This is a list of books I own as of the beginning of 2005, apart from direct/indirect course-related textbooks.
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values | Robert M. Pirsig |
| Wisdom of Insecurity | Alan Watts |
| Out of My Later Years | Albert Einstein |
| Man's search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl |
| Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Charles A. Moore |
| Basic Ideas of Science and Mind | Ernest Holmes |
| Continuum | Immanuel Kant |
| The Republic | Plato |
| Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter | Donald Palmer |
| The Perennial Philosophy | Aldous Huxley |
| Coming Back: The Science of Reincarnation | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Stranger in the Mirror | Steinberg, Schnall |
| Textbook of Social Psychology | Prentice Hall |
| Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health | L. Ron Hubbard |
| What do you say after you say hello? | Eric Berne |
| Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited | Samuel Vaknin |
| On death and dying | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Making of Landscape Photographs | Charlie Waite |
| Australia in Pictures | Peter Lik |
| M. C. Escher: The Graphic Work | M. C. Escher |
| Off the mark: Cartoons | Mark Parisi |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Economics | John Taylor |
| Sociology: Windows on Society: An Anthology | Robert Lauer, Jeanette Lauer |
| The clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order | Samuel P. Huntington |
| What is Marriage For? : The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution | E. J. Graff |
| Principles of Social Reconstruction | Bertrand Russell |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Treasury of Courage and Confidence | Normal Vincent Peale |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R Covey |
| Getting Things Done | David Allen |
| Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type | Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger |
| What Should I Do with My Life? | Po Bronson |
| You can win | Shiv Khera |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography | Neal Koblitz |
| Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics | Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner |
| Computers and the Imagination: Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge | Clifford Pickover |
| Turing: A Novel about Computation | Christos H. Papadimitriou |
| A Mathematical Introduction to Logic | Herbert B. Enderton |
| Metamagical Themas | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| Programming Pearls | Jon Bentley |
| Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design | Scott Meyers |
| Understanding Linux Kernel | Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati |
| Code Complete | Steve McConnell |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations | Brian S. McConnell |
| Biology: The Realm of Life | Robert J. Ferl, Robert A. Wallace, Gerald P. Sanders |
| A Guide to Skywatching | David H. Levy |
| The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts | Michael J. Novacek (Editor), American Museum of Natural History |
| A New Kind of Science | Stephen Wolfram |
| Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension | Michio Kaku |
| General Relativity from A to B | Robert Geroch |
| A brief history of time | Stephen Hawkings |
| The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul | Richard Morris |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Odyssey | Homer, Samuel Butler(translator) |
| Narcissus and Goldmund | Herman Hesse |
| The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand |
| The Story of My Experiments With Truth | Mahatama Gandhi |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card |
| I, Robot | Isaac Asimov |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Bhagavad-Gita As It Is | A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad |
| Life Can Be This Good: Awakening to the Miracles All Around Us | Jan Goldstein |
| Celebrating Silence | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
| Art of Man Making (Commentary on Bhagvad Gita) | Swami Chinmayananda |
| Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation | Wayne W. Dyer |
| The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? | Rick Warren |
| Autobiography of a Yogi | Paramhansa Yogananda |
| Am I a Hindu | Ed Viswanathan |
| Book Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The 2548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said | Robert Byrne |
| The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers | Michael Newton |