List of books I've read since 2002.

2024 September

• The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding by Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber, 2017.

2024 August

• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, 2009. (2006)
• On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, 2004.
• Ars Mathematica - Biography of my parents Katalin & Alfréd Rényi by Zsuzsanna Rényi, 2021.

2024 July

• Pintér Gergő: A számok rejtett építőkövei - A prímek, 2023.
• Stefan Buijsman: Eszpresszó Arkhimédesszel - Matematika a mindennapokban, egyszerűen, érthetően, 2020 (2018), [Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable].
• Pintér Gergő: Új világok teremtése, Geometria képzetek és képződmények, 2020.
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, 1972.
• Philip K. Dick: Különvélemény valamint Emlékmás, Imposztor és más novellák 1953-69. [Minority Report, Imposter, Second Veriety, War Game, What the Dead Man Say, Oh, To Be a Blobel, we can Remember it for You WholeSale, Faith of Our Fathers, The Electric Ant]
• Thinking about mathematics - The philosophy of mathematics by Stewart Shapiro, 2000. 2x
• Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, 2009. 2x

2024 June

• V.G.Boltyanszkij, V.A.Jefremovics: Szemléletes Topológia, 1965. 2x
• Chaos - The amazing science of the unpredictable by James Gleick, 1987. 2x
• Andrásfai Béla: Vonalak és felületek topológiája 1994. 3x
• Staar Gyula: Matematikusok és teremtett világuk, beszélgetések 2002. [interviews with mathematicians] 2x

2024 May

• Aposztolosz Doxiadisz: Petrosz bácsi és a Goldbach-sejtés [1992, 2000] 2x
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, 2003. (1980) 2x
• Dialógusok a matematikáról, Rényi Alfréd, 1966. 2x
• The Joy of Abstraction - An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life by Eugenia Cheng, 2022.

2024 April

• Why Does Math Work … If It's Not Real? Episodes in Unreasonable Effectiveness by Dragan Radulović, 2023.
• The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens, 2020.

2024 March

• Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work by Roma Agrawal, 2023.
• Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng, 2023.
• Causation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, 2013.
• Writing to learn - How to write -and think- clearly about any subject at all by William Zinsser, 1988.

2024 February

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins, 2021.

2024 January

• Official Minecraft Explorer’s Handbook by Mojang, 2023.
• Official Minecraft Creative Handbook by Mojang, 2021.

2023 December

2023 November

• Glass and Gardens - Solarpunk Summers Anthology edited by Sarena Ulibarri, 2018.

2023 October

• Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smil, 2020.
• Turing's vision - the birth of computer science by Chris Bernhardt, 2016. 2x

2023 September

• The cogwheel brain - Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer by Doron Swade, 2000. 2x

2023 August

• Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro, 2023.

2023 July

2023 June

2023 May

• The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2020.
• Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction to Bayesian Analysis by James V Stone, 2013.

2023 April

• Walkaway by Cory Doctorow, 2017.
• Az oroszlán, a boszorkány és a ruhásszekrény (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe) by C. S. Lewis, 1950. 3x

2023 March

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers, 2021.
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 2021.

2023 February

• The Dispossed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

2023 January

• Understanding Philosophy of Science by James Ladyman, 2001.

2022 December

• Electricity: Circuits, Static, and Electromagnets With Hands-on Science Activities for Kids by Carmella Van Vleet, 2022.

2022 November

• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: 50th Anniversary Edition by Shunryu Suzuki, 2020. 2x

2022 October

• Why I Am Not a Buddhist by Evan Thompson, 2020.
• The Three Pillars of Zen - Teaching, Practice and Enlightenment, 35th Anniversary Edition by Philip Kapleau, 1965, 2000.

2022 September

2022 August

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures by Claus O. Wilke, 2019.
• Programming the Universe - a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos by Seth Lloyd, 2006. 3x
• The Tao is silent by Raymond M. Smullyan, 1977.
• Made to stick - Why some ideas survive and other die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, 2007.
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang, 2019.
• The Invincible by Stanisław Lem, 1964. 2x
• The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse, 1943 (1949). 2x

2022 July

• Computing in the Middle Ages: A View from the Trenches 1955-1983 by Severo M. Ornstein, 2002.

2022 June

2022 May

• Sources of Power, 20th Anniversary Edition: How People Make Decisions by Gary A. Klein, 2017.

2022 April

• Cryptocurrency, the future of money? by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey, 2016. 2x

2022 March

• The Code Book - The science of secrecy from ancient Egypt to quantum cryptography by Simon Singh, 1999. 2x

2022 February

• Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions by SerHack, 2018.
• Bitcoin for the Befuddled by Conrad Barski, Chris Wilmer, 2014.

2022 January

• The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto, 2021.
• Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life by Marcus du Sautoy, 2021.

2021 December

• To Catch the Sun by Lonny Grafman, Joshua Pearce, 2021.

2021 November

• Wiring Unlimited by Margreet Leeftink (Victron Energy), 2019.

2021 October

• Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human by Susan Blackmore, 2007.
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov, 1951. 2x

2021 September

• Go by Example: Correcting common mistakes in double digit kyu play by Neil Moffatt, 2010.
• Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity by Edward Slingerland, 2014.
• Gödel's Proof, Revised Edition by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, and Douglas R. Hofstadter (Editor, Contributor), 2001 (1958).
• Robot-Proof, Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence By Joseph E. Aoun, 2017.
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, foreword and afterword by Soshitsu Sen XV, 1989. [1906]
• Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations) by Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2003.

2021 August

• The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts, 1999 (1957). 2x
• The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr, 2019.
• Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron, 2012.
• Learn Go 3rd edition by Neil Moffatt, 2011.
• The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, 2012.
• Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur, 2014.
• Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy by Mark Kac, Jacob T. Schwartz, Gian-Carlo Rota, 1985.

2021 July

• Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell, 2005.
• Go consultants by John Fairbairn and T. Mark Hall, 2009. (SmartGo)
• STRAYA by Anthony O'Connor, 2021.
• Double Digit Kyu Games by Neil Moffatt, 2011. (SmartGo)

2021 June

• How not to play Go by Yuan Zhou, 2009. (SmartGo)
• Zsoldos Péter: Az utolsó kísértés, 1988.
• The Feeling of Life Itself - Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed by Christof Koch, 2019.

2021 May

• Philosophy of Mathematics (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) by Øystein Linnebo, 2017.
• Unended Quest - An Intellectual Autobiography by Karl Popper, 1974 (2002).
• The Meaning of Science: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Tim Lewens, 2016.
• Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction (1st edn) by Susan Blackmore, 2005.
• How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene, 2020.

2021 April

• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, 2019.
• The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster by Tim Crothers, 2012.

2021 March

• The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life) by Stephen Moss, 2016.
• The Valley of Fear by Conan Doyle, 1914-15.
• The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer by Seymour Papert, 1994.
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle, 1905.
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle, 1901-02.

2021 February

• The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle, 1892, 1894.
• The Beginning of Infinity - Explanations that Transform the World by David Deutsch, 2011.

