Kyle’s Reading List
After 5 years in graduate school, I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve read virtually nothing besides physics and astrophysics textbooks and journal articles. I made a promise to myself to start reading both fiction and non-fiction books starting in 2023, and this page will list the books I’ve finished and the books that I am currently reading.
Currently, I am reading or listening to…
Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
Completed Reading + Listening (Listed by most recently finished)
2024
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan (Audiobook)
Writing Science: How to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded by Joshua Schimel
Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins
The Worlds I See: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li (Audiobook and Physical Book)
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? by Stephen Wolfram
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson (Audiobook and Kindle Ebook)
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufmann (Audiobook and Physical Book)
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark (Audiobook and Physical Book)
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields by Sean M. Carroll (Audiobook and Physical Book)
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra
Catching Up to Crypto: Your Guide to Bitcoin and the New Digital Economy by Ben Armstrong
Convergence: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing Social, Economic, and Policy Impacts by Greg Viggiano
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle
The Scout’s Mindset: Why Some People See things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef (Audiobook and Physical Book)
Think Like a Data Scientist: Tackle the data science process step-by-step by Brian Godsey
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't by Nate Silver (2nd reading)
Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth Blanchard, et al.
The Last Answer (Short Story) by Isaac Asimov
2023
Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smith
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
The Drawing of The Three by Stephen King (Audiobook and Physical Book)
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos by Prof. Andrew Pontzen
The Last Question (Short Story) by Isaac Asimov
A Brief History of Black Holes by Dr. Becky Smethurst
The Gunslinger by Stephen King (Audiobook)
The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo (2nd reading)
An Intuitive Introduction to Finance and Derivatives: Concepts, Terminology, and Models by Alex Backwell
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss (with Tahl Raz)
Crucial Conversations: Tools For Talking When Stakes Are High by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, and Emily Gregory
Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Becoming A Data Head: How To Think, Speak, And Understand Data Science, Statistics, And Machine Learning by Alex J. Gutman and Jordan Goldmeier
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean Carroll
You Look Like a Thing And I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works And Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane