Works that changed me

# Book Year read My age
1. Tolkien, J.R.R. (1937). The Hobbit. 1995 10
2. Thorne, K.S. (1995). Black Holes & Time Warps. 1996 11
3. Kaku, M. (1994). Hyperspace. 1997 12
4. Huxley, A. (1932). Brave New World. 2000 15
5. Scruton, R. (1996). Modern Philosophy. 2000 15
6. Shakespeare, W. (1597). Romeo and Juliet. 2001 16
7. Irving, J. (1989). A Prayer for Own Meany. 2001 16
8. Shakespeare, W. (1600). A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 2001 16
9. Descartes, R. (1641). Meditations on First Philosophy. 2001 16
10. Tillich, P. (1952). The Courage to Be. 2001 16
11. Hume, D. (1748). An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 2002 17
12. Sartre, J.P. (1938). Nausea. 2002 17
13. Feynman, R.P. (1963). The Feynman Lectures on Physics. 2003 18
14. Feynman, R.P. (1985). QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. 2003 18
15. DeWitt, R. (2003). Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science . 2004 19
16. Griffiths, D. (1981). Introduction to Electrodynamics. 2005 20
17. Hofstadter, D. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach. 2005 20
18. Veltman, M.J.G. (2003). Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics. 2005 20
19. Needham, T. (1999). Visual Complex Analysis. 2006 21
20. Foer, J.S. (2005). Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. 2006 21
21. Weinberg, S. (1992). Dreams of a Final Theory. 2006 21
22. Carroll, S. (2003). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. 2007 22
23. Halzen, F. & Martin, A.D. (1984). Quarks and Leptons. 2007 22
24. Peskin, M. & Schroeder, D. (1995). An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory. 2007 22
25. Goldstein, R. (2005) Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel. 2007 22
26. Martin, R.C. (2008). Clean Code. 2008 23
27. Russell, B. (1912). The Problems of Philosophy. 2008 23?
28. Cowan, G. (1998). Statistical Data Analysis. 2008 23
29. Diamond, J. (1997). Guns, Germs, and Steel. 2009 24?
30. Zinn, H. (1980). A People’s History of the United States. 2009 24?
31. Dennett, D.C. (2003). Freedom Evolves. 2009 24?
32. Braids, S. (2010). The Intelligent Guide to Texas Hold’em Poker. 2010 25
33. Harris, S. (2004). The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. 2010 25
34. Hitchens, C. (2007). God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. 2010 25
35. Harris, S. (2010). The Moral Landscape. 2011 26
36. Baggott, J. (2005). A Beginner’s Guide to Reality. 2011 26
37. Bostrom, N. (2002). Antropic Bias. 2011 26
38. McCarthy, C. (2006). The Road. 2012 27
39. Ryan, C. & Jethá, C. (2010). Sex at Dawn. 2012 27
40. Kurtzweil, R. (2012). How to Create a Mind. 2012 27
41. Wittgenstein, L. (1922). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. 2013 28
42. Ladyman, J., Ross, D., Spurrett, D., & Collier, J. (2007). Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised. 2014 29
43. Camus, A. (1957). The Fall. 2015 30
44. Putnam, H. (2004). The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays. 2016 31
45. de Botton, A. (1993). Essays in Love. 2016 31
46. Maudlin, T. (2007). The Metaphysics Within Physics. 2016 31
47. de Sade, D.A.F. (1795). Philosophy in the Bedroom. 2017 32
48. Mayo, D.G. (1996). Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge. 2017 32
49. Pigliucci, M. (2017). How to be a Stoic. 2017 32
50. Seneca. (49). On the Shortness of Life. 2017 32
51. Maddy, P. (2007). Second Philosophy. 2018 33
52. Bukowski, C. (2016). Essential Bukowski (A. Debritto, Ed.). 2018 33
53. Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. et al. (2016). Deep Learning. 2019 34
54. Fitzgerald, A. (2018). Exploitive Play in Live Poker. 2019 34
55. Epictetus (c. 125). Enchiridion. 2019 34
56. Paglia, C. (1990). Sexual Personae. 2018 33?

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