Roy
Utsob Roy

Recommendations

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." — Franz Kafka

I believe, every bit of wisdom lies behind our comfort zone. These are the books expanded my horizons of thought.

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#1
Cosmos
Cosmos
  • Carl Sagan
4.48170 reads
#2
La biblioteca de Babel
La biblioteca de Babel
  • Jorge Luis Borges
4.756 reads
#3
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.55546 reads
#4
The scientific outlook
The scientific outlook
  • Bertrand Russell
42 reads
#5
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
  • Fernando Pessoa
  • Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
4.3280 reads
#6
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
  • Ray Bradbury
3.92,940 reads
#7
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
  • Joseph Weizenbaum
4.51 read
#8
The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds
  • Attar of Nishapur
  • Sholeh Wolpé (Translator)
4.438 reads
#9
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun
  • David Goodstein
  • Judith R. Goodstein
  • Richard P. Feynman
4.256 reads
#10
Treat It Gentle
Treat It Gentle
  • Sidney Bechet
51 read
#11
Tristes Tropiques
Tristes Tropiques
  • Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • John Weightman (Translator)
  • Doreen Weightman (Translator)
4.25 reads
#12
The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law
  • Richard P. Feynman
4.4216 reads
#13
Spinoza's Ethics
Spinoza's Ethics
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • George Eliot (Translator)
3.52 reads
#14
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
  • Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Nigel Griffin (Translator)
4.673 reads
#15
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
  • Peter Frankopan
4.2579 reads
#16
Silence
Silence
  • S. Endo
3.8649 reads
#17
A Musical Offering
A Musical Offering
  • Luis Sagasti
  • Fionn Petch (Translator)
51 read
#18
Cover 1

The Negro

The Negro
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
51 read
#19
On Intelligence
On Intelligence
  • Jeff Hawkins
  • Sandra Blakeslee
4.0618 reads
#20
The Order of Time
The Order of Time
  • Carlo Rovelli
3.87115 reads
#21
Hunger
Hunger
  • Knut Hamsun
3.9372 reads
#22
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
    4.675 reads
    #23
    The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
    The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
    • Nāgārjuna
    • Jay L. Garfield (Translator)
    52 reads
    #24
    The Handmaid's Tale
    The Handmaid's Tale
    • Margaret Atwood
    4.082,105 reads
    #25
    The Souls of Black Folk
    The Souls of Black Folk
    • W.E.B. Du Bois
    4.1534 reads
    #26
    1984
    1984
    • George Orwell
    4.214,859 reads
    #27
    Animal Farm
    Animal Farm
    • George Orwell
    • Boris Grabnar (Translator)
    • Celâl Üster (Translator)
    • Celâl Üstüner (Translator)
    4.043,809 reads
    #28
    A People's History of the United States
    A People's History of the United States
    • Howard Zinn
    • Kathy Emery
    • Ellen Gordon Reeves
    4.23223 reads
    #29
    From hell
    From hell
    • Alan Moore
    4.24118 reads
    #30
    What Is the Fourth Dimension?: Limitations of Our Existence
    What Is the Fourth Dimension?: Limitations of Our Existence
    • Charles Howard Hinton
    51 read
    #31
    Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
    Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
    • Matsuo Bashō
    • Sam Hamill (Translator)
    54 reads
    #32
    The Planiverse
    The Planiverse
    • A.K. Dewdney
    4.175 reads
    #33
    Dragon's Egg
    Dragon's Egg
    • Robert L. Forward
    4.0148 reads
    #34
    Walking
    Walking
    • Thomas Bernhard
    3.52 reads
    #35
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
    • Carl Sagan
    • Ann Druyan
    4.2883 reads
    #36
    Stories of Your Life and Others
    Stories of Your Life and Others
    • Ted Chiang
    4.3517 reads
    #37
    Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
    Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
    • Apostolos Doxiadis
    3.813 reads
    #38
    Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
    Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
    • Cathy O'Neil
    3.74132 reads
    #39
    The Scientist as Rebel
    The Scientist as Rebel
    • Freeman Dyson
    4.335 reads
    #40
    My Name is Red
    My Name is Red
    • Orhan Pamuk
    • Erdağ M. Göknar (Translator)
    3.663 reads
    #41
    The Prophet
    The Prophet
    • Kahlil Gibran
    4.13231 reads
    #42
    Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Richard Pevear (Translator)
    • Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
    4.261,053 reads