A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962

Alistair Horne

★ 4.24

Language in Thought and Action

S.I. Hayakawa

★ 4.22

Figuring

Maria Popova

★ 4.35

Out of Thin Air: Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia

Michael Crawley

★ 4.20

We, the Drowned

Carsten Jensen

★ 4.24

Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

Robyn Arianrhod

★ 4.05

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Mitch Albom

★ 4.47

The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger

★ 4.25

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

★ 4.23

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

★ 4.69

Flight to Arras

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★ 3.89

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

★ 4.12

The Art of UNIX Programming

Eric S. Raymond

★ 4.18

Our Ancestors

Italo Calvino

★ 4.24

The Swerve: How The Renaissance Began

Stephen Greenblatt

★ 3.88

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

★ 3.61

The Shortest History of India

John Zubrzycki

★ 3.82

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

★ 4.40

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

★ 4.01

What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Canto Classics)

Erwin Schrödinger

★ 4.13

Dispatches

Michael Herr

★ 4.22

Dark Emu

Bruce Pascoe

★ 4.27

The Log From The Sea Of Cortez

John Steinbeck

★ 3.84

My Early Life - 1874-1908

Winston S. Churchill

★ 4.26

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

★ 4.02

The Spirit of St. Louis

Charles A. Lindbergh

★ 4.17

Concurrency in Go: Tools and Techniques for Developers

Katherine Cox-Buday

★ 4.21

Politics and the English Language and Other Essays (Paperback)

George Orwell

★ 4.20

Notes on Nationalism

George Orwell

★ 4.01

The Map That Changed the World

Simon Winchester

★ 3.81

When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought

Jim Holt

★ 4.04

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists

Robert Jungk

★ 4.30

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness

Carlo Rovelli

★ 4.03

Visual Complex Analysis

Tristan Needham

★ 4.48

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino

★ 4.17

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

★ 4.33

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)

George R.R. Martin

★ 4.45

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

★ 4.36

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within

Stephen Fry

★ 4.06

How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

Seneca

★ 4.00

Third Thoughts: The Universe We Still Don’t Know

Steven Weinberg

★ 3.56

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

★ 4.33

The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War

Greg Marinovich

★ 4.26

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3

Scott Murray

★ 4.10

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

★ 4.39

The Power of One

Bryce Courtenay

★ 4.36

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

H.P. Lovecraft

★ 4.01

The Mind's Eye

Oliver Sacks

★ 3.93

The Guns of August

Barbara W. Tuchman

★ 4.18

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead

★ 4.06

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

Manjit Kumar

★ 4.27

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Mitch Albom

★ 4.02

Money for Nothing

P.G. Wodehouse

★ 4.03

Maverick Genius: The Pioneering Odyssey of Freeman Dyson

Phillip F. Schewe

★ 3.54

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman

★ 4.17

Wind, Sand, and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★ 4.12

Animal Farm

George Orwell

★ 4.03

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Clifford Stoll

★ 4.28

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

★ 4.09

The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission

Jim Bell

★ 4.17

Forces of Nature

Brian Cox

★ 4.08

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

★ 4.11

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells

★ 4.10

The Orchid Thief

Susan Orlean

★ 3.66

A Tour of the Calculus

David Berlinski

★ 3.69

A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness

★ 4.34

Erwin Schrödinger and the Quantum Revolution

John Gribbin

★ 3.93

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

★ 3.58

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Robert M. Pirsig

★ 3.78

The News: A User's Manual

Alain de Botton

★ 3.58

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

★ 4.00

The African Queen

C.S. Forester

★ 4.00

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Randall Munroe

★ 4.14

Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon

Henri Charrière

★ 3.83

Zero Bugs and Program Faster

Kate Thompson

★ 3.64

Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse

Jay Rubenstein

★ 3.91

Starting At Zero: His Own Story

Jimi Hendrix

★ 4.14

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

★ 4.46

An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1

Paul J. Nahin

★ 3.96

The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Jem Roberts

★ 3.82

Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival

Laura Hillenbrand

★ 4.39

Forrest Gump

Winston Groom

★ 4.00

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

★ 4.31

From Here to Eternity: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

James Jones

★ 4.08

A Very Long Engagement

Sébastien Japrisot

★ 3.90

Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life

Leonard Mlodinow

★ 4.04

To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War

Adam Hochschild

★ 4.14

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

John le Carré

★ 4.09

Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science

M.G. Lord

★ 3.52

The Incorrigible Optimists Club

Jean-Michel Guenassia

★ 4.40

Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

★ 4.33

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

Đặng Thùy Trâm

★ 3.81

The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs and the Discovery of a New World

Sean Carroll

★ 4.06

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

Pedro G. Ferreira

★ 4.14

White Fang

Jack London

★ 4.03

Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen

Peter FitzSimons

★ 4.20

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★ 4.33

So, Anyway...

