Maxwell
• Modern Views of Electricity by Sir Oliver Lodge
• Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens
• The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs Vol. I by J. Willard Gibbs
• The Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs Vol. II by J. Willard Gibbs
• Calculating Engines by Charles Babbage
• The Value of Science by Henri Poincare
• The Electron by Robert Andrews Millikan
• The Theory of Electrons by H. A. Lorentz
• The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
• Physics and Beyond by Werner Heisenberg
• Relativity by Albert Einstein
• The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
• The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
• Feynman Lectures On Computation by Richard P. Feynman
• My Inventions by Nikola Tesla
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• The Double Helix by James D. Watson Ph.D.
• A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter
• What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
• The Art of the Soluble by P.B. Medawar
• Collected Papers by Claude Elwood Shannon
• Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors by William Shockley

History of computers

• The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
• History of Semiconductor Engineering by Bo Lojek
• Revolution in Miniature by Ernest Braun and Stuart MacDonald
• Engines of Logic by Martin Davis
• Microcosm by George Gilder
• Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik
• The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
• What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
• The Information by James Gleick
• Hackers by Steven Levy
• Revolution in The Valley by Andy Hertzfeld
• Insanely Great by Steven Levy
• Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson
• A Few Good Men From Univac by David E. Lundstrom
• The Man Who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley
• Possiplex by Ted Nelson
• Geeks Bearing Gifts by Ted Nelson
• The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold
• Bootstrapping by Thierry Bardini
• History of Computing in the Twentieth Century by Nicholas Metropolis
• The UNIX Hater’s Handbook by Simson L. Garfinkel and Daniel Weise
• Memory Machines by Belinda Barnet
• A History of Personal Workstations by Adele Goldberg
• History of Programming Languages by Richard L. Wexelblat
• History of Programming Languages, Volume 2 by Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson
• The Closed World by Paul N. Edwards
• From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner
• The Chip by T.R. Reid

Programming languages

• APL by Raymond Polivka and Sandra Pakin
• The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
• The Annotated C++ Reference Manual by Margaret A. Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup
• The Joy of Clojure by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
• Eiffel by Bertrand Meyer
• Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong
• FORTH by W. P. Salman, O. Tisserand and B. Toulout
• Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie
• Introduction to Fortran by S.C. Plumb
• The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
• The Seasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
• The Reasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd
• The Little MLer by Matthias Felleisen and Daniel P. Friedman
• Programming in Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy
• Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language by William W. Wadge
• Clause and Effect by William Clocksin
• Sketchpad by Ivan Edward Sutherland (thanks to Paul McJones for finding this)
• Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment by Adele Goldberg
• Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice by Glen Krasner
• Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson
• The TeXbook by Donald E. Knuth
• TeX: The Program by Donald E. Knuth
• Metafont: The Program by Donald E. Knuth
• Viewpoint: Toward a computer for Visual Thinkers by Scott Kim
• Visual Grammars for Visual Languages by Fred Lakin

Programming

• How to Design Programs by Matthias Felleisen and Robert Bruce Findler
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales and Jim des Rivieres
• Elements of Programming by Alexander A. Stepanov and Paul McJones
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
• Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce
• Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand
• Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnick
• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen and Charles E. Leiserson
• Hacker’s Delight by Henry S. Warren
• Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
• Computation by Marvin Lee Minsky
• Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki
• The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents by Robin Milner
• Superdistribution by Brad J. Cox
• A Small Matter of Programming by Bonnie A. Nardi
• Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin C. Pierce

Physics

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I by Richard P. Feynman
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II by Richard P. Feynman
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III by Richard P. Feynman
• Six Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
• New Foundations for Classical Mechanics by David Hestenes
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom
• A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem by Richard D. Mattuck and Physics
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen W. Hawking
• The Illustrated “A Brief History of Time” and “The Universe in a Nutshell” by Stephen W. Hawking
• Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein
• Collective Electrodynamics by Carver A. Mead
• The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
• The Science of Radio by Paul J. Nahin
• Dreams of a Final Theory by Steven Weinberg
• The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet by Freeman J. Dyson
• From Being to Becoming by Ilya Prigogine

Biology

• On Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
• Genome by Matt Ridley
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Biopunk by Marcus Wohlsen
• Monkeyluv by Robert M. Sapolsky
• Biocosm by James N. Gardner
• Human Universals by Donald Brown
• The Stuff of Life by Mark Schultz and Zander Cannon
• The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

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