Focus only on examinations: TOEFL, SAT, GRE, GMAT, IELTS, ( Academic ), IBDP (Literature) if you meet any of these 3 requirements.
Follow your passion, or curiosity, or even whim.
Then, you well do well in exams, as well as in life.
Enjoy 20% of the following books and do well in any English exam.
Lengthy Reading:
| War and Peace (Read it in 1 night. And write it in 5 months using Tolstoy's hacker way), |
| The Brothers Karamazov, |
| Crime and Punishment, |
| On War (Clausewitz), |
| Journey to the West, |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms, |
| Water Margin, |
| Dreams of Red Chambers, |
| Golden Lotus(4 Volumes), |
| Lord of Perfect Satisfaction, The Carnal Prayer Mat |
| Musashi(Novel), |
| Bible (Old/New Testament), |
| Digha Nikaya, |
| Majjhima Nikaya, |
| Samyutta Nikaya |
Science Reading:
| Einstein's Fridge, |
| Einstein's Boss, |
| Beyond Weird, |
| Hawking Hawking, |
| Fear of a Black Universe, |
| The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos, |
| Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, |
| Nature (magazine), |
| New Scientist(magazine) |
Tech Reading:
| AI a Modern Approach(Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig), |
| Deep Learning with Python (Chollet), |
| Daily Coding Problems, |
| Coders at Work, |
| Extreme Programming(Kent Beck), |
| Refactoring(Martin Fowler), |
| MongoDB Fundamentals, |
| The Art of Doing Science and Engineering( Richard R. Hamming), |
| Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World(Arno Penzias), |
| Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong (Luis Perez-Breva), |
| Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, |
Deep Reading:
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance( Robert M. Pirsig), |
| Art of War(Sun Tzu, Sun Bin)(Has anyone summarized Sun Tzu in 4 words?) |
| I Ching, |
| Tao Te Ching, |
| Book of Five Rings, |
| Patterns of Conflict(Boyd), |
| Mao's Invisible Hand, |
| Yiddishe Kop |
Wide Reading:
| Unlimited Warfare, |
| The Savior Generals, |
| Defensive Shield, |
| Startup Nation, |
| Unstoppable Startup, |
| Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, |
| Grapes of Wrath, |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, |
| Tenali Rama stories, |
| Jataka stories, |
| One Thousand and One Nights, |
| The Elements of Eloquence(Mark Forsyth)(Geniuses may be using "robotic" formulas you don't suspect!!), |
| Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment |
| Influence |
Silicon (Valley) Reading:
| Wide Lens, |
| Becoming Steve Jobs, |
| Steve Jobs(Walter Isaacson), |
| Judo Strategy, |
| Blue Ocean Strategy |
| Innovator's Dilemma, |
| Only the Paranoid Survive, |
| Ask Your Developer, |
| Effective Executive(Drucker), |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship(Drucker), |
| Growth Hacker Marketing, |
| Hacking Growth, |
| Brain vs Capital, |
| Unscale, |
| Not for Bread Alone(Matsushita), |
| Matsushita Leadership, |
| Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, |
| Zero to One, |
| The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon |