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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 (Author))
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)
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 Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Jarrett Walker)
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, 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)
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, Melissa Bruntlett)
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Wade Graham)
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)
Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World (Jennifer S. Vey (Author), Nate Storring (Author))
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Veronica Davis (Author), Tamika L Butler (foreword))
Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez)
It's All About the Bike (Robert Penn)
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 (Author), Donald C. Shoup (Foreword))
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 (Author), Elizabeth Doerr (Author), Janette Sadik-Khan (foreword))
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Paris Marx)
Soft City (David Sim)
Street Smart (Samuel I Schwartz)
Strap Hanger (Taras Grescoe)
Suburban Nation (Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, 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, Andres Duany)
The 15-minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet ( Carlos Moreno (Author), Jan Gehl (Foreword))
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 Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America) (Nicholas Dagen Bloom (Author))
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 (Author), Jeff Speck (Author), Mike Lydon (Author))
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 (Author), Dingliang Yang (Author), Michael Keller (Designer))
Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco (Katie Burke)
Works: Anatomy of a City (Kate Ascher)
X and the City (John A. Adam)