My Current Reading List

Ever since embarking on my Master's journey, fueled by my deep fascination with emerging technologies and unending curiosity, I have perused the following books:

Biography 🧑

• Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups (Ashneer Grover)

• Elon Musk (Ashlee Vance)

• Into That Heaven of Freedom (Rashmi Bansal)

• I, Steve – Steve Jobs in His Own Words (George Beahm)

• The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

• Wings of Fire (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)

Data Science and Machine Learning 🧮💻

• A Whirlwind Tour of Python (Jake VanderPlas)

• A Gentle Introduction to Stata (Alan C. Acock)

• A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics (Michael N. Mitchell)

• Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, LEGO, and Rubber Ducks (Will Kurt)

• Build a Career in Data Science (Emily Robinson and Jacqueline Nolis)

• Data Management Using Stata – A Practical Handbook (Michael N. Mitchell)

• Deep Learning with Python (François Chollet)

• Discovering Structural Equation Modeling Using Stata (Alan C. Acock)

• Effective Pandas: Patterns for Data Manipulation (Matt Harrison)

• Feature Selection In Machine Learning with Python (Soledad Galli)

• Forecasting Time Series Data with Facebook Prophet (Greg Rafferty)

• Learning R (Richard Cotton)

• Machine Learning with R Cookbook (Yu-Wei, Chiu)

• Pandas 1.x Cookbook (Matt Harrison and Theodore Petrou)

• Practical Statistics for Data Scientists (Peter C. Bruce, Andrew Bruce, and Peter Gedeck)

• Python for Data Analysis (Wes McKInney)

• Python Feature Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition (Soledad Galli)

• R for Data Science (Garrett Grolemund, and Hadley Wickham)

• R for Data Science Cookbook (Yu-Wei, Chiu)

• R Graphics Cookbook (Winston Chang)

• Time Series Forecasting in Python (Marco Peixeiro)

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine (Jodie Burchell, and Mauricio Vargas)

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to GGPlot2 (Jodie Burchell, and Mauricio Vargas)

Health, Lifestyle and Family

• Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (John Gray)

Motivational and Self-help 🍀

• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)

• Ignited Minds (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)

• Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)

• Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert T. Kiyosaki)

• Talk Like TED (Carmine Gallo)

• The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)

• The Leader Who Had No Title (Robin Sharma)

• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Robin Sharma)

• The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)

• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Job (Carmine Gallo)

• Think Like a Monk (Jay Shetty)

• Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)

• The Power of Positive Thinking (Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)

• Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)

• Turning Point (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)

• Who Will Cry When You Die (Robin Sharma)

Research

• Write a Winning Research Proposal: How to Generate Grant Ideas and Secure Funding Using Research Project Canvas: 5 (Peer Recognized) (by Martins Zaumanis)

• The Grant Writing Guide: A Road Map for Scholars (Skills for Scholars) (by Betty)

Science and Discovery 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

• Cosmos (Carl Sagan)

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Bill Gates)

Story and Fiction 🌱

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Book Series (Jeff Kinney)

• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)

• Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)

Walkable and Cyclable City Planning 🚶‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚆🚌

• Better Busies Better Cities (Steven Higashide) 

• Bike Nation (Peter Walker)

• Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality (Melissa Bruntlett, and Chris Bruntlett)

• Confession of a Recovering Engineer (Charles L. Marohn, Jr.)

• Human Speed: A City Planner’s Evolution From A Daily Driver To A Multimodal Traveler (Mark Brown)

• Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Jarrett Walker)

• It's All about the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels (Robert Penn)

• Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives (Thalia Verkade, and Marco te Brömmelstroet)

• Parking and the City (Donald Shoup)

• Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Henry Grabar)

• Street Design (Victor Dover, ‎and John Massengale)

• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Janette Sadik-Khan, and Seth Solomonow)

• Strong Towns (Charles L. Marohn, Jr.)

• The High Cost of Free Parking (Donald Shoup)

• Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities (Tim Gill)

• Urban Street Design Guide (National Association of City Transport Officials)

• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Jeff Speck)

• Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Jeff Speck)

My Future Reading List 📚

• A History of Street Networks: from Grids to Sprawl and Beyond (Laurence Aurbach)

• Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Peter Norton)

• Back on My Bike: How Cycling Transformed My Life after Sixty (Tom Eastham)

• Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance (Adonia E. Lugo)

• Building the Cycling City (Melissa Bruntlett, ‎Chris Bruntlett)

• Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World (Jevin D. West, and Carl T. Bergstrom) 

• Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Jane Jacobs)

• Cities for People (Jan Gehl (Author), Lord Richard Rogers (Foreword))

• Crossings - How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Ben Goldfarb)

• Curbing Traffic (Chris Bruntlett, and Melissa Bruntlett)

• Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Wade Graham)

• Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Jorge Almazán)

• Every Inch of the Way; My Bike Ride Around the World (Tom Bruce)

• Fighting Traffic (Peter D. Norton)

• From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning (Jonathan Levin, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin)

• Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability (David Owen)

• Happy City (Charles Montgomery)

• How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action (Urban Worlds) (Professor Paul Chatterton)

• Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World (Jennifer S. Vey, and Nate Storring)

• Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Veronica Davis, and Tamika L Butler)

• Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez)

• Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System (Wes Marshall)

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb)

• Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis (Daniel G. Parolek)

• Mobility 2040: Exploring the Emerging Trends Radically Transforming Transportation Systems in the US (Galo Bowen)

• One Man and His Bike: A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain (Mike Carter)

• Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Alain Bertaud)

• Parking Reform Made Easy (Richard W. Willson, and Donald C. Shoup)

• Pocket Neighborhoods (Ross Chapin)

• Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One (Majora Carter)

• Restorative Cities (Jenny Roe (Author), Layla McCay (Author))

• Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering (Lynn Peterson, Elizabeth Doerr, and Janette Sadik-Khan)

• Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paris Marx)

• Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (Lizabeth Cohen)

• Soft City (David Sim)

• Street Smart (Samuel I Schwartz)

• Strap Hanger (Taras Grescoe)

• Suburban Nation (Andres Duany, ‎Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, ‎and Jeff Speck)

• Sustainable Nation (Douglas Farr)

• Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Douglas Farr)

• Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term (Mike Lydon, Anthony Garcia, and Andres Duany)

• The 15-minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet (Carlos Moreno, and Jan Gehl)

• The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There) (Shane Phillips)

• The Art of Classic Planning – Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities (Nir H. Buras)

• The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Yodan Rofe)

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)

• The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning (Le Corbusier)

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)

• The Economy of Cities (Jane Jacobs)

• The Gendered City: How Cities Keep Failing Women (Nourhan Bassam)

• The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America) (Nicholas Dagen Bloom)

• Great Good Place (Ray Oldenburg)

• The Heart of Our Cities: The Urban Crisis, Diagnosis and Cure (Victor Gruen)

• The Image of the City (Kevin Lynch)

• The New Mobility Handbook: Rethinking How We Get Around Cities (Michele Kyrouz)

• The Smart Growth Manual (Andres Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon)

• There Are No Accidents (Jessie Singer)

• Traffic (Tom Vanderbilt)

• Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age (Paul Mees)

• Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human (Edward Glaeser)

• Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design (Joan Busquets, Dingliang Yang, and Michael Keller)

• Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco (Katie Burke)

• What if Women Designed the City?: 33 leverage points to make your city work better for women and girls (May East)

• When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Anna Zivarts (Author), Dani Simons (Foreword))

• Works: Anatomy of a City (Kate Ascher)

• X and the City (John A. Adam)