The Book List
Last updated 2026/01/07.
Currently reading
- Against the Gods by Peter L. Bernstein
- The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz (thank you mom)
Past year
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (ask me about it)
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse (did not like)
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman (it was ok)
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (loved it)
Favorites
Novels
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (all time)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Lord of the Rings (1-3) by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Captains of the Sands by Jorge Armado
- Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison
Textbooks
Not always read front to back of course, but thoroughly explored.
- Introduction to Probability Models by Sheldon M. Ross
- Probability and Random Processes by Grimmett & Stirzaker
- How To Prove It by Daniel J. Velleman
- Analytical Mechanics by Nivaldo A. Lemos
- Analytical Mechanics by Hand and Finch
- Mechanics by Landau and Lifshitz
- Visual Complex Analysis by Elias Wegert
- Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering by K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson and S. J. Bence
- Signals & Systems by Alan V. Oppenheim
- Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan
- Introduction to Electrodynamics by the one and only David J. Griffiths
- The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill
- Quantum Mechanics by Nouredine Zettili
- Modern Physics by Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn
- Electric Circuits by Nilsson and Riedel
- Digital Design and Computer Architecture by David Harris and Sarah Harris
- SystemVerilog for Design by Stuart Sutherland
- RTL Modelling with SystemVerilog by Stuart Sutherland
- The Competitive Programmer’s Handbook by Antti Laaksonen
- The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie