Category: Books

Recommended reading

Maritime History


The Endurance : Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition – Caroline Alexander
The Bounty: The True Story of the mutiny on the Bounty – Caroline Alexander
The Pirate Wars – Peter Earle
The Civil War at Sea – Craig L. Symonds
War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II – Nathan Miller
The Vikings: A History – Robert Ferguson
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson

Science


Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard P. Feynman
The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe – Roger Penrose
The Nature of Space and Time – Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose
The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
An Introduction To Black Holes, Information and The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe – Leonard Susskind & James Lindesay
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design – Leonard Susskind
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics – Leonard Susskind
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself – Sean Carroll
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime – Sean Carroll
The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality – Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory – Brian Greene
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos – Brian Greene
Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?) – Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
The Origin of the Universe – John D. Barrow
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate of the Universe – Paul Davies
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings – Martin Gardner
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes – Adam Rutherford
Climbing Mount Improbable – Richard Dawkins
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution – Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution – Richard Dawkins
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True – Richard Dawkins
The Origin of Humankind – Richard Leakey
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
Great Essays in Science – Martin Gardner (Editor)

Philip K. Dick


Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Vulcan’s Hammer
Dr. Futurity
Solar Lottery
The World Jones Made
Eye in the Sky
The Man Who Japed
Time Out of Joint
Confessions of a Crap Artist
The Man in the High Castle
We Can Build You – Philip K. Dick
Martian Time-Slip
Dr. Bloodmoney
The Game-Players of Titan
The Simulacra
The Crack in Space
Now Wait for Last Year
Clans of the Alphane Moon
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Zap Gun
The Penultimate Truth
Counter-Clock World
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
Galactic Pot-Healer
A Maze of Death
Our Friends from Frolix 8
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
A Scanner Darkly
Radio Free Albemuth
Valis
The Divine Invasion
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
Lies, Inc.
Deus Irae – Philip K. Dick & Roger Zelazny

J. R. R. Tolkien


The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
The Children of Hurin
Beren and Lúthien
The Fall of Gondolin
The Annotated Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (Editor)
The Art of The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Christina Scull (Editor), & Wayne G. Hammond (Editor)

Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary