A selection of good books
Twenty good math books
Educated - T. Westover (Fascinating story about a successful woman with an unusual background.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius - R. Monk (Certain amount of philosophy and an excess amount of solitude.)
Becoming - M. Obama (A warm story with reflections on relevant matters.)
A Promised Land - B. Obama (If you want to learn US politics. Note: The choices of books does not represent my political opinion; these are just inspiring books in my opinion. I find it useful to read books of different viewpoints.)
The Art of Travel - A. de Botton (How you imagined the trip versus how it became in reality.)
The Spirit Level - K. Pickett, R. G. Wilkinson (The truth about society, according to an older woman.)
The Diet Myth - T. Spector (Nutrition from all possible perspectives.)
The Emigrants - V. Moberg (How Swedes dreamt of America...)
The Genius from Breslau - L. Einhorn (About a scientist.)
The Lost Girls of Paris - P. Jenoff (Female spies and many unexpected changes to the story.)
The Kingdom - J. Nesbø (Exceptionally good writer.)
The Redbreast - J. Nesbø (As above.)
The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig (An illuminating biography about European history, culture, literature and a striving for intellectual freedom.)
Crime and Punishment - F. Dostojevskij
The Royal Game (Schachnovelle) - Stefan Zweig (Captivating novella about a beautiful chess obsession.)
A Mathematician's Apology - G. H. Hardy (If you need to find an excuse for doing math.)
The Husband - G-B. Sundström (A well-written Swedish classic yet timeless book. One of my friends' favourite.)
Récoltes et semailles - A. Grothendieck (A great deal of interesting philosophy about mathematical research and phenomena in the mathematical community; a must read for algebraic geometers!)
A i alla ämnen - R. Merhzad (All you need to know for acing high school.)
Plugga smart och lär dig mer - B. Liljeqvist (A smorgasbord of memorization techniques.)
Euclidean Geometry in Mathematical Olympiads - E. Chen (For geometry enthusiasts! My favourite math book in upper secondary school)
An Introduction to Diophantine Equations - T. Andreescu, D. Andrica, D. Cucurezeanu (More than you thought you needed for solving diophantine equations.)
Mathematical Buffet - V. Ufnarovski, J. Madjarova, F. Wikström (Comprehensive book about olympiad math, written by Swedish math Olympiad organizers.)
Geometry of Conics - A. V. Akopyan, A. A. Zaslavsky (See how Euclidean geometry shows that the orthocenter of a triangle circumscribed a parabola lies on the directrix!)
Complex Algebraic Surfaces - A. Beauville (Contains a nice introduction to del Pezzo surfaces.)
The Rising Sea - R. Vakil (The best book for learning algebraic geometry?)
Modern Graph Theory - B. Bollobás (... And suddenly I could solve IMO questions about graphs...)
Algebraic Geometry - R. Hartshorne (You know it.)
Introduction to Schemes - J. C. Ottem, G. Ellingsrud (Friendly and geometrical with many examples).
An Invitation to Quantum Cohomology - J. Kock, I. Vainsencher (For learning quickly about the moduli spaces of curves from scratch to GW-theory.)
Rational Quadratic Forms - J. W. S. Cassels (All about quadratic forms for number theorists.)
Commutative Algebra with a View Toward Algebraic Geometry - D. Eisenbud (Provides geometric motivation for concepts in commutative algebra)
Toroidal Compactification of Siegel Spaces - Y. Namikawa (A good introduction to compactifications of Ag.)
An Invitation to Modern Enumerative Geometry - A. Ricolfi (Good groundwork for learning about virtual fundamental classes etc.)
Topology and Geometry - G. E. Bredon (see p.339 for a classical interpretation of Poincaré duality!)
Deformation Theory - R. Hartshorne (A good introduction to deformation theory.)
Fourier-Mukai Transforms in Algebraic Geometry - D. Huybrechts (An excellent book for learning about derived categories.)
Introduction to Toric Varieties - Fulton (Tiny, yet contentful.)
Introduction to Symplectic Topology - D. McDuff, D, Salamon, Lectures on Symplectic Topology - A. Cannas da Silva (Both books are good; I list them them as 1.)
Intersection Theory - W. Fulton (You need it.)
A list of high-quality expository notes (please give me recommendations!)
Miscellaneous
The moduli space of curves - J. Schmitt (So beautiful, intuitive and comprehensive)
Differential Geometry - W. Merry (Recommended by a friend)
Algebraic geometry II & III - D. Ranganathan (Excellent lecture notes by an excellent lecturer)
13/2 ways of counting curves - R. Pandharipande and R. P. Thomas (A good first read about enumerative geometry)
Stacks for Everybody - B. Fantechi (The title says it!)
Film: Marguerite's Theorem (About a female PhD-student in mathematics, recommended by Maryna Viazovska in her talk at IMO 2024)
Artwork: Wassily Kandinsky's collection accentuates the beauty of geometric shapes.
Short Film: Olga Ladyzhenskaya (Portrait of a brilliant mathematician with a strong personality, produced by Ekaterina Eremenko)