Caltech: Please list three books, along with their authors, that have been particularly meaningful to you. For each book, please include a sentence explaining their influence upon you. Please note that your response is not limited to math, science or school-assigned texts.

 

171-word version
The Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
It seemed to me that the author wanted to reflect on our future...

 

Foundations of Algorithms Using C++ Pseudocode – Richard Neapolitan / Kurmarss Naimipour
This is the first book in my life related to programming languages and algorithms...

 

Kkurogi Fignting – Fourth grade class, Suji Elementary School
This is the first book my friends and I published in 2005 that includes our individual memories, ambitions, class events, etc...

 

Carnegie Mellon: List the books (if any) you've read this year for pleasure. Choose one and in a sentence describe its impact on you.

 

65-word version
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Brave New World
Mrs. Dalloway
The Overcoat
The Epic of Gilgamesh

 

The Brave New World – It seemed to me that the author wanted to reflect on our future...