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“It is what you read when you don't have to, that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

Oscar Wilde

Foundational and Influential Books

These are books I revere and keep in physical form on my shelves because they contain some of humanity’s greatest ideas. All but one are works of nonfiction. I couldn’t resist including one of the sharpest and most playful works of fiction I know.

Euclid's Elements
Galileo Galilei
Newton's Principia
The Origin of Species
Critique of Pure Reason
Plato's Republic
Book by Francis Bacon
Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Liber Abaci
Book by George Boole
QED
What Is Life?
Book by Karl Popper
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
A New Kind of Science
Book by Bertrand Russell
Book by Richard Courant
Book by Henri Poincare
Book by John Maynard Keynes
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Philosophy of Everything

Philosophy of Mathematics by James Robert Brown
An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic by Ian Hacking
Philosophy of Economics by Julian Reiss
Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by Noah Lemos