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Computers - general

Chip War by Chris Miller
Fire in the valley by Michael Swaine
Hackers by Steven Levy
Lectures on computation by Richard Feynman
Masters of Doom by David Kushner
The age of intelligent machines by Ray Kurzweil
The age of spiritual machines by Ray Kurzweil
This is how they tell me the world ends by Nicole Perlroth
Where wizards stay up late by Katie Hafner

Computers - languages

Black hat Rust by Sylvain Kerkour
Clean Code by Martin Fowler
Effective TypeScript by Dan Vanderkam
Programming Rust by Jim Blandly &...
Pro Python by Marty Alchin
Python Testing with pytest by Brian Okken
Robust Python by Patrick Viafore
Rust Design Patterns by collective
Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python by Kenneth Reitz &...
The Rust (2021) Programming Language by Steve Klabnik &...
Writing idiomatic Python by Jeff Knupp

IT - operations

Advanced API security by Prabath Siriwardena
Building Event-Driven Microservices by Adam Bellemare
Practical Ansible 2.0 by Daniel Oh &...
Site Reliability Engineering by Betsy Beyer &...
The art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine

Finance

An introduction to the mathematics of financial derivatives by Neftci
A man for all markets by Edward Thorp
F.I.A.S.C.O by Franck Partnoy
Liar's poker by Michael Lewis
Options, futures & other derivatives by John Hull
Reminiscence of a stock operator by Edwin Lefevre
The new paradigm for financial markets by Soros
The predator's ball by Connie Bruck
Volatility and correlation by Rebonato

Sailing

Mettre les voiles by Antoine
La vagabonde des mers by Ella Maillart

Flying

Pilot Handbook of aeronautical knowledge by FAA

Others

Le mage du Kremlin by Guiliano da Empoli
Partout chez soi by Alexis Girard d'Hennecourt
Samouraï by Fabrice Caro
Trust by Hernan Diaz

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Waste of time (do not read!)

Practical Microservices by Ethan Garofolo