My Favorite Books
Here is a collection of books that I have been recently reading (well,
not all of them so recently) and highly recommend. The books are
listed in alphabetical order of the last name of
authors/translators. Note that some of the books express certain
political and social views. My liking of a book should not be taken as
any indication of my support (or lack of support) for the views
expressed in the book.
- Douglas Adams:
Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency
- Douglas Adams:
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to
Galaxy
- Antony Beevor:
The Fall of Berlin
1945
- Salvador Dali:
Diary of a Genius
- Richard Dawkins:
The Ancestor's Tale
- Richard Dawkins:
The Blind Watchmaker
- Richard Dawkins:
The God Delusion
- Richard Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype: The long Reach of
the Gene
- Richard Dawkins:
The Selfish Gene
- Daniel C. Dennett:
Breaking the Spell: Religion
as a Natural Phenomenon
- Maitreyi Devi:
Na hanyate
(Bengali)
- Barbara Ehrenreich:
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not)
Getting by in America
- Richard Feynman:
The Pleasure of Finding
Things Out
- Richard Feynman:
Surely You're Joking,
Mr. Feynmann
- Sigmund Freud:
Interpretation of
Dreams
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:
An Autobiography or The Story
of My Experiments with Truth
- Alison Leslie Gold:
Memories of Anne Frank:
Reflections of a Childhood Friend
- G. H. Hardy:
A Mathematician's
Apology
- Stephen Hawking:
A Brief History of
Time
- Douglas Hofstadter:
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An
Eternal Golden Braid
- Georges Ifrah:
The Universal History of
Numbers
- Immanuel Kant et al:
Critique of Pure
Reason
- Jack Kerouac:
On the Road
- Jhumpa Lahiri:
Interpreter of
Maladies
- B. M. Mooyaart (Translator) et
al: Anne Frank: The
Diary of a Young Girl
- Jawaharlal Nehru:
Discovery of
India
- Jawaharlal Nehru:
Glimpses of World History
- Roger Penrose:
The Emperor's New
Mind
- Robert Pirsig:
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
- Robert Pirsig:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
- Satyajit Ray:
Our Films, Their
Films
- Jean-Paul Sartre:
Being and
Nothingness
- William Shirer:
The Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich
- Francois Truffaut:
The Films in My Life
- James D. Watson:
The Double Helix: A Personal
Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA