Reading
Here’s a list of all the books I’ve read or am reading. You can read my summary of the book by clicking on the title. This page is supposed to mirror my Goodreads account or vice versa.
| 2024 | ||
| CODE | Charles Petzold | reading |
| Sixteen Stormy Days | Tripurdaman Singh | listening |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | reading |
| 12 Rules for Life | Jordan Peterson | reading |
| The Lady and the Monk | Pico Iyer | ★★★★ |
| Einstein | Walter Isaacson | ★★★★ |
| The Outsider | Albert Camus | ★★★★ |
| Letters to a Young Contrarian | Christopher Hitchens | ★★★ |
| Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | ★★★★★ |
| Linux System Programming | Robert Love | ★★★★★ |
| The First and Last Freedom | J. Krishnamurti | ★★★★ |
| Pale Blue Dot | Carl Sagan | ★★★★ |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch | ★★★★★ |
| Horrors and Absurdities of Religion | Arthur Schopenhauer | ★★★ |
| Predictably Irrational | Dr. Dan Ariely | ★★★★ |
| The Joy of X | Steven H. Strogatz | ★★★ |
| Prisoner’s Dilemma | William Poundstone | ★★★ |
| 2023 | ||
| Indonesia - Culture Smart! | Graham Saunders | ★★★ |
| Atlas of the Heart | Brené Brown | ★★★★★ |
| Nationalism | Rabindranath Tagore | ★★★ |
| Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman | ★★★ |
| Kabuliwala, Selected Plays and Stories | Rabindranath Tagore | ★★★★ |
| Home in the World | Amartya Sen | ★★★★ |
| The Renaissance Diet 2.0 | Mike Israetel | ★★★★★ |
| The Simple Path to Wealth | J. L. Collins | ★★★ |
| The Demon-Haunted World | Carl Sagan | ★★★★★ |
| Where India Goes | Diane Coffe, Dean Spears | ★★★★★ |
| Enlightenment Now | Steven Pinker | ★★★★ |
| Malaysia - Culture Smart! | Victor King | ★★★ |
| Singapore - Culture Smart! | Angela Milligan | ★★★ |
| This Is What Inequality Looks Like | Teo You Yenn | ★★★★ |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | ★ |
| Fooled by Randomness | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ★★★★ |
| The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt | ★★★★ |
| The Anthropocene Reviewed | John Green | ★★★★ |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | ★★★★★ |
| Indistractable | Nir Eyal | ★★★★ |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | ★★★★★ |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | ★★★★ |
| The Art of Lifting | Greg Nuckols, Omar Isuf | ★★★★ |
| The Primal Blueprint | Mark Sisson | ★★★ |
| Learning Modern Linux | Michael Hausenblas | ★★ |
| Container Security | Liz Rice | ★★★★ |
| On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong | ★★★ |
| The Great Mental Models | Shane Parrish | ★★★★ |
| Prisoners of Geography | Tim Marshal | ★★★★ |
| 2022 | ||
| The Year of Less | Cait Flanders | ★★★ |
| Quiet | Susan Cain | ★★★★ |
| Bhais of Bengaluru | Jyoti Shelar | ★★★★ |
| Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian | ★★★★ |
| Society Without God | Phil Zuckerman | ★★★ |
| Vietnam: Rising Dragon | Bill Hayton | ★★★ |
| Annihilation of Caste | Dr. B R Ambedkar | ★★★★ |
| The Doctor and the Saint | Arundhati Roy | ★★★★ |
| The Paleo Manifesto | John Durant | ★★★ |
| Nepal - Culture Smart! | Tessa Feller | ★★★★ |
| A Tokyo Romance | Ian Buruma | ★★★★ |
| Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport | ★★★★★ |
| Four Seasons in Rome | Anthony Doerr | ★★★★ |
| On Tyranny | Timothy Snyder | ★★★★ |
| The Courage to Be Disliked | Ichiro Kishimi | ★★★★ |
| Walden | Thoreau | ★★★★★ |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | ★★★★★ |
| Everything That Remains | Joshua Millburn | ★★★ |
| The Beauty of All My Days | Ruskin Bond | ★★★★ |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | ★★★★★ |
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | ★★★★★ |
| Lean In | Sheryl Sandberg | ★★★★★ |
| Goodbye Things | Fumio Sasaki | ★★★★ |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | ★★★★★ |
| Autumn Light | Pico Iyer | ★★★★ |
| 2021 | ||
| The Bookseller of Kabul | Åsne Seierstad | ★★★★ |
| The Pragmatic Programmer | Andy Hunt | ★★★ |
| The Office | Andy Greene | ★★★ |
| The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | Eric Jorgensen | ★★★★ |
| The Abundance of Less | Andy Courturier | ★★★★★ |
| The Diving Pool | Yoko Ogawa | ★★★ |
| Principles | Ray Dalio | ★★ |
| What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast | Laura Vanderkam | ★★★ |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | ★★★ |
| Confessions of a Yakuza | Junichi Saga | ★★★★ |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | ★★★★ |
| Hiroshima | John Hersey | ★★★★★ |
| The Decision Checklist | Sam Kyle | ★★★ |
| Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack | Haruki Murakami | ★★★★ |
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | ★★★★★ |
| A Mind for Numbers | Barbara Oakley | ★★★★ |
| When A Tree Shook Delhi | Manoj Mitta | ★★★★★ |
| Stoner | John Williams | ★★★★★ |
| Leaving Microsoft to Change the World | John Wood | ★★★ |
| Practical Vim | Drew Neil | ★★★★ |
| Perfect Health Diet | Paul Jaminet | ★★★★ |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | ★★★ |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | ★★★★★ |
| Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 | Nam-Joo Cho | ★★★★ |
| Indra Nooyi - A Biography | Annapoorna | ★★★★ |
| Greenlights | Matthew McConaughey | ★★★★ |
| What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20 | Tina Seelig | ★★★ |
| Eat Sleep Work Repeat | Bruce Daisley | ★★★★ |
| The AWK Programming Language | Aflred V. Aho | ★★★★★ |
| Untangling My Chopsticks | Abbott Riccardi | ★★★ |
| You Need A Budget | Jesse Mecham | ★★★ |
| The Psychology of Money | Morgan Housel | ★★★★ |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama | ★★★★ |
| Kubernetes in Action | Marko Luksa | ★★★★★ |
| In the Beginning…Was the Command Line | Neal Stephenson | ★★ |
| 2020 | ||
| Let’s Talk Money | Monika Halan | ★★★★★ |
| The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin | Manu S. Pillai | ★★★★ |
| Rich Dad, Poor Dad | Robert Kiyosaki | ★ |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear | ★★★★ |
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferris | ★★ |
| How Google Works | Eric Schmidt | ★★★ |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | ★★★★ |
| Why I Am An Atheist | Bhagat Singh | ★★★★ |
| Remnants of a Separation | Aanchal Malhotra | ★★★★★ |
| Buried Seeds: Story of Vikas Khanna | Karan Bellani | ★★★★ |
| How Fascism Works | Jason Stanley | ★★★★★ |
| The Little Book of Common Sense Investing | John C. Bogle | ★★★★ |
| Wise and Otherwise | Sudha Murty | ★★★★★ |
| Kishore Kumar: Method in Madness | Derek Bose | ★★★★ |
| Deep Nutrition | Catherine Shanahan | ★★★★★ |
| Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance | ★★★★ |
| Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell | ★★★★★ |
| The Go Programming Language | Alan Donovan | ★★★★★ |
| Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata | ★★★ |
| Educated | Tara Westover | ★★★★★ |
| The Total Money Makeover | Dave Ramsey | ★★★ |
| How to Keep Your Cool | Seneca | ★★★★★ |
| The Bhagavad Gita | Dwaipayana-Krishna Vyasa | ★★★ |
| Tokyo Vice | Jake Adelstein | ★★★★ |
| Gandhi Before India | Ramachandra Guha | ★★★★★ |
| A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | ★★★★★ |
| The Case Against Sugar | Gary Taubes | ★★★★★ |
| Mindfulness in Plain English | Henepola Gunaratna | ★★★ |
| A Guide to the Good Life (Stoicism) | William B. Irvine | ★★★★★ |
| Can’t Hurt Me | David Goggins | ★★★★★ |
| The Story Of Tea | Jaiwant Paul | ★★★★ |
| 2019 | ||
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami | ★★★★ |
| 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff | ★★★★★ |
| The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo | ★★ |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | ★★★★★ |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | ★★★★ |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | ★★★ |
| Ikigai | Hector Garcia | ★★★ |
| I Will Teach You to Be Rich | Ramit Sethi | ★★★★ |
| 36 Views of Mount Fuji | Cathy Davidson | ★★★★ |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | ★★★★★ |
| Chronicles of My Life | Donald Keene | ★★★★ |
| The Year of Living Danishly | Helen Russel | ★★★★ |
| In Other Words | Jhumpa Lahiri | ★★★ |
| Deep Work | Cal Newport | ★★★ |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard Feynman | ★★★★ |
| Food Rules | Michael Pollan | ★★★★ |
| Benjamin Franklin | Isaacson Walter | ★★★★ |
| Factfulness | Hans Rosling | ★★★★★ |
| 2018 | ||
| Milk and Honey | Rupi Kaur | ★★★ |
| Indira: The Life of Indira Gandhi | Katherine Frank | ★★★★★ |
| The Linux Command Line | Williams E. Shotts | ★★★★ |
| The Little Book of Hygge | Meik Wiking | ★★★ |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | ★★★★★ |
| Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | ★★★★ |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | ★★ |
| Hit Refresh | Satya Nadella | ★★★ |
| Gandhi: An Autobiography | Mahatma Gandhi | ★★★★★ |
| 1984 | George Orwell | ★★★★ |
| Free as in Freedome (2.0) | Sam Williams | ★★★★ |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | ★★★★ |
| 5/3/1 | Jim Wendler | ★★★ |
| Functional Programming in Python | David Mertz | ★★★ |
| The Ramayana | R.K. Narayan | ★★★ |
| 2017 | ||
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | ★★★★ |
| 2010 | ||
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | ★★★★★ |
| Undated | ||
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | ★★★ |
| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | Robin Sharma | ★★★ |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J Abdul Kalam | ★★★ |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | ★★★★★ |
| iWoz | Steve Wozniak | ★★★★ |
| The Google Story | David A. Vise | ★★★★ |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | ★★★★ |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | ★★★★ |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | ★★★ |
| The Girl Who Played With Fire | Stieg Larsson | ★★★★★ |
| Ghost in the Wires | Kevin Mitnick | ★★★★ |
| Turning Points | A.P.J Abdul Kalam | ★★★ |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | ★★★ |
| Automate the Boring Stuff | Al Sweigart | ★★★★ |