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Discworld Reading Order

Influential Books Every Programmer Should Read

• Code Complete (2nd edition) by Steve McConnell
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie
• Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein
• Design Patterns by the Gang of Four
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• The Mythical Man Month
• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
• Effective C++
• More Effective C++
• CODE by Charles Petzold
• Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
• Peopleware by Demarco and Lister
• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Effective Java 2nd edition
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
• The Little Schemer
• The Seasoned Schemer
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
• The Inmates Are Running The Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
• The Art of Unix Programming
• Test-Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
• Practices of an Agile Developer
• Don't Make Me Think
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin
• Domain Driven Designs by Eric Evans
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
• Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu
• Best Software Writing I by Joel Spolsky
• The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnel
• The Passionate Programmer (My Job Went To India) by Chad Fowler
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
• Writing Solid Code
• JavaScript - The Good Parts
• Getting Real by 37 Signals
• Foundations of Programming by Karl Seguin
• Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition)
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
• The Elements of Computing Systems
• Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
• Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
• The Annotated Turing
• Things That Make Us Smart by Donald Norman
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
• The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management by Tom DeMarco
• The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition) by Stroustrup
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Computer Systems - A Programmer's Perspective
• Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# by Robert C. Martin
• Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
• Framework Design Guidelines by Brad Abrams
• Object Thinking by Dr. David West
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens
• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
• CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter
• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
• Design Patterns in C# by Steve Metsker
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
• The Tao of Programming
• Computational Beauty of Nature
• Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire
• Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications by Grady Booch
• Effective Java by Joshua Bloch
• Computability by N. J. Cutland
• Masterminds of Programming
• The Tao Te Ching
• The Productive Programmer
• The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick
• The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World by Christopher Duncan
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case studies in Common Lisp
• Masters of Doom
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas with Matt Hargett
• How To Solve It by George Polya
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation
• Writing Secure Code (2nd Edition) by Michael Howard
• Introduction to Functional Programming by Philip Wadler and Richard Bird
• No Bugs! by David Thielen
• Rework by Jason Freid and DHH
• JUnit in Action

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson

I have heard about Brandon Sanderson for a longtime. Initially, I bought his famous book "Elantris" and gave it a try. The story was good, but I trailed off.

After reading lot of reviews about "The Way of Kings", I bought it. I started reading the book a month back, the story is amazing and simple superb. It captures you into it and won't release you until you are completely done. So, don't start reading the book if you are not on a vacation.

If you are new to Fantasy and you want to read a book after Harry Potter and LOTR, "The Way of Kings" is the book for you. I really love the book, awaiting for more books in the series.

Here are some of the Quotes from the book:

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”

“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”

The Sword of Truth Series

Terry Goodkind is one of my favorite author. He wrote the Fantasy Series "The Sword of Truth". The series is a good and easy read. I enjoyed all the books in the series, next to Harry Potter. I must warn you that this series is not like Harry Potter, this is Grown-Up Fantasy. It starts with "Wizard's First Rule".

=> Debt of Bones (1998) (Prequel novella)

1. Wizard's First Rule (1994) - read
2. Stone of Tears (1995) - read
3. Blood of the Fold (1996) - read
4. Temple of the Winds (1997) - read
5. Soul of the Fire (1999) - read
6. Faith of the Fallen (2000) - read
7. The Pillars of Creation (2002) - read
8. Naked Empire (2003)
9. Chainfire (2005)
10. Phantom (2006)
11. Confessor (2007) - read

=> The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus (2012) (Prequel novella)

1. The Omen Machine (2011)
2. The Third Kingdom (Summer 2013)

=> The Law of Nines (2009) (Related novel)

Terry Goodkind writing style is really good and easy, as the story goes it takes on a Fast pace. All his novels has a specific Philosophical Theme. He is also a Big Fan of my all-time favorite author Ayn Rand.

Every Books emphasizes a particular Rule called "Wizard's Rules". The first 3 of the Rules are:

• “People are stupid. They can be made to believe any lie because either they want to believe it's true or because they are afraid it's true.”
• “The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
• “Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”

Enjoy Reading the series guys !!!

Great Mind Altering Books

These Books will alter your perception and views about the world.

• Adams, Douglas - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    Life, the Universe, and Everything
    So Long, and thanks for all the fish
    Mostly Harmless
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Richard Adams
  • Watership Down
• Allende, Isobel
  • The House of the Spirits
• Asimov, Isaac - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Foundation
  • The Bicentennial Man
• Banks, Iain 
  • The Bridge
  • Use of Weapons
• Bantok, Nick
  • Griffin and Sabine
• Barth, John
  • Chimera
• Bear, Greg
  • Blood Music
• Bester, Alfred
  • Tiger! Tiger!
• Bey, Hakim
  • Temporary Autonomous Zone
• Block, Francesca Lia
  • Dangerous Angels - the Weetzie Bat books
• Boethius
  • Consolation of Philosophy
• Borges, Jorge Luis
  • Ficciones (Fictions)
  • The Cirular Ruins
• Bradbury, Ray - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Dandelion Wine
• Bryant, Dorothy
  • The Kin Of Ata Are Waiting For You
• Bulgakov, Mikhail
  • The Master and Margarita
  • The Heart of a Dog
• Burroughs, William S.
  • Junkie
  • Naked Lunch
  • The Ticket That Exploded
  • Junky's Christmas
• Camus, Albert
  • The Outsider
  • The Myth of Sisyphus
  • The Stranger
  • The Plague
• Capote, Truman
  • In Cold Blood
• Card, Orson Scott - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Ender's Game
    Speaker for the Dead
    Xenocide
  • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
  • Songmaster
• Carpenter, Edmund Snow
  • They Became what They Beheld
• Carroll, Lewis - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Alice In Wonderland
  • Through the Looking-glass
• Carroll, Peter
  • Liber Null
  • Psychonaut
  • Liber Kaos
• Casares, Adolfo Bioy
• Castaneda, Carlos
  • The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge
    A Separate Reality
    Journey to Ixtlan
• Cervantes, Miguel de
  • Don Quixote
• Chase, Truddi
  • When Rabbit Howls
• Chayefsky, Paddy
  • Altered States
• Chuang Chou
  • The Chuang-Tzu
• Clark, Arthur C. - Must Read [Reemus]
  • 2001: A Space Oddysey
  • Childhood's End
• Cortázar, Julio
  • End of the Game and Other Stories
  • Rayuela (Hopscotch)
• Coupland, Douglas
  • Microserfs
• Danielewski, Mark
  • House of Leaves
• Dawkins, Richard - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Selfish Gene
• DeLillo, Don
• Dick, Philip K. - Must Read [Reemus]
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • The Divine Invasion
  • VALIS
• Dickens, Charles
  • A Tale of Two Cities
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Notes from the Underground
  • The Brothers Karamazov
• Eco, Umberto - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Foucalt's Pendulum
  • The Name of the Rose
• Efsandiary, F.M.
  • Upwingers
• Egan, Greg
  • Diaspora
  • Distress
  • Permutation City
• Eliot, T.S.
  • The Wasteland
• Ellis, Bret Easton
  • American Psycho
• Ellis, Edward Robb
  • A Nation in Torment
• Ende, Michael
  • The Neverending Story
• Euclid
  • The Elements
• Farmer, Philip Jose
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• Faulkner, William
  • As I Lay Dying
• Feinberg, Leslie
  • Stone Butch Blues
• Foucault, Michel
  • Discipline and Punish
• Fowles, John
  • The Magus
• Freud, Sigmund
  • Civilization and Its Discontents
• Gaarder, Jostein - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Sophie's World
• Gardner, Laurence
  • The Bloodline of the Holy Grail
• Gaiman, Neil
  • Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
  • Neverwhere
  • American Gods
• Genet, Jean
• Miracle of The Rose
• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
  • Herland
• Gibson, William
  • Burning Chrome
  • Neuromancer
    Count Zero
    Mona Lisa Overdrive
  • Virtual Light
    Idoru
    All Tomorrow's Parties
