Non-mathematics books (in no
particular order):
Name of the rose, by Umberto Eco,
The Drowned and the saved, by Primo Levi, History of english
speaking peeople, by Winston Churchill, Red Cavalry, by Isaac
Babel, The Golem, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Assistant, by
Bernard Malamud, Papal Sins: Structures of Deceit, by Garry
Wills, The Albigensian Crusades, by Joseph Strayer, The
Exodus, by Leon Uris, Mila 18, by Leon Uris, Black Arrow, by
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dawn/Night/Day, by Eli Wiesel, Madame
Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, The Last Temptation, by Nikos
Kazantzakis.
Listed below are my favorite mathematics book in various
categories. These are by no means the only good books in the
areas listed, just the ones that I happen to prefer over
others. Some of these books are old friends of mine, others
are of more recent vintage. The list will sure grow and evolve
with time!
Calculus/introductory
analysis:
Calculus, by M. Spivak
Differential and integral calculus,
by E. Landau.
Calculus and advanced
calculus with applications:
Introduction to Calculus and
Analysis I and II, by Courant and John.
Undergraduate analysis:
Principles of mathematical
analysis, by W. Rudin.
Undergraduate Fourier
analysis:
Fourier analysis, by Stein and
Shakarchi
Undergraduate abstract
algebra:
Topics in algebra, by I. Herstein.
Undergraduate number theory:
Elementary number theory, by E.
Landau.
Graduate analysis:
Real and complex analysis, by W.
Rudin.
Real analysis, by Stein and
Shakarchi.
Combinatorial geometry:
Combinatorial geometry, by Agarwal
and Pach.
Lectures on discrete geometry, by
Matousek.
Graduate Fourier analysis:
Lectures on harmonic analysis, by
T. Wolff
Harmonic analysis, by E. Stein
Fourier integrals in classical
analysis, by C. Sogge
Graduate abstract algebra:
Algebra, by Serge Lang.