Abdu's Garden

Books to Read

2 min read

E book reader

2nd hand Kindle + Winterbreak + Caliber eBook file manager

Book list

// This could do with some organization by topic and genre or something.

  1. Mathematics for Computer Science by MIT, here.
  2. Count Zero by William Gibson link
  3. The Crusades through Arab eyes by Amin Maalooug
  4. The Bleeding of the Stone نزيف الحجر by Ibrahim Al-Koni
  5. Books on Arab and Persian (and other SWANA) Philosophies and their champions.
  6. The Return by Hisham Matar
  7. 10th-century Arabic cookbook by Ibn Sayyār Al-Warrāq
  8. The Slave Yards Najwa Bin Shatwan
  9. Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
  10. Do androids dream of electric sheep by Phillip K. Dick
  11. Signals & Systems by Oppenheim
  12. Behrouz A. Forouzan, Data Communications and Networking with TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 6th Ed, 2022, McGraw-Hill.
    1. Available at BCIT library: https://innopac.lib.bcit.ca/record=b2052555
    2. here
    3. Communications and Networking with TCPIP Protocol Suite (Behrouz A. Forouzan) (2022).pdf
  13. J.F. Kurose, K.W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Ed, 2017, Pearson Education, Inc. • Resources available on author’s website: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/index.php
  14. The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr
  15. The Big Fix
  16. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  17. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/
  18. Salt: A World History
  19. Dune by Frank Herbert
  20. The Mesopotamian Riddle Joshua Hammer
  21. Ibn Fattouma, by Naguib Mahfouz,
  22. Ibn Battouta’s travel logs
  23. The World: A Brief Introduction Richard Haass
  24. Lugma Bahraini cookbook by Noor Murrad
  25. Cities of salt by abdelrahman Munif - خماسية مدن الملح لعبدالرحمن منيف
  26. A Genocide Foretold Chris Hedges
  27. Mohamed Choukri’s “For Bread Alone”
  28. ‘the season of migration to the north’
  29. William by Mason Coile
  30. Orientalisim by Edward Said
  31. All Quiet on the Western Front
  32. Throne of the Crescent Moon by Salah’din Ahmed
  33. Genocide Bad by Sim Kern
  34. Works of ghassan Kanafani
  35. Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
  36. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  37. Hand Drawn Vancouver by Emma Fitzgerald
  38. Simple Origami by Adeline Klam
  39. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
  40. On Character Gen. Stanley McChrystal
  41. Humble Pi(e?)
  42. Passion within Reason
  43. The City of Ember. // Forgot who recommended this, I know nothing about it.
  44. V for Vendetta
  45. Jurassic Park novels
  46. All that Remains - Walid Khalidi

CompSci books

  • Gang of Four: OOP design patterns.
  • Head first Design patterns: OOP design patters
  • Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
  • Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
  • Design Patterns Elements of Reusable OO Software by Erich Gamma and Co.
  • Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  • Test-Driven Development By Example by Kent Beck

Graph View

Backlinks