Books
I am of the opinion that you can tell a lot about a person by knowing what books they read. So, in the interest of showing you who I am, I include here a list of some of my favorite books. It is by no means comprehensive, and always changing, but at least it's a representative sample. Happy reading.
Some of my favorite books (alphabetical by author):
General Non-Fiction
- A Man on the Moon, by Andrew Chaikin
- What If?, by Robert Cowley
- One Hell of a Gamble, by Aleksandr Fursenko, Timothy Naftali
- Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham
- Lost Moon, by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
- Flight: My Life in Mission Control, by Chris Kraft
- Everything Is Under Control, by Robert Anton Wilson
Science
- Mathematical Methods for Physicists, by George B. Arfken, Hans-Jurgen Weber
- The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics, by Julian Barbour
- The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
- Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick
- Introduction to Electrodynamics, by David J. Griffiths
- Handbook of Mathematics and Computational Science, by John W. Harris, Horst Stocker
- Fundamentals of Physics, by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
- Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Mind's I, by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett, et al
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, by Stuart Kauffman
- Mining the Sky, by John S. Lewis
- The Starflight Handbook: A Pioneer's Guide to Interstellar Travel, by Eugene F. Mallove, Gregory L. Matloff
- Electricity and Magnetism (Berkely Physics Course, Vol. 2), by Edward M. Purcell
- Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Computers
- C++ Primer Plus, by Stephen Prata
- The C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustrup
General Fiction
- The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
- Archangel, by Robert Harris
- Enigma, by Robert Harris
- Fatherland, by Robert Harris
- Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
- The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson
- The System Of The World, by Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The Cobra Event, by Richard Preston
Science Fiction
- Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card
- Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
- Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
- 2010: Odyssey Two, by Arthur C. Clarke
- 2061: Odyssey Three, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Icehenge, by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Contact, by Carl Sagan
Last updated: Monday Nov 13 20:27:06 CST 2006


