Starting from August 2014, I have decided to keep a record of the books that I have read or am currently reading. This list is just for my own personal recollection, but once in a while if I find the book very appealing I may post a review somewhere.
The books which are marked with a ** are the ones that I am either currently reading or have not read completely but plan to do so in the future.
Non-Fiction
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, Pan Macmillan, 2011. (review)
- Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution, John Gribbin, Transworld, 2013.
- A masterful spirit: Homi J. Bhaba (1909 – 1966), Indira Chowdhury and Ananya Dasgupta, Penguin India, 2010.
- Littlewood’s Miscellany, John E. Littlewood and Bela Bollobas, Cambridge University Press, 1986. (review)
- Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate – Covered Pi, and other cool bits of Computing, Tim Chartier, Princeton University Press, 2014. (review)
- Letters to a Young Scientist, Edward O. Wilson, W. W. Norton and Company, 2013.
- Feynman’s Rainbow: A search for Beauty in Physics and Life, Leonard Mlodinow, Warner Books, 2003.
- Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition, Sara Turing, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- what if?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe, John Murray (Publishers), 2014. (mini review)
- ** “Most of the Good Stuff”: Memories of Richard Feynman, Laurie M. Brown (ed.) and John S. Rigden (ed.), American Institute of Physics, 1993.
- The Art of Richard P. Feynman: Images of a Curious Character, Michelle Feynman (ed.), Routledge, 1995.
- ** John von Neumann: Selected Letters, Miklos Redei (ed.), American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society, 2005.
- The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician, Andre Weil, Brikhauser, 1992. (mini review)
- Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman’s Last Journey, Ralph Leighton, W. W. Norton and Company, 1991.
- Bourbaki: A Secret Society of Mathematicians, Maurice Mashaal, American Mathematical Society, 2006. (review)
- The Polya Picture Album: Encounters of a Mathematician, George Polya (Ed. G. L. Alexanderson), Brikhauser Boston, 1987.
- Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, Cedric Villani, The Bodley Head, London, 2015. (review)
- Mathematical Apocrypha Redux: More Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical, Steven G. Krantz, Mathematical Association of America, 2005. (short review)
- Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein, Mario Livio, Simon and Schuster, 2013. (review)
- Mrs. Funnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot Like Me, Twinkle Khanna, Penguin India, 2015. (review)
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner, Penguin Press, 2012. (review)
- My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count, Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel, Springer Switzerland, 2016. (review)
- A Mathematician’s Lament, Paul Lockhart, Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
- In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2016.
- Black Holes: The Reith Lectures, Stephen Hawking, Bantam Books, 2016.
- Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl, Beacon Press, 2006.
- The Difference: when good enough isn’t enough, Subir Chowdhury, Portfolio (Penguin), 2017.
- The Clothing of Books, Jhumpa Lahiri, Penguin, 2017.
- The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs and the Search for the Ultimate Equation, Hannah Fry, Ted Books, 2015.
- Landour Days, Ruskin Bond, Penguin Books, 2016.
- The Last Lecture: lessons in living, Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow, Two Roads, 2012.
- Roads to Mussoorie, Ruskin Bond, Rupa Publications India, 2013.
- Party time in Mussoorie, Ruskin Bond, Rupa Publications India, 2016.
- Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond, William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, Juggernaut Books, 2016.
- City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi, William Dalrymple, Flamingo, 1994.
- The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh, Allen Lane (Penguin), 2016.
- Useless Facts Vienna, StadtBekannt Wien, Holzbaum Verlag, 2014.
- Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes, Walter Gratzer, Oxford University Press, 2002.
- The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery, Graeme Donald, Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 2017.
- Secret Vienna Stories: Legends, facts and locations for the true explorer, Fabio M. Aromatici, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
- Journey Down the Years, Ruskin Bond, Rupa Publications India, 2017.
- The Good, the Bad and the Ridiculous, Khuswant Singh with Humar Quarishi, Rupa Publications India, 2013.
- Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Eisntein and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study, Steven L. Batterson, A. K. Peters, Ltd., 2006.
