Books which I have no expectations in, get me hyped the most.
I dived into Plato's Republic purely for Double Damnation's marketing - ended up abandoning Double Damnation's development for months after reading it. Other books where I absolutely did not know what to expect (yet I now cannot imagine not having read) is Man and His Symbols, and Atlas Shrugged - quite a rollercoaster. If someone had told me Atlas Shrugged was about trains or had I seen its pagecount, I wouldn't have even bought it.
So I think its good to get out of my comfort zone and try all sorts of books which I miss out on. To open a book you have no expectations and be amazed, is far better than knowing its going to be good and align with its themes in advance, and just nod every few pages.
Below is a list of books which I am interested, surely most will satisfy me, or be beneficial. And honestly, since I read only when I go to bed (can't get sleepy otherwise, because I overuse the computer as I code/gamedev), 1 of the books below should cover me for a month. I am so happy that there are so many interesting english books. I would argue that free time spent on Books is more satisfying than Videogames.
Programming
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2nd edition) [Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman]
- Programming Rust (2nd Edition) [Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. S. Tindall]
- You Look Like A Thing And I Love You [Janelle Shane]
- Clean Code - A handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship [Robert C. Martin]
- Analysis Patterns [Martin Fowler]
- The Art of Computer Programming, Fundamental Algorithms [Donald Knuth]
- Introduction to Algorithms [Thomas H. Cormen]
- Structured Programming [Edsger Wybe Dijkstra]
- The Phoenix Project [Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford]
- Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software [Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides]
- Structured Analysis and System Specification [Tom DeMarco]
- Test-Driven Development by Example [Kent Beck]
- Refactoring - Improving The Design of Existing Code [Martin Fowler]
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests [Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce]
- Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software [Eric Evans]
Fantasy
- Conan the Barbarian (Centenary/Del Rey) [Robert E. Howard]
- Chronicles of the Black Company [Glen Cook]
- The Hobbit [Tolkien]
- The Children of Hurin [Tolkien]
- The Silmarillion [Tolkien]
- The Eternal Champion [Michael Moorcock]
- The Misenchanted Sword [Watt-Evans Lawrence]
- The Powder Mage Trilogy [Brian McClellan]
- The Crown Tower [Michael J. Sullivan
- Morigu: The Desecration [Mark C. Perry]
- The Blade Itself [Joe Abercrombie]
- The Tyrion&Teclis Trilogy [William King]
- Dead Winter [C.L. Werner]
- Greatcoats (Series) [Sebastien De Castell]
- The Reluctant King [L. Sprague de Camp]
General Literature
- The Lord of the Flies [William Golding]
- Watership Down [Richard Adams]
- The Man Who Would Be King [Rudyard Kipling]
- Cloud Atlas [David Mitchell]
- Flowers for Algernon [Daniel Keyes]
- Clockwork Orange [Anthony Burgess]
- Erewhon Revisited [Samuel Butler]
- The Stolen Bacillus [H.G. Wells]
- Asbestos Head [Eric Dubay]
- Chesterfield's Letters to His Son [Lord Chesterfield]
Horror
- The Dreams in the Witch House [H.P. Lovecraft]
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward [H.P. Lovecraft]
- Our Lady of Darkness [Fritz Leiber]
- Borrasca [Rebecca Klingel]
- Penpal [Dathan Auerbach]
Speculative Philosophy
- Might is Right [Ragnar Redbeard]
- The Art of War [Niccolo Machiavelli]
- Ride the Tiger [Julius Evola]
- The Ego and its Own [Max Stirner]
- The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music [Friedrich Nietzche]
- The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times [René Guénon]
- Bronze Age Mindset [Bronze Age Pervert]
- Tirukkural (Pope Translation) [Thiruvalluvar]
- The Inequality of Man [J.B.S. Haldane]
Political Science
- The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom [James Burnham]
- Democracy: The God That Failed [Hans-Hermann Hoppe]
- De Monarchia [Dante Alighieri]
- Archaeofuturism [Guillaume Faye]
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty [Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson]
- The Social Contract [Jean-Jacques Rousseau]
- Social Decay and Regeneration [Austin Freeman]
- Leviathan [Thomas Hobbes]
- The Sovereign Individual: how to survive and thrive during the collapse of the welfare state [James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg]
- Arthashastra [Chanakya]
- On the Threshold of a New Era [Edgar Julius Jung]
- Libido Dominandi [E. Michael Jones]
Economics
- The Wealth of Nations [Adam Smith]
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution [Klaus Schwab]
- Economics in One Lesson [Henry Hazlitt]
- Human Action [Ludwig von Mises]
