| Here's a few I've really liked that have a broader subject matter than only what you asked for. I figure that if you like to read you'd like these books. --- NON-FICTION --- Darkness Visible A Mathemematician's Apology Omnivore's Dilemma Fermat's Enigma The Code Book Born to Run Judgement of Paris Siddhartha Killing Pablo The Victorian Internet Lone Survivor I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman Papillon Into Thin Air Born on a Blue Day Touching the Void Got Fight The Conquest of Happiness --- FICTION --- Switch Bitch Lost Horizon The Cuckoo's Egg The Simlarillion The Time Traveler's Wife The Alchemist The Count of Monte Cristo A Canticle for Leibowitz Neverwhere My Uncle Oswald Stories of Your Life and Others Invisible Cities Life of Pi Atlas Shrugged --- WALL STREET / FINANCE --- When Genius Failed Liar's Poker Buffett (Lowenstein) Bull! Black-Scholes and Beyond (textbook) Fixed Income Securities (textbook) The Road to Serfdom The Smartest Guys in the Room Fortune's Formula The Fourth Turning Inside the House of Money --- ENTREPRENEURSHIP / COMPUTERS (non-textbook) --- Masters of Doom It's Not About the Bike Dot. Bomb Founders at Work The PayPal Wars Coders at Work The Mousedriver Chronicles Leaving Microsoft to Change the World The Soul of a New Machine Startup The Hypomanic Edge Small Giants Small is the New Big Four Hour Work Week The Boy who Harnessed the Wind Four Steps to the Epiphany Pour your Heart into it Beyond Software Architecture Setting the Table --- DESIGN / UX --- On Writing The Design of Everyday Things Understanding Comics The Elements of Typographic Style Don't Make me Think! A Pattern Language --- PROGRAMMING --- Programming Pearls Effective Java The Algorithm Design Manual Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment The Pragmatic Programmer Refactoring Java Concurrency in Practice Java Puzzlers Expert C Programming --- COOKING --- The Secrets of Cooking Revealed Cooking for Geeks The Bread Baker's Apprentice The Brewmaster's Table --- MISC --- Robot Building for Beginners Mountaineering - The Freedom of the Hills A First Course in Coding Theory The Computational Beauty of Nature Total Control The Ashley Book of Knots Make: Electronics |