My Reading List
I read psychology, popular science and cognitive science books.
In particular, I follow the reading list curated by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Their list of books is highly recommended. Click on their names for the list. Here are some books which I love:
1. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
2. The Learning Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
3. Mindset by Carol Dweck
4. How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff
5. Wiki Leaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding
6. Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
7. Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
8. Startup Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
9. Jugaad by Jaideep Prabhu, Navi Radjou, and Simone Ahuja
10. The Monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma
11. Surviving AI by Calum Chace
12. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
13. The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
14. From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be by Jack Canfield
15. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
17. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
18. How Not to be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg
19. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
20. Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics by Jim Al-Khalili
21. The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
22. Street Art by Louis Bou
23. Street World by Roger Gastman, Caleb Neelon and Anthony Smyrski
24. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
25. Structure of the Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
26. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
27. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
28. Where Good Ideas come from by Steve Johnson
29. Creativity Inc. by Amy Wallace and Edwin Catmull
30. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
31. Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
32. Creative Confidence by David M. Kelley and Tom Kelley
33. Philosophy in Minutes by Marcus Weeks
34. The Codebook by Simon Singh
35. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
36. A Very Short Introduction to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers
37. The power of Why by Amanda Lang
38. The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
39. Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
40. The 100$ Startup by Chris Guillebeau
41. Fermat's Last Theorem by Amir D. Azcel
42. Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis by Dan Rockmore
43. Roads to Infinity by John Stillwell
44. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
45. Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
46. The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir D. Azcel
Fiction:
1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
3. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
4. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
5. The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi
6. The Secret of the Nagas by Amish Tripathi
7. The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi
8. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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