Bookshelf

Little more than rationalized hoarding

Slushy reading Hacker’s Delight.

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion #

  • Durant, Will – The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greatest Philosophers
  • Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics
  • Aristotle – Metaphysics
  • Aurelius, Marcus – Meditations
  • Seneca – On the Shortness of Life
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul – Being and Nothingness
  • Źiźek, Slavoj – The Sublime Object of Ideology
  • Kant, Immanuel – Critique of Pure Reason
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich – Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich – Beyond Good and Evil
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Gay Science
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Will to Power
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich – On the Genealogy of Morals
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich – The Portable Nietzsche
  • Tanner, Michael – Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
  • Kaufmann, Walter A. – Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
  • Mumford, Stephen – Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction
  • Audi, Robert – Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 3rd Edition
  • Berger, Peter. L – The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
  • Greene, Robert – The 48 Laws of Power
  • Chase, Stuart – The Tyranny of Words
  • Hall, Manly P. – The Secret Teachings of all Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
  • Hanegraaff, Wouter J. – Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture
  • AnonymousLemegeton: The Complete Books I-V: Ars Geotia, Ars Theurgia Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, Ars Notoria
  • Driver, Julia – Ethics: The Fundamentals
  • Veyne, Paul – Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination
  • Gray, John – Seven Types of Atheism
  • Saint Augustine – The Confessions of St. Augustine of Hippo
  • Kierkegaard, Søren – Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
  • Coogan, Michael D. – The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version

C: Auxiliary Sciences of History #

  • Graeber, D. & Wengrow, D – The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • Harari, Yuval – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Morris, Ian – Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future
  • Kaczynski, Theodore John – Industrial Society and Its Future: Unabomber Manifesto
  • Morris, Ian – War! What Is It Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots
  • Acosta, Oscar Zeta – The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
  • Acosta, Oscar Zeta – The Revolt of the Cockroach People

D: World History #

  • Evola, Ilulius – Revolt Against the Modern World
  • White, Matthew – The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities
  • Herodotus – The Histories
  • Tyerman, Christopher – God’s War: A New History of the Crusades
  • Hobhouse, Henry – Forces of Change: An Unorthodox View of History
  • Wedgwood, C. V. – The Thirty Years War
  • Jünger, Ernst – Storm of Steel
  • Bauman, Zygmunt - Modernity and the Holocaust
  • Frank, Anne – The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Frankl, Viktor E. – Man’s Search for Meaning
  • Malaparte, Curzio – Kaputt
  • White, T. H. – The Age of Scandal
  • Roberts, Andrew – Churchill: Walking with Destiny
  • Carlyle, Thomas – The French Revolution
  • Roberts, Andrew – Napoleon: A Life
  • Orwell, George – Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Eyck, Erich – Bismarck and the German Empire
  • Shirer, William L. – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
  • Beard, Mary – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
  • Caesar, Julius – The Civil War
  • Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1
  • Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 2
  • Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 3
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul – Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of The Etiology of Hate
  • Chang, Iris – The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
  • Mao, Tse-Tung – Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: The Little Red Book

E: History of the United States of America #

  • Thompson, Hunter S. – Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (Gonzo Papers, Volume 1)
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ’80s (Gonzo Papers, Volume 2)
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream (Gonzo Papers, Volume 3)
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (Gonzo Papers, Volume 4)

F: History of Canada #

  • Grant, George – Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism
  • Black, Conrad – Rise to Greatness, Volume 1: Colony (1000-1867): The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

H: Social Sciences #

  • Fisher, Mark – Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
  • Tuckfield, Bradford – Dive into Data Science: Use Python to Tackle Your Toughest Business Challenges
  • Stirner, Max – The Ego and Its Own
  • Camus, Albert – The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
  • McGowan, David – Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
  • Engels, Friedrich – The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
  • Haidt, Jonathan – The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  • Brooks, David – The Social Animal: Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  • Bly, Robert – Iron John: A Book About Men
  • Sutherland, Gillian – In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870-1914
  • de Beauvoir, Simone – The Second Sex
  • Ohler, Norman – Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
  • Carrol, Rory – Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
  • Vronsky, Peter – Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
  • Vronsky, Peter – Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
  • Marx, Karl & Engles, Friedrich – The Communist Manifesto
  • Lenin, Vladimir Ilich – State and Revolution
  • Kropotkin, Peter – The Conquest of Bread

