Bookshelf

Some books I keep coming back to.

Fiction

Clifford Simak

City

Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others Exhalation

Terry Pratchett

Small Gods Jingo Going Postal

Robert Heinlein

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Starship Troopers

K.J. Parker

The Folding Knife Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Iain M. Banks

The Player of Games

Orson Scott Card

Ender’s Game

Lois McMaster Bujold

The Vor Game

John Williams

Stoner

Politics & Sociology

James Burnham

The Machiavellians

Friedrich Hayek

The Road to Serfdom

Dan Wang

Breakneck

Classics

Plutarch

Life of Lycurgus

Tacitus

Agricola

Pliny the Younger

Letters

Richard Saller

Pliny’s Roman Economy Patronage in the Early Empire

Walter Scheidel

State Power in Ancient China and Rome

Taco Terpstra

Trading Communities in the Roman World

Science & Math

Richard Feynman

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Raymond Smullyan

This Book Needs No Title

Hartry Field

Science Without Numbers