2021 January

• The Spirit of Zen by Sam van Schaik 2018.
• The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch 1997. 2x
• The Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, 2018.
• Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together by Thomas W. Malone, 2018.
• A brief history of Japan - samurai, shogun and zen: the extraordinary story of the land of the rising sun by Jonathan Clements, 2017.

2020 December

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Csíkszentmihály Mihály, 1991.
• The Gardener and the Carpenter - What the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children by Alison Gopnik, 2016.
• Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present by George Szpiro, 2010.
• From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation by Steven Heine, 2017.

2020 November

• Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI edited by John Brockman, 2019.
• Zen and the Art of Consciousness by Susan Blackmore, 2009.

2020 October

• Eat Sleep Sit: My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple by Kaoru Nonomura, 2009 (1996).

2020 September

• A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887, 1890.
• Zen Comics 1,2 by Ioanna Salajan, 1974, 1982.

2020 August

• Deep Learning and the Game of Go by Max Pumperla, Kevin Ferguson, 2019.

2020 July

• One Jump Ahead: Computer Perfection at Checkers 2nd edition by Jonathan Schaeffer 2008. book intro video

2020 June (pandemic online teaching overload)

2020 May

• Polgár László: Nevelhetsz zsenit, 2008. 2x

2020 April

• The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life by Jonathan Rowson, 2019.

2020 March

• Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su, 2020.
• Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer That Defeated the World Chess Champion by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, 2004.
• The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, 1929.
• Version Control by Dexter Palmer, 2016.

2020 February

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, 2018.
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, 2016.

2020 January

• Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts by Stanislas Dehaene, 2014.

2019 December

• The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again by Brin-Jonathan Butler, 2018.

2019 November

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2006.
• Chess Story (aka The Royal Game) by Stefan Zweig, 1941.

2019 October

2019 September

2019 August

• Math with bad drawings, illuminating the ideas that shape our reality by Ben Orlin, 2018.

2019 July

• The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind by Michale Gazzaniga, 2018.
• The immortal game - A history of chess, or, how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, science, and the human brain by David Shenk, 2006.

2019 June

• Consciousness - Confessions of a romantic reductionist by Christof Koch, 2012.

2019 May

• Moves in Mind - The Psychology of Board Games by Fernand Gobet, Alex de Voogt and Jean Retschitzki, 2004.

2019 April

• Language and Human Behavior by Derek Bickerton 1995.
• The art of logic: how to make sense in a world that doesn't by Eugenia Cheng, 2018.

2019 March

• MindStorms - Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas 2nd Ed. by Seymour Papert, 1993.
• How not to be wrong - The power of mathematical thinking by Jordan Ellenberg, 2014.

2019 February

• The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata 1951. 2x

2019 January

• Polgár László: Nevelhetsz zsenit, 2008.
• Go - A complete introduction to the game by Cho Chikun 1997. 2x
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, 2011.
• Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin, 1988.

2018 December

• Outside the Board: Diary of a Professional Go Player by Hajin Lee, 2016.

2018 November

• Go with the Flow - How the great master of Go trained his mind by Cho Hunhyun 2018.
• The Art of Learning - : An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin, 2008.

2018 October

• How life imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov, 2007.
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, 2011.
• Deep Thinking - Where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins by Garry Kasparov, 2017.

2018 September

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark, 2017.
• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Seibel, 2009.
• 手筋と詰碁の超基本 (Ultra basic tesuji and tsumego, 144 problems) by 高尾 紳路 (Takao Shinji), 2016.

2018 August

• Shibumi by Trevanian, 1979.
• Data & Reality 3rd Edition by William Kent, 2012.
• The Puzzle Instinct - The meanings of puzzles in human life by Marcel Danesi, 2002.
• 81 Little Lions - An introduction to the 9x9 board for advanced beginners by Immanuel deVillers, 2016.
• GO! more than a game by Peter Shotwell, 2011.

2018 July

• Long Cosmos by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, 2016.

2018 June

• Apex (NEXUS 3) by Ramez Naam, 2014.
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, 2015.
• Logic Made Easy - How to know when language deceives you by Deborah J. Bennett, 2004.
• Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart, 2017.
• Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths by Eugenia Cheng, 2015. 2x

2018 May

• A most elegant equation - Euler's formula & the beauty of mathematics by David Stipp, 2017.
• Semiotics of Programming by Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, 2010.

2018 April

2018 March

• Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos, 1976, 2015 Cambridge Philosophy Classics edition

2018 February

• Math Gene - How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers are like Gossip by Keith Devlin 2000. 2x

2018 January

• Beyond infinity - An expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe by Eugenia Cheng, 2017.
• Measurement by Paul Lockhart, 2012.
• Living Clojure, An Introduction and Training Plan for Developers by Carin Meier, 2015.

2017 December

• Charles J. Murray: The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer, 1997.

2017 November

• Edgar G. Daylight: The Dawn of Software Engineering: From Turing to Dijkstra 2012.

2017 October

• Paul Lockhart: A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form, 2009.
• Fred Piper, Sean Murphy: Crytpography - A Very Short Introduction, 2002.

2017 September

2017 August

• Steven Levy: Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age 2001.
• Chris Bernhardt: Turing's vision - the birth of computer science 2016.

2017 July

• Ramez Naam: Crux (NEXUS 2) 2013.
• Sydney Padua: The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - The (mostly) true story of the first computer 2016.
• George Polya: How to solve it 1945. 2x

2017 June

• Alex Bellos: Alex's Adventures in Numberland 2010.

2017 May

2017 April

• Mike Gancarz: Linux and the UNIX Philosophy 2003.
• Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon 1999.
• Derek Rowntree: Statistics without tears - an introduction to non-mathematicians 1981.

2017 March

• Julian Barbour: The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe 1999.
• Stephen Wolfram: Idea makers 2016.

2017 February

• Carlo Rovelli: Seven brief lessons on Physics 2015.
• Daniel Higginbotham: Clojure for the brave and true, learn the ultimate language and become a better programmer 2015.

2017 January

• Howard Rheingold: Tools for Thought - the history and future of mind-expanding technology 1985, 1999.
• Arthur C. Clarke: Childhood's End 1953.

2016 December

• Douglas Adams: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979 5x
• Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey: Cryptocurrency, the future of money? 2016.

2016 November

• Ramez Naam: NEXUS Install 2013.

2016 October

• Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff, 2011.
• The Code Book - The science of secrecy from ancient Egypt to quantum cryptography by Simon Singh, 1999.

2016 September

2016 August

• Charles Petzold: CODE The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software 2000.

2016 July

• Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem 2008.
• John Gribbin: Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits 2013.

2016 June

• Daniel Hillis: The Patterns on the Stone - The simple ideas that make computers work 1998.
• William Poundstone: The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge 1985.

2016 May

• Greg Egan: Permutation City 1994.
• Ernest Cline: Ready Player One 2011.
• Lev Grossmann: Codex 2004.

2016 April

• Andy Weir: The Martian 2011.
• John D. Barrow: Pi in the Sky - Counting, Thinking and Being 1992.

2016 March

• BIT by BIT - An illustrated history of computers by Stan Augarten, 1984.
• Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark, 2014. 2x

2016 February

• Akira Vol 1-6. by Katsuhiro Otomo, 2000-2002.

