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Mathematics

Spin Geometry by Lawson and Michelson
Einstein Manifolds by Besse
Geometric Quantization by Woodhouse
Road to Reality by Penrose
Gravitation, Gauge Theories And Differential Geometry Eguchi, Gilkey, and Hansen 1980
Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak
Heat Kernels and Dirac Operators by Ezra Getzler, Michèle Vergne, and Nicole Berline
Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Loring W. Tu and Raoul Bott
Morse Theory / Characteristic Classes by Milnor
Quantum Mechanics and the Particles of Nature: An Outline for Mathematicians by Anthony Sudbery

Biology

Double Helix by James D. Watson
Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature by Erwin Chargaff
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson

History of Science

Science Since Babylon by Derek de Solla Price

Evolutionary Theory

Extracted from Episode 472 of the James Altucher podcast @43:03 :

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution by Stephen Jones

From Eric's bookshelves

Twitter photo of Eric's bookshelf:

1st (Top) Shelf:

Turkish Phrase Book
Russian Course
The Loom of Language by Bodmer and Hogben
Spoken and Written Hindi by Fairbanks and Misra
Teach Yourself Hindi
A Guide to Latex by Kopka and Daly
Turkish Grammar
Everyday Indonesian
Colloquial Turkish
Teach Yourself Hindi by Rupert Snell
Hindi & Urdu
Hindustani for the Tourist - ?
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Basic Algebra I by Nathan Jacobson
The Ideas of Particle Physics by G. D. Coughlan & J. E. Dodd
Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart & Stork
Introduction to Gauge Field Theories by Masud Chaichian (Author), Nikolai F. Nelipa (Contributor)
Supermanifolds: Second Edition by Bryce DeWitt
General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics by Norbert Straumann
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Differential Topology by Victor Guillemin & Alan Pollack
Morse Theory by John Milnor
Characteristic Classes by John Willard Milnor & James D. Stasheff
Elements of the Theory of Computation by Harry Lewis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
Elements of Information Theory by Thomas M Cover & Joy A. Thomas
A History of Economic Theory
Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Peddling Prosperity by Paul Krugman
Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist by George J. Stigler
Accounting for Tastes by Gary S. Becker
More Heat than Light by Philip Mirowski
The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
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2nd Shelf:

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Particle Physics: A Los Alamos Primer by Necia Cooper
Introduction to Linear Algebra by Gilbert Strang
Modern Elementary Particle Physics by Gordon Kane
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Introduction to Superstrings
INVARIANCE THEORY, THE HEAT EQUATION, AND THE ATIYAH-SINGER INDEX THEOREM by Peter B. Gilkey
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry IV by Michael Spivak
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry III by Michael Spivak
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry V by Michael Spivak
Principles of Quantum Mechanics by R. Shankar
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time by Hawkins, Ellis, et al.
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry I by Michael Spivak
A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry II by Michael Spivak
An Elementary Primer for Gauge Theory by K. Moriyasu
Calculus on Manifolds by Michael Spivak
Shelter Island II
Topology and Analysis by B. Booss & D. D. Bleecker
Representations of Compact Lie Groups
Lie Algebras in Particle Physics by Howard Georgi
Grand Unified Theories by Graham Ross
Quantum Field Theory and Topology by Albert S. Schwartz, E. Yankowsky, S. Levy
Essential Relativity by W. Rindler
Modern Geometry I by B. A. Dubrovin & S. P. Novikov
Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology by Raoul Bott & Loring W. Tu
Analysis, Manifolds and Physics by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat & Cecile DeWitt-Morette
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Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem by Patrick Shanahan
Concepts of Particle Physics by Kurt Gottfried & Victor F. Weisskopf
General Relativity for Mathematicians by R. K. Sachs & H. Wu

3rd Shelf:

36 Lectures in Biology by S. E. Luria
Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
Projecting Science and Engineering Personnel Requirements for the 1990s - How Good are the Numbers? by United States Congress
Perfumes by Luca Turin & Tania Sanchez
The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by Jagdish Mehra
The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry, and the Work of Roger Penrose by S. A. Huggett (Editor), L. J. Mason (Editor), K. P. Tod (Editor), S. T. Tsou (Editor), N. M. J. Woodhouse (Editor)
QED and the Men Who Made It by Silvan S. Schweber
Gravitation by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, & John Archibald Wheeler
Encyclopedia of Cosmology by Norriss S. Hetherington
Encyclopedia of Physics by Rita G. Lerner and George L. Trigg
Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time by Stephen A. Fulling
Topics in Advanced Scientific Computation by Richard E. Crandall
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The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
Heraclitean Fire by Erwin Chargaff
A Literary Companion to Science edited by Walter Gratzer
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
The Denial of Death
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander (That's right, he has two copies of this book)
Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America by Scott Beekman
Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein

4th (Bottom) Shelf:

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
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Makam by Karl L. Signell
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Six
Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
100 Great Operas by Henry W. Simon
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Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions by Chris Quigg
Eat the Rich by P. J. O'Rourke
The Diary of Anais Nin Volume Three
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The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
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I Always Look Up the Word "e-gre-gious" by Maxwell Nurnberg
Give War a Chance by P. J. O'Rourke
Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut by P. J. O'Rourke
Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard, Stephen Bann, & Michael Metteer
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Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Father to Son
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