root information books shelf
§ What?This is my (digital) bookshelf!
Not every book I’ve read appears here, and I’ve not yet read each book in the list.
§ Why?This is mostly for me. I find it kind of nice to have this
information digitally-accessible.
This is also for you. If you see anything here you find interesting,
or if you have any recommendations to fill in my gaps, I’d love to chat about it with you.
To better interpret the composition of this shelf, understand why I read books .
One day, I hope to annotate this list with greater detail (printer
and publisher, when I’ve read them, where I’ve purchased them, so
on).
§ Non-Fiction§§ Mathematics
Bishop, Goldberg: Tensor Analysis of Manifolds
Kerdemsky: The Moscow Puzzles
Kolmogorov, Fomin: Elements of The Theory of Functions and
Functional Analysis
Mendelson: Introduction to Topology
Pinter: A Book of Abstract Algebra
Shilov: Linear Algebra
Zachmanoglou, Thoe: Introduction to Partial Differential
Equations with Applications
§§§ Machine Learning, AI, etc.
Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman: The Elements of Statistical
Learning
Gardenfors: Conceptual Spaces
Fausett: Fundamentals of Neural Networks
Rumelhart, McCulland, et al: Parallel Distributed Processing
Volume 1
Minsky: Computation; Finite and Infinite State
Machines
Simon: The sciences of the artificial (3rd Edition)
§§§
Visualization
Tufte:
Visual Explanations Envisioning Information The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
§§§
Design & Architecture
Hamming: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Kleppman: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Ford, Parsons, Kua: Building Evolutionary Architecture
Beyer, etc.:
Site Reliability Engineering The Site Reliability Workbook
Weinberg: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
Maier, Rechtin: the Art of Systems Architecture (2nd
Edition)
Rozanski, Woods: Software Systems Architecture
§§§ Management
Andrew Grove: High Output Management
§§§ Languages
Abelson, Sussman: Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs (2nd Edition)
Chiusana Runar: Functional Programming in Scala
Gray, Tate: Designing Elixir Systems with OTP
Hebert: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good
Iverson: A Programming Language
McCarthy, et al: Lisp 1.5 Programming Manual
Picheta: Nim in Action
John Lions: Lions’ Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source
Code
Kernighan, Pike: The Practice of Programming
Nemeth et al: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th
Edition)
Raymond: The Art of UNIX Programming
Stevens, Rago: Advanced Programming in the UNIX
Environment
§§ History
Catherine Radziwill: Sovereigns & Statesmen of
Europe
Miller: Way of Death
Orlando Figes: Revolutionary Russia 1891-1991
Robert Massie:
Catherine the Great Peter the Great
Sven Beckert: Empire of Cotton
W. O. Henderson: The Zollverein
Wistergaard: The First Triple Alliance
Woodward Brookings: Balkan Tragedy
Wunderlich: Farm Labor in Germany
§§ Philosophy§ Fiction§§ Science
Fiction
Stanislaw Lem:
The Invincible His Master’s Voice
§§ American
Jerzy Kosinski:
John Steinbeck:
§§ In the
German§§ From
the Norwegian
Karl Ove Knausgard:
My Struggle: Volume 1 My Struggle: Volume 2 My Struggle: Volume 3 A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven :
Translated by: James Anderson
Printed in: 2008, by Portobello Books Ltd
§§ From the
German
Thomas Mann:
Compilations:
Great German Novels and Short Stories :
Introduced by: Victor Lange
Printed in: USA, 1952
Translated by: various
Stories:
Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther Schiller: The Sport of Destiny Kleist: The Earthquake in Chile Brentano: The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie Hoffmann: The Cremona Violin Droste-Hulshoff: The Jews’ Beech Tree Heine: Gods in Exile Storm: Immensee Keller: The Naughty Saint Vitalis Meyer: Plautus in the Convent Hauptmann: Flagman Thiel Schnitzler: A Farewell Rilke: How Old Timofei Died Singing Wedekind: The Burning of Egliswyl Heinrich Mann: Three Minute Novel Thomas Mann: Death in Venice Kafka: A Country Doctor
§§ From the Russian
(now, the good stuff!)
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
Notes from a Dead House The Short Novels of Dostoevsky :
Introduced by: Thomas Mann (!)
Printed in: Scranton Pennsylvania, 1946 (!!), fourth priting
Translated by: Constance Garnett
Stories:
The Gambler Notes from the Underground Uncle’s Dream The Eternal Husband The Double The Friend of the Family
The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky
Introduced by: David Magarshack
Printed in: USA, unknown
Translated by: David Magarshack
Stories:
White Nights The Honest Thief The Christmas Tree and a Wedding The Peasant Marey Notes from the Underground A Gentle Creature The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
The Double and the Gambler
Lev Tolstoi
War & Peace Anna Karenina :
Translated by: Constance Garnett
Introduced by: Thomas Mann
Illustrated by: Philip Reisman
Printed in: USA, 1939?
Notes: illustrated copy in two volumes
A Confession and What I Believe :
Printed in: USA, 1921
Translated by: Aylmer Maude
Ivan Ilyich and Hadji Murad :
Printed in: UK, 1935
Translated by: Aylmer Maude
Pushkin
Novels, Tales & Journerys
Nikolai Gogol:
Chichikov’s Journeys (aka Dead Souls)The Collected Tales
Anton Chekhov:
The Island Two Plays St. Peter’s Day and Other Stories :
Introduced by: Frances H. Jones
Printed in: USA, 1959
Translated by: Frances H. Jones
Stories:
Sketches from the Theatre :
He and She The Baron Two Calamities The Willow The Liberal The Woman who had no Prejudices Marriage for Money Appropriate Measures The Mask Civil Service Exam Trifon The Delegate Tears the World Sees Not Reading 75,000 The Conqueror’s Triumph The Flying Islands The Lady of the Manor The Reporter A Revolting Tale The Village of Green Scythe St. Peter’s Day
Selected Works Volume One (Stories) :
Introduced by: Maxim Gorky
Printed in: USSR, 1979
Translated by: Ivy Litvinov
Stories:
Death of a Clerk Chameleon Vanka The Grasshopper The House with the Mansard The Man who Lived in a Shell Gooseberries Yonich The Lady with the Dog In the Gully The Bride The Art of Tact (Notes on the work of Chekhov) , by Sergei
Zalyin
Tchekhov’s Plays and Stories :
Introduced by: David Magarshack
Printed in: Great Britain, 1962
Translated by: S. S. Koteliansky
Plays:
The Cherry Orchard The Seagull The Wood Demon Tatyana Riepin On the Harmfulness of Tobacco
Stories:
My Life The House with the Mezzanine Typhus Gooseberries In Exile The Lady with the Toy Dog Goussiev A Moscow Hamlet At the Cemetery At the Post Office Schulz Life is Wonderful A Fairy Tale
Ivan Turgenev:
Fathers & Sons Three Short Novels:
Printed in: USSR, no date
Translated by: Ivy & Tatiana Litvinov
Stories:
Asya First Love Spring Torrents
On the Eve
Maxim Gorky:
The Artomonov Business Selected Short Stories :
Introduced by: Anonymous
Printed in: USSR, no date
Translated by: Margaret Wettlin
Stories:
Makar Chudra At the Salt Marsh Old Izergil Chelkash About a Little Boy and a Little Girl who did not Freeze to
Death Song of the Falcon Exposure A Mite of a Girl Kolusha The Woman with the Blue Eyes How Semaga was Caught A Reader The Poet Konovalov Vanka Mazin Mischief-maker The Orlovs For Want of Something Better to Do Song of the Stormy Petrel