This is a list of books I would like to read someday, encroaching on some of the things I very much look forward to knowing about, when time becomes less of a luxury and more of a meandering backdrop to everyday life. The list is mostly a note to self (and the closest to a bucket-list for my brain), and perhaps acts as my literary wishlist in some strong sense. This is in no particular order, but recent ones are added on top of the list, which means the ones to the end are more coveted (loosely speaking); and the technical ones are in blue. If somehow you (yes you!) find yourself so charitable or good-willed, or if you wish to generally make me happy and hence reinforce my belief in mankind, then you may consider buying me some of these books 
- Dr. Zhivago; Boris Pasternak
- Historical Development of Quantum Theory; Jagdish Mehra
- Information, Randomness and Incompleteness; Greg Chaitin
- Faust; Goethe
- Lord of the Rings; Tolkein
- Problems of Philosophy; Bertrand Russell
- Candide; Voltaire
- Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics; Wittgenstein
- Topology of Fibre Bundles; Steenrod
- Geometry of Physics and Knots; Atiyah
- In Cold Blood; Truman Capote
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; Thomas Kuhn
- The Double Helix; James Watson
- The Origins of Totalitarianism; Hannah Arendt
- For Whom the Bell Tolls; Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms; Hemingway
- Shelley – The Pursuit; Richard Holmes
- Byron: Life and Legend; Fiona MacCarthy
- Princeton Companion to Mathematics; Tim Gowers etal.
- So Bright and Delicate; John Keats, collected/edited by Jane Campion
- Syntactic Structures; Noam Chomsky
- Gravitation; Misner, Thorne and Wheeler
