Rakhim Davletkaliyev

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A beautiful and gentle overview of philosophy. Nice read.

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One of the few books that successfully brings CS into everyday life. We need more books like this. An audiobook is also available, but this one is better on paper.

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Can’t go wrong with Alan Watts.

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More like a series of blog posts than a cohesive narration, but still a fantastic book about most common cognitive gotchas.

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It’s one of those things that make perfect sense once you think about it. Great book, very important premise and a short and concise explanation. Can’t recommend enough.

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What a great book! A lot of interesting research and anecdotal data. Changes your perception of human behavior quite a bit. There’s also an audio version narrated by the author. And a series of free Stanford lectures available on Youtube.

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It’s a great book. I wish it was shorter though.

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Feel-good meh.

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I wish everybody read this book. The surprising thing is that many aspects and recommendations apply to virtually any language, not specifically English.

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It’s… okay.

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It was a great 5 minute TED talk, but making a book out of it is meh. Very repetitive and self-conscious. Nothing new here.

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I guess you can’t go wrong with Charles Petzold. This book is excellent and highly recommended to anyone interested in computing. Must read for computer science students and software developers.

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Pretty cool idea, a somewhat rushed execution.

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One of the good ones. If you’re interested in mindfulness and the nature of consciousness, check this out.

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One of the best things I had the pleasure to listen to.

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Love it. Can’t get enough. The series of lectures by Alan Watts did shape a lot of my life.

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Words are tools to hide truth. I can’t say much about these recordings and books by Alan Watts. It wouldn’t be fair to do so.

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One of those cases when a nonfiction book can be 10 times shorter, but you don’t really want it to be, since is’s so fun and interesting. Author’s style is fantastic.

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First fantasy since LOTR that pulled me in mercilessly.

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This book is hugely popular for the reasons I can’t really understand. It’s… okay, I guess. But I don’t really think it is "for beginners".

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One of the best books on mindfulness. No frills, no BS, straight to the point. I guess, if you could pick one book in the topic, I’d go for this one.

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You have to ignore (or interpret) some parts, but in general there is no doubt Eckhart Tolle is an enlightened being.

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Good, concise and straight-forward exploration of spirituality. Loved it.

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Nice and entertaining introduction to the ideas of mindfulness and meditation.

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Woah, what a ride! An excellent explanation of how computers work, starting from scratch. Really, from scratch.

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The only regret I have is not reading this book 5 years earlier. Also, not every single teacher on the planet did read this — what a shame.

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One of the best and definitely the scariest space opera. The universe Dan Simmons had created is enchanting.

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Absolutely brilliant!

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Somewhat simple, but still great. I guess we’ll see a mediocre Hollywood adaptation (or a TV show perhaps) soon.

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Loved it! Geeky, nostalgic, lots of action and lots of cool ideas. The pace is great, and it’s hard to pull off in a book this large.

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This was a great motivation when I started running, but it’s a very niche book.

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Fascinating stories and science behind epic runners. If you’re getting into running or just interested — check this out.

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One of the best sci-fi and deep space opera books for me. If you love space and scientifically ~accurate fiction — do explore Alastair Reynolds’ worlds.

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When an engineer or a scientist decides to write science fiction, it’s usually either very bad or very good. This one is very good.

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Good’ but can be around 500 times shorter.

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I prefer and recommend this over the canonical "Lean Startup"

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Of course, you can’t not read The Lean Startup if you… actually, in any case! Do read it!

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Feynman was a Teacher. This book is as fantastic as the man himself.

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String theory for the masses. This is how popular science books should be like: interesting, enchanting, inviting.

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Must read not only for designers, but for software developers too, even if you develop backend exclusively. I wish everybody read it really.

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Talking about quantum physics and singularity is hard. This book makes it seem easy. Loved it.

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Spent endless hours digging through The Book. It’s very well written and organized and was a tremendous help in my CS studies.

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The book that sparked my interest in discrete math and abstract algebra. Other books by Simon Singh are also fantastic.

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It’s a very interesting book, but for some reason Michio Kaku’s style doesn’t spark me as much as Briane Greene’s or Stephen Hawking’s or Neil deGrasse Tyson’s.

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One of the top 3 books in my life.

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Militant atheism is entertaining, but generally counter productive.

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I really enjoyed reading this textbook even after finishing the corresponding course.

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No way around it — Dune is probably the best science fiction I’ve ever read.

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Back in high school this book had changed the way I perceive reality and science fiction.

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Having an interest in genetics and molecular biology, I was completely enchanted by the narrative.

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Nicely written and an entertaining story of Linus Torvalds and the creation of Linux kernel. I read it in high school and it definitely strengthened my interest in computer programming.

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I don’t do GTD now, but the book is very good even if you don’t plan to follow the methodology to the word.

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Middle-Earth’s bible, myths and legends. Loved at the time.

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Having read this after LOTR, it was fun but underwhelming. Starting from scratch, it’s definitely better to start with The Hobbit.

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What can I say? Seems like I spent most of my free time in this universe back in high school…

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Ah, high school memories! Seems like this series was an important part of my childhood.

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Dark nights, lots of coffee… This was fun!