Book Lists Liked by <a href="/user/show/30815558-chris">Chris</a> (7 Lists)

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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh

Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

The Code Book by Simon Singh

Zero by Charles Seife

Best Books About Mathematics

465 books — 683 voters

Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson

The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald Ervin Knuth

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt

Essential Books of Computer Science

208 books — 329 voters

Accelerando by Charles Stross

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Diaspora by Greg Egan

Permutation City by Greg Egan

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

Transhuman Science Fiction

162 books — 200 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)

6,416 books — 8,202 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. Hawking

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only

1,970 books — 3,656 voters

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Dune by Frank Herbert

1984 by George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books

8,819 books — 26,075 voters

Ulysses by James Joyce

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Most Difficult Novels

601 books — 2,064 voters