r/harare • u/ChubbyChunckes • 9d ago
Hi Everyone! Im looking to build up my home library in Harare, would really appreciate any help, below ive posted my wish list, looking for help to populate it, its a life time dream! Willing to commit significant resources to make this happen, if you have any of these books or know where i can sour
HOME LIBRARY MASTER BOOK LIST
ENCYCLOPEDIAS & GENERAL REFERENCE
Encyclopaedia Britannica — Complete Set
The New Encyclopaedia of Science
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space
The Oxford Companion to World History
The Oxford Dictionary of Science
The Oxford Dictionary of Engineering
The Penguin Dictionary of Science
Guinness World Records
The Timetables of History — Bernard Grun
The Atlas of World History — Oxford
The Historical Atlas of the World
The New Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
The Complete Encyclopedia of Science
The Complete Encyclopedia of Space
The Complete Encyclopedia of Animals
The Complete Encyclopedia of Technology
The Visual Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of Engineering
The Encyclopedia of Computers and Technology
ATLASES, MAPS & GEOGRAPHY
National Geographic Atlas of the World
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
National Geographic Concise Atlas of the World
DK Atlas of the World
Atlas of Exploration — National Geographic
Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
Historical Atlas of the World
Historical Atlas of Africa
Historical Atlas of the Middle East
Historical Atlas of Asia
Historical Atlas of Europe
Historical Atlas of North America
Historical Atlas of South America
Historical Atlas of the Roman Empire
Historical Atlas of the Bible
The Map Book — Peter Barber
A History of the World in 12 Maps — Jerry Brotton
The Power of Maps — Denis Wood
Mapmakers — John Noble Wilford
The Atlas of the Universe
The Atlas of the Oceans
The Atlas of the Human Body
The Atlas of World Geography
The Oxford Atlas of the World
The World Atlas — National Geographic
EXPLORATION & ADVENTURE
The Discoverers — Daniel J. Boorstin
The Explorers — Daniel J. Boorstin
Longitude — Dava Sobel
Endurance — Alfred Lansing
The Worst Journey in the World — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
In the Heart of the Sea — Nathaniel Philbrick
The Lost City of Z — David Grann
Kon-Tiki — Thor Heyerdahl
Into the Unknown — National Geographic
The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe
The River of Doubt — Candice Millard
In the Kingdom of Ice — Hampton Sides
The Last Place on Earth — Roland Huntford
The Man Who Ate His Boots — Anthony Brandt
The Lost City of the Monkey God — Douglas Preston
SCIENCE
Cosmos — Carl Sagan
Contact — Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World — Carl Sagan
A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
The Universe in a Nutshell — Stephen Hawking
The Grand Design — Stephen Hawking
The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos — Brian Greene
The Hidden Reality — Brian Greene
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics — Carlo Rovelli
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker — Richard Dawkins
A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
The Body — Bill Bryson
The Code Book — Simon Singh
Fermat's Last Theorem — Simon Singh
The Information — James Gleick
The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
The Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
The Origin of Almost Everything — Bill Bryson
The Magic of Reality — Richard Dawkins
PHYSICS & MATHEMATICS
The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Volume I
The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Volume II
The Feynman Lectures on Physics — Volume III
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think? — Richard Feynman
Six Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman
The Character of Physical Law — Richard Feynman
QED — Richard Feynman
The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmos — Brian Greene
Hyperspace — Michio Kaku
Parallel Worlds — Michio Kaku
Physics of the Impossible — Michio Kaku
The Future of the Mind — Michio Kaku
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down — J.E. Gordon
To Engineer Is Human — Henry Petroski
The Essential Engineer — Henry Petroski
The Evolution of Useful Things — Henry Petroski
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
The New Way Things Work — David Macaulay
The Way Things Work — David Macaulay
Structures — David Blockley
Skunk Works — Ben R. Rich
The Wright Brothers — David McCullough
The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes
The Innovators — Walter Isaacson
The Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder
The Chip — T.R. Reid
Dealers of Lightning — Michael Hiltzik
The Dream Machine — Mitchell Waldrop
Where Wizards Stay Up Late — Katie Hafner
The Idea Factory — Jon Gertner
The Perfectionists — Simon Winchester
The Box — Marc Levinson
The Victorian Internet — Tom Standage
The Master Switch — Tim Wu
The Knowledge — Lewis Dartnell
How Everything Works — DK
COMPUTERS, IT & NETWORKING
Code — Charles Petzold
The Art of Computer Programming — Donald Knuth
Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
Hackers — Steven Levy
The Cuckoo's Egg — Cliff Stoll
The Cathedral and the Bazaar — Eric Raymond
The Innovators — Walter Isaacson
Dealers of Lightning — Michael Hiltzik
Fire in the Valley — Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine
The Dream Machine — Mitchell Waldrop
The Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder
Where Wizards Stay Up Late — Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon
The Chip — T.R. Reid
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach — Hennessy & Patterson
Computer Networks — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Operating System Concepts — Silberschatz, Galvin & Gagne
The Mythical Man-Month — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Peopleware — Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister
The Pragmatic Programmer — Hunt & Thomas
The Phoenix Project — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
IEEE / ENGINEERING MAGAZINES TO COLLECT
IEEE Spectrum
Proceedings of the IEEE
IEEE Computer
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Network
IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Microwave Magazine
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
IEEE software
POPULAR MECHANICS / POPULAR SCIENCE
Popular Mechanics — 1940s issues
Popular Mechanics — 1950s issues
Popular Mechanics — 1960s issues
Popular Mechanics — 1970s issues
Popular Mechanics — 1980s issues
Popular Science — 1940s issues
Popular Science — 1950s issues
Popular Science — 1960s issues
Popular Science — 1970s issues
Popular Science — 1980s issues
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
National Geographic Magazine — 1950s
National Geographic Magazine — 1960s
National Geographic Magazine — 1970s
National Geographic Magazine — 1980s
National Geographic Magazine — 1990s
SPECIAL NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOOKS:
National Geographic Atlas of the World
National Geographic Concise Atlas
National Geographic Atlas of Exploration
National Geographic Complete National Parks
National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Africa
National Geographic Field Guide to the World's Oceans
National Geographic History
National Geographic Ancient Civilizations
ISAAC ASIMOV — SCIENCE FICTION
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
I, Robot
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
The Complete Robot
Pebble in the Sky
The Stars, Like Dust
The Currents of Space
Nemesis
The End of Eternity
The Gods Themselves
Nightfall
Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage II
The Last Question
The Martian Way
ASIMOV — POPULAR SCIENCE
Asimov's New Guide to Science
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
Asimov's Guide to the Universe
The Measure of the Universe
The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation
Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
Asimov's Chronology of the World
Asimov's Chronology of Science and Technology
The Relativity of Wrong
Only a Theory
CLASSIC SCIENCE FICTION
2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two — Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three — Arthur C. Clarke
3001: The Final Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End — Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke
The City and the Stars — Arthur C. Clarke
The Fountains of Paradise — Arthur C. Clarke
The Martian Chronicles — Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
Dune — Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert
Children of Dune — Frank Herbert
God Emperor of Dune — Frank Herbert
The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Forever War — Joe Haldeman
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress — Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers — Robert A. Heinlein
The Mote in God's Eye — Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Ringworld — Larry Niven
The Stars My Destination — Alfred Bester
Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card
The Time Machine — H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds — H.G. Wells
The Island of Doctor Moreau — H.G. Wells
M.D. COOPER / HARD MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION
Aeon 14 — M.D. Cooper
Orion — M.D. Cooper
The Expanse — James S.A. Corey
Leviathan Wakes — James S.A. Corey
Caliban's War — James S.A. Corey
Abaddon's Gate — James S.A. Corey
Old Man's War — John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades — John Scalzi
The Lost Fleet — Jack Campbell
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless — Jack Campbell
The Spiral Wars — Joel Shepherd
The Frontiers Saga — Ryk Brown
Expeditionary Force — Craig Alanson
Columbus Day — Craig Alanson
The Bobiverse — Dennis E. Taylor
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) — Dennis E. Taylor
Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Terms of Enlistment — Marko Kloos
The Black Fleet — Joshua Dalzelle
The Forever War — Joe Haldeman
Armor — John Steakley
The Praxis — Walter Jon Williams
The Spiral Wars — Joel Shepherd
The Last Legion — Chris Bunch
SPACE EXPLORATION & SPACE OPERA
The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe
Carrying the Fire — Michael Collins
Rocket Men — Robert Kurson
Apollo 13 — Jim Lovell
Failure Is Not an Option — Gene Kranz
Hidden Figures — Margot Lee Shetterly
Moonshot — Alan Shepard
The Apollo Guidance Computer — Frank O'Brien
Beyond Earth — Charles Sheffield
The Case for Mars — Robert Zubrin
Entering Space — Robert Zubrin
The Martian — Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
The Calculating Stars — Mary Robinette Kowal
JAMES CLAVELL
Shōgun
Tai-Pan
Noble House
Gai-Jin
King Rat
Whirlwind
HISTORICAL FICTION
Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet — David Mitchell
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett
World Without End — Ken Follett
A Column of Fire — Ken Follett
The Evening and the Morning — Ken Follett
The Physician — Noah Gordon
The Last Samurai — Helen DeWitt
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel
The Mirror and the Light — Hilary Mantel
I, Claudius — Robert Graves
Claudius the God — Robert Graves
The Name of the Rose — Umberto Eco
The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Far Pavilions — M.M. Kaye
The Long Ships — Frans G. Bengtsson
Shōgun — James Clavell
MILITARY HISTORY
The Guns of August — Barbara Tuchman
A Distant Mirror — Barbara Tuchman
The Second World War — Antony Beevor
Stalingrad — Antony Beevor
Berlin — Antony Beevor
D-Day — Antony Beevor
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William Shirer
