Reading List

post-US-landing!

Mathematics & Related

• Weihrauch, Klaus: Computable Analysis, Springer 2000(*)
• Bellman, Richard: Dynamic Programming
• Khinchin, A. Ya.: Continued Fractions
• Georgiadou, Maria: C. Carathéodory(*)

Nature

• Peterson, Roger Tory: How to Know the Birds
• Burroughs, John: The Nature Writings of John Burroughs(*)

Classics

Lives (bios), Plutarch

Malayalam

• Mukundan, M. - Delhi
• Vijayan, O.V. - Gurusagaram
• M.T.  - Kaalam

Miscellaneous

• Wolpert, Stanley - India

Movies

• Lumet, Sidney: Making Movies
• Ray, Satyajit: Our Movies, Their Movies

English Literature

• Joseph Conrad: Nostromo
• Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness

Science Fiction

• Heinlein, Robert: Stranger in a Strange Land - the first book I read in the US. Specifically wanted to read this before I came here.
• Herbert, Frank: Dune - second book. Only the later sequels are commonly available in  India.
• Lem, Stanislaw: His Master's Voice (***)
• Le Guin, Ursula: The Left Hand of Darkness(*)
• Clarke, Arthur C: Rendezvous with Rama
• Clarke, Arthur C: The Collected Works of Arthur C Clarke(*)
• Niven, Larry: Engineers of Ringworld(*)

Pop Science

• Park, Robert: Voodoo Science

TODO list

• Garland, Hamlin: Main-Travelled Roads
• Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast
• Lem, Stanislaw: Fiasco · Reviews [1]
• Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet
• Stapledon, William Olaf: Star Maker
• Stapledon, William Olaf: First and Last Man
• Okri, Ben: The Famished Road
• Bligh, William: Mutiny on Board the H.M.S. Bounty
• Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Le Guin, Ursula: The Dispossessed
• Acton, Furman S.: Numerical Methods that Work
• Niven, Larry: Ringworld
• Hardy, G.H., Polya, G., Littlewood, J.L.: Inequalities
• Satrapi, Marjane: Persepolis, Return to Persepolis
• Spiegelman, Art: Maus