Favourite Books
This page is intended to be my personal Goodreads mirror.
Inspirational
These are the books I would take with me where ever I shift. These are like my set of holy books, always bringing me up and encouraging me.
- Manual of The Warrior of Light (Paulo Coelho)
- Art of War (Sun Tzu)
Popular Science
- Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn (Amanda Gefter)
- Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical (Gregory Chaitin)
- QBism (Hans Christian von Baeyer)
- Quantum Computing Since Democritus (Scott Aaronson)
- Programming the Universe (Seth Lloyd)
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (James Gleick)
- Sync (Steven Strogatz)
- The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications (David Deutsch)
- Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Steven Johnson)
- Shadows of the Mind (Roger Penrose)
- The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (Pedro Domingos)
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl)
- Hackers & Painters (Paul Graham)
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (David Eagleman)
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Nick Bostrom)
- The Tell-Tale Brain (V. S. Ramachandran)
- The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life (Len Fisher)
- Cycles of Time (Roger Penrose)
- Meta Math! The Quest for Omega (Gregory Chaitin)
- George’s Secret Key to the Universe (Christophe Galfard and Stephen Hawking)
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
- Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines (Cathy Lazere and Dennis Shasha)
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Clay Shirky)
- Physics of the Future (Michio Kaku)
- Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel (Michio Kaku)
- Hyperspace (Michio Kaku)
- Genesis machines (Martyn Amos)
- Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)
- The Universe in a Nutshell (Stephen Hawking)
- How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog (Chad Orzel)
- The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra)
- Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick)
- A Briefer History of Time (Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen Hawking)
- The Code Book (Simon Singh)
- The Book of Nothing (John D. Barrow)
- The Infinite Book (John D. Barrow)
Philosophy/Metaphysics
- Riddles of existence (Earl Brink Conee)
- Descartes’ Error (Antonio Damasio)
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (David Eagleman)
- The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
Fantasy/Fiction
- Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
- The Faraway Tree Stories (Enid Blyton)
- The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes)
- Chariots of the Gods? (Erich von Däniken)
Religion
- Why I Am a Hindu (Shashi Tharoor)
- Asura: Tale of the Vanquished (Anand Neelakantan)
Novels
- Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
- Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- Great Works of Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
- The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga)
- The Blue Umbrella (Ruskin Bond)
- Brida (Paulo Coelho)
Others
- The Upside of Irrationality (Dan Ariely)
- Why Mars and Venus Collide (John Gray)
Current Reading List:
- Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Sydney Padua)
- Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide (Richard Dawkins)