Last updated on 13 June 2025

General Non-fiction

  1. A Crack in Creation by Jennifer Doudna
  2. Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara
  3. How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil
  4. Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu
  5. The Prize by Daniel Yergin
  6. The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant

Fiction

  1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
  2. The Silo by Hugh Howey
  3. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Software Engineering

  1. A Philoshophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
  2. Designing Data Intensive Application by Martin Kleppmann
  3. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi Arpaci Dusseau
  4. Readings in Database Systems by Michael Stonebreaker
  5. Specifiying Systems by Leslie Lamport
  6. The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
  7. The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk
  8. The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks