Siddhartha -Hermann Hesse currently reading
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Harrowing descent into the psyche of guilt and redemption. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collision of faith, free will, and reason—philosophy wrapped in raw human drama. My most adored novel of all time. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
Argument for knowledge as an infinite frontier—physics, philosophy, and optimism in perfect harmony. One of the most important books of this age. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Fabric of Reality – David Deutsch
Synthesis of quantum mechanics, evolution, and computation—reality as an emergent, computable structure. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Evolution viewed through the lens of gene-centered selection—nature as a mathematical optimization problem. ⭐⭐⭐⭐One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
Time, memory, and fate—magical realism that felt like a fractal. ⭐⭐⭐⭐The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
A mathematical symmetry to sin, redemption, and the cosmos. ⭐⭐⭐Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstadter
A recursive, self-referential playground of logic, art, and music—proof that reality is just one long strange loop. I was another person upon finishing this book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I Am a Strange Loop – Douglas Hofstadter
A step to solve tangled problems formed by the book above. ⭐⭐⭐⭐Hackers & Painters – Paul Graham
Coding, startups, and the art of creative disruption. Dance between computer science and the Renaissance mindset. ⭐⭐⭐⭐Bhagavad Gita – Vyasa
Eternal dialogue, with which I have my fair share of problems. ⭐⭐⭐