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My personal home library

101 books across 16 genres.

πŸ“Ž Currently Reading

πŸŽ‰ Finished Reading

⭐ Must read

☁️ Too much fluff

[HC] = Hardcover

[PB] = Paperback


Genres


Physics

  • The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of - Stephen Hawking, 2011 [HC]

  • Dynamics of a Particle - Peter Guthrie Tait, 1882 [HC]

  • The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene, 2011 [PB]

  • Relativity: The Special and General Theory - The Folio Society, 2004 [HC]

  • The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene, 2004 [HC] & [PB] πŸŽ‰

  • The World of Physics: Volume I - Jefferson Hane Weaver, 1987 [HC]

  • The World of Physics: Volume 2 - Jefferson Hane Weaver, 1987 [HC]

  • The World of Physics: Volume 3 - Jefferson Hane Weaver, 1987 [HC]

  • How To Teach Relativity To Your Dog - Chad Orzel, 2012 [PB] πŸŽ‰

  • The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene, 2003 [PB]

  • Heart of Darkness - Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton, 2013 [PB] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog - Chad Orzel, 2009 [PB]

  • Relativity - Albert Einstein, 2004 [PB]

  • A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking, 1996 πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking, 2005 [HC] & [PB] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandries - Neil DeGrasse Tyson, 2007 [PB] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics - Nick Herbert, 1985 [PB]

  • The Little Book of String Theory - Steven S. Gubser, 2010 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - Roger Penrose, [HC]

  • Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe - Simon Singh, 2004 [HC]

  • Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman, 2014 [HC]

  • The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen Hawking, 2001 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐


Science

  • The Edge of Objectivity - Charles Coulston Gillispie, 1990 [HC]

  • History of Western Science - John Gribbin, 2010 [HC]

  • The Upright Thinkers - Leonard Mlodinow, 2015 [HC] πŸ“Ž

  • The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics - Timothy Ferris, 1991 [HC]

  • The Case For Mars - Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner, 1996 [PB]

  • Future Science - Max Brockman, 2011 [PB]

  • The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas L. Friedman, 2005 [HC]

  • Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 - Michio Kaku, 2011 [PB]

  • The Accidental Universe - Alan Lightman, 2014 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • 30-Second Theories - Paul Parsons, 2009 [HC]

  • The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (Special Edition) - Maurice A. Finocchiaro, 1991 [HC]

  • Scientific Inference - Sir Harold Jeffreys, 1957 [HC]

  • No More Worlds to Conquer - Chris Wright, 2015 [HC]

  • Short History of Scientific Ideas to 1900 - Charles Singer, 1959 [HC]

  • The Story of Science - Susan Wise Bauer, 2015 [HC]

  • Brief Candle in the Dark - Richard Dawkins, 2015 [HC]

  • Beyond the God Particle - Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill, 2013 [HC]

  • The Future of the Mind - Michio Kaku, 2014 [HC]

  • Concerning Evolution - J. Arthur Thomson, 1925 [HC]


Mathematics

  • The Elements of Statics and Dynamics - S.L. Loney, 1906 [HC]

  • A Curious History of Mathematics - Joel Levy, 2014 [HC]

  • The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories, and Things - Robert Solomon, 2008 [HC]

  • The Book of Mathematics: More Than 100 Years of Writing by the Numbers - Gina Kolata, 2013 [HC]

  • Men of Mathematics - E.T. Bell, 1937 [HC]

  • Mathematics in Western Culture - Morris Kline, 1953 [HC]

  • The Teaching of Mathematics - J.W.A. Young, 1907 [HC]


Engineering

  • The Engineering Book - Marshall Brian, 2015 [HC]

  • Modern Operational Mathematics in Engineering - 1944 [HC]


Biographies

  • Einstein - Walter Isaacson, 2007 [HC]

  • The Peabody Sisters of Salem - Louise Hall Tharp, 1980 [HC]

  • Madam Curie - Eve Curie, 1938 [HC]

  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson, 2011 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • Memoirs: David Rockefeller - David Rockefeller, 2002 [HC]