2016 January

• The Long Utopia by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, 2015.
• The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, 2014.
• The Information: : A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick, 2011.

2015 December

• Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin 2013.
• The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch 1997.

2015 November

• The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter, 2013.
• Programming the Universe - a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos by Seth Lloyd, 2006. 2x

2015 October

• Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth 2012.
• Alison Gopnik: The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life 2010.
• Ellen Lupton: Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students 2ed 2010.
• Robert A. Heinlein: he Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 1966.

2015 September

2015 August

• Daniel Suarez: Freedom TM 2010.
• Daniel Suarez: Daemon 2006.

2015 July

• Eugenia Cheng: Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths 2015.
• Edward Frenkel: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality 2014.

2015 June

• Robert J. Sawyer: Wake 2009.
• Greg Egan: Luminous 1998.

2015 May

• Matt Pearson: Generative Art 2011.
• Terry Pratchett: The World of Poo 2012.
• Stuart Halloway, Aaron Bedra: Programming Clojure, 2nd edition 2012.

2015 April

• Michael Fogus, Chris Houser: The Joy of Clojure 2nd Edition 2014.

2015 March

• Steven Levy: In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives 2011.
• Ellen Ullman: Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents 1997.
• Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game. 1985.

2015 February

• Scott Rosenberg: Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software, 2007.

2015 Jan

• Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality - Parallel Universe and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos 2011.
• Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash 1992. 2x
• William Gibson: Burning Chrome 1986. 2x

2014 December

• William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive 1988 2x
• Greg Egan: Oceanic 2010.
• William Gibson: Count Zero 1986. 2x

2014 November

• Paul Davies: The Mind of God 1992.
• Robert A. Heinlein: The Day After Tomorrow (Sixth Column) 1949.

2014 October

• Robert A. Heinlein: Between Planets 1951.
• David S. Goodsell: The Machinery of Life, 2nd ed. 2009.

2014 September

• Dennis Bray: Wetware - A Computer in Every Living Cell 2011.

2014 August

• Richard P. Feynmann: Six easy pieces 1963.
• Brian Greene: The Fabric of Cosmos 2004.
• H.G. Wells: The Time Machine 1895.
• Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark, 2014.

2014 July

• Robert A. Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy 1957.
• Jorge Luis Borges: Labirynths, selected stories and other writings 1962.

2014 June

• Marcus Du Sautoy: Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry, 2008. 2x
• Terry Pratchett: I shall wear midnight, 2010.

2014 May

• Stanislaw Lem: Solaris, 1961 3x

2014 April

• Neil Gaiman: Coraline 2002
• William Gibson: Neuromancer, 1984 3x
• Christos H. Papadimitriou: Turing (A Novel about Computation) 2005.

2014 March

• Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time, 2001.

2014 February

• Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch 2005.
• Murakami Haruki: Wild Sheep Chase 1982

2014 January

• Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster - One of the Greatest Quest of Mathematics 2006 4x
• Arkady Strugatsky - Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic 1972 (2012 new translation)
• Georg Orwell: 1984, 1949.
• Joel N. Shurkin: Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors 1996.
• John MacCormick: Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future - The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today's Computers 2012.
• Terry Pratchett: Witches Abroad 1991.

2013 December

• Robert A. Heinlein: Farmer in the Sky 1950.
• Robert A. Heinlein: Tunnel in the Sky 1955.
• Terry Pratchett: Wintersmith 2006.
• Tim Jackson: Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company 1998.
• Robert P. Colwell: The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips, 2005.
• Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine 1981.
• Thomas H. Corman: Algorithms Unlocked, 2013.

2013 November

• Terry Pratchett: A Hat Full of Sky 2004.
• Lance Fortnow: The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible, 2013.
• Terry Pratchett: The Wee Free Men, 2003.

2013 October

• John Tyler Bonner: Randomness in Evolution 2013.
• Craig Cabell: Terry Pratchett : the spirit of fantasy : the life and work of the man behind the magic 2012.
• Leonard Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules our Lives 2008.
• Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell 2007.
• Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 2002.

2013 September

2013 August

• Masterminds of Programming - Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages 2009.
• Terry Pratchett: Strata, 1981.
• Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld, 2002 revised edition.

2013 July

• Masha Gessen: Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century 2009.

2013 June

2013 May

• Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno (Eds.): The Japanese Mind - Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture 2002.

2013 April

• William J. Cook: In pursuit of the traveling salesman - Mathematics at the limits of computation 2012.
• Umberto Eco: The Prague Cemetery 2010.

2013 March

• George Dyson: Turing's Cathedral 2012.
• Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle 1963. 2x
• Seth Lloyd: Programming the Universe - a quantum computer scientist takes on the cosmos 2006.

2013 February

• Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw: Why does E=mc2? (and why should we care?) 2009.
• Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster - One of the Greatest Quest of Mathematics 2006 3x

2013 January

• Alexander Masters: Simon: The Genius in My Basement 2012.
• Jim Ottaviani: Feynman 2011.
• Richard P. Feynman, Anthony Hey: Feynman Lectures On Computation 1996.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 1925.

2012 December

• Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go 2005.
• David Leavitt: The Indian Clerk 2007.
• Murakami Haruki: Kafka on the Shore 2005.

2012 November

Travels, conferences.

2012 October

• Terry Pratchett: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents 2001.
• NFGMan (Lawrence Wright): Character Design for Mobile Devices, Mobile games, sprites, and pixel art 2006.
• Ursula K. Le Guin: The Farthest Shore 1973.

2012 September

• Ursula K. Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan 1971.
• Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea 1968.
• Philip K. Dick: [[divine_invasion|Divine Invasion]] 1981.
• Saunders Mac Lane: A Mathematical Autobiography 2005.
• Terry Pratchett: [[equal_rites|Equal Rites]] 1987. 2x
• Robert Kanigel: The Man Who Knew Infinity - A Life of the Genius Ramanujan 1991.

2012 August

• William Gibson: Johnny Mnemonic (short story and screenplay) 1986, 1996. 2x
• Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill: Symmetry and the beautiful universe 2004.

2012 July

• Gárdonyi Géza: Egri csillagok 1901. 3x
• Krúdy Gyula: Rózsa Sándor 1923.
• Krúdy Gyula: A podolini kísértet 1900.
• Mikszáth Kálmán: A beszélő köntös 1889.
• Jaroslav Hasek: Svejk a derék katona (A hátoszágban, A fronton) 1921.

2012 June

• Colin Swatridge: Marslakók földje, avagy Magyarország angol szemmel (A Country Full of Aliens - A Briton in Hungary 2005).
• Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene Vol1. 2nd ed. 2008. The Art Album 2006.
• Masamune Shirow: Ghost in the Shell 1991.
• Francis Carsac: Sehollakók (Ceux de Nulle Part 1970.)

2012 May

• Cory Doctorow: Little Brother 2008.
• Neil Gaiman: American Gods - 10th Anniversary Edition 2011.
• Gordon Laing: Digital Retro - The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer 2004.