• Gleick, James
  • Chaos : Making a New Science
• Gray, Alasdair
  • Lanark
• Gogol, Nikolai
  • The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
• Grimwood, Ken
  • Replay
• Gurdjieff, G. I.
  • Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson
• Halperin, James L.
  • The Truth Machine
• Hand, Elizabeth
  • Waking the Moon
  • Glimmering
  • Winterlong
    Aestival Tide Icarus Descending
• Heinlein, Robert A. - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Time Enough For Love
• Heller, Joseph - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Catch 22
• Herbert, Frank - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Dune
• Hermans, W.F.
  • Het behouden huis
  • Nooit meer slapen
• Herr, Michael
  • Dispatches
• Hesse, Herman
  • Steppenwolf
  • Siddhartha
• Hofstadter, Douglas - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
  • Metamagical Themas
• Hugo, Victor
  • Les Miserables
• Huxley, Aldous - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Brave new World
  • The Doors of Perception
• Ibsen, Henrik
  • A Doll's House
• Irving, John
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Jotce, Graham
  • The Tooth Fairy
• Joyce, James
  • Ulysses
  • Finnegan's Wake
• Kafka, Franz
  • The Penal Colony
  • The Trial
  • America
  • The Castle
  • Metamorphosis
• Kaku, Michio - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Hyperspace
• Kerouac, Jack
  • On the Road
  • Visions of Cody
  • the Dharma Bums
• Kesey, Ken
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Keyes, J. Gregory - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Newton's Cannon
    A Calculus of Angels
    Empire of Unreason
  • The Waterborn
    The Blackgod
• Kidder, Tracy
  • The Soul of a New Machine
• King, Stephen
  • The Dark Tower series
  • The Tommyknockers
  • The Stand
• Kingston, Maxine Hong
  • The Woman Warrior
• Knowles, John
  • A Seperate Peace
• Land, Jon
  • The Jared Kimberlain series
• Kosinski, Jerry
  • The Painted Bird
• Lawrence, D. H.
  • Lady Chatterly's Lover
• Leary, Timothy
  • Politics of Ecstasy and Info-Psychology (aka Exo-Psychology)
• Lee, Tanith
  • The Silver Metal Lover
• Lem, Stanislaw
  • The Cyberiad
  • Solaris
  • The Futurological Congress
  • Eden
• Lewis, C.S.
  • Out of the Silent Planet
    Perelandra
    That Hideous Strength
• Leyner, Mark
  • Et Tu, Babe
  • The Tetherballs of Bouganville
• Lilly, John C.
  • Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer
• Llewellyn, Grace
  • The Teenage Liberation Handbook
• Longyear, Barry B.
  • Sea of Glass
• Mailer, Norman
  • Why Are We In Vietnam?
• Mandela, Nelson
  • Long Walk to Freedom
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Mayle, Peter
  • Where Did I Come From?
• McKenna, Terence
  • The Archaic Revival
  • The Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna)
  • True Hallucinations
• Miller, Arthur
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Miller, Henry
  • Plexus
• Milton, John
  • Paradise Lost
• More, Thomas
  • Utopia
• Morrison, Tony
  • The Bluest Eye
• Murakami, Haruki
  • A Wild Sheep Chase
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicles
• Musashi, Miyamoto
  • The Book of Five Rings
• Musil, Robert
  • The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften)
• Neville, Katherine
  • The Eight
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • The Gay Science
• Noon, Jeff
  • Vurt
  • Nymphomation
• Nørretranders, Tor
  • The User Illusion
• Oates, Joyce Carol
  • Blonde
• O'Brien, Flann
  • The Third Policeman
• O'Brien, Timothy
  • The Things They Carried
• Orwell, George - Must Read [Reemus]
  • 1984
  • Animal Farm
• Palahniuk, Chuck
  • Fight Club
  • Survivor
  • Choke
  • Invisible Monsters
• Perec, Georges
  • A Void
• Plath, Sylvia
  • The Bell Jar
• Pirsig, Robert
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Pynchon, Thomas
  • The Crying of Lot 49
  • Gravity's Rainbow
• Quinn, Daniel - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Ishmael and The Story of B
• Rand, Ayn
  • The Fountainhead
• Rhinehart, Luke
  • The Dice Man
  • Adventures of Wim
  • Search for the Dice Man
• Rooney, Andy
  • Not That You Asked
• Rosen, Robert
  • Life Itself
• Ross, John
  • Unintended Consequences
• Roy, Arundhati
  • The Cost of Living
  • The God of Small Things
• Rucker, Rudy
  • Software, Wetware, and Freeware
  • Infinity and Mind
• Rushkoff, David
  • The Ecstacy Club
• Sacks, Oliver
  • Seeing Voices
• Sagan, Carl
  • Pale Blue Dot
  • The Demon-haunted World
• Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Little Prince
• Saramago, Jose
  • Blindness
• Sartre, Jean-Paul
  • Nausea
• Shakespeare, William
  • Hamlet
• Shelley, Mary
  • Frankenstein
• Shem, Samuel
  • The House of God
  • Mount Misery
• Shepard, Lucius
  • Life During Wartime
• Simmons, Dan
  • Hyperion
    The Fall of Hyperion
• St. Augustine
  • Confessions
• Stapledon, Olaf
  • Starmaker
• Stein, Gertrude
  • How to Write
• Stephenson, Neal - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Snow Crash
  • Cryptonomicon
  • Zodiac
  • Diamond Age
• Süskind, Patrick
  • Das Parfum
• Tan, Amy
  • The Joy Luck Club
• Thich Nhat Hanh - Must Read [Reemus] - Anything by TNH is a Must Read
  • Old Path, White Clouds
• Thompson, Hunter S.
  • Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
• Thurber, James
  • The 13 Clocks
• Tolstoy, Leo - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The death of Ivan Ilyich
  • the Kreuzer sonata
• Twain, Mark - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Letters from the Earth
  • The Mysterious Stranger
• Ullman, Ellen
  • Close to the Machine
• Various
  • The Bible - Must Read [Reemus]
• Vian, Boris
  • I Shall Spit On Your Grave
• Vinge, Vernor
  • A Fire upon the Deep
• Vonnegut, Kurt - Must Read [Reemus]
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Cat's Cradle
  • Player Piano
  • Sirens of Titan
  • Slaughter-house Five
• Wallace, David Foster
  • Infinite Jest
• Irvine Welsh
  • Filth
• Walsh, Lawrence E.
  • Firewall
• Watts, Alan
  • The Book
  • The Joyous Cosmology
  • The Wisdom of Insecurity
  • The Way Of Zen
• Wilbur, Ken
  • Sex, Ecology, Spirituality
• Wilde, Oscar
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Wilder, Thornton
  • The Bridge of San Lois Ray
• Wilson, Robert Anton - Must Read [Reemus]
  • The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea)
  • Prometheus Rising
  • Cosmic Trigger
  • Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (note: originally published as three volumes: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons. Thanks to Wobbly Tech)
• Wolfe, Gene
  • Peace
• Woolf, Virginia
  • To the Lighthouse
• Wright, Robert
• Yogananda, Paramahansa
  • Autobiography Of A Yogi
• Yourcenar, Marguerite
  • Anna... Soror
  • Alexis
  • Memoirs of Hadrian
• Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zamyatin, Yevgeny
  • We
• Zinn, Howard
  • A People's History of the United States
• Zukav, Gary
  • Seat Of The Soul

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Top 10 Must Read Books

My Top 10 Must Read Books:

1. The Power is Within You - Louise Hay
2. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
3. Heart of Buddha's Teachings - Thich Naht Hanh
4. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin Sharma
5. Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness - Epictetus
6. The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
7. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - Andy Hunt
8. Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
9. Your Erroneous Zone - Wayne Dyer
10. A Guide to Good Life - William Irvine