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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