Library

My bookshelf of inspirations.

Textbooks
Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (Holmes and Huber) 
• A key foundational textbook with R code tutorials for bioinformatics
Cancer Systems Biology - Mathematical Translation Oncology
• A recent textbook about the phenotypic plasticity framework


Favourite works/authors from my formative years. 

Sci-fi
Philip K Dick - Ubik
Ursula K Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
Shirow Masamune - Ghost in the Shell
Gene Wolfe
Samuel R Delaney - Babel-17
Michael Crichton - Prey
Ted Chiang - Story of your Life and other short works
The Year's Best Science Fiction (1984 to 2018 by Gardner Dozois)

Social sciences
Michel Foucalt - Madness and Civilization
Ivan Illich - Medical Nemesis
Herbert Marcuse - One dimensional man
Johann Graafland - Ethics and Economics

Poetry
Czesław Miłosz
Zen poetry - various authors

Literature
Albert Camus - Lyrical Essays, and The Plague
Kafka - Complete stories
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar named Desire
Don Delillo - White Noise

Ancient Literature/Mythology
Beowulf
Edda
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius, translated by George Long
Le Morte d'Arthur
Strange tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Song Ling, translated by John Minford (2006)

(Neo)classical Music (and Jazz)
Howard Shore's music for LOTR trilogy
Janacek's works for piano
Gabriel Fauré's Nocturnes and Barcarolles
Scriabin's preludes and shorter works
J.S. Bach partitas and other ensemble works
C.P.E. Bach (very eccentric transitional style)
Fazil Day - Black Earth 
William Bolcom's jazz works
Alfred Deller (revival of Renaissance/Baroque countertenor)

Modern Music
Coeur de Pirate
Mainland Mandopop 
Max Richter
Olafur Arnalds