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Jan 8, 2016 · 19 min read
Bret Victor Bookshelf Transcribed
I love examining other people bookshelves. Photos of bookshelves are
great too. Bret Victor published a photo of his books, taken by May-Li
Khoe. One of the best i’ve ever seen. Who would doubt.
So i decided to dive in and transcribe that photo to the list of books.

Almost 600 titles. From comics to history of math, from information
design to history of numbers and notations, from physics to biology.
Ah!
Be careful, this list could blow your 2016 reading list.
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Comics
• Scott McCloud. Understanding comics
• Scott McCloud. Reinventing comics
• Scott McCloud. Making comics: storytelling secrets of comics,

manga and graphic novels
• Will Eisner. Graphic storytelling and visual narrative
• Will Eisner. Expressive anatomy for comics and narrative
• Will Eisner. Comics & Sequential Art
• Mark Chiarello. The DC Comics Guide to coloring and lettering

comics
• Stephen Weiner. Faster than a speeding bullet: the rise of the

graphic novel
• Stan Lee, John Buscema. How to draw comics the Marvel way
• Neil Cohn. The Visual Language of comics
• David Chelsea. Perspective! For comic book artists
• David M. Ball. The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of

Thinking
• Daniel Raeburn. Chris Ware (Monographics series)
• McDonnel, O’Connel. Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George

Herriman
Animation
• Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston. The illusion of life. Disney
Animation.
• Tony White. How to make animated lms
• Daniel Arijon. Grammar of lm language
• Ami Chopine. 3D Art Essentials: The Fundamentals of 3D

Modeling, Texturing, and Animation
• Andy Beane. 3D Animation Essentials
Game Design
• Chris Crawford. On Game Design
• Montfort, Bogost. Racing the beam: The Atari Video Computer

System
• Ian Bogost. How to do things with video games
• Johan Huizinga. Homo ludens
• Ralph Koster. A theory of Fun for game design
Type
• Robin Williams. The Non-Designer’s Type Book
• Abdelkebir Khatibi, Mohammed Sijelmassi. The Splendor of

Islamic Calligraphy
• Robert Bringhurst. The Elements of typographical style
• Simon Loxley. The secret history of letters
• Arthur Baker. Calligraphy by Arthur Baker
No Category
• Ted Nelson. Computer Lib/Dream Machines
• The Last Whole Earth Catalog
• Whole Earth Epilog
• The Next Whole Earth Catalog
• Howard Rheingold. The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog
• Whole Earth Software Catalog 1.0
• What To Do After You Hit Return
• Robert Albrecht. My Computer Likes Me When I Speak in Basic
Media
• Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media
• Marie-Laure Ryan. Narrative across media
• Harold Innis. The Bias of Communication
• Elizabeth Einstein. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

(Volumes 1 and 2 in One)
• David Olson. Media and Symbols. The Forms of Expression.

Communication and Education
• Jack Goody. The Domestication of the Savage Mind
• Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy
The New Medium
• Janet H. Murray. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative
in Cyberspace
• Brenda Laurel. Computers as theatre. Second edition
• Ted Nelson. Computer Lib / Dream machines
• Ted Nelson. Literary Machines 93.1
• David Gelernter. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the

Universe in a Shoebox…How It Will Happen and What It Will
Mean
• (some little gray book)
• Richard Bolt. The Human Interface
• J.C.R. Licklider. Libraries of the Future
• Bloch & Hesse. Future Libraries
• Ian Bogost. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of

Videogames
• Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra & Simulation
• James M. Nyce. From Memex to Hypertext
• Myron K. Krueger. Arti cial Reality II
• Lev Manovich. Software Takes Command
• Douglas C. Engelbart. Augmenting Human Intellect:A Conceptual

Framework
History of math
• John Stillwell. Mathematics and Its History
• Herbert Meschkowski. Ways of Thought of Great Mathematicians
• Dirk J. Struik. A Concise History of Mathematics
• William Dunham. Journey through genius
• Martzlo . A history of chinese mathematics
• Siobhan Roberts. King of in nite space. Donald Coxeter, the Man

Who Saved Geometry
• James Gleick. Chaos
• David Salsburg. The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics

Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
• Jeremy Gray. Henri Poincare
• Ferdinand Verhulst. Henri Poincare
• Hawkins. Emergence of the theory of lie groups: An essay in the

history of mathematics 1869 - 1926
• Mario Livio. The equation that couldn’t be solved
• B.L. Van Der Waerden. Science Awakening I: Egyptian, Babylonian

and Greek Mathematics
• Morris Kline. Mathematics. The loss of certanity.
History of Numbers & Notation
• Georges Ifrah. The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory
to the Invention of the Computer
• Charles Seife. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
• Paul J. Nahin. An Imaginary Tale: The Story of [the Square Root of

Minus One]
• Julian Havil. Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constang
• Karl Menninger. Number Words and Number Symbols
• Florian Cajori. A History of Mathematical Notations (Dover Books

on Mathematics)
• Joseph Mazur. Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of

Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
• Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus. Numbers (Graduate Texts in

Mathematics)
• Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Before Writing: Volume 1: From

Counting to Cuneiform
• Denise Schmandt-Besserat. Before Writing, Vol. II: A Catalog of

Near Eastern Tokens
• Denise Schmandt-Besserat. The History of Counting
History of science
• Daniel J. Boorstin. The Discoverers
• Robert B. Silvers. Hidden Histories of Science
• E.A. Burtt. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
• Loren Eiseley. The Man Who Saw Through Time
• Abbot Payson Usher. A History of Mechanical Inventions
• Edward Dolnick. The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the

Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
• Dava Sobel. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who

Solved the Greatest Scienti c Problem of His Time
• Norman Macrae. John von Neumann
• Richard Reeves. A Force of Nature
• Margaret Cheney. Tesla: Man Out of Time
• Frank Ryan. The Mystery of Metamorphosis: Unmasking the

Mystery of How Life Transforms
• Bill Bryson. Short History of Nearly Everything
• James Gleick. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
• Matt Ridley. Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
• Hans Christian Von Baeyer. Warmth Disperses and Time Passes
• Ottaviani and Purvis. Suspended in Language: Niels Bohrs Life,

Discoveries, And The Century He Shaped
• Evelyn Fox Keller. A Feeling for the Organism
• Paul Johnson. The Birth of the Modern
• William H. Cropper. Great Physicists: The Life and Times of

Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
• Leonardo da Vinci. Codex Leicester
• Adam Thomson. Time And Timekeepers
• Carlo M. Cipolla. Clocks and Culture
• Jenny Uglow. The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity

Changed the World
• Richard Rhodes. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• Tom Standage. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of

the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers
• Siobhan Roberts. Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of

Wind Engineering
• Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon. Faraday, Maxwell, and the

Electromagnetic Field
• Walter Isaacson. Einstein
• Bell Laboratories. Innovation in telecommunications 1925–1977
• Bruce J. Hunt. The Maxwellians
• Paul J. Nahin. Oliver Heaviside
• Paolo Galluzzi. Renaissance Engineers from Brunelleschi to

Leonardo da Vinci
• Nick Taylor. Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the
Thirty-Year Patent War
• Frank Greenaway. John Dalton and the Atom
• Thomas S. Kuhn. The Copernican Revolution
Interface design
• Alan Cooper. About face 2.0. The essentials of interaction design
• Chris Crawford. The Art of Interactive Design
• Bill Moggridge. Designing Interactions
• Brenda Laurel. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
• Raskin. The Human Interface
Industrial design
• Wesley Woodson. Human engineering guide for equipment
designers.
• Henry Dreyfuss. Designing for people
• Michael Braungart and William McDonough. Cradle to Cradle:

Remaking the Way We Make Things
• Donald A. Norman. The Design of Everyday Things
• Henry Petroski. Small Things Considered
Visual Design
• Linda Holtzschue. Understanding color
• Josef Albers. Interaction of Color. 50th Anniversary Edition
• David Pye. The Nature and Art of Workmanship
• Krome Barratt. Logic and Design, Revised: In Art, Science, And

Mathematics
• Philip B. Meggs. A History of Graphic Design
• William Lidwell. Universal Principles of Design, Revised and

Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, In uence Perception,
Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach
through Design
• Robin Williams. The Non-Designer’s Design Book
• David Pye. The Nature & Aesthetics of Design
Visual Thinking
• Betty Edwards. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• Rudolf Arnheim. Visual Thinking
• Rudolf Arnheim. Art and Visual Perception. A Psychology of the

creative eye
• Jay Hambridge. The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry
• James J. Gibson. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception
• Wolfgang Metzger. Laws of Seeing
• William Mills Ivins. On the Rationalization of Sight
• Dan Roam. The Back of the Napkin
• Nick Sousanis. Un attening
Learning
• John Holt. How Children Fail
• John Holt. How Children Learn
• John Holt. Learning All The Time
• Neil Postman. The End of Education
• Jo Boaler. What’s Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and

Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success
• Jack Herndon. How to Survive in Your Native Land
• Seymour Papert. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful

Ideas
• Seymour Papert. The Children’s Machine: Rethinking School In

The Age Of The Computer
• Seymour Papert. The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital

Generation Gap
• Andrea diSessa. Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and

Literacy
• Kieran Egan. Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our

Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and
Jean Piaget
• Kieran Egan. The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our
Understanding
• Lev S. Vygotsky. Thought and Language
• Lev S. Vygotsky. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher

Psychological Processes
• Jerome Bruner. Toward a Theory of Instruction
• Jerome Bruner. On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand, Second

Edition
• Jerome Bruner. Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
• Philip W. Jackson. Life In Classrooms
• James Paul Gee. What Videogames Have to Teach Us About

Learning and Literacy
• John Taylor Gatto. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of

Compulsory Schooling
• John Taylor Gatto. A Di erent Kind of Teacher
• John Taylor Gatto. Weapons of Mass Instruction: A

Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory
Schooling
• John Taylor Gatto. The Underground History of American

Education: A School Teacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the
Problem of Modern Schooling
Embodied Thinking
• Lako , Nunez. Where Mathematics Come From: How The
Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
• Edwin Hutchins. Cognition in the Wild
• Frank R. Wilson. The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain,
Language, and Human Culture
• Roy A. Meals. The Hand Owner’s Manual
• Douglas R. Hofstadter. I am a Strange Loop
• Sherry Turkle. Evocative Objects: Things We Think With
• W. Timothy Gallwey. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide

to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
• Keith Johnstone. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
• Antonio R. Damasio. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the

Human Brain
• Andy Clark. Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together
Again
• Paul Dourish. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied

Interaction
• Sherry Turkle. Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design,

Technology, Business, Life)
• Matthew B. Crawford. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the

Value of Work
1st Person Historical Math
• Euclid. Elements
• Descartes. The Geometry
• Girolamo Cardano. The Rules of Algebra
• Alfred North Whitehead. An Introduction to Mathematics
• Joseph Louis Lagrange. Lectures on Elementary Mathematics
• Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic
• Stephen Cole Kleene. Mathematical Logic
• G.H. Hardy. A Mathematician’s Apology
• James R. Newman. The World of Mathematics (4 volumes)
Math (misc)
• Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov, Lavrentev. Mathematics: Its Content,
Methods and Meaning
• Felix Klein. Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced

Standpoint: Geometry
• Felix Klein. Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced

Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis
• Steven H. Strogatz. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With

Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
• Tristan Needham. Visual Complex Analysis
• Elias Wegert. Visual Complex Functions: An Introduction with

Phase Portraits
• John H. Conway. On Numbers and Games
• Elwyn R. Berlekamp. Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays
• Donald Knuth. Surreal Numbers
• Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
• H.M. Schey. Div Grad Curl and All That
• Paul Lockhart. Measurement
• Martin Erickson. Pearls of Discrete Mathematics
• Gian-Carlo Rota. Indiscrete Thoughts
• Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota. Discrete Thoughts: Essays on

Mathematics, Science and Philosophy
• Z. A. Melzak. Bypasses: A Simple Approach to Complexity
1st Person Historical Science
• Galileo. Discourse on Bodies in Water
• Galileo. Operations on the Geometric and Military Compass
• Galileo. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:

Ptolemaic and Copernican
• Isaac Newton. The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural

Philosophy
• Michael Faraday. Experimental Researches in Electricity
• John Tyndall. Faraday as a Discoverer
• James Clerk Maxwell. A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic

Field
• James Clerk Maxwell. The Scienti c Papers of James Maxwell. Vol

1
• Sir Oliver Lodge. Modern Views of Electricity
• Christiaan Huygens. Treatise on Light
• The Collected Works of Willard Gibbs
• Babbadge. Calculating Engines
• Henri Poincare. The Value of Science
• Millikan. The Electron
• Lorentz. The Theory of Electrons
• Michael Faraday. The Chemical History of a Candle
• Werner Heisenberg. Physics and Beyond
• Albert Einstein. Relativity
• Albert Einstein. The Evolution of Physics
• Richard D. Feynman. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
• Richard D. Feynamn. The Character of Physical Law
• Richard D. Feynamn. Feynman Lectures on Computation
• Nikola Tesla. My Inventions and Other Writings
• Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species
• James D. Watson. The Double Helix
• J. Craig Venter. A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
• Erwin Schrodinger. What is Life?
• Medawar. The Art of the Soluble
• Claude Elwood Shannon. Collected Papers
• William Shockley. Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors
Information Design
• Edward R. Tufte. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Edward R. Tufte. Envisioning Information
• Edward R. Tufte. Visual Explanations
• Edward R. Tufte. Beautiful Evidence
• Howard Wainer. Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other

Visual Adventures
• Stephen Few. Show Me the Numbers. Designing Tables and

Graphs to Enlighten
• Stephen Few. Information Dashboard Design. Displaying data for

at-a-glance monitoring
• William Playfair. The Commercial and Political Atlas and

Statistical Breviary
• William S. Cleveland. Visualizing Data
• Jacques Bertin. Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps
• Manuel Lima. Visual Complexity. Mapping Patterns of Information
• Manuel Lima. The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of

Knowledge
• Robert L. Harris. Information Graphics. A Comprehensive

Illustrated Reference
• Stephen M. Kosslyn. Graph Design for the Eye and Mind
• Leland Wilkinson. The Grammar of Graphics
• Daniel Rosenberg. Cartographies of Time: A History of the

Timeline
• Simon Gar eld. On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of

the Way the World Looks
• John W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis
• Eduard Imhof. Cartographic Relief Presentation
• The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Time Series: 1949 - 1964
• The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Philosophy and Principles

of Data Analysis: 1965 - 1986
• The Collected Works of John W. Tukey. Graphics: 1965 - 1985
The Mind
• Gardner. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• Merlin Donald. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the

Evolution of Culture and Cognition
• Douglas R. Hofstadter. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden

Braid
• Roger Penrose. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
• Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of

the Bicameral Mind
• Mihay Csikszentmihalyi. Flow
• Iain McGilchrist. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain
and the Making of the Western World
• Christof Koch. The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological

Approach
• Eric R. Kandel. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New

Science of Mind
• Marvin Minsky. The Society of Mind
• Je Hawkins. On Intelligence
• Steven Johnson. Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the

Neuroscience of Everyday Life
• Susan Blackmore. The Meme Machine
Concepts and Metaphors
• Terry Winograd. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New
Foundation for Design
• Douglas Hofstadter. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies:

Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought
• Douglas Hofstadter. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel

and Fire of Thinking
• George Lako . Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
• Terrence W. Deacon. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of

Language and the Brain
• George Lako . Metaphors We Live By
• Gilles Fauconnier. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending And

The Mind’s Hidden Complexities
• Michael Tomasello. Origins of Human Communication (Jean

Nicod Lectures)
Geometric Algebra
• Leo Dorst. Geometric Algebra for Computer Science: An Object-
Oriented Approach to Geometry (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in
Computer Graphics)
• Doran and Lasenby. Geometric Algebra for Physicists
• Alan Macdonald. Linear and Geometric Algebra
• Alan Macdonald. Vector and Geometric Calculus
• David Hestenes and Garret Sobczyk. Cli ord Algebra to Geometric

Calculus: A Uni ed Language for Mathematics and Physics
Groups and Symmetry
• Nathan Carter. Visual Group Theory
• John H. Conway. The Symmetries of Things
• Israel Grossman and Wilhelm Magnus. Groups and Their Graphs

Paperback
• H. S. M. Coxeter. Regular Polytopes
• Hermann Weyl. Symmetry
• Roy McWeeny. Symmetry: An Introduction to Group Theory and

Its Applications
Geometry
• Oliver Byrne. The rst six books of the Elements of Euclid
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• Abelson and diSessa. Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a

Medium for Exploring Mathematics
• Matila Ghyka. The Geometry of Art and Life
• Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The Fractal Geometry of Nature
• Tom Apostol. New Horizons in Geometry
Geometric Constructions
• Fairman and Cutshall. Graphic Statics
• Engineering Descriptive Geometry
• W. Abbott. Practical Geometry and Engineering Graphics: A

