| I've never created a reading list, so this was a fun exercise. Programming: * Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ - Gunther * The Mythical Man Month - Brooks Philosophy: * A Journey Around my Room - de Maistre * Anger, Mercy, and Revenge - Seneca * Schrödinger - What is Life? * Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl * Essays - Montaigne * Ethical Intuitionism - Huemer * The Consolations of Philosophy - de Botton * A Manual for Living - Epictetus * Meditations - Aurelius Psychology / Meaning / Purpose / Science: * Purpose and Meaning in the Workplace - Dik, Byrne & Steger * The Case Against Education - Caplan * Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - Caplan * Dawkins - The Selfish Gene * A Confession - Tolstoy * Enlightenment Now - Pinker * The Better Angels of our Nature - Pinker * The Improving State of the World - Goklany * The Skeptical Environmentalist - Lomborg * Religion for Atheists - de Botton * Ending Aging - de Grey * Gut Feelings - Gigirenzer Fiction: * Heart of Darkness - Conrad * Candide - Voltaire * Brave New World - Huxley * Selected Works - Goethe * 1984 & Animal Farm - Orwell Politics: * Obedience to Authority - Milgram * The Problem of Political Authority - Huemer * The Communist Manifesto - Marx * Socialism - von Mises * Just One Child - Greenhalgh * The God That Failed - Crossman * Death by Government - Rummel Thought-provoking: * Free to Learn - Gray * The Beautiful Tree - Tooley * Education and the State - West * The Machinery of Freedom - Friedman * Against Intellectual Monopoly - Boldrine & Levine * From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State - Beito * The Not So Wild, Wild West - Hill * More Guns, Less Crime - Lott * Race & Economics - Williams * Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men - Hummel |