Books

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

Here is a list of books I enjoyed reading:

Non – Fiction

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
• 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 (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
• 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 (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
• 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 (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

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 (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
• The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
• Fraternity of the Stone by David Morrell (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)
• 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