Textbook for Engineering Students
• P.J. Booker. History of Engineering Drawing
• Dr. H. A. Evesham. The History and Development of Nomography
• Laurence Hewes. The design of diagrams for engineering formulas

and the theory of nomography
History of Computers
• Jon Gertner. The Idea Factory
• Bo Lojek. History of Semiconductor Engineering
• Braun & McDonald. Revolution in Miniature: The History and

Impact of Semiconductor Electronics
• Martin Davis. Engines of Logic
• George Gilder. Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics

and Technology
• Paul N. Edwards. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of

Discourse in Cold War America
• Fred Turner. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand,

the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
• T.R. Reid. The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip
and Launched a Revolution
• Michael Hiltzik. Dealers of Lightning
• M. Mitchell Waldrop. The Dream Machine
• John Marko . What The Dormouse said: How the Sixties

Counterculture shaped the personal Computer Industry
• Katie Hafner. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The

Internet
• James Gleick. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
• Steven Levy. Hackers
• Andy Hertzfeld. Revolution in the Valley
• Steven Levy. Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the
Computer that Changed Everything
• George Dyson. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital

Universe
• David E Lundstorm. A Few Good Men from UNIVAC
• Jane Smiley. The Man Who Invented the Computer
• Ted Nelson. Possiplex
• Ted Nelson. Geeks Bearing Gifts
• Tracy Kidder. The Soul of New Machine
• Howard Rheingold. Tools for Thought
• Thierry Bardini. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution,

and the Origins of Personal Computing
• Metropolis, Howlett, Rota. The History of Computing in Twentieth

Century
• Adele Goldberg. The History of Personal Workstations
• Simson Gar nkel. The Unix-Haters Handbook
• Richard L. Wexelblat. History of Programming Languages
• Belinda Barnet. Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

(Anthem Scholarship in the Digital Age)
• Thomas J. Bergin. History of Programming Languages
Arcitechture
• Franics D. K. Ching. Introduction to Architecture
• Francis D. K. Ching. A Visual Dictionary of Architecture
• Stewart Brand. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re

Built
• Edward Denison, Ian Stewart. How to Read Bridges
• Christopher Alexander. Notes on the Synthesis of Form
• Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King, Angel.

A Pattern Language
• Christopher Alexander. The Timeless Way of Building
Writing
• Bill Bryson. Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way
• Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill. Language Myths
• Sol Stein. Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most

Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques
and Strategies
• Peter Turchi. Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
• Ambroce Bierce. The Devil’s Dictionary
• Mark Doty. The Art of Description: World into Word
• Timothy Steele. All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An

Explanation of Meter and Versi cation
• Theodore M. Bernstein. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to

English Usage
• Roget’s International Thesaurus
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
Creativity and Ideas
• Arthur Koestler. The Act of Creation
• Howard E. Gardner and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Good Work
• Julia Cameron. The Artist’s Way
• Steven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come From
• Lewis Hyde. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern
World
• Scott Belsky. Making Ideas Happen
• Lewis Hyde. Common as Air
Scienti c Creativity
• George Polya. How to Solve It
• George Polya. Induction and Analogy in Mathematics
• George Polya. Patterns of Plausible Inference
• George Polya. Mathematical Discovery: On Understanding,

Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving
• Genrich Altshuller. And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared
• Richard W. Hamming. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:

Learning to Learn
• Nancy J. Nersessian. Creating Scienti c Concepts
• Landau, Clegg, Engelbart. The Engelbart Hypothesis
• Walter G. Vincenti. What Engineers Know and How They Know it
Philosophy of Science
• Sherry Turkle. Falling for Science
• Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Scienti c Revolutions
• Thomas Kuhn. The Road Since Structure
• Alan F. Chalmers. What is the Thing Called Science?
• Patrick W. Langley. Scienti c Discovery: Computational

Explorations of the Creative Processes
• Paul Feyerabend. Against Method
• Jacob Bronowski. The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
• John M. Ziman. Reliable Knowledge
• Herbert Simon. The Sciences of the Arti cial
• Bruno Latour. Science in Action
• Latour, Woolgar. Laboratory Life
Probability and AI
• Harold Je reys. Theory of Probability
• E.T. Jaynes. Probability Theory
• Devinderjit Sivia. Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial
• Russell, Norvig. Arti cial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
• Koller, Friedman. Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Minsky & Papert. Perceptrons: Expanded Edition
• Tom M. Mitchell. Machine Learning
• Judea Pearl. Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer

Problem Solving
Systems & Modeling
• John Gall. The Systems Bible
• Weinberg & Weinberg. General Principles of Systems Design
• Gerald M. Weinberg. An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
• B. P. Zeigler, H. Praehofer, T. G. Kim. Theory of Modelling and

Simulation
• Robert H. Cannon Jr. Dynamic of Physical Systems
• T.T. Woodson. Introduction to Engineering Design
• Neil Gershenfeld. The Nature of Mathematical Modeling
• John L. Casti. Alternate Realities: Mathematical Models of Nature

and Man
• William T. Powers. Living Control Systems: The Fact of Control
• Duncan J. Watts. Six Degrees
• Steven Johnson. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains,

Cities, and Software
• Norbert Weiner. Cybernetics
• Norbert Wiener. The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics

and Society
• Norbert Weiner. Selected Papers of Norbert Wiener
Programming Languages
• Polivka, Panin. APL: The Language and its Usage
• Bjarne Stroustrup. The Design and Evolution of C++
• Ellis, Stroustrup. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual
• Chris Houser. The Joy of Clojure
• Bertrand Meyer. Ei el: The Language
• Joe Armstrong. Programming Erlang
• W. P. Salman, O. Tisserand & B. Toulout. Forth
• Leo Brodie. Thinking Forth
• S. C. Plumb. Introduction to Fortran
• Felleisen, Friedman. The Little Schemer
• Felleisen, Friedman. The Seasoned Schemer
• Friedman, Byrd. The Reasoned Schemer
• Felleisen, Friedman. The Little MLer
• Roberto Ierusalimschy. Programming in Lua
• William Wadge. Lucid, the Data ow Programming Language
• Paul Chiusano. Functional Programming in Scala
• William Clocksin. Clause and E ect: Prolog Programming for the

Working Programmer
• Ivan Sutherland. Sketchpad
• Adele Goldberg. Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming

Environment
• Glen Krasner. Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice
• Goldberg, Robson. Smalltalk-80: The Language
• Donald Knuth. The TeXbook
• Donald Knuth. The Metafont Book
• Donald Knuth. TeX: The Program
• Donald Knuth. Metafont: The Program
• Scott E. Kim. Viewpoint: Toward a Computer for Visual Thinkers
• Fred Lakin. Visual Grammars for Visual Languages
Music Theory
• W. A. Mathieu. Harmonic Experience
• Helmholtz. On the Sensations of Tone
• Stuart Isaco . Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground

for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
• Ross W. Du n. How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and

Why You Should Care)
• Ann Hutchinson Guest. Choreo-Graphics
• Laurence Louppe. Traces of Dance
Persuasion
• Chip Heath, Dan Heath. Made to Stick
• Stuart Diamond. Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to

Succeed in Work and Life
• Chip Heath, Dan Heath. Switch
• Paco Underhill. Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping
• Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. In uence
Management
• Clayton M. Christensen. The Innovator’s Dilemma
• Peter F. Drucker. The Essential Drucker
• DeMarco, Lister. Peopleware
• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Design of Design
• Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month
Technology + Culture
• Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants
• Kevin Kelly. Out of Control
• W. Brian Arthur. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It

Evolves
• Neil Postman. Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Neil Postman. Technopoly
• Henry Jenkins. Convergence Culture
• Clay Shirky. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing

without Organizations
• David Weinberger. Small Pieces Loosely Joined

Lawrence Lessig. Remix
Lawrence Lessig. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig. The Future of Ideas
Richard W. Hamming. Computers and Society
Hervé Juvin. The Coming of the Body
Mumford. The Condition of Man
Mumford. Technics and Civilization
Jacob Bronowski. The Identity of Man
Steven A. Johnson. Interface Culture: How New Technology
Transforms the Way We Create & Communicate
Joseph Weizenbaum. Computer Power and Human Reason
Dertouzos, Moses. The Computer Age
Jacob Bronowski. Science and Human Values
Ian Bogost. The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple
Theodore Roszak. From Satori to Silicon Valley
Theodore Roszak. The Cult of Information
Stewart Brand. The Clock of the Long Now
Eric Drexler. Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of
Nanotechnology
Richard M. Stallman. Free Software, Free Society
Nick Bostrom. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Vannevar Bush. Science Is Not Enough
R. Buckminster Fuller. I Seem To Be a Verb
R. Buckminster Fuller. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller. Utopia or Oblivion
R. Buckminster Fuller. Synergetics
Signal Processing
• Oppenheim, Willsky, Nawab. Signals & Systems
• Oppenheim, Schafer. Discrete-Time Signal Processing
• P.P. Vaidyanathan. Multirate Systems and Filter Banks
Information Theory
• Thomas M. Cover. Elements of Information Theory
• Simon Haykin. An Introduction to Analog and Digital

