Personal Reading List
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Last updated: 25 Dec 2020
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ = Strongly Recommended
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ = Recommended
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ = Enjoyable
⭐ ⭐ = Not Recommended
⭐ = Steer Clear
📖 = Now Reading/Last Read
📕 = To be read
Academic / Textbooks
- Optimal Control - Dan Liberzon 📖
- Bayesian Networks - Judea Pearl 📕
- Bandits and Online learning - Tor Lattimore 📖
- Causality - Judea Pearl 📕
- AI: A Modern Approach - Peter Norvig and Stuart Russell 📕
- Reinforcement Learning - Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto 📖
- Convex Optimization - Lieven Vandenberghe and Stephen P. Boyd 📕
- Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem Solving - Judea Pearl 📕
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (Bitcoin Whitepaper)- Satoshi Nakamoto 📖
- Springer Handbook of Robotics - Siciliano, Khatib 📖
Biographies/Autobiographies
- Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - iCon, Steve Jobs - Jeffrey S. Young, Jeffrey Young, and William L. Simon
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Google Story - David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Everything Store - Brad Stone 📕
Non Fiction
- Periodic Tales - Hugh Aldersey-Williams
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Weapons of Math destruction - Cathy O’Neil
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Sapiens - YNH
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Homo Deus - YNH
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahnman
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - 21 lessons for the 21st century - YNH
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - You are a Badass - Jen Sincero
⭐ ⭐ - The power of habit - Charles Duhigg
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Deep Work - Cal Newport
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins
⭐ ⭐ - Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker 📕
- Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill 📕
- The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace Wattles 📕
- Machines Who Think - Pamela McCorduck 📕
- A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking 📕
- The Emperor’s New Mind - Roger Penrose and follow up by Stuart Hameroff 📕
- Do anesthetics (gas) affect the microtubules directly. Is this a special chemical process?
- This thread seeks a connection between Quantum mechanics and consciousness
- Cycles of time - Roger Penrose 📕
- Shadows of the mind - Roger Penrose 📕
- The road to reality - Roger Penrose 📕
- Creation Revisited - Peter Atkins (Yes the Chemist) 📕
- Origin of species - Darwin 📕
- Dark Universe - Galouye 📕
- Einstein’s Dreams - Alan Littman 📕
- Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels 📕
- Free to choose - Milton Freidman 📕
- The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 📕
- One, Two, Three…Infinity - George Gamow (A Physicist) 📕
- Reflections on Language - Noam Chomsky 📕
- The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins 📕
- Ever since Darwin - Steven J Gould 📕
- Books by the George A. Miller 📕
- What everybody is saying - Joe Navarro 📕
- Non verbal cues/language
- The Second World War - Winston Churchill 📕
- Masters of Doom - David Kushner 📕
- Code Complete - Steve McConnel - Software Development 📕
- Ikigai - Hector Garcia 📕
- Love and Math - Edward Frenkel 📕
- Book of Why - Judea Pearl
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee 📕
- To save everything click here - Evgeny Morozov 📖
- Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Rapt: Attention and the focussed life - Winifred Gallagher 📕
- All things shining - Hubert Dreyfus, Sean Dorrance Kelly 📕
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - Essays on Indic History - Vijender Sharma 📕
- The Future of the Mind - Michio Kaku 📕
- Something Deeply Hidden - Sean Carroll 📕
- The Big Picture - Sean Carrol 📕
- The Ethical Algorithm - Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns 📕
- The Universe and the Teacup - K. C. Cole 📕
- How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie 📕
- Homo Ludens - Johan Huizinga 📕
- The Double Helix - James Watson 📕
- The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose 📕
- On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee 📕
- The Intelligence Trap - David Robinson 📕
- The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity - Carlo Cipolla 📕
- AI Superpowers - Kai-Fu Lee
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - How to Read a Book Book - Mortimer J. Adler 📕
- Good to Great - James C. Collins 📕
- A new kind of science - Stephen Wolfram 📕
- Principles of synthetic intelligence - Joscha Bach 📕
- Constituent Assembly of India Debates - Debates in the Lok Sabha 📕
- The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life - Sheldon Solomon 📕
- The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker 📕
- Being and Time - Martin Heidegger 📕
- On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy - Carl Rogers 📕
Fiction
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Five Parts - Adams, Douglas
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - The Machine Stops - Short story by E. M. Forster
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - मानसरोवर - प्रेमचंद 📕
- Solaris - Stanislaw Lem 📕
- The Black Cloud - Hoyle 📕
- Simulacron-3 - Galouye 📕
- A for Andromeda - Fred Hoyle 📕
- Books by Arthur C Clarke 📕
- Books by Isaac Asimov - I, Robot, Foundation, The Last Question📕
- Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 📕
- War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells 📕
- Shiva Trilogy - Amish Tripathi 📕
- Suheldev - Amish Tripathi 📕
- All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr 📕
- The Giver - Lois Lowry 📕
- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace 📕
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 📕
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Roger Williams 📕
- Permutation City - Greg Egan 📕
- Dune - Frank Herbert 📕
- Foundation series - Isaac Asimov 📕
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter 📕
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson 📕
- Neuromancer - William Gibson 📕
- A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge 📕
- Bronze Age Mindset 📕
- Maximum City 📕
