The Book List

Once I have read that reading a book is akin to living through that book's narrative. Each of us has only a single life to live, but books can provide us with experiences from lives of many people. Apart from life lessons, there are many books which inspire me, teach me and offer a different view of the world. For me, most of the popular books can be organized in one of the three broad categories:

• Books on human emotions and psychology.
• Books on society and ways of interacting with other people.
• Books on phenomena beyond humans such as science, universal laws and philosophy.

It can be seen that the above categories move up higher starting from a single individual and ending with phenomena well beyond the human sphere of interaction. I keep a list of the books, which I wish to read from each of above categories. Perhaps, you might like some of these books.

Books on human emotions and psychology:

• Mindset, Carol Dweck.
• Emotional Agility, Susan David.
• The New Psychocybernetics, Maxwell Maltz.
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
• How to fly a horse, Kevin Ashton.
• The creative habit.
• The resilience factor.

Books on society and ways of interacting with other people:

• Tribe Mentors, Tim Ferriss.
• Zero to One, Peter Thiel.
• Romance of the three kingdoms.
• Water Margin.
• Journey to the west.
• Dream of the red chamber.
• The artist's journey.
• Tools of Titans.

Books on phenomena beyond humans such as science, universal laws and philosophy:

• Cosmos, Carl Sagan.
• Brief History of Time, Hawking
• The elegant Universe, Brian Greene.
• Unified Reality Theory, Steven Kaufman.
• Why Information Grows, Cesar Hidalgo.
• Google's SRE book.
• Quanta Magazine from Simons Foundation.
• Writing a research paper in mathematics, from MIT faculty member.