Readings
This page serves as both a personal reading journal and a resource for others seeking book recommendations. Enjoy. 
Currently Reading 
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The Great Hunt (WoT Series) by Robert Jordan
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Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
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The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
Favorites
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Wager by David Grann
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Do No Harm by Henry Marsh
Tracker
Books are rated within their respective genre. Books I personally don’t like or that are rated < 7 are not included.
Literature
| Book | Author | Rating | Sub-Genres |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 9.9 | Tragicomedy |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 9.5 | Psychological Realism |
| Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 8.6 | Philisophical Novella |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | 8.5 | Epic, Poetry |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 9.5 | Historical Science Fiction |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 9.0 | Gothic |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 8.5 | Adventure Novella |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 8.7 | Romance, War, Historical Fiction |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 8.2 | Historical Fiction |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 9.3 | Modernist Fiction |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 8.9 | Satire, Dystopian Fiction |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 8.0 | Tragedy |
Philosophy
| Book | Author | Rating | Sub-Genres |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus | 8.9 | Absurdism |
| Confessions | Augustine | 9.0 | Christianity, Autobiography, Theology |
| On the Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | 8.6 | Neoplatonism, Memoir, Christian Theology |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 8.9 | Stoicism |
Fantasy
| Book | Author | Rating | Sub-Genres |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | 9.0 | High Fantasy |
Non-Fiction
| Book | Author | Rating | Sub-Genres |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wager | David Grann | 9.4 | Historical, Adventure |
| The Emerald Mile | Kevin Fedarko | 8.5 | Adventure, Historical |
| Do No Harm | Henry Marsh | 9.1 | Medicine |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | 9.0 | Memoir, Medicine |
| Being Mortal | Atul Gawande | 8.5 | Medicine |
| Complications | Atul Gawande | 8.0 | Medicine |
| Journey through Genius | William Dunham | 7.5 | Math History |
Math and Science
All books here I have extensive experience using, however, I don’t feel ratings here are fair or useful for any practical purposes without a deep expertise in both the fields they cover and the various texts available.
These are simply the books I’ve used/read which I think are worthwhile.
| Book | Author | Field |
|---|---|---|
| Principles of Mathematical Analysis | Walter Rudin | Real Analysis |
| Complex Variables and Applications | James Brown, Ruel Churchill | Complex Analysis |
| Essentials of Stochastic Processes | Richard Durrett | Stochastic Processes |
| Elements of Information Theory | Thomas M. Cover, Joy A. Thomas | Information Theory |
| Abstract Algebra and Its Applications | Various | Algebra |
| Deep Learning | Ian Goodfellow et al. | Deep Learning |
| An Introduction to Statistical Learning | James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani, Taylor | Machine Learning |
| Probability: An Introduction | Geoffrey Grimmett, Dominic Welsh | Probability |
| Applied Combinatorics | Mitchel T. Keller, William T. Trotter | Combinatorics |
Rating System
- 9.5-10: Masterpiece, life-changing
- 9.0-9.4: Exceptional, highly recommended
- 8.5-8.9: Excellent, very enjoyable/worthwhile
- 8.0-8.4: Good, worth reading
- 7.0-7.9: Decent, has merits
- Below 7: Not listed
Want to Read
Give me some recommendations. These are books that stick out to me that I intend on reading someday.
Literature
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- 1984 by George Orwell
Philosophy
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
Non-Fiction
- The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff
Fantasy
- The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
- The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
Technical
- Practical Malware Analysis by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig
Last updated: February 2024