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You might want to look at Random Reading Suggestion, but to start, here are some books, in no particular order:
| Title | Author | Suggested by | Comment |
| Numbers: rational and irrational | Ivan Niven | Adam Atkinson | |
| 17 Equations the Changed the World | @JoatStewart (Ian Stewart) | ||
| The Book of Numbers | John Horton Conway and Richard Guy | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Great Mathematical Problems | @JoatStewart (Ian Stewart) | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Theory That Would Not Die | Sharon Bertsch McGrayne | @IceColBeveridge | |
| Fermat's Last Theorem | @SLSingh | @johng225 @ColinTheMathmo @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans | Charles H Kahn | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| A History of π | Petr Beckmann | ||
| An Imaginary Tale | Paul Nahin | ||
| Humble Pie | @StandUpMaths (Matt Parker) | @Heimdayl @ColinTheMathmo | |
| In search of infinity | Vilenkin | @RobJLow | |
| Mathematical Puzzles And Diversions | Martin Gardner | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Beating the Odds | Rob Eastaway & John Haigh | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Prime Obsession | John Derbyshire | ||
| Math with Bad Drawings | Ben Orlin | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Beyond Numeracy | ?? | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Housekeeper And The Professor | Yoko Ogawa | @mathstechnology (Tom Button) @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Logicomix | Alecos Papadatos, Apostolos Doxiadis, and Christos Papadimitriou | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Art of Logic | @DrEugeniaCheng | ||
| Hello World | @FryRsquared (Hannah Fry) | @MikeAndAllie @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Letters to a Mathematician | @JoatStewart (Ian Stewart) | ||
| On Numbers And Games | John Horton Conway | @PaulsPrattle | |
| The Big Bang | Simon Singh | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Genius | James Gleick | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | @MelMitchell1 (Melanie Mitchell) | @MikeAndAllie | |
| The Princeton Companion to Mathematics | @wtgowers (Tim Gowers) | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Math From 3 to 7 | Alexander Zvonkin | @ccppurcell@mathstodon.xyz | Probably for parents and educators |
| Mathematics + Art: A cultural History | Lynn Gamwell | @PaulsPrattle | |
| Concepts of Modern Mathematics | @JoatStewart (Ian Stewart) | @Tomboktu | |
| The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage | @SydneyPadua | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Understanding Analysis | Stephen Abbot | @rnather@mathstodon.xyz | Helpful for its very illuminating use of examples |
| The Ultimate Mathematical Challenge | UKMT | ||
| The King of Infinite Space | Siobhan Roberts | @PaulsPrattle | |
| 1089 and All That | David Acheson | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Islamic Geometric Patterns | Eric Broug | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Code Book | @SLSingh | @ColinTheMathmo @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Millennium Problems | Keith Devlin | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Mathematics for Human Flourishing | @mathyawp (Francis Su) | @KellyDarkeMath @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Infinite Powers | Steven @Strogatz | @RobJLow @marian_v_o @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Imagining Numbers | Barry Mazur | ||
| Gallery of the Infinite | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Maths on the Back of an Envelope | @RobEastaway | @last_centurion @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Foolproof | Brian Hayes | @IceColBeveridge | |
| Chaos | James Gleick | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Symmetries of Things | Goodman-Strauss, Burgiel, and John Horton Conway | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Feynman | Ottavianni & Myrick | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Elementary Number Theory: A Problem Oriented Approach | Joe Roberts | @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz | Doesn't require a lot of background, the puzzles are actually fun, and the thing's just plain pretty |
| Tales of Impossibility | @divbyzero (Dave Richeson) | @RanAriGur | |
| Cracking Mathematics | @IceColBeveridge (Colin Beveridge) | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Art of the Infinite | Robert Kaplan & Ellen Kaplan | @MohamarF | |
| How to Think Like a Mathematician | @k_houston_math (Kevin Houston) | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Journey Through Genius | William Dunham | ||
| A Companion to Analysis | Tom Körner | Adam Atkinson | |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | @mathbabedotorg (Cathy O'Neil) | @MikeAndAllie | |
| Indra's Pearls | Mumford, Series, and Wright | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Alex's Adventures in Numberland | @AlexBellos | @ColinTheMathmo @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Unexpected Hanging | Martin Gardner | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway | Siobhan Roberts | ||
| The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus | @FryRsquared (Hannah Fry) & Dr Thomas Oleron Evans | @Heimdayl | |
| Beyond Infinity | @DrEugeniaCheng | @KellyDarkeMath | |
| Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis | Dan Rockmore | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Measurement | Paul Lockhart | ||
| The Math Behind the Music | Harkleroad | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| You Can Count On Monsters | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Pythagoras' Theorem | RBA | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Life on the Infinite Farm | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| The GCHQ Puzzle Book | GCHQ | ||
| Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes | @RichardElwes | ||
| Flatland | Edwin Abbott Abbott | @bmreiniger@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Finding Moonshine | Marcus du Sautoy | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities | @JoatStewart (Ian Stewart) | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Four Colours Suffice | Robin Wilson | @MarHarStar @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Euler's Gem | @divbyzero (Dave Richeson) | @ProfNoodlearms | |
| The Joy of X | Steven @Strogatz | @RobJLow | |
| A History of Mathematics | Carl B Boyer | ||
| Mathematics 1001 | @RichardElwes | @PaulsPrattle | |
| Pythagoras | Kitty Ferguson | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| The Penguin Dictionary of Curious And Interesting Geometry | David Wells | @matheknitician | |
| The Order of Time | @CarloRovelli | @marian_v_o | |
| The Maths Gene | Keith Devlin | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Winning Ways | Elwyn Berlekamp, John Horton Conway, and Richard Guy | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| The Pleasures of Counting | Tom Körner | Adam Atkinson | |
| AntiMatter | Frank Close | ||
| Proofs from The Book | Aigner and Ziegler | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Beautiful Geometry | Maor And Jost | @PaulsPrattle | |
| Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension | @StandUpMaths (Matt Parker) | @ColinTheMathmo | |
| Really Big Numbers | Rich Schwartz | @jennytrustad@mathstodon.xyz | |
| The Man Who Loved Only Numbers | Paul Hiffman | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| A Mathematician Plays the Market | @JohnAllenPaulos | ||
| e: The Story of a Number | Eli Maor | ||
| How to Bake Pi | @DrEugeniaCheng | ||
| The Maths of Life and Death | @Kit_Yates_Maths (Kit Yates) | ||
| Mathematician's Lament | Paul Lockhart | @KellyDarkeMath | |
| You are a Mathematician | David Wells | @RobJLow @matheknitician | A good way to see the difference between studying the discipline of mathematics and doing mathematics. |
| The Mathematical Experience | Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| Music of the Primes | @MarcusduSautoy | @johng225 | |
| Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction | @wtgowers (Tim Gowers) | @bmreiniger@mathstodon.xyz | |
| How not to be wrong | @JSEllenberg | @RobJLow | |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas Hofstadter | @Tomboktu @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) | |
| How To Solve It | George Pólya | @ccppurcell@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. | Charles Seife | ||
| A Compendium of Mathematical Methods | @MathsJem | @Heimdayl | |
| What is Mathematics? | Courant and Robbins | ||
| 50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know | Professor Tony Crilly | @ChristianP | |
| DIV, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus | Harry M. Schey | @kimreece@mathstodon.xyz | |
| Prelude to Mathematics | W.W. Sawyer | ||
| Can You Solve My Problems | @AlexBellos | ||
| This Is Your Brain On Music | Daniel J. Levitin | @MathsTechnology (Tom Button) |
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