J: Political Science #

  • Plato – Republic
  • Machiavelli, Niccoló – The Prince
  • Hobbes, Thomas – Leviathan
  • Trotsky, Leon – Fascism: What Is It and How to Fight It
  • Mill, John Stuart – On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
  • Talbot, David – The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government

M: Music #

  • Morrissey – Autobiography

N: Fine Arts #

  • van Gogh, Vincent – Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh

P: Philology and Linguistics #

  • Pinker, Steven – The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

PA: Greek and Latin Literature #

  • Aeschylus – Prometheus Bound
  • Homer – Iliad
  • Homer – Odyssey
  • Ovid – Metamorphoses

PE: English Language #

  • William, Jr. Strunk – The Elements of Style
  • Zinsser, William – On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

PG: Slavic Literature #

  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Notes from Underground
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
  • Gogol, Nikolai – Dead Souls
  • Tolstoy, Leo – War and Peace
  • Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina
  • Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita

PL: East Asian Literature #

  • Sōseki, Natsume – The Gate
  • Sōseki, Natsume – Kokoro
  • Dazai, Osamu – The Setting Sun
  • Dazai, Osamu – No Longer Human
  • Dazai, Osamu – A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku)
  • Mishima, Yukio – Confessions of a Mask
  • Mishima, Yukio – The Sound of Waves
  • Mishima, Yukio – The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
  • Mishima, Yukio – The Frolic of the Beasts
  • Mishima, Yukio – The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
  • Mishima, Yukio – Life for Sale
  • Mishima, Yukio – Spring Snow
  • Mishima, Yukio – Runaway Horses
  • Mishima, Yukio – The Temple of Dawn
  • Mishima, Yukio – The Decay of the Angel
  • Murakami, Haruki – Norwegian Wood
  • Murakami, Ryū – In the Miso Soup

PN: General Literature #

  • Ligotti, Thomas – The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
  • Davies, Owen – Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
  • Tyson, Lois – Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
  • Jameson, Fredric – Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
  • Stein, Sol – Stein on Writing
  • Thompson, Hunter S. – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

PQ: Romance Literature #

  • Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables
  • Verne, Jules – Journey to the Centre of the Earth
  • Bataille, Georges – Story of the Eye
  • Beckett, Samuel – Waiting For Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
  • Camus, Albert – The Stranger
  • Camus, Albert – The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
  • Camus, Albert – Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
  • de Sade, Marquis – The 120 Days of Sodom; or, the School of Libertinage
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul – War Diaries Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-1940
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul – Nausea
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul – The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories
  • Houellebecq, Michel – Whatever
  • Houellebecq, Michel – The Elementary Particles
  • Houellebecq, Michel – Platform
  • Houellebecq, Michel – The Map and the Territory
  • Houellebecq, Michel – Submission
  • Houellebecq, Michel – Annihilation: A Novel
  • Leys, Simon – The Death of Napoleon
  • Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy: Volume I: Inferno
  • Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy: Volume II: Purgatorio
  • Alighieri, Dante – The Divine Comedy: Volume III: Paradiso
  • de Cervantes, Miguel – Don Quixote
  • Bolaño, Roberto – 2666
  • García Márquez, Gabriel – One Hundred Years of Solitude

PR: British and Irish Literature #

  • Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
  • Shakespeare, William – The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • Defoe, Daniel – A Journal of the Plague Year
  • Milton, John – Paradise Lost
  • Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
  • Brontë, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
  • Butler, Samuel – The Way of All Flesh
  • Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
  • de Quincey, Thomas – Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  • Eliot, George – Middlemarch
  • Gissing, George – The Nether World
  • Hogg, James – The Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner
  • Moore, George – Confessions of a Young Man
  • Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
  • Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Conrad, Joseph – The Nigger of the “Narcissus”: A Tale of Forecastle
  • Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
  • Conrad, Joseph – Nostromo
  • du Maurier, Daphne – Don’t Look Now: Stories
  • Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
  • Joyce, James – Dubliners
  • Joyce, James – Ulysses
  • Joyce, James – Finnegans Wake
  • Orwell, George – Animal Farm
  • Orwell, George – 1984
  • Stoker, Bram – Dracula
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Hobbit
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Lord of The Rings: Volume 1: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Lord of The Rings: Volume 2: The Two Towers
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. – The Lord of The Rings: Volume 3: The Return of the King
  • Tolkein, J. R .R – The Simarillion
  • Wyndham, John – The Midwich Cuckoos
  • Ballard, J.G. – The Atrocity Exhibition
  • Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
  • Welsh, Irvine – Trainspotting
  • Williamson, Henry – Tarka the Otter
  • Iggulden, Conn – Wolf of the Plains
  • Iggulden, Conn – Lords of the Bow
  • Iggulden, Conn – Bones of the Hills

PS: American Literature #

  • Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
  • Poe, Edgar Allen – The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
  • Bradbury, Ray – Fahrenheit 451
  • Faulkner, William – The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
  • Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
  • Lovecraft, H. P. – The Call of Cthulhu
  • Lovecraft, H. P. – The Shadow Over Innsmouth
  • Lovecraft, H. P. – The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror
  • Miller, Arthur – The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
  • Miller, Henry – Tropic of Cancer
  • Nabokov, Vladimir – Lolita
  • Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale Fire
  • Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher and the Rye
  • Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
  • Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
  • Steinbeck, John – East of Eden
  • Williams, John – Butcher’s Crossing
  • Williams, John – Stoner
  • Williams, John – Augustus
  • Burroughs, William S. – Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
  • Bukowski, Charles – Notes of a Dirty Old Man
  • Bukowski, Charles – Post Office
  • Bukowski, Charles – Factotum
  • Bukowski, Charles – Women
  • Bukowski, Charles – Ham on Rye
  • Connell, Evan S. – The Diary of a Rapist
  • Dick, Philip K. – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Dick, Philip K. – Ubik
  • Ellis, Bret Easton – American Psycho
  • Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
  • Herbert, Frank – Dune
  • King, Stephen – The Dead Zone
  • King, Stephen – On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Korine, Harmony – A Crack-up at the Race Riots
  • McCarthy, Cormac – Suttree
  • McCarthy, Cormac – Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
  • McCarthy, Cormac – The Road
  • McElroy, Joseph – Women and Men
  • Plath, Sylvia – The Bell Jar
  • Pynchon, Thomas – V.
  • Pynchon, Thomas – The Crying of Lot 49
  • Pynchon, Thomas – Gravity’s Rainbow
  • Pynchon, Thomas – Slow Learner
  • Selby, JR Hubert – Requiem for a Dream
  • Silverberg, Robert – Dying Inside
  • Spinrad, Norman – The Iron Dream
  • Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Wallace, David Foster – Infinite Jest
  • Aciman, André – Call Me by Your Name
  • Auerbach, Dathan – Penpal
  • M.N. M-D. R. – Behead All Satans (1) I purchased a copy from an Indian retailer; despite my doubts of it’s authenticity, the print quality isn’t half bad.
  • Moshfegh, Ottessa – My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  • Yanagihara, Hanya – A Little Life

PT: German Literature #

  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – Faust, Part One
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang – Faust, Part Two
  • Jünger, Ernst – On the Marble Cliffs
  • Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
  • Kafka, Franz – The Trial
  • Kafka, Franz – The Complete Stories
  • Bernhard, Thomas – Correction

