For beginners there’s PRML by Bishop and maybe Understanding Machine Learning by Shai² but for advanced readers or those interested in the deep learning and GAN research landscape (and how to apply it) there really isn’t anything good out there.

I personally don’t like Goodfellow’s Deep Learning book. I wish there was a good deep-dive out there but there just isn’t what I need.

I think Andrej Karpathy is a good writer, kind of wish he could throw something together!