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From cover to cover

Non-fiction

  • Brain Rules by John Medina 5/5 - Very well written and structured
  • Made to Stick by Cheap and Dan Heath 5/5 - Simple and efficient, actionable advices
  • Switch by Cheap and Dan Heath 5/5 - Simple and efficient, actionable advices
  • The Myth of Innovation 3/5
  • Rework 5/5 - Well written, short and efficient, beautiful cover and typography
  • Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin 5/5 - Very nice reading
  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett 4/5
  • Founders at Work 5/5 - Interviews, Easy to read, companies very well choosen
  • Opensource 2.0 3/5 - interesting chapters on commodization and double license business model
  • Language Instinct by Steven Pinker 4/5
  • Vagabonding 4/5 - Inspiring
  • Kludge 4/5 - Funny and easy to read
  • The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris 5/5 - Thought provoking, very good actionnable advices, well structured
  • Flow 4/5 - Interesting and made me consider some parts of my life differently, a bit redundant
  • The Joy of Living 5/5 - Very nice reading, good introduction to buddhist medidation
  • Linchpin 4/5 - Thought provoking, a bit redundant
  • "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" 5/5 - Easy to read, fun, some parts are really passionating
  • Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham 4/5 - Inspiring and useful
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 5/5 - Inspiring, useful, and actionnable advices
  • How to Solve It by George Polya 5/5 - Very good foundations for problem solving (not only mathematical problems)
  • The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks 4/5
  • Freakonomics 4/5

Programming and Computer related

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Program *****
  • Coders at Work ***
  • Real World Haskell *****
  • The Haskell School of Expression ****
  • Programming Erlang *****
  • Robot Building for Beginners *****
  • Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran ****
  • Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum *****
  • Unix Network Programming by Richard Stevens *****
  • Rootkits by Greg Hoglund ****
  • Exploiting Software ****
  • The Shellcoder's Handbook ****
  • The C Language - the K&R - by Kernighan and Ritchie ****
  • Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love ****
  • The Definitive Guide to Django - the Django Book - by Jakob Kaplan-Moss and Adrian Holovaty free web version ****
  • The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor by David Chisnall ****

Partly

  • Godel, Escher, and Bach
  • Programming Pearls by John Bentley
  • Modern Compiler Implementation in Java by Andrew Appel
  • The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  • Purely Functional Data Structures
  • Linux System Programming by Robert Love
  • Advanced Unix Programming by Richard Stevens
  • Designing Embedded Hardware by John Catsoulis
  • Mac OS X Internals
  • PostgreSQL second edition by Korry Douglas and Susan Douglas
  • Dive into Python
  • eXtreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck

Free books

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