Q: Science #

  • Wilson, E. Bright – An Introduction to Scientific Research
  • Lang, Serge – Basic Mathematics
  • Kells, Lyman M. – Elementary Differential Equations
  • Beyer, William H. – CRC Standard Mathematical Tables
  • Isaacson, Walter – The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  • Minnick, Chris – Coding All-in-One For Dummies
  • Abelson, Harold & Sussman, Gerald Jay & Sussman, Julie – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second Edition
  • Warren, Henry S. – Hacker’s Delight
  • Raymond, Eric S. – The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
  • Greenfield, Joseph D. & Wray, William C. – Using Microprocessors and Microcomputers: The 6800 Family
  • Hogan, Thom – Osborne CP/M user guide
  • Flanagan, David – Java in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
  • Collens, P. A. & Collens, R. J. & Scuse D. H. & Stanton, R. G. – Structured Fortran With WATFIV-S and WATFOR-11S
  • Duckett, Jon – PHP & MySQL: Server-side Web Development
  • Kiddle, Oliver – From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line
  • Matthes, Eric – Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
  • Gjengset, Jon – Rust for Rustaceans: Idomatic Programming for Experienced Developers
  • Klabnik, S & Nichols, C. – The Rust Programming Language, 2nd Edition
  • Gelfand, Israel M. – Algebra
  • Kohavi, Zvi – Switching and Finite Automata Theory
  • Urdan, Timothy C. – Statistics in Plain English, 5th Edition
  • Apostol, Tom M. – Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra
  • Apostol, Tom M. – Calculus, Vol. 2: Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications
  • Sparks, John C. – Calculus Without Limits—Almost
  • Bird, Kai & Sherwin, Martin J. – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Hayt, William Hart – Engineering Electromagnetics
  • Brown, Theodore L. – Chemistry: The Central Science
  • Naish, Darren – Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More
  • Brusatte, Stephen L. – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
  • Brusatte, Stephen L. – The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
  • Richard Dawkins – River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
  • Sapolsky, Robert M. – Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
  • Squire, Larry R. – Fundamental Neuroscience
  • Kandel, Eric – Principles of Neural Science, Sixth Edition
  • Pinker, Stephen – How the Mind Works
  • Hawkins, Jeff – On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
  • Carew, Thomas J. – Behavioral Neurobiology: The Cellular Organization of Natural Behaviour
  • Doidge, Norman – The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

R: Medicine #

  • Webster, John G. – Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design
  • Maté, Gabor – The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture
  • Deleuze, Gilles – Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
  • Phares, E. Jerry – Clinical Psychology: Concepts, Methods, and Profession
  • Frankl, Viktor E. – The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
  • Eisler, Robert – Man Into Wolf: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy
  • Huxley, Aldous – The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

T: Technology #

  • Kaczynski, Theodore John – Technological Slavery
  • Dorf, Richard C. – Modern Control Systems
  • Sonntag, Richard E. & Van Wylen, Gordon J. – Fundamentals of Thermodynamics
  • B. P. Lathi – Communication Systems
  • Chen, C. T. – One-dimensional Digital Signal Processing (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
  • McNamara, John E. – Technical Aspects of Data Communication
  • Texas Instruments – The TTL Data Book for Design Engineers
  • Yunik, Maurice – Design of Modern Transistor Circuits
  • Coughlin, Robert F. & Driscoll, Frederick F. – Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits
  • Johnson, David E. – Introduction to Filter Theory
  • Hamilton, Douglas J. & Howard, William G. – Basic Integrated Circuit Engineering
  • Millman, Jacob – Microelectronics: Digital and Analog Circuits and Systems
  • Kraft, George D. & Toy, Wing N. – Mini/Microcomputer Hardware Design
  • White, Donnamaie E. – Bit-Slice Design: Controllers and ALUs
  • Grant, Eugene L. & Leavenworth, Richard S. – Statistical Quality Control

?: Unsorted #

  • Blain, Linda – Enduring the Empire
  • Dovey, Simon – Eye of the Chickenhawk
  • Muhammad, Elijah – Yakun (Jacob): Father of Mankind
  • Schertel, Ernst – Magic: History / Theory / Practice