Books

“Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us.”
- Kurt Vonnegut

A non-exhaustive list of things I’ve been reading (since ~2020)…

Fiction

• Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
• The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
• The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
• How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
• Welcome to the Monkey House (Kurt Vonnegut)
• American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
• The Candy House (Jennifer Egan)
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
• Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
• The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut)
• Inferno (Dan Brown)
• A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
• Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Non-fiction

• The Worlds I See (Fei Fei Li)
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
• The Book of Why (Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie)
• Models of the Mind (Grace Lindsay)
• Ethical Algorithms (Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth)
• The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
• Man’s Quest for God (Abraham Joshua Heschel)
• The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Kay Jamison)
• The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Brian Greene)
• A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)

Academic / Educational Texts

• Probability: Theory and Examples (Rick Durrett)
• Deep Learning (Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville)
• An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory (Michael Kearns and Umesh Vazirani)
• Bayesian Data Analysis (Andrew Gelman)
• Statistical Rethinking (Richard McElreath)