Potential Reading List: 2024
Nonfiction
| Title | Author | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| Show Stopper! | G. Pascal Zachary | Computing |
| Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age | Michael A. Hiltzik | Computing |
| Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution | Glyn Moody | Computing |
| Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary | Torvalds, Diamond | Computing |
| The Computer - My Life | Konrad Zuse | Computing |
| UNIX: A History and a Memoir | Brian W. Kernighan | Computing |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine | History |
| How to Read a Book: 1940 edition | Adler, Van Doren | Philosophy |
| Pricing Money | J. D. A. Wiseman | Finance |
| SICP : JS | Abelson, Sussman, Henz, Wrigstad | Computing |
| The Time Traveler’s Guide to Modern Romance | Madeline J. Reynolds | Fiction |
| The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England | Ian Mortimer | History |
| The Trial of Tempel Anneke | Morton Dahms | History |
Fiction
| Title | Author | SubGenre |
|---|---|---|
| Anthem | Ayn Rand | Philosophical Fiction |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Philosophical Fiction |
| Waybound : Cradle 12 | Will Wight | Fantasy |
| Revelation Space | Alaistair Reynolds | Science Fiction |
| Consider Phlebas | Iain M Banks | Science Fiction |
Sciences/NonFiction
| Title | Author | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | History/Science |
| Physics Hypertext Book | Glenn Elert | Physics |
| So You Want to Learn Physics | Susan Regetti | Physics |
| QED and the Men Who Made It | Schweber | Physics |
| The Quantum Labyrinth | Halpern | Physics |
| The Scientists | John Gribbin | Science History |
| Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down | Gordon | Engineering |
| I Contain Multitudes | Ed Yang | Biology |
| All the books by Mary Roach | Mary Roach | Science/Humor |
| The Fabric of the Cosmos | Brian Greene | Physics |
| Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers | Robert Sapolsky | Biology |
| Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Animals | Olivia Judson | Biology/Humor |
| What is Life | Erwin Schrödinger | Biology/Physics |
| Genome: The Autobiography of a Species | Matt Ridley | Genetics |
| Time, Love, Memory | Jonathan Weiner | Biology |
| Spillover | David Quammen | Biology |
| Bad Science | Ben Goldacre | Medicine/Science |
| The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark | Carl Sagan | Science/Philosophy |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | Biography/Science |
| Adventure Among Ants | Mark W. Moffett | Biology |
| Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution | Peter Kropotkin | Evolution |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | Science History |
| Something Deeply Hidden | Sean Carroll | Physics |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | Mathematics/Art |
| Skunk Works | Ben Rich | Engineering |
| QED | Richard Feynman | Physics |
| Black Holes and Time Warps | Kip Thorne | Physics |
| Einstein’s Fridge | Paul Sen | Physics |
| Caveman Chemistry | Kevin Dunn | Chemistry |
| A Brief History of Black Holes | Becky Smethurst | Physics |
(Note) Keep an eye out for Royal Society Prizes for Science Books