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman [John Perkins]
- Small Is Beautiful [Ernst Schumacher]
- Das Kapital [Karl Marx]
- The Economics and Ethics of Private Property [Hans-Hermann Hoppe]
- The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve [G. Edward Griffin]
- Guide to Investing in Gold & Silver [Michale Maloney]
History
- Discourses on Livy [Niccolo Machiavelli]
- The Road to Wigan Pier [George Orwell]
- Reflections on the Revolution in France [Edmund Burke]
- The Myth of the Twentieth Century [Alfred Rosenberg]
- Revolution and Freemasonry 1680-1800 [Bernard Faÿ]
- Revolt Against the Modern World [Julius Evola]
- The Great Leveler [Walter Scheidel]
- The International Jew [Henry Ford]
- Gulag Archipelago (Abridged) [Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]
- Bread of Dreams [Piero Camporesi]
- Critique and Crisis [Reinhart Koselleck]
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone [Kevin MacDonald]
- The One World Tartarians [James W Lee]
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Edward Gibbon]
- The Collapse of Antiquity [Michael Hudson]
- Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha, Christ Unveiled [Acharya S]
- Pole Shift [David Montaigne]
- Son of the Revolution [Liang Heng]
- The Tyrants of Syracuse [Jeff Champion]
Historical Fiction
- The Smoky God: A Voyage to the Inner World [Willis George Emerson]
- The Iron Republic [Richard Morgan]
- The Tartar Steppe [Dino Buzzati]
- Invisible Cities [Italo Calvino]
- Paris in the Twentieth Century [Jules Verne]
- Pirate Utopia [Bruce Sterling]
- Clash of Eagles [Alan Smale]
- Broadcasting of the Gods [Dr. Konstantin Meyl]
- The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters [Vladimir Odoevsky]
- War of the Worlds [H.G. Wells]
- The Shape of Things to Come [H.G. Wells]
Science Fiction
- The Shaver Mystery [Richard S. Shaver]
- Dune [Frank Herbert]
- The Machine Stops [E. M. Forster]
- The Sirens of Titan [Kurt Vonnegut]
- Simulacron 3 [Daniel F. Galouye]
- Nightfall [Isaac Asimov]
- The Last Question [Isaac Asimov]
- The Beast Jewel of Mars [Leigh Brackett]
- Neuromancer [William Gibson]
- The Invisible Man [H.G. Wells]
- All Systems Red [Martha Wells]
- Triggernometry [Stark Holborn]
- Tetraktys [Ari Juels]
- Hyperion [Dan Simmons]
- The Forever War [Joe Haldeman]
Dystopia
- Walden Two [B.F. Skinner]
- The Iron Heel [Jack London]
- Men Like Gods [H.G. Wells]
- The Minority Report [Philip K. Dick]
- The Giver [Lois Lowry]
- It Can't Happen Here [Sinclair Lewis]
- Looking Backward [Edward Bellamy]
Psychology
- The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious [C.G. Jung]
- The Red Book [C.G. Jung]
- Atomic Habits [James Clear]
- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind [Gustave Le Bon]
- The True Believer [Eric Hoffer]
- Egregores: The Occult Entities That Watch Over Human Destiny [Mark Stavish]
- The Mind Illuminated [Culadasa, John Yates]
- Beyond Freedom and Dignity [B.F. Skinner]
- Emile, or On Education [Jean-Jacques Rousseau]
- Symbols of Sacred Science [René Guénon]
- The Mystic Spiral [Jill Purce]
- Creative Color [Faber Birren]
- It's not Impossible: Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control [svali]
- Authenticated History Of The Bell Witch [M.V. Ingram]
- Prometheus Rising [Robert Anton Wilson]
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [Julian Jaynes]
Gnostic
- Kybalion [The Three Initiates]
- Morals and Dogma [Albert Pike]
- Nature's Eternal Religion [Ben Klassen]
- Pythagoras [Adam Weishaupt]
- Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
- Vril [Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
- The Essene Gospel of Peace [Edmond Bordeaux Szekely]
- The Hermetic Tradition [Julius Evola]
- Eros and Mysteries of Love [Julius Evola]
- Nag Hammadi Library [Various Gnostic Writers]
- The Saturn Myth: A Reinterpretation of Rites and Symbols [David Talbott]
- Fulcanelli and the Alchemical Revival: The Man Behind The Mystery of The Cathedrals [Geneviève Dubois]
- The King of the World [René Guénon]
- Three Books of Occult Philosophy [Cornelius Agrippa]
- The Mystery of the Grail [Julius Evola]
- The Bundahišn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation [Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope]
- Etidorhpa: The End of Earth [John Uri Lloyd]
- Zadig; or the Book of Fate [Voltaire]
- Numerorum Mysteria [Pietro Bongo]
- The Garden of Cyrus [Thomas Browne]
- The Initiates of the Flame [Manly P. Hall]
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages [Manly P. Hall]
Christian Theology
- The Screwtape Letters [C.S. Lewis]
- The Imitation of Christ [Thomas à Kempis]
- The Two Babylons [Alexander Hislop]
- Pensees [Blaise Pascal]
- The Abolition of Man [C.S. Lewis]
- The Great Divorce [C.S. Lewis]
- God-Man: The Word Made Flesh [George Washington Carey]
Theater Plays
- The Man Who Laughs [Victor Hugo]
- Timon of Athens [William Shakespeare]
- Troilus and Cressida [William Shakespeare]
- The Twelfth Night [William Shakespeare]
- Titus Andronicus [William Shakespeare]
Slice-of-Life Literature
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [Lord Byron]
- To the Lighthouse [Virginia Woolf]
- The Razor's Edge [W. Somerset Maugham]
- Walden [Henry David Thoreau]
- The Sound of Waves [Yukio Mishima]
Medieval War Technology
- A Knight and His Castle [Ewart Oakeshott]
- A Knight and His Armor [Ewart Oakeshott]
- A Knight and His Weapons [Ewart Oakeshott]
- A Knight and His Horse [Ewart Oakeshott]
- Italian Rapier Combat [Ridolfo Capo Ferro]
- Records of the Medieval Sword [Ewart Oakeshott]
Self-Sustainability
- The Secret Life of Plants [Peter Tompkins]
- The One-Straw Revolution [Masanobu Fukuoka]
- Letter to a Young Farmer [Gene Logsdon]
- For the Love of Soil [Nicole Masters]
- Restoration Agriculture [Mark Shepard]
- Dirt to Soil [Gabe Brown]
- The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre [Carleen Madigan]
- Electroculture Growing Practical Guide [Yannick Van Doorne]
- The Garden Primer [Barbara Damrosch]
- Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web [Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis]
- The Vegetable Gardener's Bible (2nd edition) [Edward Smith]
- Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners [Suzanne Ashworth]
- Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long [Eliot Coleman]
- Good Bug Bad Bug [Jessica Walliser]
- Good Weed Bad Weed [Nancy Gift]
- Off-Grid: A Guide To Living Free [Jon Venezia]
- The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver [Karen Patry]
Health
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration [Weston A. Price]
- Fasting and Man's Correct Diet [R.B. Pearson]
- The Fasting Cure [Upton Sinclair]
- Milk Diet As A Remedy For Chronic Disease [Charles Porter]
- The Miracle of Milk [Barnarr Macfadden]
- The Natural Remedies Encyclopedia [Vance Ferrell]
- Everything I want to do is Illegal [Joel Salatin]
- Turtles all the way down: Vaccine science and myth [anon, Mary Holland]
- The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away: Simple Actions to Shift Your Body and Mind to Optimum Health for Greater Longevity [Rashid A. Buttar]
- The Homœopathic Medical Doctrine, or, Organon of the Healing Art (4th or 6th edition) [Samuel Hahnemann]
- Health and Light [John N. Ott]
- Nourishing Traditions [Sally Fallon Morell]
- The Infectious Myth [David Crowe]
- Blood Never Lies [Ted Aloisio]
- The MD Emperor Has No Clothes [Peter Glidden]
- Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging [Marie-Monique Robin]
- Autointoxication, or Intestinal Toxemia [John Harvey Kellogg]
- Dissolving Illusions [Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk]
- DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral [Leonard G. Horowitz]
Physics
- The Missing Secrets of Magnetism [Ken Wheeler]
- The Electric Universe [Wallace Thornhill, David Talbott]
- Thunderbolts of the Gods [David Talbott, Wallace Thornhill]
- Un-unified Field [Miles Mathis]
- New Water for a Thirsty World [Michael Salzman]
- Water Car - How to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel [James A. Robey]
- The Green Science of Waterfuel [Ozzie Freedom, George Wiseman]
- The Odic Force [Karl von Reichenbach]
- From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank [Joshua Tickell]
- The Homeowner's Energy Handbook [Paul Scheckel]
- Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization [Samuel Milham]
- The Orgone Accumulator Handbook [James DeMeo]
- Tesla: The Lost Inventions [George Trinkaus]
- Mind Machines You Can Build [Harry Stine]
- Death Object: Exploding the Nuclear Weapons Hoax [Akio Nakatani]
- Mobile Solar Power [William Prowse]
- Lost Science [Gerry Vasilatos]
- The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics [Randell L. Mills]
- Shape Power [Dan A. Davidson]
- Some Free Energy Devices [Jorge Resines]
- Under an Ionized Sky [Elana Freeland]
Privacy
- No Place To Hide [Glenn Greenwald]
- Permanent Record [Edward Snowden]
- Surveillance Valley [Yasha Levine]
Fairytales Unedited
- Grimm's Fairytales [Grimm Brothers]
- Wizard of Oz [L. Frank Baum]
Not fitting any of the above categories
- The Ten Books of Architecture (1755) [Leon Battista Alberti]
- Why Civilizations Self-Destruct [Elmer Pendell]
- On The Inequality of The Human Races [Arthur de Gobineau]
- Handbook of Tunnel Engineering I [Bernhard Maidl, Ulrich Maidl]
- The Bulldozer in the Countryside [Adam Rome]
- English as She Is Spoke [Pedro Carolino]
- How to Read a Book: A Guide to Reading the Great Books (1966) [Mortimer J. Adler]
- The Complete Bladesmith: Forging Your Way to Perfection [Jim Hrisoulas]
- Overcoming Isometrics [Matt Schifferle]
- Kings Dethroned [Gerrard Hickson]
- Nibelungenlied [Anonymous Poet]
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae [Maria C. Pantelia]
- The Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology [Pierre Grimal]