2012 April

• Jon Stokes: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture 2006.
• Massimo Banzi: Getting started with Arduino (1st edition) 2009.
• William Gibson, Bruce Sterling: The Difference Engine 1990.
• Paul Atkinson: Computer (Objekt Series) 2010.

2012 March

• C.S. Lewis: The Last Battle 2x
• C.S. Lewis: The Silver Chair 1953 2x
• C.S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 1952. 2x
• C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian (4th Narnia book) 1951. 2x
• Keith Devlin: The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution 2011.
• Ian Stewart: Mathematics of Life 2011.
• C.S Lewis: The Horse and His Boy 1954. 2x
• Terry Pratchett: [[equal_rites|Equal Rites]] 1987.

2012 February

• Terry Pratchett: The Light Fantastic 1986.
• C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1950. 2x
• Ian Stewart: Letters to a Young Mathematician - Art of Mentoring 2007.
• C.S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew 1955. 2x
• Siobhan Roberts: King of Infinite Space - Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry 2006.
• Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic 1983. 2x

2012 January

• Leonard M. Wapner: The Pea & the Sun - A Mathematical Paradox 2005.
• Gerald Durrell: Birds, beasts, relatives 1969. 2x
• Richard A. Dunlap: The Golden Ration and Fibonacci Numbers 1997.
• Terry Pratchett: Men at arms 1993.
• Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals 1956. 2x

2011 December

• John Meier: Groups, Graphs and Trees 2008.
• Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters 1988. 2x
• Terry Pratchett: Hogfather 1996. 2x
• Alexei Sayle: Stalin Ate My Homework 2010.

2011 November

• Terry Pratchett: Small Gods 1992.
• Terry Pratchett: Pyramids 1989.

2011 October

• John Stillwell: Roads to Infinity - The Mathematics of Truth and Proof 2010.
• Bill Bryson: Down Under 2000.

2011 September (moving to Australia)

2011 August

• William Gibson: Trendvadász (Pattern Recognition) 2003.
• Obata Takeshi, Hotta Yumi: Hikaru No Go Vol1-23. 1998-2003. (yes, all of them! :)

2011 June

• Esterházy Péter: A szavak csodálatos életéből 2003
• Ivan Szergejevics Turgenyev: Apák és fiúk 1862.

2011 May

• Szerb Antal: A Pendragon Legenda 1934.2x

2011 April

• Terry Pratchett: Going Postal 2004.

2011 March

• Szendrei Julianna: Gondolod, hogy egyre megy? 2005.
• Popper Péter: Az önmagába térő ösvény 1990. 3x

2011 February

• Badár Sándor, Horváth János: Jappán 2007.
• Yasutoshi Yasuda: Go as Communication 2002.
• Mikhail Bulgakov: Mester és Margarita 1973. 3x

2011 January

2010 December

2010 November

• Sung-Hwa Hong: First kyu 1999. 2x
• Shan Sa: A gójátékos (La Joueuse de Go - The Girl Who Played Go) 2001.

2010 October

• Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman: Good Omens 1990.

2010 August

• Moldova György: A pénz szaga. Riport a kamionsofőrökről. 1986

2010 June

• Philibert Schogt: Wild Numbers 2000.
• Philip K. Dick: Visszafelé világ (Counter-clock World) 1967.

2010 May

• Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, 2009.

2010 April

• Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster - One of the Greatest Quest of Mathematics 2006 2x
• John Gribbin: In Search of Superstrings: Symmetry, Membranes and the Theory of Everything 2007

2010 March

• Koushun Takami: Battle Royale 1999.

2010 February

• Viktor Pelevin: Számok 2003.
• Ottlik Géza: Iskola a határon 1959. 2x

2010 January

• Terry Pratchett: Reaper Man 1991.

2009 December

• Terry Pratchett: [[Hogfather]] 1996.

2009 November

• Fekete István: Gyeplő nélkül 1947.
• Avner Ash, Robert Gross: Fearless Symmetry:Exposing the Hidden Patterns of Numbers 2006.

2009 October

• Umberto Eco: [[Focault's Pendulum]] 1989. 2x

2009 September

• Steven Strogatz: [[The Calculus Friendship]] 2009.

2009 August

• Klaus Jänich: Linear Algebra 1994. Springer UTM
• Karl Sabbagh: [[Dr.Riemann's Zeros]] 2002.
• John Polkinghorne: Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2002.
• Farley Mowat: Lost in Barrens 1956.
• Dan Brown: Angels and Demons 2001.

2009 July

• Eli Maor: "e": The Story of a Number 1998.
• Elias Canetti: Káprázat (Auto da fe, Die Blendung) 1935.

2009 June

• Mikszáth Kálmán: Beszterce ostroma 1894.
• Arthur C. Clarke: The Fountains of Paradise 1979.

2009 May

2009 April

2009 March

2009 February

• Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters 1988.
• Terry Pratchett: Night Watch 2002.

2009 January

• Terry Pratchett: Fifth Elephant 1999.
• Ian Stewart: Why Beauty is Truth? The History of Symmetry 2007.

2008 December

• Mikszáth Kálmán: Szent Péter esernyője 2x
• Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity is Near 2004.
• Dan Brown: [[Da Vinci Code]] 2003.

2008 November

• Guillermo Martínez: The Oxford Murders 2005.

2008 October

• Paul Hoffman: A Prímember. Erdõs Pál kalandjai a matematika végtelenjében 1998.
• Márai Sándor : Szindbád hazatér

2008 Sept

• C. S. Lewis: The Last Battle 1956.
• Mikszáth Kálmán: A gavallérok 1897, A sipsirica 1902, A lohinai fű 1885, Kísértet Lublón 1893.

2008 August

• Neil Gershenfeld: When Things Start to Think 1999.
• Móricz Zsigmond: Betyár 1937.
• Johan Goudsblom: Tűz és civilizáció 1992.
• Fekete István: Zsellérek 1937.
• Juhász Árpád: A kőolaj nyomában 1979.
• Farley Mowat: The dog who wouldn't be 1984.
• Farley Mowat: Víziszonyos vitorlás [The boat who wouldn't float] 1969. 2x

2008 July

• Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials, Part 3: The Amber Spyglass 2000.
• Graham Booth: Narrowboat Planning: Designing the Interior of Your Boat 2005.
• M. Du Sautoy: Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry 2008.

2008 June

• Nick Billingham: Narrow Boats: Care and Maintenance 1995.
• Andy Burnett, Graham Booth: Inland Boat Owners Book 2000.
• Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials, Part 2: Subtle Knife 1997.
• Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials, Part 1: Northern Lights 1995.

2008 May

• C.S. Lewis: The Silver Chair (6th Narnia book) 1953.
• C.S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (5th Narnia book) 1952.

2008 April

• C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian (4th Narnia book) 1951.
• Ross W. Duffin: How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) 2006.
• Terry Pratchett: Mort, a halál kisinasa 1919.

2008 March

• Arnold Steinhardt: Violin Dreams 2006.
• Mikszáth Kálmán: A Noszty fiú esete Tóth Marival 1908.

