Books

This is a list of intersting books I've read recently as well as a list I hope to read soon - roughly dated for reference.

To Read

  • QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter – Richard Feynman
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstadter
  • Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
  • A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
  • Cuisine and Empire - Rachel Laudan
  • Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert
  • 2014-2015

  • Flatland – Edwin Abbott Abbott
  • Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
  • The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas J. Stanley
  • The Everything Store – Brad Stone
  • 2013

  • The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver
  • Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
  • Speaker For The Dead – Orson Scott Card
  • Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • 2010-2012

  • The Start–up of You – Reid Hoffman
  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu
  • Freakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
  • Programming Pearls – Jon Bentley
  • The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
  • Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • World War Z – Max Brooks
  • The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
  • A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
  • How To Win Friends And Influence People – Dale Carnegie