Communications
• Khalid Sayood. Introduction to Data Compression
• Christian S. Calude. Information and Randomness
• Jeremy Campbell. Grammatical Man
Graphics
• Alan Watt. 3D Computer Graphics
• Dunn, Parberry. 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game

Development
• Daniel Shi man. The Nature of Code
Numerical Analysis
• Richard W. Hamming. Introduction to Applied Numerical Analysis
• Richard W. Hamming. Numerical Methods for Scientists and

Engineers
• Boyd and Vandenberghe. Convex Optimization
Programming
• Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, Krishnamurthi. How to Design Programs
• Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides. Design Patterns
• Kiczales, des Rivières, Bobrow. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
• Stepanov, McJones. Elements of Programming
• Van Roy, Haridi. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer

Programming
• Abelson, Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer

Programs
• Benjamin C. Pierce. Types and Programming Languages
• Friedman, Wand. Essentials of Programming Languages
• Steven Muchnick. Advanced Compiler Design & Implementation
• Cormen, Leiseron, Rivest, Stein. Introduction to Algorithms
• Henry S. Warren. Hacker’s Delight
• Jon Bentley. Programming Pearls
• Peter Seibel. Coders at Work
• Marvin L. Minsky. Computation: Finite and In nite Machines
• Chris Okasaki. Purely Functional Data Structures
• Robin Milner. The Space and Motion of Communicating Agents
• Cox. Superdistribution
• Bonnie A. Nardi. A Small Matter of Programming
• Benjamine C. Pierce. Basic Category Theory for Computer

Scientists
Eco
• Richard Register. Ecocities
• Paul Hawken. The Ecology of Commerce
• Alan Weisman. The World Without Us
• Stewart Brand. Whole Earth Discipline
• David JC MacKay. Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air
• George Marshall. Don’t Even Think About It
• Al Gore. Our Choice
Culture
• Naomi Klein. No Logo
• Ivan Illich. Deschooling Society
• Ivan Illich. Disabling Professions
• Ivan Illich. Tools for Conviviality
• Paolo Soleri. The Omega Seed
• John Perkins. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Juliet B. Schor. Born to Buy
• Desmond Morris. The Naked Ape
• Claude Levi-Strauss. The Savage Mind
• Neil Postman. The Disappearance of Childhood
• Edward O. Wilson. The Meaning of Human Existence
• James C. Scott. Seeing Like a State
• Bruno Latour. Reassembling the Social
• Joseph Campbell. The Power of Myth
Cultural History
• Jared Diamond. Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Jared Diamond. Collapse
• James W. Loewen. Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Neustadt, May. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for

Decision-Makers
• Ian Mortimer. Centuries of Change: Which Century Saw the Most

Change and Why It Matters to Us
Circuit Design
• Ramo, Whinnery, Van Duzer. Fields and Waves in Communication
Electronics
• Johns, Martin. Analog Integrated Circuit Design
• Gray, Meyer. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
• Jim Williams. Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science, and

Personalities
• Jan M. Rabaey. Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective
• Devadas, Ghosh, Keutzer. Logic Synthesis
• Carver Mead, Lynn Conway. Introduction to VLSI Systems
• Carver Mead. Analog VLSI and Neural Systems
Architecture & OSes
• Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative
Approach
• Peter M. Kogge. The Architecture of Symbolic Computers
• Maurice J. Bach. The Design of the Unix Operating System
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Modern Operating Systems
• Henry M. Levy. Capability-Based Computer Systems
• Giorgio C. Buttazzo. Hard Real-Time Computing Systems:

Predictable Scheduling Algorithms and Applications
Physics
• Richard Feynman. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume I
• Richard Feynman. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume II
• Richard Feynman. The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volume III
• Richard Feynman. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained

by its Most Brilliant Teacher
• David Hestenes. New Foundation for Classical Mechanics
• Sussman and Wisdom. Structure and Interpretation of Classical

Mechanics
• Richard D. Mattuck. A Guide of Feynman Diagrams in the Many-

Body Problem
• Stephen Hawking. The Universe in a Nutshell
• Stephen Hawking. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time / The

Universe in a Nutshell
• Lewiss Carroll Epstein. Relativity Visualized
• Carver A. Mead. Collective Electrodynamics
• Murray Gell-Mann. The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the

Simple and the Complex
• Paul J. Nahin. The Science of Radio: With MATLAB and

Electronics Workbench Demonstrations
• Steven Weinberg. Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search

for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
• Freeman J. Dyson. The Sun, The Genome, & The Internet
• Ilya Prigogine. From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in

the Physical Sciences
Biology
• D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. On Growth and Form: The
Complete Revised Edition
• Matt Ridley. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human
Nature
• Matt Ridley. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23

Chapters
• Richard Dawkins. The Sel sh Gene
• Marcus Wohlsen. Biopunk: Solving Biotech’s Biggest Problems in

Kitchens and Garages
• Robert M. Sapolsky. Monkeyluv: And other essays on our lives as

animals
• James N. Gardner. Biocosm: The New Scienti c Theory of

Evolution
• Donald Brown. Human Universals
• Schultz, Cannon, Cannon. The Stu of Life
• Richard Dawkins. The Blind Watchmaker

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11/09/2018 Bret Victor Bookshelf Transcribed – Max Cherepitsa – Medium

So i decided to dive in and transcribe that photo to the list of books.

Be careful, this list could blow your 2016 reading list.

• Scott McCloud. Reinventing comics

• Scott McCloud. Making comics: storytelling secrets of comics,

• Will Eisner. Graphic storytelling and visual narrative

• Will Eisner. Expressive anatomy for comics and narrative

• Will Eisner. Comics & Sequential Art

• Mark Chiarello. The DC Comics Guide to coloring and lettering

• Stephen Weiner. Faster than a speeding bullet: the rise of the

• Neil Cohn. The Visual Language of comics

• David Chelsea. Perspective! For comic book artists

• David M. Ball. The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of

• Daniel Raeburn. Chris Ware (Monographics series)

• McDonnel, O’Connel. Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George

• Tony White. How to make animated lms

• Daniel Arijon. Grammar of lm language

• Ami Chopine. 3D Art Essentials: The Fundamentals of 3D

• Andy Beane. 3D Animation Essentials

• Montfort, Bogost. Racing the beam: The Atari Video Computer

• Ian Bogost. How to do things with video games

• Johan Huizinga. Homo ludens

• Ralph Koster. A theory of Fun for game design

• Abdelkebir Khatibi, Mohammed Sijelmassi. The Splendor of

• Robert Bringhurst. The Elements of typographical style

• Simon Loxley. The secret history of letters

• Arthur Baker. Calligraphy by Arthur Baker

• The Last Whole Earth Catalog

• Whole Earth Epilog

• The Next Whole Earth Catalog

• Howard Rheingold. The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog

• Whole Earth Software Catalog 1.0

• What To Do After You Hit Return

• Robert Albrecht. My Computer Likes Me When I Speak in Basic

• Marie-Laure Ryan. Narrative across media

• Harold Innis. The Bias of Communication

• Elizabeth Einstein. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

• David Olson. Media and Symbols. The Forms of Expression.

• Jack Goody. The Domestication of the Savage Mind

• Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy

• Brenda Laurel. Computers as theatre. Second edition

• Ted Nelson. Computer Lib / Dream machines

• Ted Nelson. Literary Machines 93.1

• David Gelernter. Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the

• (some little gray book)

• Richard Bolt. The Human Interface

• J.C.R. Licklider. Libraries of the Future

• Bloch & Hesse. Future Libraries

• Ian Bogost. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of

• Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra & Simulation

• James M. Nyce. From Memex to Hypertext

• Myron K. Krueger. Arti cial Reality II

• Lev Manovich. Software Takes Command

• Douglas C. Engelbart. Augmenting Human Intellect:A Conceptual

• Herbert Meschkowski. Ways of Thought of Great Mathematicians

• Dirk J. Struik. A Concise History of Mathematics

• William Dunham. Journey through genius

• Martzlo . A history of chinese mathematics

• Siobhan Roberts. King of in nite space. Donald Coxeter, the Man

• James Gleick. Chaos

• David Salsburg. The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics

• Jeremy Gray. Henri Poincare

• Ferdinand Verhulst. Henri Poincare