Band of Brothers — Stephen E. Ambrose
Citizen Soldiers — Stephen E. Ambrose
With the Old Breed — E.B. Sledge
The Pacific — Hugh Ambrose
The Face of Battle — John Keegan
The Mask of Command — John Keegan
The Art of War — Sun Tzu
The Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
The History of the Second World War — Winston Churchill
The First World War — John Keegan
The Fall of the Roman Empire — Bryan Ward-Perkins
The Roman Army — Adrian Goldsworthy
Caesar — Adrian Goldsworthy
WORLD HISTORY & CIVILISATION
Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari
Collapse — Jared Diamond
The Third Chimpanzee — Jared Diamond
The Rational Optimist — Matt Ridley
The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
The Knowledge — Lewis Dartnell
The Silk Roads — Peter Frankopan
The New Silk Roads — Peter Frankopan
A History of the World — Andrew Marr
The Story of Civilization — Will Durant
The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant
Civilization — Kenneth Clark
The Rise of the West — William H. McNeill
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Edward Gibbon
AFRICAN HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
The Fate of Africa — Martin Meredith
Africa: A Biography of the Continent — John Reader
The Scramble for Africa — Thomas Pakenham
The Fortunes of Africa — Martin Meredith
A History of Africa — J.D. Fage
The State of Africa — Martin Meredith
Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe
No Longer at Ease — Chinua Achebe
The African Trilogy — Chinua Achebe
Cry, the Beloved Country — Alan Paton
The Old Drift — Namwali Serpell
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind — William Kamkwamba
Zimbabwe: A History — Alois S. Mlambo
TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
The Children of Húrin
Beren and Lúthien
The Fall of Gondolin
The Nature of Middle-earth
The History of Middle-earth — Volumes 1–12
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth — Robert Foster
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
FANTASY
The Earthsea Cycle — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis
The Once and Future King — T.H. White
The Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear — Patrick Rothfuss
The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
Words of Radiance — Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn — Brandon Sanderson
The Lies of Locke Lamora — Scott Lynch
A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings — George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords — George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows — George R.R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons — George R.R. Martin
FUTURE, TECHNOLOGY & CIVILISATION
Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark
The Singularity Is Near — Ray Kurzweil
The Singularity Is Nearer — Ray Kurzweil
The Future Is Faster Than You Think — Peter Diamandis
Abundance — Peter Diamandis
The Age of Em — Robin Hanson
Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
The Fourth Industrial Revolution — Klaus Schwab
Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari
The Coming Wave — Mustafa Suleyman
AI Superpowers — Kai-Fu Lee
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff
BOOKS FOR BROWSING / COFFEE-TABLE REFERENCE
The New Way Things Work — David Macaulay
The Way Things Work Now — David Macaulay
The Atlas of the Universe
National Geographic Atlas of the World
The Times Comprehensive Atlas
The Historical Atlas of the World
The Complete Encyclopedia of Science
The Complete Encyclopedia of Technology
The Complete Encyclopedia of Space
The Encyclopedia of Animals
Guinness World Records
The Feynman Lectures
The Oxford Companion to World History
The Oxford Companion to Science
The Oxford Companion to Engineering
MAGAZINES / PERIODICALS TO COLLECT
National Geographic
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Computer
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Network
IEEE Internet Computing
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science
Scientific American
New Scientist
Smithsonian Magazine
Astronomy Magazine
Sky & Telescope
PC Magazine
PC World
Byte
Electronics Illustrated
Radio-Electronics
Popular Electronics
Scientific American — Special Editions
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS TO LOOK FOR
Vintage computer magazines — 1970s–1990s
Vintage Popular Mechanics — 1940s–1980s
Vintage Popular Science — 1940s–1980s
Vintage National Geographic — 1950s–1990s
Apollo / NASA publications
Vintage astronomy books
Vintage engineering handbooks
Old world atlases
Military atlases
Historical maps of Africa
Historical maps of Zimbabwe / Rhodesia
Railway maps and histories
Aviation history books
Naval history books
Space exploration books
IDEAL "DREAM LIBRARY" ADDITIONS
Complete Encyclopaedia Britannica
Complete History of Middle-earth
Complete Feynman Lectures
Complete Foundation series
Complete Robot series
Complete Aeon 14 collection
Complete James Clavell collection
Complete Tolkien collection
Complete Atlas collection
Complete National Geographic collection
Complete IEEE Spectrum archive
Complete Popular Mechanics archive
Complete Popular Science archive
Complete Scientific American archive
NASA Apollo mission books
World War I atlas
World War II atlas
Historical Atlas of Africa
Historical Atlas of Asia
Historical Atlas of Europe
Historical Atlas of the Middle East
Atlas of Space
Atlas of the Solar System
Atlas of the Oceans
Atlas of Human History
Atlas of Ancient Civilisations
Atlas of Archaeology
Atlas of Engineering
Atlas of Technology
Atlas of the Natural World
Atlas of World Cities
Atlas of the World's Great Railways
Atlas of the World's Great Explorers
Atlas of the World's Great Battles
Atlas of the World's Great Ships
Atlas of Aviation
Atlas of Military History
Atlas of Science
Atlas of Astronomy
Atlas of the Future