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 |