This page contains my constantly evolving list of favourite books. For the time being I'll be leaving it in Babelian disorder, without discriminating fiction from non-fiction and without any regard for chronological order. As it stands now, I'd like to think of it as representing certain conceptual associations and the complexity of my interests!
The Library of Babel
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and Jaqueline Simpson
The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Non-Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat by John Gribbin
Seeing and Believing: The Story of the Telescope by Richard Panek
Chaos by James Gleick
Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics by George Johnson
What is Mathematics? by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
The Sunday Philosophy Club series by Alexander McCall Smith
44 Scotland Street series by Alexander McCall Smith
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
About Me
- Surendran Rajendran
- Bangalore, India
- I am best described as a reader. Reading, of course, is a very general term and I mean it in exactly that sense. "“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is ,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”" I used to believe the world could be read, if not always understood or made sense of. While not so sure now, I still feel reading is distinct from understanding: anything and everything, when written down, becomes artifice and that is the intuitive principle on which my reading operates. To read, therefore, is to interpret not understand.