2008 February

• Mikszáth Kálmán: Különös házasság 1900.
• Jim Fleser: The Chord Wheel: The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians 2000.
• Sir Walter Scott: Rob Roy 1817.

2008 January

• One Stop Short of Barking: Uncovering the London Underground by Mecca Ibrahim 2004. Very, very short...
• Mikszáth Kálmán: Új Zrínyiász 1898. 2x

2007 December

• Mikszáth Kálmán: A fekete város 1910.
• Csorba János: Bár emlékezete maradjon meg... 2000. Egy széki ember emlékei. Hát más világ volt az biztos. Most azért panaszkodunk, hogy mennyire tönkreteszi a karácsonyi hangulatot, hogy az üzletek már november feldíszülnek. Kevesebb mint 100 éve egy szolgalegénynek még az volt a karácsony, hogy beengedték a meleg házba, s kapott új csizmát. Persze a zene még a lélek gyógyírja volt, s nem szórakoztatás.

2007 November

• Agócs Gergely - Gombai Tamás: Kürti bandák A Vág- Garam köze népzenéje 2004. // A tanulmány része rövid, de érdekes. A zene igen jó, úgyhogy megtanulásra kerül majd.//
• Tove Jansson: Finn Family Moomintroll 1948. // I already knew all the stuff here from the cartoons: Hobgoblin's Hat, Hattifatteners' Island, King of Ruby, etc.//

2007 October

• Móricz Zsigmond: Rózsa Sándor összevonja szemöldökét 1941. // A trilógia második része. Ez gyakorlatilag a 48-as eseményekről beszél, csak éppen egy színfalak mögötti nézőpontból. //
• M. A. Armstrong: Groups and Symmetry 1988. 2x // I like rereading this elementary group theory book, whenever I need to recall the most basic ideas of group theory. It is an excellent math textbook. //
• Tove Jansson: Comet in Moominland 1946. // Snufkin is the best. The apocalypse idea is quite timely nowadays (meteor strike, global warming), but don't worry Moominvalley comes out OK.//

2007 September

• Mark Ronan: Symmetry and the Monster - One of the Greatest Quest of Mathematics 2006. // Well, a popular science book about the classification of finite simple groups. I understood and enjoyed it and learned from it, but I'm working in a neighbouring field (semigroup theory). The author often talks about mathematical notions that are undefined. The classification is a huge project, so this is indeed not surprising. //
• Jules Verne: A dunai hajós 1908. 2x // Nem lett volna rossz, ha ezt a könyvet kicsit hosszabban írja meg, lehetett volna részletezni az utazást...//
• Vladimir Igorevich Arnold: Catastrophe Theory 1984.
• Móricz Zsigmond: Rózsa Sándor a lovát ugratja 1941. // Szeged környéke, tanyavilág. Sokminden nem történik a regényben, de az annál alaposabban történik. A jó meghal, a rossz csak részben nyeri el büntetését, jó életből vett történet. Köpőverseny, a csárdában. //

2007 August

Jack Kerouac: Úton [On the Road, 1957] // Ez volt az első könyv amit angolul olvastam. Persze egy szót nem értettem akkor belőle.// Jókai Mór: Fekete gyémántok 1870. //Lényegesen gyengébb mint az Arany ember. Idejétmúlt spekulatív őstörténet betét. A barlangi kezdőjelenet jó, meg a tivornya a kastélyban. A befejezés erősen összecsapott.// Fekete István: Bogáncs 1978. 2x //Tiszavalkon találkoztunk egy pumival, meg a Tisza-túrás könyvtárban is volt egy példány. Innen az újraolvasás ötlete.// M.A. Armstrong: Basic Topology 1979. //Good intuitive introduction to topology. This was the book for the canoeing tour on Tisza this year. It made some stir among the people, coffe cup is a doughnut, and similar things. //

2007 July

Jókai Mór: Arany Ember 1872. 2x //Folyó, sziget, hajózás, tánc a jégen... Most ezek miatt tetszett.// Robert J. Sawyer: Mindscan 2005. //Wow! Very tough book about uploading. A must have for lawyers, students of law! These times are coming...// John Marchese: The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop 2007. //An insightful view about violin making from an outsider.// A.B. Sossinsky: Knots: Mathematics with a Twist 2004. //Excellent appetizer for knot theory.//

2007 June

• C.S. Lewis: The Horse and his Boy 1954. //This is a good story, quite independent from the main Narnia story though. I like the city of Tashban. //

2007 May

• C.S. Lewis: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1950. //This the Narnia book. Not bad, but it is not up to Tolkien's world. //
• C.S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew 1955. //The 0th Narnia book. I like the forest where you can jump between worlds. But it is indeed a weird remake of the Christian creation myth.//

2007 April

• Stuart McHardy: MacPherson's Rant: And Other Tales of the Scottish Fiddle 2004. //Excellent collection of short tales of scottish fiddling. I did not know before that Scotland (and the islands above) had such a rich tradition. Irish fiddling is better advertised internationally.//

2007 March

• Wolfgang Reisig: Petri Nets - An Introduction 1982. //The seminal work on Petri nets.//
• Kertész Imre: Sorstalanság [Faithlessness] 1975.

2007 February

• Kósa László - Szemerkényi Ágnes: Apáról fiúra - Néprajzi kalauz 2006. //Tankönyvszerű, sok képpel.//

2007 January

• Adrian Ingram: The Gibson 335: Its History and Its Players 2006.
• Szentkuthy Miklós: Doktor Haydn 1959.
• Marcus du Sautoy: The Music of the Primes: Why an Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Matters Marcus du Sautoy 2003.

2006 December

• Móricz Zsigmond: Erdély I

2006 November

• Dave Hunter: The Electric Guitar Sourcebook: How to Find the Sounds You Like 2006.
• Francis Rumsey: Tim McCormick Sound and Recording: An Introduction 2002.

2006 October

• Jean-Marie Proth, Xiaolan Xie: Petri Nets: A Tool for Design and Management of Manufacturing Systems 1997.

2006 September

• Robert Winter, Robert Martin The Beethoven Quartet Companion 1996.
• Farley Mowatt Víziszonyos vitorlás [The Boat who would not float 1969.]
• Muriel Nissel Married to the Amadeus - Life With a String Quartet 1998.

2006 Aug

• Hankiss Elemér Az ezerarcú én 2005.

2006 July

• Keith Wyatt Harmony and Theory: A Comprehensive Source for All Musicians 1998.
• Frédéric Chaudiere Egy hegedű viszontagságai [Tribulations d’un stradivarius en Amérique. 2005]
• Richard Feynmann Hat majdnem könnyű előadás [Six not-so-easy pieces, Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time 1963.]
• Richard Feynmann Hat könnyű előadás [Six easy pieces, 1963.]

2006 June

• Enrico Fermi Thermodynamics 1937.
• Umberto Eco Baudolino 2000.

2006 May

• Móricz Zsigmond:Rokonok
• Lázár Ervin: A négyszögletû kerek erdõ
• Andrej Kurkov: A pingvin és a halál
• Robert Stevenson: A fekete nyíl [The Black Arrow]

2006 April

• Illyés Gyula: A puszták népe 1934. 2x
• Móricz Zsigmond: Sárarany 2x
• Douglas Adams: Az élet, a világmindenség meg minden [Mostly harmless]
• Douglas Adams: Viszlát és köszi a halakat []

2006 March

• Douglas Adams: Az élet, a világmindenség meg minden [Life, universe and everything]
• Douglas Adams: Vendéglõ a világ végén [Restaurant at the end of the universe] 2x
• Douglas Adams: Galaxis Útikalauz Stopposoknak [Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy] 4x
• Zoltai Dénes: A zeneesztétika rövid története
• Devich Sándor: A vonósnégyes egykor és ma 2005.

2006 February (SFI trip)

2006 January

• Márai Sándor: Egy polgár vallomásai

2005 December

• Philip K. Dick: Figyel az ég [Eye in the Sky 1957.]
• Rüdiger Safranski: Mennyi globalizációt bír el az ember? [Wieviel Globalisierung vertra:gt der Mensch? 2003.]
• Csányi Vilmos: Bukfenc és Jeromos - Hogyan gondolkodnak a kutyák? 2.kiadás 2005.
• Rideg Sándor: Indul a bakterház 1943.
• Farley Mowat: Ne féljünk a farkastól![Never Cry Wolf (1963)]

2005 November

• Konrad Lorenz: Ember és kutya [So kam der Mensch auf den Hund 1954.]
• Frank Schätzing: A raj [Der Schwarm 2004]
• Móricz Zsigmond: Nem élhetek muzsikaszó nélkül
• Hegedűs Géza: A költői mesterség - bevezetés a magyar verstanba 1992. 2x

2005 October

• Gerald Durrell: Madarak, vadak, rokonok [Birds, beasts, relatives 1969].
• John Holt: Never Too Late - My Musical Life Story 1978.
• Móricz Zsigmond: úri muri 1928. 2x

2005 September

• Kós Károly: Varjú nemzetség 1925.
• Gerald Durrell: Kalandorok az õserdõben [Three singles to adventure 1964.]
• Julie Lyonn Liebermann: Rockin' out with Blues Fiddle 2000.
• Yehudi Menuhin, Curtis W. Davis: Az ember zenéje [The Music of Man 1979.]
• Szerb Antal: Utas és holdvilág 1937.
• Szerb Antal: A Pendragon Legenda 1934.
• Carl Dahlhaus - Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht: Mi a zene? [Was ist Musik? 1987.]
• Sütõ András: Anyám könnyû álmot ígér 1996.

2005 August

• Arkagyij és Borisz Sztrugackij: Piknik az árokparton, Stalker 1972. 3x
• Fekete István: Hajnal Badányban 19??
• Móricz Zsigmond: Erdély I : Tündérkert 1934. 2x
• Csoóri Sándor: Visszanéztem félutamból 2004.
• Fekete István: A koppányi aga testamentuma 1937. 2x
• Tibor Fisher: Gógyigaleri [The Thought Gang 1994.]

2005 July

2005 June

• Simon Singh: A nagy Fermat-sejtés [ Fermat's Enigma 1997.]
• Vörösmarty Mihály: Csongor és Tünde 1830. 2x
• Gróf Bánffy Miklós: Erdélyi történet 1940.
• Tsai Chi Chung: A beszélõ Zen 1994.

2005 May

• Werner Fuld: Az elátkozott Paganini 2001.
• Stanislaw Lem: Az úr hangja 1968. 2x

2005 April

• Csányi Vilmos: Jeromos, a barátom 2002.
• Toby Faber: Stradivarius: Five Violins, One Cello and a Genius 2004.

2005 March

• Fekete István: Vuk, Csí, Tavasz, Toronyban, éjfél után 2x
• Robert J. Sawyer: Golden Fleece 1990.

2005 February

• Gerald Durrell: Vadászat felvevõgéppel [Two in the Bush, 1966.]
• W. Henry Hill: Antonio Stradivari His Life and Work (1644-1737) 1902.
• Abkarovits Endre: Táncházi portrék 2003.
• Tamási áron: ábel Amerikában

2005 January

• James Beament: The Violin Explained - Components, Mechanism and Sound 1997.
• Tamási áron: ábel az országban
• Strings Magazine: Violin Owner's Manual 2001.
• Tamási áron: ábel a rengetegben 1932. 2x

2004 December

• Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz és Guildenstern halott 1966.
• William Shakespeare: Hamlet 1601. 4x
• Okos Tibor: A hangszeres magyar népzenérõl 2004.
• Isaac Asimov: Alapítvány és Föld [Foundation and Earth] 1986.
• Janna Levin: How The Universe Got Its Spots 2002.

2004 November

• Yasunari Kawabata: The Master of Go 1951.
• Thomas Mann: Varázshegy 1924.
• Hikaru No Go Vol.2.
• Stanislav Lem: Szénanátha[Chain of Chance],Maszk,137 másodperc, Donda Prof 1976.
• Dr. Shung-Hwa Hong: First Kyu 1999.

2004 October

• Fekete István: Téli berek 2x
• Fekete István: Tüskevár 3x
• Fung Yu Lan: A kínai filozófia rövid története [Short History of Chinese Philosophy]1946.

2004 September

• Yumi Hotta, Takeshi Obata: Hikaru No Go Vol.1 2004.
• M. Aschbacher: Finite Group Theory 2000.
• Cho Chikun: Go - A complete introduction to the game 1997.
• Rober J. Sawyer: Calculating God 2000.
• Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes: Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics 1989.
• Robin Wilson: Four colours suffice, How the map problem was solved 2002.
• Yann Martel: Pi élete [Life of Pi]2003.

2004 August

• Alessandro Baricco: Tengeróceán
• Thinking about mathematics - The philosophy of mathematics by Stewart Shapiro, 2000.
• Fekete István: Lutra 2x
• Greg Bear: A vér zenéje [Blood Music 1985.]

2004 July

• Terry Pratchett:A mágia színe [The colour of magic 1983.]
• Sat-okh (Hosszú Toll): A Sós Sziklák völgye 1958.
• Iain M. Banks: Sötét háttér elõtt [Against a Dark Background 1993.]
• George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez: Where Mathematics Comes From How the embodied mind brings mathematics into being 2000.
• Philip K. Dick: Ubik 1969.

2004 June

• B.A.Davey-H.A.Priestley: Introduction to Lattices and Order Second Edition 2002.
• Alan Watts: A bizonytalanság bölcsessége [Wisdom of Insecurity 195?.]
• Hajime Sato: Algebraic Topology: Intuituve Approach 1999.
• Umberto Eco: Hat séta a fikció erdejében [Six Walks in the Fictional Woods 1994.]
• Janwillem van de Wetering: the empty mirror 1973.
• Andrásfai Béla: Vonalak és felületek topológiája 1994. 2x
• R. L. Stevenson: A kincses sziget [Treasure Island, 1895.] 2x
• Keith Devlin: Matematika - a láthatatlan megjelenítése [The language of Mathematics: making the invisible visible, 1998.]
• A jövõ a számtantudósoké - Magyar szerzõk írásai a matematikáról 2004.
• Richard P. Feynman: "Tréfál, Feynman úr?" [Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman?, 1997.]

