Reading List

“THE MAN WHO DOESN’T READ GOOD BOOKS HAS NO ADVANTAGE OVER THE MAN WHO CAN’T READ THEM” – Mark Twain

Here is a list of books I enjoyed reading:

Non – Fiction

  • How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel
  • Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan Bloom
  • Specification Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time by Linda B. Nelson
  • Galileo’s Daughter: A historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
  • The Power of Habit: Why we Do What We Do in Life and in Business by Charles Duhigg
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard Muller *(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)*
  • The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch *(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)*
  • The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
  • Connections by James Burke
  • Common Sense of Science by Jacob Bronowski
  • The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved & Why Numbers Are Like Gossip by Keith Devlin
  • The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
  • Five Equations that Changed the World by Michael Guillen
  • Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  • Fuzzy Thinking by Bart Kosko
  • A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
  • The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
  • Six Days of War : June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren
  • The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
  • The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder *(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)*
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • The Physics of Consciousness by Evan Walker
  • Einstein’s Refrigerator and Other Stories from the Flip Side of History by Steve Silverman
  • Euler: The Master of Us All by William Dunham
  • The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years by Bernard Lewis
  • “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman” … Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman *(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)*
  • “What Do You Care What Other People Think?” …Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
  • How Full is Your Bucket by Tom Roth and Donald Clifton
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard Feynman
  • The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible by Keith Devlin
  • First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
  • The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) by Keith Devlin
  • A Mathematician’s Apology by G.H. Hardy
  • King Abdullah, Britain and the making of Jordan by Mary Wilson
  • A History of Jordan by Philip Robins
  • American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

Fiction

  • The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
  • The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
  • Long Lost by David Morrell
  • Burnt Sienna by David Morrell
  • The Protector by David Morrell
  • Assumed Identity by David Morrell
  • Extreme Denial by David Morrell
  • Brotherhood of the Rose by David Morrell
  • The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell
  • Fraternity of the Stone by David Morrell
  • Timeline by Michael Crichton
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
  • Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy
  • The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
  • A Time to Kill by John Grisham
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
  • A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
  • No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
  • Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
  • Deception Point by Dan Brown
  • Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown