Recent Books I have Read (updated June 2011)

• Endgame, Frank Brady, Crown, 2011.
• The Ten Laws of Enduring Success, Maria Bartiromo, Crown Business, 2010.
• The secret of Power, Rohnda Byrne, Artia Books, 2010.
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom, Amy Chua, Penguin Press, 2011.
• Shine, Edward M. Hollowell, Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
• Final Jeopardy, Stephen Baker, Houghton Mifflin Harcour, 2011
• Must You Go, Antonia Fraser, Knopf, 2010.
• Noma, Rene Redzepi, 2010, Phadon.
• Songs of Blood and Sword, Fatima Bhutto, Nation Books, 2010.
• The Bed of Procrustes, Nassim Taleb, Random House, 2010.
• Pull, David Seigel, Penguin, 2009.
• Drive, Daneil Pink, Riverhead Books, 2009.
• Shift, Peter Arnell, Broadway Books, 2009.
• Click, Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman, Broadway Books, 2010.
• Renegade, Richard Wolffe, Crown, 2009.
• Total Recall, Gordon Brown with Jim Gemmell, Dutton, 2009.
• Perfect Rigor, Masha Gessen, Houghton Mifflin Harcour, 2009.
• The upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely, Harper Collins, 2010.
• A Day at elBulli, Ferran Adria, Phaidon, 2008.
• Wisdom, Andrew Zuckerman, HNA, 2008.
• The First Billion is the Hardest, R. Boone Pickens, Crown Business, 2009.
• Dance with Chance, Makridakis, Hogarth, Gaba, ONEWORLD, Oxford, 2009.
• Four Seasons, Isadore Sharp, Portfolio Penguin, 2009.
• Tales From The Tao, Solala Towler, Fall River Press, 2005
• Showing Up for Life, Bill Gates Sr, Broadway Books, 2009.
• Total Recall, Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, Dutton, 2009.
• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown, 2008.
• Alinea, Grant Ascatz, Ten Speed Press, 2008.
• Drunkard A Hard Drinking Life, Neil Steinberg , 2008.
• Inside Steve's Brain, Leander Kahney, Portfolio, 2008.
• The Unfinished Game, Keith Devlin, Basic Books, 2008.
• The Influencer, Patterson et al, Mc Graw Hill, 2008.
• The Blue Zone, Dan Buettner, National Geographics, 2008
• Louver, Muse Du Louvre, Abrams, 2008.
• The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow, Pantheon Books, 2008.
• The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholson Taleb, Random House, 2007.
• Gut Feelings, Gred Gigerenzer, Viking, 2007.
• Life, Paulo Coelho, Harper Collins, 2007.
• The Three Signs of a Miserable Jobs, Pattrick Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 2007.
• Letters To A Young Teachers, Jonathan Kozol, Crown, 2007.
• Dreaming in Code, Scott Rosenberg, Crown, 2007.
• Valey Boy, Tom Perkins, Gotham Books, 2007.
• The 4-Hour Work week, Timothy Ferriss, Crown,2007
• How to Get to The Top, Jeffery J. Fox, Hyperion, 2007.
• How Starbucks Saved My Life, Michael Gates Gill, Gotham Books, 2007.
• The Three "Only" Things, Robert Moss, New World Library, 2007.
• The Exceptional Presenter,  Timothy J.Koegel,  Greenleaf Boo Press Group, 2007.
• What I talk about When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami, Knopf, 2007.
• Letters to Sam, Daniel Gottlieb, Sterling, 2006.
• A Photographer's Life, Annie Leibovitz, Random House 2006.
• Cultural Code, Clotaire Rapaille, Broadway Books, 2006.
• Secrets of Great Rainmakers , Jeffery J. Fox, Hyperion, 2006.
• Keep Going, joseph M. Marshall III, Sterling, 2006
• Newton, Peter Ackroyd, Double Day, 2006.
• How To Get Rich, Felix Dennis, Portfoli,2006.
• The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Steven K. Scott, Double Day,2006.
• The Witch of Portbello, Paulo Coelho, Harper Collins, 2006.
• The Zahir, Paulo Coelho, Harper, 2005.
• Writers, Nancy Crampton, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
• Incompleteness, Rebecca Goldstein, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
• The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, Knopf, 2005.
• The Drowned Book, Coleman Barks and John Moyne, Harperm 2004.
• Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho, Harper, 2004.
• Warrior of The Light, Paulo Coelho, Harper, 2003.
• My Staggerford Journal, John Hassler, Balliantine Book, 1999.
• David Brinkley, A Memoir, Balliantine Book, 1999
• Nine Parts of Desire, Gerladine Brooks, Anchor Books, 1995.
• By The River Piedra I sat Down And Wept, Paulo Coelho, Harper, 1994.
• Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, Harper, 1993

Previous books I have read (The List I Compiled in 2005 with some notes )

• "Infinite Book" by Cambridge Math professor John Barrow, Pantheon, 2005. (The first half of the book was amazing I read it nonstop in the airplane, the last part was not that great, maybe I was not concentrating. (Natural numbers, Gödel, Cantor, Zeno's paradox, Einstein, ..)
• "The World is Flat", 2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Very interesting book by Thomas Friedman of New York Times, talks about internet, Google, China, India, a great read.. )
• "Guns, Germs and Steel"  by Jareed Diamond, Norton and Comany, 1999. (Read first 100 pages, need more concentration, have not finished yet. )
• "Blackbird Singing" by Paul McCartney, Norton and Comany, 2001. (Beatles guy, poems and Lyrics, very interesting.)
• "A mighty Heart" by Marianne Pearl, Scribber, 2003 (by a wife of Danny Pearl (son of famous UCLA CS professor, who invented Bayesian networks), who was murdered in Karachi. This became a movie, which I also saw. )
• . "Himalaya" by Michael Palin, BBC series,Widensfeld & Nicolson, 2004. (An interesting book of travel log of Pakistan, India, Tibet, Nepal, etc.  I bought it in Pakistan, good price!  Good pictures. I at least buy one book during my trip to Pakistan)
• "Secret Man" by Bob Woodward, Simon & Schuster, 2005. (about Watergate finished in two days. )
• . "The Great Disruption" by Francis Fukayama, 1999, Profile Books, 1999. (An extremely readable book written by a Japanese; a professor at George Masson University about human nature and the reconstruction of social order. I bought it on sale for $4 at Barnes and Nobles, a very good prose. )
• "Never Eat Alone" by Keith Ferazzi. (3/4 good, but then repeat, a popular book. )
• "Blindsided" by Richard M Cohen, Prennial, 2004. (By a  blind husband of Meredith Vieira, ABC The View, and former correspondent of 60 minutes. A bitter, honest and bold story..., amazing English)
• . "The 72 Names of God", Kabbalah Publishers, 2003. (The technology of Soul, Yehuda Berg. Kabbalah stuff, Madonna is getting into... )
• "Silicon Eye" by George Gilder. (cameras, cell phone, Cal Tech, Carver Mead, suicide of Caltech Ph.D. students, startups, .an.amazing book. At least something related to vision! )
• . "Who Says Elephant Can't Dance", Louis Gerstner, Harper Business 2002, (by former IBM CEO who changed IBM, very interesting.. )
• "The long life & Turbulent times of 60 minutes", David Blum; Harper Collins, 2004. (I like any thing related to 60 minutes, a great show.)
• "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis,Penguin Books, 2000. (A story of Netscape, Jim Clark, a big boat, excellent book. I bought it on a sale for $5.)
• "My Staggerford Journal" by Jon Hassler. (How the acclaimed author recounts creation of one his most beloved classics, interesting story how he wrote it, not the story itself... )
• "The Drowned Book" Bahauddin The Father of Rumi,  Maarif, Colemna Barks, John Moyne, Harper, 2004.
• "The Art of Teaching" by Jay Prini, Oxford University Press. (A very good read. )
• "Joy at Work", by Dennis Barke. (not much, waste of money. )
• "Feynman's rainbow", by Leonard Milodinow, Warner Books, 2003. (An interesting book about Caltech, tenure process, noble prizes, and Star Track. It took me two days to read. Sono finished it in 2 hours! He is a fast reader.)
• "Leap of Faith", Queen Noor", Hyperion, 2003. (A biography of Queen of Jordan. Very interesting )
• "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell,Little Brown, 2005. (if you want to read only one book from this list, just read this one. It is amazing. There is vision in this, facial expression stuff.)
• "The Tipping point" by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown & Company 2002. (The same author, some will say this one is better than Blink. An amazing book. )
• "French Women Don't get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano,2005. (After Blink this is my second best pick. An excellent reading. )
• "Tears for water", Alicia Keys, Putnam, 2004. (A songbook of poems & Lyrics", by a brilliant popular singer, got impressed when I listened her interview on Charlie Rose show. Read this book on my flight from Philadelphia to Frankfurt.  I like poems. )
• "Funny in Farsi" by Firoozeh Dumas, very entertaining book about Iranian family growing up in US. . "Essential of Sufism" by J. Fadiman & R. Frager. A great book about Islam.
• "Jerks and Joys in My Life" by Justice Munawar Ali Khan, my cousin.