Books I Want to Read

• Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (1980)
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
• Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927)
• Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)
• J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Books I Recommend (Fiction)

• Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2006)
• Greg Egan, Axiomatic (1995)
• Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1916)
• Shuzo Oshimi, Inside Mari (2012)

Books I Recommend (Non-Fiction)

• Duncan Pritchard, What is this Thing Called Knowledge? (2006)
• Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament (2009)
• George Lakoff, Where Mathematics Come From (2000)
• Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality (2013)
• Alexander Grothendieck, Récoltes et Semailles (1986)
• Morris Kline, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (1980)
• Timothy Gowers et al., The Princeton Companion to Mathematics (2007)
• David Ruelle, The Mathematician's Brain (2007)
• Jacques Hadamard, The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field (1945)
• Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts (1996)
• Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, The Mathematical Experience (1981)
• Paul Benacerraf, Hilary Putnam, Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings (1984)
• Reuben Hersh, 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics (2006)

Books I Recommend (Recreational Mathematics)

• Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler, Proofs from THE BOOK (1998)
• Dmitry Fuchs, Serge Tabachnikov, Mathematical Omnibus (2007)
• V. B. Alekseev, Francesca Aicardi, Abel's Theorem in Problems and Solutions (2004)
• Mark Levi, The Mathematical Mechanic (2009)
• Răzvan Gelca, Titu Andreescu, Putnam and Beyond (2017)
• Paul Zeitz, The Art and Craft of Problem Solving (1999)
• E. R. Berlekamp, David Wolfe, Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point (1994)
• E. R. Berlekamp, J. Conway, R. Guy, Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (1982)
• Peter Winkler, Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection (2003)
• Martin Gardner, Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (1956)
• Martin Gardner, Mathematical Magic Show (1977)
• Colm Mulcahy, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects (2013)
• Matt Cook, Sleight of Mind (2021)
• Clément Deslandes, Guillaume Deslandes, The Price of Cake (2023)
• Jonas Peters, Nicolai Meinshausen, The Raven's Hat (2021)
• Satyan Devadoss, Matthew Harvey, Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries (2020)
• Alexander Bogomolny, Cut the Knot (2020)
• Mikhail Shifman, You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein (2005)
• George Polya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (2015)
• Thomas Lam, The CMUMC POTD Book (2025)
• George Polya, Mathematical Discovery (1991)

Essays I Recommend

• Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)
• Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967)
• G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)
• Eugenia Cheng, Mathematics, Morally (2004)
• W. T. Gowers, The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2007)
• Kevin Buzzard, Grothendieck’s Use of Equality (2024)
• Paul Benacerraf, What Numbers Could not Be (1965)
• W. V. O. Quine, Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)
• William P. Thurston, On Proof and Progress in Mathematics (1994)