Bookshelf

A list of books I’ve found useful. Other books I have read on GoodReads.

Favorites

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Bhagavad Gita - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
• Self Renewal - John Gardner
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold
• Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
• Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius

Understanding of the World

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling
• The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond
• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Behaviour & Psychology

• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life - David Foster Wallace
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
• The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade - Robert B. Cialdini
• Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is - Donald C. Gause
• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life - Kevin Simler
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence - Anna Lembke
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less - Barry Schwartz
• Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Todd Gilbert

Health

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky
• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Peter Attia
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
• The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss - Jason Fung
• The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
• The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - Robert M. Sapolsky

Computer Science

• Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software - Charles Petzold

History

• Empire of the Moghul Series - Alex rutherford
• India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy - Ramachandra Guha
• Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #1-2) - Hilary Mantel
• Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan
• Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) - Hilary Mantel
• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire - William Dalrymple

Economics

• IIM Ahmedabad Business Books: Day to Day Economics - Satish Y. Deodhar
• Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems - Abhijit V. Banerjee
• Capital in the Twenty First Century - Thomas Piketty
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much - Sendhil Mullainathan

Non Fiction

• The Bhagavad Gita - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives - Mark Miodownik
• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense - Rory Sutherland
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin

Business

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight
• The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you - Rob Fitzpatrick
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Richard P. Rumelt
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell - Eric Schmidt
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers - Geoffrey A. Moore

Personal Development

• Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio
• The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume - Josh Kaufman
• The Power of Your Subconscious Mind - Joseph Murphy
• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
• The Comfort Book - Matt Haig
• Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) - Peter F. Drucker
• Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It - Ethan Kross
• Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Brené Brown
• The Definitive Book of Body Language - Allan Pease
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman
• The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith
• The Richest Man in Babylon - George S. Clason
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Philosophy & Mindfulness

• The Egg - Andy Weir
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Marcus Aurelius
• The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation - Thich Nhat Hanh
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times - Pema Chödrön

Fiction

• The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Green Mile - Stephen King
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
• Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) - Agatha Christie
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1) - Douglas Adams
• Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) - Agatha Christie
• 1984 - George Orwell
• The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
• The Call of the Wild - Jack London
• Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson