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  1. 01

    A War Like No Other

    Victor Davis Hanson

    ancient strategy
  2. 02

    Chip War

    Chris Miller

    semiconductors
  3. 03

    Americana

    Bhu Srinivasan

    capitalism
  4. 04

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    ecology + power
  5. 05

    Alan Turing: The Enigma

    Andrew Hodges

    computing origin
  6. 06

    Euler: The Master of Us All

    William Dunham

    mathematics
  7. 07

    Walt Disney

    Neal Gabler

    creative empire
  8. 08

    Fermat's Last Theorem

    Simon Singh

    proof chase
  9. 09

    The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    myth systems
  10. 10

    Who Gets What - and Why

    Alvin E. Roth

    market design
  11. 11

    The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

    Alex Epstein

    energy debate
  12. 12

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Walter Isaacson

    invention
  13. 13

    The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu

    cosmic game theory
  14. 14

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    psychohistory
  15. 15

    Neuromancer

    William Gibson

    cyberspace
  16. 16

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    protocol culture
  17. 17

    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang

    ideas fiction
  18. 18

    The Dream Machine

    M. Mitchell Waldrop

    computing history
  19. 19

    The Innovators

    Walter Isaacson

    digital builders
  20. 20

    Hackers

    Steven Levy

    programmer culture
  21. 21

    The Soul of a New Machine

    Tracy Kidder

    hardware race
  22. 22

    Dealers of Lightning

    Michael A. Hiltzik

    Xerox PARC
  23. 23

    The Information

    James Gleick

    bits + meaning
  24. 24

    Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

    systems
  25. 25

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    machine intuition
  26. 26

    The Box

    Marc Levinson

    logistics
  27. 27

    The Ascent of Money

    Niall Ferguson

    financial history
  28. 28

    Red Plenty

    Francis Spufford

    planning + computation
  29. 29

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    Richard Rhodes

    science at scale
  30. 30

    Energy and Civilization

    Vaclav Smil

    power systems
  31. 31

    Godel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    strange loops
  32. 32

    Prime Obsession

    John Derbyshire

    Riemann hypothesis
  33. 33

    The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

    Paul Kennedy

    geopolitics