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- 01ancient strategy
A War Like No Other
Victor Davis Hanson
- 02semiconductors
Chip War
Chris Miller
- 03capitalism
Americana
Bhu Srinivasan
- 04ecology + power
Dune
Frank Herbert
- 05computing origin
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Andrew Hodges
- 06mathematics
Euler: The Master of Us All
William Dunham
- 07creative empire
Walt Disney
Neal Gabler
- 08proof chase
Fermat's Last Theorem
Simon Singh
- 09myth systems
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
- 10market design
Who Gets What - and Why
Alvin E. Roth
- 11energy debate
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Alex Epstein
- 12invention
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
- 13cosmic game theory
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
- 14psychohistory
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
- 15cyberspace
Neuromancer
William Gibson
- 16protocol culture
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
- 17ideas fiction
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
- 18computing history
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
- 19digital builders
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
- 20programmer culture
Hackers
Steven Levy
- 21hardware race
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
- 22Xerox PARC
Dealers of Lightning
Michael A. Hiltzik
- 23bits + meaning
The Information
James Gleick
- 24systems
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
- 25machine intuition
Code
Charles Petzold
- 26logistics
The Box
Marc Levinson
- 27financial history
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
- 28planning + computation
Red Plenty
Francis Spufford
- 29science at scale
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
- 30power systems
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
- 31strange loops
Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
- 32Riemann hypothesis
Prime Obsession
John Derbyshire
- 33geopolitics
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy