Here I maintain a list of non-technical books I enjoyed reading, and highly recommend for anyone else.
last updated: November $16^{th}$, 2023.
Biographies & Business
- Educated by Dr. Tara Westover
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
Non-fiction
- The Aleppo Codex by Matti Friedman
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
- Metropolis: A History of The City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
- God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
- My wife said you may want to marry me by Jason B. Rosenthal
- A PhD is not enough by Peter J. Feibelman
History
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- The Story of The Jews: Volume I
- A World Beneath The Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
- The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Caste: the origins of our discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The rise and fall of ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
Philosophy & Religion
- Basic Writings of Neitzsche
- Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
- Pascal’s Pensées by Blaise Pascal
- Discourse of Method by René Decartes
Fiction & Sci-Fi
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The alchemist by Paulo Coelho