- Is That Even A Country, Sir!: Journeys in Northeast India by Train, Bus and Tractor, Anil Yadav (Translated by Anurag Basnet), Speaking Tiger, 2017.
- Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister, Sagarika Ghose, Juggernaut Books, 2017.
- Aurangzeb: The Man and The Myth, Audrey Truschke, Penguin Viking, 2017.
- Vikram Sarabhai: A Life, Amrita Shah, Penguin India, 2016.
- Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science, Karl Sigmund, Basic Books, 2017.
- Perpetual City: A Short Biography of Delhi, Malvika Singh, Aleph, 2013.
- Death in the Bunker, Ian Kershaw, Penguin Books, 2000.
- Scenes from a Writer’s Life, Ruskin Bond, Penguin India, 1997.
- Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, 2015.
- Mathematicians of the World, Unite!: The International Congress of Mathematicians – A Human Endeavor, Guillermo P. Curbera, A. K. Peters, Ltd., 2009.
- **Indiscrete Thoughts, Gian-Carlo Rota (Edited by Fabrizio Palombi), Birkhauser Boston, 1997.
- **The G. H. Hardy Reader, Donald J. Albers (ed.), Gerald L. Alexanderson (ed.) and William Dunham (ed.), Mathematical Association of America – Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ** The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks, Picador, 2011.
Fiction
- Half Girlfriend, Chetan Bhagat, Rupa, 2014. (review)
- Dead Meat, Ankush Saikia, Penguin India, 2015. (review)
- Mightier Than The Sword, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2015. (review)
- All My Friends are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman, Telegram Books, 2006. (review)
- Scion of Ikshvaku, Amish Tripathi, Westland Books, 2015. (review)
- Cometh The Hour, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2016.
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story, Richard Bach, Element, 2003.
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott, Penguin Books, 1998.
- Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession, Apostolos Doxiadis, Bloomsbury USA, 2010.
- The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, Penguin Books, 2007.
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story, The Complete Edition, Richard Bach, Harper Thorsons, 2015.
- This was a Man, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2016.
- Remember Death, Ankush Saikia, Penguin India, 2016. (review)
- The Vegetarian, Han Kang (Tranlated by Deborah Smith), Portobello Books, 2016.
- Strangers, Omair Tarique, Moments Publications, 2017.
- Falling in love again: Stories of Love and Romance, Ruskin Bond, Rupa, 2016.
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Om Books International, 2016.
- Revelations of an Imperfect Life, Sankhya Samhita, Readomania, 2017.
- The Pregnant King, Devdutt Pattanaik, Penguin Books India, 2008.
- Red River, Blue Hills, Ankush Saikia, Westland ltd., 2015.
- The Girl from Nongrim Hills, Ankush Saikia, Penguin India, 2013.
- The Outsider, Albert Camus (Translated by Sandra Smith), Penguin Classics, 2013.
- The Tobacconist, Robert Seethaler (Translated by Charlotte Collins), Picador, 2017.
- No Direction Rome, Kaushik Barua, Fourth Estate, 2015.
- The Spy, Paulo Coelho (Translated by Zoë Perry), Vintage, 2016.
- Tell Tale, Jeffrey Archer, Pan Macmillan, 2017.
- Chess, Stefan Zweig (Translated by Anthea Bell), Penguin Classics, 2017.
- **A Horse Walks into a Bar, David Grossman (Translated by Jessica Cohen), Jonathan Cape, 2016.
- ** The Old Man and The Sea, Ernest Hemingway, Arrow Books, 2004.
Graphic Books
- Feynman, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick, First Second, New York, 2011. (review)
- All my friends are still dead, Avery Monsen and Jory John, Chronicle Books, 2012.
- All my friends are dead, Avery Monsen and Jory John, Chronicle Books, 2010.
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou (Art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna), Bloomsbury, 2009.
- Peanuts: The misfortunes of Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz, Hodder and Stoughton, 1978.
Poetry
- Away from Shore, Mary McCormack Deka, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
- ** The Eve of St Agnes, John Keats, Penguin Books, 2015.