Minqi Jiang
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This is a growing list of books I've read in the past few years. Books I particularly enjoyed are highlighted in
cyan
, while those I would consider among my favorites are highlighted in
yellow
. An asterisk (*) marks books I am currently reading.
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science*
The Master and Margarita*
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms*
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Apocalypse Never
Who Gets What and Why
A Man for All Markets
Dune
Klara and the Sun
Interior Chinatown
House of Leaves
Already Free
Men Without Women
Minor Feelings
Deep Work
Kudos
Transit
This Is How You Lose Her
Nonviolent Communication
Human Compatible
Outline
The Year of Magical Thinking
Normal People
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
The Hatred of Poetry
Homegoing
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Superintelligence
The Topeka School
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Moonwalking with Einstein
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
The Idiot
The Largess of the Sea Maiden
The Score Takes Care of Itself
The Beginning of Infinite
My Name Is Red
Natural Language Understanding with Distributed Representation
The Society of Mind
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
The Book of My Lives
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Kitchen Confidential
Born to Run
Death’s End
Trip
Thinking in Bets
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Creative Selection
The Book of Why
Lake Success
The Courage to Be Disliked
The Strange Death of Europe
Reinforcement Learning, 2nd Edition
Homesick for Another World
The Shortest History of Germany
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Linear Algebra Done Right, 3rd Edition
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Portfolios of the Poor
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Who Owns the Future?
Manual of Ideas
Emotional Design
Why Nations Fail
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
Einstein’s Dreams
The Book
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Hooked
Story of Your Life and Others
The Underground Railroad
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
The World According to Garp
Finite and Infinite Games
GDP, A Brief but Affectionate History
The Righteous Mind
Deep Learning with Python
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The Course of Love
Open City
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Shoe Dog
The Dark Forest
Chaos Monkeys
You Don’t Know Javascript - Async & Performance
You Don’t Know Javascript - Scope & Closures
You Don’t Know Javascript - this & Object Prototypes
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Americanah
Hillbilly Elegy
Propaganda
Fluent in 3 Months
Crystallizing Public Opinion
Eating Animals
Vagabonding
I Ching (The Book of Changes)
The Argonauts
Between the World and Me
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
Jersey Rain
The War of Art
What the Doormouse Said
The Three-Body Problem
10:04
Viral Loop
This Is Your Brain On Music
Practical Typography
The Box
The Inner Game of Tennis
Ogilvy on Advertising
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
The Art of War
The First 90 Days
What Technology Wants
The Art Spirit
High Output Management
Understanding Comic Books
The Checklist Manifesto
The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
Concierge Confidential
Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love
Invisible Cities
Crossing the Chasm
Man’s Search for Meaning
Evening Man
The Innovator’s Dilemma
After the Quake: Stories
Snow Crash
Never Eat Alone
Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Core Data, 2nd Ed
Camera Lucida
Zero to One
Delivering Happiness
Interactive Data Viz for the Web; An Introduction to Designing with D3
Programming Amazon EC2
Venture Deals
The New Power Base Selling
Diving into Python
How to Create a Mind
iOS Programming
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Free Culture
Giovanni’s Room
Angle of Yaw
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Steve Jobs
Getting Things Done
The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Difficult Conversations
Understanding Media
In Watermelon Sugar
Train Dreams
The Lean Startup
Pro JavaScript Techniques
The Lichtenberg Figures
Leaving the Atocha Station
The Design of Everyday Things
Flow: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
Lolita
Oblivion: Stories
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Man and His Symbols
Lunch Poems
Siddhartha: A Novel
Biology, 7th Edition