John Cleese

★ 3.72

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce

★ 3.94

Seven Years with Banksy

Robert Clarke

★ 2.99

Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)

Roald Dahl

★ 4.07

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

★ 3.89

Idea Man

Paul Allen

★ 3.86

The Universal Man: Theodore Von Karman's Life in Aeronautics

Michael H. Gorn

★ 4.60

Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly

Michael D. Gordin

★ 3.66

The Sun's Heartbeat: And Other Stories from the Life of the Star That Powers Our Planet

Bob Berman

★ 4.19

The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

T.R. Reid

★ 4.27

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Clay Shirky

★ 3.83

Curie (Life & Times)

Sarah Dry

★ 3.74

The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New

Peter Watson

★ 3.97

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916

Alistair Horne

★ 4.29

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

John Derbyshire

★ 4.15

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

Jon Gertner

★ 4.21

The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

Nate Silver

★ 3.97

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales from the Periodic Table

Sam Kean

★ 3.92

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

★ 4.19

Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider

Amir D. Aczel

★ 3.68

The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed

Amir D. Aczel

★ 3.34

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

Paul Hoffman

★ 4.09

Light Cavalry Action

John Harris

★ 4.23

The City and the Stars

Arthur C. Clarke

★ 4.07

Bomber

Len Deighton

★ 4.20

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

Robert Graves

★ 3.93

Waiting for the Barbarians

J.M. Coetzee

★ 3.93

Foam of the Daze

Boris Vian

★ 3.91

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Stephen Leacock

★ 3.73

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

George Johnson

★ 4.00

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Robert C. Martin

★ 4.26

Momo

Michael Ende

★ 4.34

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

★ 4.36

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

★ 4.36

Brief History of Science

Thomas Crump

★ 3.76

DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices

Kyle Rankin

★ 3.85

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Robert C. Martin

★ 4.35

The Character of Physical Law

Richard P. Feynman

★ 4.30

Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant (Princeton Science Library)

Julian Havil

★ 4.18

A Mathematician's Apology

G.H. Hardy

★ 3.91

Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science

Simon Mitton

★ 4.00

Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty

Clifford A. Pickover

★ 4.02

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library)

George Pólya

★ 4.12

Effective Java : Programming Language Guide

Joshua Bloch

★ 4.51

Isaac Newton

James Gleick

★ 3.79

Papillon

Henri Charrière

★ 4.23

The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space

Eugene Cernan

★ 4.30

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

★ 4.03

Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

George Dyson

★ 3.60

A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries)

Richard Reeves

★ 4.03

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth

Paul Hoffman

★ 4.06

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

★ 3.43

The Very First Light: The True Inside Story Of The Scientific Journey Back To The Dawn Of The Universe

John C. Mather

★ 3.93

Einstein's Heroes

Robyn Arianrhod

★ 3.72

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen W. Hawking

★ 4.21

My Inventions and Other Writings

Nikola Tesla

★ 3.93

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman

★ 4.22

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

★ 4.12

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys

Michael Collins

★ 4.49

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

★ 4.03

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

★ 3.99

Fermat's Enigma

Simon Singh

★ 4.30

A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution

James Hamilton

★ 3.65

Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes

Alan W. Hirshfeld

★ 3.42

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

★ 3.90

E: The Story of a Number

Eli Maor

★ 3.94

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

Graham Farmelo

★ 4.02

Poincar Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe

Donal O'Shea

★ 3.88

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Andy Hunt

★ 4.33

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

★ 3.81

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

★ 3.82

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

★ 3.89

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict

Peter Ackerman

★ 4.11

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne

★ 3.85

Veronika Decides to Die

Paulo Coelho

★ 3.74

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

★ 4.10

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

★ 4.29

1984

George Orwell

★ 4.20

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

Richard P. Feynman

★ 4.26

Six Easy Pieces: The Fundamentals of Physics Explained

Richard P. Feynman

★ 4.20

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

★ 4.13

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts

★ 4.28

The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking

Simon Singh

★ 4.30

Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

David Kenyon Webster

★ 4.13

Genius: Richard Feynman And Modern Physics

James Gleick

★ 4.12

The Great War

Les Carlyon

★ 4.53

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

★ 4.06

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

Mitch Albom

★ 4.21

Gallipoli

Les Carlyon

★ 4.32

Just A Couple Of Days: The Cult Classic American Novel Where a Virus Destroys Language

Tony Vigorito

★ 3.64

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

★ 4.25

Pegasus Bridge

Stephen E. Ambrose

★ 4.16

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

★ 4.32

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose

★ 4.44

The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen W. Hawking

★ 4.18

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

★ 4.09

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

★ 3.92

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

★ 3.99

The Hobbit

Chuck Dixon

★ 4.51

Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne

Donald R. Burgett

★ 4.37

Currahee!: A Screaming Eagle at Normandy

Donald R. Burgett

★ 4.21

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

★ 3.92

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Erich Gamma

★ 4.20

Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II

Charles B. MacDonald

★ 4.24

The Science of Fractal Images

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

★ 4.12

Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics

Stephen B. Maurer

★ 3.00

Fundamentals of Database Systems

Ramez Elmasri

★ 3.81

Euclid's Elements

Euclid

★ 4.31

C: How To Program

Harvey M. Deitel

★ 4.00

Modern Operating Systems

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

★ 4.14

Programming Pearls

Jon L. Bentley

★ 4.20

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Richard P. Feynman

★ 4.27

Introduction To The Design & Analysis Of Algorithms

Anany V. Levitin

★ 3.87

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

David Flanagan

★ 4.07

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

★ 4.04

A Little Java, A Few Patterns

Matthias Felleisen

★ 3.78

The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number

Mario Livio

★ 3.80

The Elements of Style [Illustrated]

William Strunk Jr.

★ 4.18