Books I’ve Recently Read, and do Recommend
I’ve awarded a ♠ to the books that I highly recommend.
History + Culture
♠ Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
♠ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
History + Biography
♠ Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Human Psychology + Behavior
♠ Barking up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker
Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
♠ 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
♠ Never Split the Difference by Chriss Voss
Success + Productivity
♠ Mastery by Robert Greene
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
♠ 8 to be Great by Malcolm Gladwell
Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
Entrepreneurship
The 7 Day Startup by Dan Norris
Computer Science + Mathematics
I love these books.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics edited by Tim Gowers
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak
The Probabilistic Method by Noga Alon and Joel Spencer
Abstract Algebra by John Beachy and William Blair
Lecture Notes on Discrete Geometry by Jiří Matoušek
Proofs from the Book by Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler
Coding and Information Theory by Steven Roman
Saad Quader 