books i like

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# fiction

• The Cosmere, Brandon Sanderson (especially the books below)
  • The Mistborn Trilogy
  • The Stormlight Archive
  • Tress and the Emerald Sea
  • Warbreaker
• The First Law Trilogy, Joe Abercrombie
• The Kingkiller Chronicle, Patrick Rothfuss

# math

• The Cauchy-Schwarz Master Class, J. Michael Steele
• Curves for the Mathematically Curious, Julian Havil
• Generatingfunctionology, Herbert S. Wilf

# (academic level) computer science

• The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth
• Classical and Quantum Computation, Kitaev, Shen, and Vyalyi
• Introduction to Algorithms, Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein
• Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Michael Sipser
• Quantum Computation and Information, Michael A. Neilsen and Issac L. Chuang

# (popular level) science

• The Idea of the Brain: A History, Matthew Cobb
• Lost in Math, Sabine Hossenfelder
• A Short history of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

# (popular level) psychology

• Atomic Habits, James Clear
• Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
• The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

# philosophy

• The History of Philosophy, A.C. Grayling
• Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn

# others

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
• How to Invent Everything, Ryan North
• Toki Pona: The Language of Good, Sonja Lang