• The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

  • Abundance by Ezra Klein

  • The Conservative Futurist by James Pethokoukis

  • The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI by Dwarkesh Patel

  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

  • The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

  • What Is Life? Evolution as Computation by Blaise Aguera y Arcas

  • Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen

  • The Technological Republic by Alex Karp

  • The Straussian Moment by Peter Thiel

  • Superagency by Reid Hoffman

  • Deep Utopia by Nick Bostrom

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

  • Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

  • Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

  • Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hoftstader

  • The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

  • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation by Byrne Hobart & Tobias Huber

  • Talent by Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross

  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel

  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  • The Just City by Jo Walton

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  • Fundamentals of Computer Graphics by Peter Shirley

  • Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin & Chris Dyer

  • Spark: The Definitive Guide by Bill Chambers & Matei Zaharia

  • Hadoop: The Definitive Guide by Tom White

  • The Little Book of Deep Learning by François Fleuret

  • Psychological Types by Carl Jung

  • Harmony by Project Itoh

  • Database System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Forth and S.Sudarshan

  • Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani

  • Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos

  • Introduction to Algorithms, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein

  • Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

  • Graph Theory by Reinhard Diestel

  • The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and Chris Krycho

  • Existentially Challenged by Yahtzee Croshaw

  • Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw

  • A Gentle Introduction to Optimization by B. Guenin, J. Könemann, L. Tunçel

  • Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash by Yahtzee Croshaw

  • Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw

  • Mathematical Logic for Computer Science by Lu Zhongwan

  • Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition by David Patterson & John Hennesy

  • The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

  • Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

  • Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

  • Neuromancer by William Gibson

  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

  • Linear Algebra by Stephen Friedberg

  • How to Design Programs by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, & Krishnamurthi

  • Elementary Analysis by Kenneth Ross

  • An Introduction to Mathematical Thinking by William Gilbert & Scott Vanstone