Free Books
There’s nothing like a good, free book. This is a list of all books I’ve read which can be legally downloaded online, free of charge. It’s meant to be comprehensive–quality varies. I’ll say this much: for every book listed, you’ll get more than you paid for.
- Sociology of free software
- The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (2001) by Pekka Himanen
- Free Software, Free Society (2002) by Richard Stallman
- Code v2.0 (2006) by Lawrence Lessig
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Software (2008) by Christopher M. Kelty
- Free as in Freedom (2010) by Richard Stallman
- Coding Freedom (2013) by Gabriella Colman
- Technical
- The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (1994) by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann
- The Debian Administrator’s Handbook (2003) by Raphaël Hertzog
- Security Engineering (2008) by Ross Anderson
- Pro Git (2014) by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub
- Kali Linux Revealed (2017) by Raphaël Hertzog, Jim O’Gorman, and Mati Aharoni
- Miscellaneous
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987) by Cresson Kearny
- Republic, Lost (2011) by Lawrence Lessig
- The Life You Can Save (2019) by Peter Singer
Here are a few that I haven’t read but hope to someday. Let me know if you beat me to it.
- Where There is No Doctor (1977)
- Where There is No Dentist (1983)
- Little Brother (2008) by Corey Doctorow
- Silent Hill: The Terror Engine (2011) by Bernard Perron
- Engineering a Safer World (2012) by Nancy G. Leveson
- Homeland (2013) by Corey Doctorow
- Site Reliability Engineering (2016) by Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, and Jennifer Petoff
- Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D (2017) by Fabien Sanglard
- Game Engine Black Book: DOOM (2018) by Fabien Sanglard