2004 May

• Richard Bach: A sirály [Jonathan, the seagull]
• Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently holisztikus nyomozóirodája [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, 1988.]
• Benjamin C. Pierce: Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists, 1991. 2x
• Popper Péter: Az önmagába térõ ösvény 2004. 4.kiadás
• George Lakoff, Mark Johnson: Metaphors We Live By 1980.
• William F. Lawver, Robert Rosenburgh: Sets for Mathematics 2003.
• Robert J. Sawyer: Flashforward 2000.
• Kir Bulicsov: Az utolsó háború 1970.

2004 April

• Robert Rosen: Life Itself 1991.
• Clifford Pickover: Liquid Earth 2002.
• Ted Chiang: Stories of your life and others 2001.

2004 March

• Marcia Ascher: Ethnomathematics - A Multicultural View of Mathematical Ideas 1991.

2004 February

• Abe Kóbó: A homok asszonya [19??.]
• G. H. Hardy: A mathematician's apology 1940.
• Simone de Beauvoir: Minden ember halandó [Tous les hommes sont mortales, 1946?]
• Aposztolosz Doxiadisz: Petrosz bácsi és a Goldbach-sejtés [1992, 2000]
• Gerald Durrell: Családom és egyéb állatfajták [My Family and Other Animals, 1956.]

2004 January

• Keith Devlin: Math Gene - How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers are like Gossip 2000.
• Timothy Gowers: Mathematics - A Very Short Introduction 2002. Oxford
• Michel Houllebecq: Elemi Részecskék [Le particules élémentaires, 1998.]

2003 December

• Stanilas Dehaene: A számérzék [The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, 1997.]
• Umberto Eco: A rózsa neve [Il nome della rosa 1980.] 2x
• H. Jürgensen, F. Migliorini, J. Szép: Semigroups 1991.
• Gerald Durrell: A halak jelleme [Fillets of Plaice 1971.]
• Hankiss-Csányi-Fehér-Jelenits-Pléh: Az ember és az antilop 2001.
• John M. Howie: Fundamentals of Semigroup Theory 2nd. ed. 1995.
• László Ervin: A rendszerelmélet távlatai [Systhemtheorie als Weltanschauung 1996.]
• Friedrich Nietzsche: A tragédia születése, avagy görögség és pesszimizmus [Die Geburt der Tragödie oder Griechentum und Pessimismus, 1871.] 2x
• Konrad Lorenz: A civilizált emberiség nyolc halálos bûne 1973.
• Füst Milán: Feleségem története - Störr kapitány feljegyzései 1957.
• Nemeskürty István: Mi magyarok 1989.

2003 November

• Benjamin C. Pierce: Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists, 1991.
• Thomas H. Block: Azután [Airship Nine, 1984.]
• Paul R. Halmos: Naive Set Theory 1960.
• Gerald Durrell: Az istenek kertje [The Garden of Gods, 1978.]

2003 October

• Sír a Tisza (Bognár Antal, Ed.) 2000
• Faubion Bowers (editor): The Classic Tradition of HAIKU, An Anthology 1996
• Olof Johannesson: A nagy számítógép 1966. 2x
• Edwin A. Abbott: Síkföld [Flatland -- A romance of many dimensions, 1884.]
• M.A. Armstrong: Groups and Symmetry 1988.
• Hankiss Elemér: Az emberi kaland 2002.
• Herman Weyl: Symmetry 1952.
• Szentiványi Jenõ: A kõbaltás ember 1972. 2x
• Nagy József: Vége??? Az emberiség lehetõségei 2000-2050-ig 1998?
• Iain M. Banks: Játékmester 2003. [The Player of Games 1988.]

2003 September

• Taisen Deshimaru: Az igazi Zen
• Howard H. Pattee (ed.): Hierarchy Theory 1973.
• Kárpáti Andor: Kurvajó! 2002.
• Steven Johnson: Emergence 2001.

2003 August

• Andy Clark: Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence 2003.
• Philip K. Dick: Az ember a Fellegvárban [orig. The Man in the High Castle, 1962]
• Bohumil Hrabal: õfelsége pincére voltam 1971.
• Márai Sándor: Föld!Föld! Emlékezések 1944-48. 1972.
• Paulo Coelho: Az alkimista
• Philip K. Dick: Különvélemény (novella válogatás)

2003 July

• Akutagava Rjúnoszuke: A vihar kapujában
• Hermann Hesse: Demian
• Rüdiger Safranski: Nietzsche, szellemi életrajz

2003 June

• Sebeõk János: Sárkányviadal 1976-77, 2003.
• Albert-László Barabási: Behálózva 2003. [orig. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life , 2002]
• Glenn Yeffeth (editor): Taking the Red Pill: Science,Philosophy and Religion in "The Matrix" 2003.
• William Gibson: Neurománc (Neuromancer, 1984) 2x
• Sebeők János: Földefelkelte 2003.
• Kurt Vonnegut: Az ötös számú vágóhíd [orig. Slaughterhouse Five, 1966.]
• Stanislaw Lem: Béke a földön [Peace on Earth, 1992]
• Staar Gyula: Matematikusok és teremtett világuk, beszélgetések 2002. [interviews with mathematicians]
• Ursula K. Le Guin: égi eszterga 1992. [orig. The Lathe of Heaven, 1971.]
• Alan W. Watts: A zen útja 1997. [orig. The Way of Zen, 1957]

2003 May

• Krúdy Gyula: Szindbád és társai - válogatott novellák 1911-1933.
• Stefan Helmreich: Silicon Second Nature - Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World. 1998.
• Csáth Géza: Mesék, amelyek rosszul végzõdnek 1906-1918. 2x
• Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash 1992.
• Steven Levy: Hackers - heroes of the computer revolution 1984.

2003 April

• Luciano de Crescenzo: A görög filozófia rendhagyó története 1995.
• Doron Swade: The cogwheel brain - Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer 2000.
• Greg Egan: Axiomatic 1998.
• Viktor Pelevin: Az agyag géppuska 1996.

2003 March

• Pekka Himanen: The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age 2001.
• Füst Milán: Ez mind én voltam egykor, Hábi-Szádi kûzdelmeinek könyve 1957.
• Richard Dawkins: River out of Eden 1995.
• Mihail Bulgakov: A Mester és Margarita, 1973. 2x
• Milan Kundera: A lét elviselhetetlen könnyûsége 1984 2x
• Thomas Mann: Halál Velencében, 1911. 2x
• Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach. TypoTeX 1998.
• Az idõ hídján - a mai magyar SF tükre 2000.
• Linus Torvalds & David Diamond: Just for Fun - The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary L.T. Creator of Linux, 2001.
• Glyn Moody: Rebel Code - Linux and the Open Source Revolution, 2002. Penguin Books

2003 February

• Stephen Jay Gould: Wonderful Life - The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History 1988
• Bohumil Hrabal: Táncórák idõsebbeknek és haladóknak 1964, Bambini di Praga 1947, Szigorúan ellenõrzött vonatok 1965, Sörgyár capriccio 1976 2x
• Richard Dawkins: Szivárványbontás (Unweaving the Rainbow) 1998
• Csáth Géza: Napló 1912-1913
• Umberto Eco: A tegnap szigete 1994
• Stanislaw Lem: Szempillantás 2000
• Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon, 1959,1966.
• Erik Davis: TechGnosis, 1998.

