# Meta list of book recommendations by people

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/reading-lists
- Date: 2020-02-06
- Tags: books, software, reading

## Book lists

- [Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Favorite Literature Books – Nuggets of Thought](https://www.nuggetsofthought.com/2018/08/22/taleb-literature-books)
- [Bookshelf · Patrick Collison](https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) ; with link to [Umberto Ecco theory of the library](https://books.google.com/books?id=_ntDTaMUys8C&lpg=PT115&ots=E3jhWnG6aB&pg=PT124#v=onepage&q&f=false)
- [Venkatesh Rao](http://www.ribbonfarm.com/now-reading/)
- [Douglas Anderson](http://web.archive.org/web/20240721194810/http://wwwp.cord.edu/faculty/andersod/book_list.htm)
- [recommended books - evolutionary biology](https://sites.google.com/view/unendedquest/evolutionary-biology) by [Mirzoba](https://x.com/mizroba).
- [15 Must Read Books if You Want to Work on Wall Street](https://medium.com/@JohnLeFevre/15-must-read-books-if-you-want-to-work-on-wall-street-92fa9088aad2) by GSElevator guy.
- [Books by Mathematicians on Twitter - `TrueSciPhi`](https://truesciphi.org/matbooks.html)

Medical books for non-medicine people by [Michael Sanger, MD](https://x.com/MichaelSagnerMD/status/1038838232182673416)

* Learn Physiology: John E. Hall PhD, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton Physiology)
* Systems Medicine. Editors: Schmitz, Ulf, Wolkenhauer, Olaf (Eds.) Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.
* Didier Sornette. Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools

## Hackernews

- [Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13967350); Mar 2017.

- [This Simple Note-Taking Method Will Help You Read More (and remember what you’ve read)](https://journal.thriveglobal.com/this-simple-note-taking-method-will-help-you-read-more-and-remember-what-youve-read-c915f79f9ff2)

- [Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21802452)

## Lobsters

- [Dec 4, 2017](https://lobste.rs/s/fkwdhz/what_are_you_reading_this_week)


## Probabilistic Computing

- [Reading List – MIT Probabilistic Computing Project](http://web.archive.org/web/20180209213629/http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/reading-list/) Via Eric Meijer.

## ML and AI

- [Programmer, Teach Yourself Foundations of ML and AI with these 6 Books](https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/Programmers-Teach-Yourself-Foundations-of-ML-AI-With-These-X-Books)
- [AI Papers Community notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E49euqu5lGNfaumnEImZnYeb1tNR40fH3cYA8Zf6Hdw/edit) via \@zaph0id; Apr 2024.


## Business and economics

- [Epsilon Theory Core Curriculum, Vol. 1 - Epsilon Theory](https://www.epsilontheory.com/epsilon-theory-core-curriculum-vol-1/)


## Programming and software development

- [charlax/professional-programming: A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers](https://github.com/charlax/professional-programming?tab=readme-ov-file)
- [Distributed Systems Reading List](https://dancres.github.io/Pages/)
- [Haskell reading list](http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/essential_haskell.html) by Stephen Diehl
- [Readings in conflict-free replicated data types](http://christophermeiklejohn.com/crdt/2014/07/22/readings-in-crdts.html) by Christopher Meiklejohn.
- [squeakland : resources : books : reading list](http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp?utm_content=buffer3c2a7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=x.com&utm_campaign=buffer) recommendations by Alan Kay.
* [Tech Books I Will Read Again](https://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2019/11/tech-books-i-will-read-again.html)
* [Software Folklore ― Andreas Zwinkau](https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html)

Book reviews by people:

* [Jamie Todd Rubin | Writer](http://www.jamierubin.net/). See also the list of all the books he has read (with dates) that he keeps [here](https://github.com/jamietr1/reading-list/blob/master/reading.md).



## Book lists

* Steve losh's [2019 reading journal](https://x.com/stevelosh/status/1216209799055982592). Nice way of keeping track of one's reading. Reminded of Louis L'Amour's book reading list from 1930 (can be seen in his autobiography -- "education of a wandering man").
* [jamies notes](https://jamiesnotes.com/book-list/)
* [Mahesh's recommendations](https://www.btbytes.com/misc/_sh4_book_recco.html); 2020-05-22
* [Reading list](https://miikka.me/reading-list/) by Miikka Koskinen.
* [Keith Waclena](https://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/keith/)'s reading list by the year going back to 1993.
* [JVNixon on twitter's Great Libraries and Reading List](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r_DETUoYx-95alxX2j2WW45p2K_8PQTcscZPJwQIiWE/edit?usp%3Ddrivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076633000&usg=AOvVaw2FQW2f6OQSitbTeHe9cJtW) [local](https://www.btbytes.com/misc/GreatLibrariesReadingLists.html).
* [Library - Vincent Weisser](https://www.vincentweisser.com/library)


## Other

- [Influential books I read in the last 2 years – Pramod Biligiri’s blog – Medium](https://medium.com/pramod-biligiris-blog/influential-books-i-read-in-the-last-2-years-443e9dfb38a7)
- [Epsilon Theory Core Curriculum, Vol. 1 - Epsilon Theory](https://www.epsilontheory.com/epsilon-theory-core-curriculum-vol-1/)
- [Best things and stuff of 2015 | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10807501)

## Blog posts

- [33 concepts to survive the year](https://unherd.com/2024/01/33-concepts-to-survive-the-year/) (2024)


##  Websites

- <https://aman.ai/papers/>
- <https://vinija.ai/nlp/GenerativeAI/>
- <http://vinija.ai/models/LLM/>
- <https://huyenchip.com/2023/10/10/multimodal.html>


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See also: Twitter Book Recommendations, [lists](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/lists), [100-page-book](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/100-page-book)