Reading
A digital bookshelf consisting of books I’ve read or reading; click on a title to read what I feel about the book. I tend to keep this in sync with Goodreads.
2026 |
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| गोदान | Premchand | reading |
| Odyssey | Stephen Fry | listening |
| The Life of Greece | Will Durant | reading |
| Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces | Arpaci-Dusseau | reading |
| Forbidden Nation | Jonathan Manthorpe | ★★★★ |
| Troy | Stephen Fry | ★★★★★ |
| Heroes | Stephen Fry | ★★★★★ |
| Hong Kong - Culture Smart! | Clare Vickers & Vickie Chan | ★★★ |
| Mythos | Stephen Fry | ★★★★★ |
| Overcoming Gravity | Steven Low | paused |
| The Mahabharata | Sudipta Bhawmik | ★★★★ |
2025 |
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| Why the Poor Don't Kill Us | Manu Joseph | ★★★★★ |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | ★★★★★ |
| City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi | William Dalrymple | ★★★★★ |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | ★★★ |
| Pride & Prejudice | Jane Austen | ★★★★ |
| Road to Mussoorie | Ruskin Bond | ★★★★ |
| Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing | Matthew Perry | ★★★ |
| Into The Wild | Jon Krakauer | ★★★ |
| CODE | Charles Petzold | ★★★★★ |
| Kazakhstan - Culture Smart! | Dina Zhansagimova | ★★★★ |
| The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt | ★★★★★ |
| Bhutan - Culture Smart! | Karma Choden | ★★★ |
| Sixteen Stormy Days | Tripurdaman Singh | stopped |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | ★★★ |
2024 |
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| 12 Rules for Life | Jordan Peterson | stopped |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Animal Farm | George Orwell | ★★★★ |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | ★★★★ |
| The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins | ★★★ |
| The Google Story | David A. Vise | ★★★★ |
| Automate the Boring Stuff | Al Sweigart | ★★★★ |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | ★★★ |
| Turning Points | A.P.J Abdul Kalam | ★★★ |
2016 |
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| Ghost in the Wires | Kevin Mitnick | ★★★★ |
| Wings of Fire | A.P.J Abdul Kalam | ★★★ |
| The Girl Who Played With Fire | Stieg Larsson | ★★★★★ |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | ★★★ |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson | ★★★★★ |
| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | Robin Sharma | ★★★ |
2015 |
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| iWoz | Steve Wozniak | ★★★★ |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | ★★★★ |
2010 |
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| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | ★★★★★ |