Books on Science Recommended by Investor Mohnish Pabrai (Pabrai Funds)

Mohnish Pabrai is an investor, hedge-fund manager and philanthropist. Mohnish manages Pabrai Funds and leads the Dakshana Foundation, a tutoring service in India for less-privileged members of the society to enable them to attend the elite institutions of higher learning in India.

• “Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist” by Richard P. Feynman
• “The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World” by Jenny Uglow
• “Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means” by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman” by James Gleick
• “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature” by Steven Pinker
• “Wider than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness” by Gerald M. Edelman
• “Jump Start Your Brain” by Doug Hall
• “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson
• “The Expanded Quotable Einstein” by Freeman Dyson
• “The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1 (Chief Research Chemist and other stories)” by by Richard P. Feynman
• “The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist’s Guide to Enlightenment” by Amit Goswami, Deepak Chopra
• “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse” by Gregg Easterbrook
• “How the Mind Works” by Steven Pinker
• “Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain” by Antonio R. Damasio
• “A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe” by Gino Segre
• “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character” by Richard P. Feynman
• “Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are” by Joseph Ledoux
• “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist” by Richard P. Feynman
• “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge” by Edward O. Wilson
• “Isaac Newton” by James Gleick