Here I collect for various (scientific) fields the absolutely most important books. Totemic Tomes if you will. Books you can’t miss. Books that everyone in a field should have read, or belatedly discover they haven’t yet. The book you wish you’d known about before wading through several mediocre works. “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges Many of these books are still entirely relevant, but a few have been overtaken by new discoveri...