2003 January

• Ray Kurzweil: The age of spiritual machines, 1999.
• David A. Hardy: Visions of Space, artists journey through the cosmos, 1989.
• Michael Crichton: Prey, 2002.

2002 December

(Japan visit)

2002 November

• David Joyner: Adventures in group theory: Rubik's Cube, Merlin's machine, and other mathematical toys, 2002.
• Herbert A. Simon: The Sciences of the Artificial, Third Edition, 1996.

2002 October

• Douglas Adams: Vendéglõ a világ végén
• Douglas Adams: Galaxis útikalauz stopposoknak (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979) 3x

2002 September

• Gáspár András: Kiálts farkast, 1990, 1997
• Arkagyij és Borisz Sztrugackij: A kárhozott város, 1988
• Reuben Hersh: A matematika természete (What is mathematics, really?)
• Andy Clark: A megismerés építõkövei (Microcognition. Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing, 1989)
• Alan Dean Foster: A Fekete Lyuk (The Black Hole, 1979)
• William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive, 1988
• Csányi Vilmos: Kis etológia, 2002

2002 August

• A Hatodik pátriárka szutrája (The Sutra of Hui Neng)
• William Gibson: Virtuálfény (Virtual Light, 1993)
• William Gibson: Idoru, 1996
• William Gibson: Izzó króm (Burning Chrome, 1987 - Johnny mnemonic, Fragments of a Hologram Rose, The Belonging Kind, Hinterlands, Red Star Winter Orbit, New Rose Hotel, The Winter Market, Dogfight, Burning Chrome)
• Greg Egan:Karantén (Quarantine, 1992)
• William Gibson: Számláló nullára (Count Zero - Neuromancer 2, 1986)
• Olaf Stapledon: Az utolsó és elsõ emberek (Last and First Men, 1930)
• Eugen Herrigel: A zen-út (Der Zen-Weg, 1958)
• William Gibson: Neurománc (Neuromancer, 1984)
• Daniel Quinn: Izmael (Ishmael, 1992)
• Stanislaw Lem: Solaris, 1961 2x
• Michael Crichton: Idõvonal (Timeline, 1999)
• Murray Lenster: A grekek ajándéka (The Greks Bring Gifts, 1964)

2002 July

• Michael Coloman: Kiszámíthatatlan számítógépek (Crashing Computers) 1999.
• Stanislaw Lem: Képzelt nagyság, 1973 2x
• Szigeti György (szerk.): Zen történetek, 1996.
• Kim Stanley Robinson: A vörös Mars (Red Mars), 1992.
• Jacek Zakowski: Mrozek, 1996
• Mircea Eliade: Különös kalandok - Cigánylányok, Egy nagy ember, Honigberger doktor titka (Secretul doctorului Honigberger, 1940), A kígyó (Sarpele, 1938)
• Zeisler István: A zen átadása buddhától buddháig, 1996.
• E. H. Carr: Mi a történelem? (What is History?) 1986.
• Shunryu Suzuki: A zen szellem az örök kezdõk szelleme (The Zen Spirit, The Spirit of Eternal Beginners), 1970.
• Salman Rushdie: Az éjfél gyermekei (Midnight's Children), 1981.
• Introduction to Buddhism and the Practice of Zazen -The Teachings of Gudo Nishijima Roshi by Eido Michael Luetchford, 2000.
• A zen - Szung Szán zen mester tanítása (The teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn) 1997.
• Taisen Desimaru: Az út gyakorlása (Question to a Zen Master) 1991.

2002 June

• Thor Heyerdahl: A Ra expedícók (The Ra expedition, 1972?)
• Gennagyij Jefimovics Gorelik: Miért háromdimenziós a tér? (Why is the Space Three Dimensional, 1982)
• Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle, S.J.: Zen - út a megvilágosodáshoz (Zen - Weg zur Erleuchtung, 1995)
• Diana & Richard St Ruth: A zen buddhizmus (The Simple Guide to the Zen Buddhism, 1998)
• Komatsu Sakyo: A holnap elrablói, Novellák 1971
• Isaac Asimov: Nightfall 1941, Frustration 1991.
• Arthur C. Clarke: 2061 Harmadik (2061 Odyssey Three, 1987)
• Stephen Hawking: Az idõ rövid története (A Brief History of Time, 1988)
• Arkagyij és Borisz Sztrugackij: Sánta sors (1986)
• Rüdiger Safranski: Egy némethoni mester, Heidegger es kora (Ein Meister aus Deutschland, Heidegger und seine Zeit,1994 [Heidegger's life])
• Clifford D. Simak: A város (City, 1952)
• Arkagyij és Borisz Sztrugackij: Válaszd az életet (1986)

2002 May

• Herbert Ziergiebel: A világűr foglyai (Die andere Welt, 1966)
• Arkagyij és Borisz Sztrugackij: Piknik az árokparton, Stalker (Roadside Picnic, Stalker, 1980)
• Isaac Asimov: Előjáték az alapítványhoz (Forward the Foundation, 1993)
• Isaac Asimov: A halhatatlanság halála (The End of Eternity, 1963)
• Claudio Magris: Duna (Danubio, 1986 [Danube])
• Laczkó Géza: Innen és túl 1981.
• Ursula K. Le Guin: A sötétség balkeze (The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969)

2002 April

• Isaac Asimov: Az alapítvány pereme (The foundation's edge, 1982)
• Leon Lederman: Az isteni a-tom, Mi a kérdés, ha a válasz a világegyetem? (The God Particle, If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?, 1993)
• Simon Mitton: A Rák-köd (The Crab Nebula, 1979)
• Michael Rowan-Robinson: Kozmikus tájkép (Cosmic Landscape, 1979)

2002 March

• Kuczka Péter (szerk.): ötvenedik (short science-fiction stories, 1977)
• Isaac Asimov: Az istenek is... (The Gods Themselves, 1982)
• Isaac Asimov: A robbanó napok (The Exploding Suns, 1985)
• Carl Sagan: Kapcsolat (Contact, 1985)
• Arthur C. Clarke: Randevú a Rámával (Rendezvous with Rama, 1973)

2002 February

• Martin Rees: A kezdetek kezdete (Before the Begining. Our Universe and Others. 1997)
• John D. Barrow: A világegyetem születése (The Origin of the Universe 1994)
• Fred Hoyle: A fekete felhő (The Black Cloud 1957) Asztronómiai anomália, csillagközi élőlény, civilizáció összeomlása, szóval ez egy igen jó scifi.
• Paul Davies: Az ötödik csoda (The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life, 1998)
• Steven Weinberg: Az első három perc (The First Three Minutes - A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe, 1977)
• P. W. Atkins: A periódusos birodalom (The Periodic Kingdom, 1995)

I read many books before 2002, but unfortunaltely I did not have the idea of recording them.