Books you’d like to have read

I asked on Twitter today for books that people would like to have read, but don't want to put in the time and effort to read.

What's a book you would like to have read but don't want to read?

- John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) June 15, 2018

Here are the responses I got, organized by category.

Literature:

• The Brothers Karamazov
• War and Peace
• Crime and Punishment
• Gravity's Rainbow
• Infinite Jest
• Finnegans Wake
• Ulysses
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Iliad

Math, Science, and Software:

• Art of Computer Programming
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++
• An Introduction to Default Logic
• A Brief History of Time
• A New Kind of Science
• Partial Differential Equations
• Princeton Companion to Mathematics
• The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem

History and economics

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The Wealth of Nations
• Das Kapital

Religion and philosophy

• The Bible
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• The Quran
• Critique of Pure Reason

Misc:

• Crucial Conversations