List of Books I Have Read
Books are magic.
[*] currently reading, [+] recommended, [-] annoying
2019
- * Perez, Caroline Criado ‘Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’
- King, Stephen ‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft’
2018
- + Duckworth, Angela ‘Grit’
- ++ Hadden, Mark ‘The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-time’
- ++ Feynman, Richard ‘What Do You Care What Other People Think’
- +++ Strunk Jr., William ‘The Elements of Style’
- +++ Kuroyanagi Tetsuko., ‘Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window’
- Hall, Zachary., ‘Don't Sleep on Planes’
2017
Challenge: 40
The year was an eventful one considering other aspects of my
personal and professional life, but very disappointing for my book reading
challenge. Will reduce the reading challenge to a realistic goal for next
year.
Completed: 5
- Bloom, Paul ‘How Pleasure Works’
- MacAskill, William ‘Doing Good Better’
- Mistry, Rohinton ‘Family Matters’
- Gowers, Timothy ‘Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction’
- Eco, Umberto ‘How to Write a Thesis’1
2016
Challenge: 24
Completed: 20
Partially completed: 4
- * Mahajan, Sanjoy ‘Street-Fighting Mathematics’
- Orwell, George ‘Burmese Days’ (review)
- Murakami, Haruki ‘The Elephant Vanishes’2
- + Satrapi, Marjane ‘The Complete Persepolis’
- Thorsby, Øyvind ‘Transdimensional Brain Chip’ (comic)3
- * Murakami, Haruki ‘1Q84 - Trilogy (#1)’
- + Gallwey, W. Timothy ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ (review)
- Adams, Douglas ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy (#1)’
- Adams, Douglas ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (#2)’
- Ford, Michael T. ‘Suicide Notes’
- ++ Sacks, Oliver ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’
- - Sandel, Peter ‘101 Things Everyone [..] about Economics’
- ++ Salinger, J. D. ‘The Catcher in The Rye’
- * Lane, Nick ‘The Vital Question’
- Mlodinow, Leonard ‘The Drunkard’s Walk’
- Fine, Debra ‘The Fine Art of Small Talk’
- + Keynes, Daniel ‘Flowers for Algernon’
- ++ Harari, Yuval N. ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind’
- ++ Yalom, Irvin D. ‘Love's Executioner: Ten Tales of Psychotherapy’
- ++ Clarke, Arthur C. ‘Rendezvous with Rama’
- + Vizzini, Ned ‘It's Kind of a Funny Story’
- * Garder, Jostein ‘Sophie's World’
- - Ball, Jesse ‘Silence Once Begun’
- + Wells, H.G. ‘The Time Machine’
2015
Challenge: 20
Completed: 13
- Crichton, Michael ‘The Terminal Man’
- ++ Orwell, George ‘1984’
- * Hayakawa, S.I. ‘Language in Thought and Action’
- Kafka, Franz, ‘The Metamorphosis’
- Crockford, Douglas ‘JavaScript: The Good Parts’
- * Sussman et al., ‘SICP’
- + Orwell, George ‘Animal Farm’
- Dawkins, Richard ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’
- * Sompayrac, Lauren M. ‘How the Immune System Works’
- Wodehouse, P. G. ‘The Code of the Woosters’
- + Khandekar, V. S. ‘Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust’
- Gladwell, Malcolm ‘The Tipping Point’
- Camus, Albert ‘The Outsider’
- ++ Murakami, Haruki ‘Kafka On The Shore’
- + Duhigg, Charles ‘The Power of Habit’
- ++ Schrödinger, Erwin, ‘What is Life?’
2014
- ++ Mistry, Rohinton ‘A Fine Balance’
- Premchand, Munshi ‘Godan’
Reviews and recommendations are always welcome!
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Although most of the examples in the book are sourced from the study of classical literature, the suggested ideas are still highly relevant. On a bonus point, the author also clarifies a few issues commonly faced by new graduate students related to their research (impact of their research, breadth and depth etc.).
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Not as good as Kafka on the Shore, but Murakami knows how to hook the reader nonetheless!
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Thoroughly enjoyed this Thorsby’s comic - Based on invention of a new brain chip that allows you to communicate with versions of yourself in other universe. I would also recommend his other work The Accidental Space Spy (++).