Meticulously Curated Book Lists

“The true university of these days is a collection of books.” - Thomas Carlyle, ‘On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History’

Non-Fiction:

• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - James Clear
• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition - Don Norman
• A Thousand Brains - Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• The Art of Creative Thinking: How to Be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas - John Adair
• What Just Happened: A Chronicle From the Information Frontier - James Gleick
• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - Leonard Mlodinow
• The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Cass R. Sunstein & Richard H. Thaler
• Contagious Why Things Catch On - Jonah Berger
• Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
• The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Talk Like TED - Carmine Gallo
• A Short History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton
• The Defining Decade - Meg Jay
• Incognito - David Eagleman
• Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
• How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Grit - Angela Duckworth
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time - Marc Wittmann & Erik Butler
• 12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson
• The Happiness Trap - Harris, Russ
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal
• The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things and How to Make Wiser Decisions - David Robson
• God for the 21st Century - Russel Stannard

Sci-Fi:

• We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
• Hyperion - Dan Simmons
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
• Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction - Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter

Investing and Finance:

• Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness - Morgan Housel
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing - Burton G. Malkiel
• The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason
• The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig & Warren E. Buffett

Technical:

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn - Richard W. Hamming
• Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD - Jeremy Howard
• Machine Learning Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges in Data Preparation, Model Building, and MLOps - Valliappa Lakshmanan
• Deep Learning Interviews: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions from a wide range of key topics in AI - Shlomo Kashani
• Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction - Kevin Patrick Murphy
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems - Martin Kleppmann
• Introducing MLOps - Mark Treveil
• Turkish Natural Language Processing (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing) - Kemal Oflazer, Murat Saraçlar
• Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications - Chip Huyen
• Practical MLOps: Operationalizing Machine Learning Models - Noah Gift
• Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face - Lewis Tunstall , Leandro von Werra , et al.