Totemic Books for Many Fields
Here I collect for various (scientific) fields the absolutely most important books. Totemic Tomes if you will. Books you can’t miss. Books that everyone in a field should have read, or belatedly discover they haven’t yet. The book you wish you knew about before having read several mediocre works.
Many of these books are still entirely relevant, but a few have been overtaken by new discoveries, but have however not relinquished their epic status. Some of these books are so popular that there is a sort of counter culture of people pointing out the flaws in these exalted works. But to me, these attacks only serve to show just how important these books are.
If you have additions to this list, from fields already mentioned, or from other areas, I’d love to hear about it on bert@hubertnet.nl! Books are for sharing. Especially the very good ones.
Note, some of these books are extraordinarily expensive. However, with some work, you can find second hand or digital copies online for most of them.
