Levi's Big List of EE Books

Levi's Big List of EE Books

All of these are my personal recommendations that [Levi] use[s] for both hamming and work

Circuitry and Circuit Theory

 Electric Circuits Eleventh Edition. Authored by Nilsson and Riedel 

ISBN: 9780134746961 11th edition 

Book is a good intro to basic circuits, meant for EE Freshmen as a first book on the topic

 Art of Electronics ( All editions). Authored by Horowitz and Hill

ISBN: 9780521809269 3rd edition

Widely considered the bible of EEs. Really good, Really dense tho.

Art of Electronics: the X Chapters. Authored by Horowitz and Hill

ISBN: 9781108499941

Supplemental edition of tAoE has a bunch of extra shit

Microelectronics

 Microelectronic Circuits. Authored by Sedra and Smith

ISBN: 9780190853464

Really good deep dive into microelectronic and transistor theory

Electromagnetics and Antennas

 Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, Eighth Edition. Authored by Ulaby

ISBN: 9780133356816 8th edition

Is the first Electromagnetics books most EEs will ever touch. Fun to read, will hurt your brain tho. Explains electromagnetics fairly well

 Antenna Engineering Handbook (All Versions). Authored by Johnson and Jasik ( 4th edition is by Volakis)

ISBN: 0070322910 2nd edition

Best book on antennas I've ever found. Is used by EEs as an antenna bible. ( Check the Medium Frequency and Broadcast section for some fun shit)

 ARRL Antenna Book 

theres a bunch of em, good for ideas and basics

Radio Theory

 Radiotron Designers Handbook  Authored by Smith

from the 40s, presents a good theory view on why super hets work. Was made as a on desk reference for RCA enginners in the Pre and Post war Era

 Radio Engineering. Authored by Therman

Good reference on the entire RF system, is kinda old too.

  RF Design Guide: Systems, Circuits and Equations. Authored by Vizmuller

ISBN: 9780890067546

My favorite book on actual radio design, goes over design architectures of all major RF systems ( receivers, transmitters, amplifiers, filters, etc)