Reading List

Books

(8% read) Never at Rest: a Biography of Issac Newton - Richard S. Westfall
(24%) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(15%) The origin of Species - Charles Darwin
(90%) The Stranger - Albert Camus
(10%) The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
(5%) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

i.e., Stories where lead character(s) are nerd(s).

These are the books that I started reading but did not finish for various reasons and eventually want to give it another shot.

(10% read) Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality - Less Wrong : This is hands-down the best fiction book I have ever started reading. But people urge me to finish reading the original J.K. Rowling’s Harry potter before I continue reading this.
(7%) Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Issacson : It has too many art-references for me to comprehend. Also, the black-and-white kindle screen does not do complete justice to all the images in here. But I need more inspiration that being a polymath is possible. Not just Leonardo, a lot of people described in the book are polymaths. You can explore the largest existing collection of writings and drawings by Leonardo for free here.
(20%) The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins : I started this book expecting a genetic approach to evolution but it soon turned into a game-theory approach to evolution. It is an amazing book otherwise and I will come back with the right expectations.
(20%) The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Vol. 1 - Neil Gaiman

Emotions of Normal People - William M. Marston
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader - S. Chandrasekhar
The Book of Why - Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward R. Tufte
Engines of Creation - Eric Drexler; followed by The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Asimov’s New Guide to Science - Issac Asimov
Picturing Quantum Processes - Bob Coecke
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit, and the Ultimate Experiment - Gary Taubes
The Power of Babel - John McWhorter
Feynman’s Rainbow: A search for Beauty in Physics and in Life - Leonard Mlodinow
The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers - Johnny M.Saldana
The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene
Authentic Happiness - Martin E.P. Seligman
The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
Happiness - Daniel Nettle
Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Todd Gilbert
The Astonishing Hypothesis - Francis Crick
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea - Daniel C. Dennett
The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
The Interpretations of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Finite and Infinite Games
Godel Escher Bach
Mastery - Robert Greene
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzche
How to Do Things with Words (2nd ed) - J. L. Austin
Vertical Motion - Can Xue
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

This is a dynamic list of all the poetry that I enjoy!