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Halliday, Resnick & Walker — Fundamentals of Physics (10th ed.)
The standard calculus-based physics textbook
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Herbert A. Simon — The Sciences of the Artificial
Classic. How Complex Systems are designed. Fundamental for many other books in that field
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Immanuel Kant — Critique of Pure Reason
One of central texts of modern philosophy. Relation between rationalism and empiricism to define a human reason (causality)
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Karl Popper — The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Classic. Popper's case that science is defined not by proof but by refutation — a theory earns its standing only by exposing itself to the risk of being proven wrong
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Lawrence Krauss — A Universe from Nothing
A paradigm-shifting view, that something always arises from nothing
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Luciano Ramalho — Fluent Python
Python's core
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Martin Kleppmann — Designing Data-Intensive Applications
CRDT co-creator about Data as a center of a decision making. Common topics, like scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, maintainability. Includes many specifics and trade-offs. One of the best books about Distributed Systems
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Michael Kofler — Linux
Linux fundamentals. From Bash to AI servers
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Plato — The Republic
Foundation of "justice" problem in society
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Robert C. Martin — Clean Code
Robert's simple rules set to build software. These simple rules are widely used in the software development comunity, especially by junior engineers.
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Robert Nozick — Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Libertarian fundamental work
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Robert Sapolsky — Behave
Why do we do the things we do? Biology and Neurobiology perspective of the behavior problem