Collected from various sources

• Non-Fiction
• Fiction
• Computer Documentation
• The Rory Gilmore challenge
  • My copy
• Interesting books this guy read
• Leadership and other recommendations

Websites to find books:

• http://fivebooks.com/
• How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist

Books to improve mental model:

• The selfish gene - for understanding human behavior
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything by Bernardo Kastrup
• Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - for understanding how to be content
• Debt, the first 5,000 years - for understanding money and finance from the ground up
• Wright Brothers - for understanding how technological breakthroughs happen
• Snowball (Warren Buffet), Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller biographies - for understanding the mental mindset to win in business (it's not what you think)
• Hackers and painters - for understanding startups and how/why they work
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - for understanding beauty in the routine
• Essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less and Walden - for understanding how “stuff” gets in the way of happiness
• Les Miserables - for understanding love
• Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

• Murder at the Vicarage (1930), Agatha Christie, 288 pp
• The Magicians (2009), Lev Grossman, 402 pp
• The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck, 479 pp
• Life of Pi (2001), Yann Martel, 460 pp
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Arthur C. Clarke, 297 pp
• Fight Club (1996), Chuck Palahniuk, 218 pp
• Flowers for Algernon (1958), Daniel Keyes, 311 pp
• Unwind (2007), Neal Shusterman, 335 pp
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014), Claire North, 405 pp
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Ransom Riggs, 352 pp
• This is a book (2011), Demetri Martin, 269 pp
• Dandelion Wine (1957), Ray Bradbury, 239 pp
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884), Edwin A. Abbott, 96 pp

• The Lord of Choas (1994), Robert jordan, 987 pp
• 20 Years of KDE (2016), Editor: Lydia Pintscher, 294 pp
• Rendezvous with Rama (1972), Arthur C. Clarke, 243 pp
• Rama II (1989), Arthur C. Clarke, 480 pp
• The Garden of Rama (1991), Arthur C. Clarke, 608 pp
• Rama Revealed (1993), Arthur C. Clarke, 512 pp
• The Shadow Rising (1992), Robert Jordan, 981 pp
• The Fires of Heaven (1993), Robert Jordan, 963 pp
• Ready Player One (2011), Ernest Cline, 386 pp
• Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea (1870), Jules Verne, 214 pp
• No Country for Old Men (2005), Cormac McCarthy, 322 pp
• The Princess Bride (1973), William Goldman, 465 pp
• The Man in the High Castle (1962), Philip K. Dick, 239 pp
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde, 254 pp
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2011), Marie Kondo, 226 pp

• The Shepherd's Crown (2015), Terry Pratchett, 304 pp
• The Dragon Reborn (1991), Robert Jordan, 675 pp
• The Great Hunt (1990), Robert Jordan, 681 pp
• The Eye of the World (1990), Robert Jordan, 782 pp

Collection of good articles/internet threads worth reading (maybe save a copy in case it disappears?)

• Weekly Top 10 Ask HN