Justin's Bookshelf

Here are some the books that I consider indispensable. If I were stranded on a desert island, I'd start my collection with these books. Links to these books on Amazon.com are provided (if you buy from this link, I get a cut - cool!). Where I have found good personal sites of the author, I have included them as well.

Bjarne Stroustrup The C++ Programming Language The Design and Evolution of C++	Robert Sedgewick Algorithms in C++ (3rd Ed)
Douglas R. Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid	Bruce Schneier Applied Cryptography : Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World Beyond Fear
Erich Gamma (et al) - Gang of Four Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software	Frederick Brooks The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Donald E. Knuth The Art Of Computer Programming (TAOCP) Volume: 1, 2, 3 (Boxed set) Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About	Steven S. Muchnick Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation
William H. Press (et al) Numerical Recipes in C : The Art of Scientific Computing	Richard Feynman 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' : Adventures of a Curious Character What do you care what other people think? Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 set)
Paul Hoffman The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth	Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon Snow Crash The Diamond Age Interface (pseudonym of Stephen Bury) The Cobweb (pseudonym of Stephen Bury)
David Halberstam The Children The Best and the Brightest October 1969 Summer of '49 War in a Time of Peace The Firehouse The Teammates	Thomas Wolfe The Bonfire of the Vanities (Paperback) A Man In Full The Right Stuff Hooking Up I am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six The Bear and The Dragon	Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (Norton Edition)
Sun-Tzu The Art of War (Sun-Tzu and Ralph Sawyer)	David McCullough Truman John Adams
Michael Chabon Wonder Boys The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Summerland Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories	John Steinbeck Travels With Charley : In Search of America
Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Robert Graves I, Claudius
Peter Irons A People's History of the Supreme Court	Mario Puzo The Godfather
Dava Sobel Longitude	J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King)
Tracy Kidder The Soul of a New Machine	Douglas Coupland Microserfs
David S. Bennahum Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace	Lawrence Lessig Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace The Future of Ideas
Edmund Morris The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Rex	David Kahn Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939-1943
David Baldacci The Winner Last Man Standing	John Updike Hub fans bid Kid Adieu .
Roy Jenkins Churchill	Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet Fury The Satanic Verses
Michael Lewis Liar's Poker Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game The New New Thing	Ross King Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Cliff Stoll Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage	James McManus Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
Bernard Malamud The Natural	Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing
Simon Singh Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem The Code Book	James Bamford The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency Body of Secrets: An Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
Donald Norman The Design of Everyday Things	Henry Petroski To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
Doron Swade The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer	Edward R. Tufte The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Visual Explanations Envisioning Information
Charles Einstein Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Age	Philip Roth The Great American Novel
Buzz Bissinger 3 Nights in August	Will Carroll The Juice: The Real Story of Baseball's Drug Problems
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Honoré de Balzac Pere Goriot
Bruce Campbell Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way	Feng-Hsiung Hsu Behind Deep Blue
Bletchley Park Action This Day	Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Roger Lowenstein When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management	James B. Stewart Den of Thieves
Richard Russo Empire Falls

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