12 Best nonfiction books like Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook by Jay Cummings

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Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

By: Jay Cummings

4.51

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This textbook is designed for students. Rather than the typical definition-theorem-proof-repeat sty…

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1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

By: Charles Petzold

4.39

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CO… read more

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"Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick."

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

"Yes, the earth is a massive conductor of electricity, but it can also be viewed as both a source of electrons and a repository for electrons. The earth is to electrons as an ocean is to drops of wate…"

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

"Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carry…"

-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

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2. The Selfish Gene

By: Richard Dawkins

4.16

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."

-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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3. Les Misérables

By: Victor Hugo , Lee Fahnestock , Norman MacAfee

4.20

Format: 1463 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped … read more

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"Be happy without picking flaws."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"Not being heard is no reason for silence."

-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

4. Linear Algebra Done Right

By: Sheldon Axler

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

This text for a second course in linear algebra is aimed at math majors and graduate students. The … read more

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  • mathematics
  • textbooks
  • nonfiction

5. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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6. The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time, #3)

By: Robert Jordan

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it… read more

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7. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering

By: Steven H. Strogatz

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The presentation stresses anal… read more

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8. The Fifth Elephant (Discworld, #24; City Watch, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated in… read more

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9. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners

By: None

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

If you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how t… read more

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10. Narrenturm (Trylogia husycka, #1)

By: Andrzej Sapkowski

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Koniec swiata w Roku Panskim 1420 nie nastapil. Nie nastaly Dni Kary i Pomsty poprzedzajace nadejsc… read more

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11. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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12. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By: Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled … read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
"For reasons nobody understands, the universe is deeply mathematical. Maybe God made it that way. Or maybe it’s the only way a universe with us in it could be, because nonmathematical universes can’t …"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

"With the star up above and the blackness of space, I can't avoid feeling awe. How could we, Homo sapiens, an insignificant species on an insignificant planet adrift in a middleweight galaxy, have man…"

-Steven H. Strogatz, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

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14. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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15. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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16. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

By: Sean Carroll

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that h… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
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17. How I Wish I Had Taught Maths: Reflections on research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes

By: Craig Barton

4.62

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

"I genuinely believe I have never taught mathematics better, and my students have never learned mor… read more

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  • mathematics
  • nonfiction
Cover of All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School by Thomas A. Garrity

18. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

By: Thomas A. Garrity

4.14

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Few beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects possess the daunting… read more

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  • mathematics
  • textbooks
  • nonfiction
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19. Understanding Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

By: Stephen Abbott

4.47

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This elementary presentation exposes readers to both the process of rigor and the rewards inherent … read more

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  • textbooks
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20. Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook

By: Jay Cummings

4.51

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This textbook is designed for students. Rather than the typical definition-theorem-proof-repeat sty… read more

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  • mathematics
  • textbooks
  • nonfiction
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21. Linear Algebra (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

By: Serge Lang

3.89

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Linear Algebra is intended for a one-term course at the junior or senior level. It begins with an e… read more

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8 Top mathematics books like Real Analysis: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook by Jay Cummings

Linear Algebra Done Right

Sheldon Axler

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Steven H. Strogatz

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

Sean Carroll

3.96

Transform Your Habits

How I Wish I Had Taught Maths: Reflections on research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes

Craig Barton

4.62

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

4.18

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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