Welcome to my curated reading list. The books I've selected span three distinct yet interconnected domains: Financial Engineering, Machine Learning/AI, and Life. At first glance, these fields might seem separate, but they are deeply linked by common ...
Sections
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Life
Machine Learning/AI for Beginners
Financial Derivatives
Quantitative Finance
Python
General Finance
Life
Read every few years to get a new insight every time
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition
Groundbreaking tour of the mind
Thinking, Fast and Slow
An incredibly practical and actionable framework for building good habits and breaking bad ones. It focuses on the power of small, incremental improvements.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
This is not a book in the traditional sense, but the private journal of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is one of the most important texts of Stoic philosophy.
The Illustrated Meditations: Life Lessons from Marcus Aurelius
A book that helps you find your true self
The Alchemist : Coelho, Paulo
Machine Learning/AI for Beginners
Books for a solid start in the field of ML/AI
If you need on one book on Machine Learning, this is the one
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
Bird's eye view of Machine Learning for first introduction
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov, Paperback
This is a groundbreaking book that bridges the gap between traditional quantitative finance and modern machine learning.
Advances in Financial Machine Learning
Financial Derivatives
This is widely regarded as the "bible" of financial engineering and the definitive textbook on derivatives.
John C. Hull: Books
Quantitative Finance
This is a groundbreaking book that bridges the gap between traditional quantitative finance and modern machine learning.
Advances in Financial Machine Learning
Hand-on book if you know basics of python/finance
Python for Finance: Mastering Data-Driven Finance
Python
This is an easy introduction to CS/python for beginners
Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python 3.6
General Finance
Stories about beautiful world of finance
If you want to know how a nation lost its financial mind
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Story of the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Story of how Wall Street fought to save itself!
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves
Story of rise and fall of Enron
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron