I thought that it would be fun to keep a listing of the books I have read, am currently reading, and want to read. The list will clearly be incomplete as I cannot remember every book I have ever read, but I will try to get the highlights. Aside from a historical reason, I am hoping that keeping this list will inspire me to read a more varied selection of books.
Books I am currently reading:
- Men of Mathematics – E.T. Bell
- The Post-American World – Fareed Zakaria
- The Principles of Quantum Mechanics – Paul Dirac
- Six Not-So-Easy Pieces – R.P. Feynman
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac – Graham Farmelo
- Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science – Werner Heisenberg
Books I intend to read:
- Non-linear Optics – R.W. Boyd
- Why We Run – Bernd Heinrich
- The Way of the Scout – Tom Brown
- The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
- Complex Variables and Applications – Churchill
- QED – R.P. Feynman
- The Secret Sierra: The Alpine World Above the Trees – David Gilligan
- A Students Guide to Maxwell’s Equations – Daniel Fleisch
- Two Years Before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Books I have finished reading:
- Wheel of Time series – Robert Jordan
- Chronicles of Amber – Roger Zelansky
- Sword of Shannara series – Terry Brooks
- Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
- Sword of Truth series – Terry Goodkind
- Digital Fortress – Dan Brown
- Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- Close to the Wind – Pete Goss
- In the Years of the Mountains – David Gilligan
- Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
- Once a Runner: A Novel – John L. Parker, Jr.
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
- In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feyman – R.P. Feynman
- What do you care what other people think? – R.P. Feynman
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out – R.P. Feynman
- The Meaning of it All – R.P. Feynman
- The Redwall Series – Brian Jacques
- Guests of the Sheik – Elizabeth Fernea
- Fountain and Tomb – Naguib Mahfouz
- Intro. to Modern Statistical Mechanics – D. Chandler
- Solids and Surfaces – Roald Hoffmann
- Introduction to Lasers – Hitz, Ewing, Hecht