Books and papers I’ve liked.
AI & ML
Stats & causality
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect | Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie |
| 2001 | The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science | David Salsburg |
| 2016 | Probability for the Enthusiastic Beginner | David J. Morin |
| 1979 | Principles of Statistics | M.G. Bulmer |
| 1977 | Probability Theory: A Concise Course | Y.A. Rozanov |
Life and Philosophy
Classic philosophy, wisdom, and big-ideas nonfiction.
Sci-fi
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Contact | Carl Sagan |
| 1950 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov |
| 1985 | Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card |
| 2011 | The Martian | Andy Weir |
| 1979 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 1990 | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| 1898 | The Invisible Man | H.G. Wells |
| 1965 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 1968 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
| 2010 | Freedom (Daemon, #2) | Daniel Suarez |
Thrillers
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1) | Lee Child |
| 2017 | Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) | Dan Brown |
| 1988 | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris |
| 2005 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) | Stieg Larsson |
| 2012 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| 2009 | Caught | Harlan Coben |
| 2000 | Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) | Dan Brown |
| 1984 | The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3) | Tom Clancy |
| 1986 | The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2) | Robert Ludlum |
Mystery
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) | Agatha Christie |
| 1937 | Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) | Agatha Christie |
| 1926 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) | Agatha Christie |
| 1939 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| 1930 | Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) | Agatha Christie |
| 1927 | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1902 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2007 | In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1) | Tana French |
| 2005 | Still Life (Chief Inspector Gamache, #1) | Louise Penny |
Mythology & classics
| Year | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1) | Amish Tripathi |
| 2013 | The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3) | Amish Tripathi |
| 2013 | The Mahābhārata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa | Vyasa, tr. Kisari Mohan Ganguli |
| 2009 | The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi | Mahatma Gandhi |
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