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Reading List 2022

Books

Fiction

  • [49% done] Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
  • [4% done] Ready Player One by Ernest Cline {Recommended on Andrej Karpathy's Goodreads reviews}
  • El héroe discreto by Mario Vargas Llosa {Personally recommended by C.S. in early 2016 to enrich my Spanish vocabulary and syntax}
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt {Personally recommended by H.M.}
  • Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale by J. K. Rowling {Personally recommended by H.M. in 2015. While recommended in English, I'll read it in Italian to practice the language}
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu {Personally recommended by S.S. in late 2017}

Non-Fiction -- Instructive

  • [100% done on 2022-03-15] Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  • [100% done on 2022-03-09] Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
  • [100% done on 2022-02-22] Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
  • [100% done on 2022-02-13] Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat
  • [51% done] How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie {Personally recommended by M.Y. in 2015}
  • [37% done] Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez
  • Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug {Probably advertised within "Don't Make Me Think"}
  • Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer {Mentioned in passing by M.C. in late 2015}
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck {Advocated by Khan Academy and recommended on Gates Notes blog}
  • Barron's AP Biology by Deborah T. Goldberg
  • Lean Customer Development by Cindy Alvarez {Recommended by Scott Guthrie in Early 2018}
  • Getting Things Done {Recommended by B.S. in 2018}
  • Take Back Your Life!: Using Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized {Recommended by B.S. in 2018}
  • The Organized Mind {Recommended by D.V. in 2018}
  • The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss {Recommended by C.E. in late 2018}
  • Mastery by Robert Greene {Recommended by C.E. in late 2018}
  • High Output Management by Andrew Grove {Recommended by K.B. in late 2019}
  • The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford {Recommended by K.B. in late 2019}
  • The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt {Recommended by K.B. in late 2019}
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger {Recommended by D.G.? in 2019}
  • Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

Biographical/Historical

  • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein {Personally recommended by M.C. in late 2015}
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner {Recommended on Andrej Karpathy's Goodreads reviews}

Non-Fiction -- Other

  • Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves {Personally recommended by M.C. in early 2016}
  • Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke {Recommended on Andrej Karpathy's Goodreads reviews}
  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom {Recommended by C.DC. in early 2018}

Textbooks

Math & Machine Learning

Graphics

Linguistics

  • Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception by Heening Reetz
  • Exercises in French Phonics by Francis W. Nachtmann

Piano

  • The Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises by Charles-Louis Hanon
  • Mikrokosmos by Béla Bartók {Personally recommended by R.R. in early 2016}

Graphic Design

  • Illustrator: Visual Quickstart Guide

Software Engineering

  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma {Personally recommended by D.R.}

Programming Languages

Algorithms and Data Structures

  • Elements of Programming Interviews by Adnan Aziz, Tsung-Hsien Lee, and Amit Prakash
  • Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

Podcasts

  • Italiano Automatico
  • Planet Money {Personally recommended by E.Z. in late 2015}
  • The New Yorker: Fiction {Personally recommended by E.Z. in late 2015}
  • Serial {Personally recommended by E.Z. in late 2015}

Tutorials, blogs, videos, etc.

Math & Machine Learning

Web Dev

Graphics

UI/UX

Programming Languages

Misc. Computer Science

Finance

Diversity

Misc.

Music

Datasets

Tools

Research Tools

Computer Science Tools

Math Tools

Machine Learning Tools

Design Tools

Writing Tools

Misc.

Research Papers

Publications

Publications by Company

Online Course Notes

Not Taken Before

Physics Courses

Math/Statistics Courses

ML/Robotics Courses

Graphics Courses

Business Courses

Misc. Courses

Taken Before (For Review)

Advice

Application Process

Academic

Research

Productivity

Misc.