Yakov Shklarov – Reading recommendationsA handful of non-technical books and articles that I enjoyed, in no particular order: Nonfiction booksBrian Hayes – Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (2005) William W. Cohen – A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology (2007) Sergey Alexashenko – Cortical Circuitry (2017) Francis Spufford – Red Plenty (2010) Percy Williams Bridgman – The Intelligent Individual and Society (1938) Barbara O'Brien – Operators and Things: The Inner Life of a Schizophrenic (1958) Clayton Atreus – Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher (2008) Robert Macfarlane – The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (2012) Fiction booksStanisław Lem – His Master's Voice (1968) Liu Cixin – The Three-Body Problem (2008) Анджей Сапковский – Ведьмак: Меч Предназначения (1992) (English translation) Mervyn Peake – The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (2011; first published 1946–1959) Aldous Huxley – Brave New World (1932) Ernest Hemingway – In Our Time (1925) Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) MiscellaneousNeal Stephenson – Mother Earth Mother Board (1996) BlogsBit Player (Brian Hayes) A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (Bret C. Devereaux) The Scholar's Stage (Tanner Greer) |