Astronomy

  • Other Worlds Than Ours - Richard A. Proctor, 1870 [HC]

  • Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan, 1994 [PB] πŸŽ‰

  • The Space Book - Jim Bell, 2013 [HC]

  • NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program - Roger D. Launius, 1994 [PB] πŸŽ‰

  • Astronomy 101 - Carolyn Collins Petersen, 2013 [HC]


Business

  • The Go-Giver - Bob Burg and John David Mann, 2017 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Startup Communities: Buiding An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City - Brad Feld, 2012 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Total Leadership - Stewart D. Friedman, 2008 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek, 2014 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ☁️

  • The Carrot Principle - Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton, 2007 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Rework - Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, 2010 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win - Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, 2013 [PB] πŸŽ‰

  • Without Their Permission - Alexis Ohanian, 2013 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover, 2014 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-Up Into Your Organization - Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, 2014 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Made To Stick - Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2007 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Good to Great - Jim Collins, 2001 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Remote - Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, 2013 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • Linchpin - Seth Godin, 2010 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning - Jeanne G. Harris and Thomas H. Davenport, 2007 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean - Joe Knight and Karen Berman, 2006 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • The Icarus Deception - Seth Godin, 2012 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Switch - Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2010 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M. Christensen, 1997 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐


Economics

  • Who Gets What - And Why - Alvin E. Roth, 2015 [HC]

  • Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government - and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead - David Rothkopf, 2012 [HC]

  • Principles of Economics - Henri Theil, 1971 [HC]


Education

  • Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy - Andrew S. Rosen, 2011 [HC] πŸŽ‰

Chemistry

  • The Intriguing Story of the Elements - Jack Challoner, 2012 [HC]

  • Quantum Chemistry - Henry Eyring, John Walter and George E. Kimball, 1944 [HC]

  • Elements of Strength of Materials - S. Timoshenko and D. H. Young, 1962 [HC]


History

  • A History of the Vikings - T.D. Kendrick, 2013 [HC]

  • The Gentleman's Daughter - Amanda Vickery (Folio Society), 2006 [HC]

  • History of the Jews in Modern Times - Max Raisin, 1923 [HC]

  • English Castles: A Guide By Counties - Adrian Pettifer, 1995 [HC]


Art

  • A Treasury of ANglican Art - James B. Simpson and George H. Eatman, 2002 [HC]

Health

  • Wheat Belly - William Davis, 2011 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan, 2008 [HC] πŸŽ‰


Legal

  • The Law Book - Michael H. Roffer, 2015 [HC]

  • Software Patents - Gregory A. Stobbs, 2000 [HC]

  • The Elements of Legal Style - Bryan A. Garner, 2002 [HC]

  • Land Title Origins: A Tale of Force and Fraud - Alfred N. Chandler, 1945 [HC]

  • American State Trials: Volume 5 - John D. Lawson, 1916 [HC]

  • Supreme Conflict - Jan Crawford Greenburg, 2007 [HC]


Fiction

  • Seraphina - Rachel Hartman, 2012 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • The Martian - Andy Weir, 2011 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐

  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Borzoi Book), 1988 [HC]

  • Contact - Carl Sagan, 1985 [HC] πŸŽ‰ ⭐


Psychology

  • Conservatism, Radicalism, and Scientific Method: An Essay On Social Attitudes - A. B. Wolfe, 1923 [HC]

  • Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better - Clive Thompson, 2014 [HC]


Philosophy

  • On Tocqueville - Alan Ryan, 2012 [HC]

  • On Aristotle - Alan Ryan, 2012 [HC]

  • On Marx - Alan Ryan, 2012 [HC]

  • On Machiavelli - Alan Ryan, 2012 [HC]

  • Aristotle - Phillip Wheelwright, 1951 [HC]


Religion

  • The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse - John Keble, 1856 [HC]

  • The Noticer - Andy Andrews, 2011 [HC] πŸŽ‰

  • Catholic Priest and Scientists - Rev. J. W. Vahey, 1882 [HC]

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