reading list
I’ve recently begun compiling a collection of my favorite reads. This list is a work in progress, so please feel free to reach out to me via email/LinkedIn if you have any book recommendations!
non-fiction
- The Double Helix - James Watson
- A Thousand Brains - Jeff Hawkins
- The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable - Suzana Herculano-Houzel
- Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick
- Mendeleyev’s Dream: The Quest for the Elements - Paul Strathern
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
- The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley - Michael S. Malone
- In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
- Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst - Daniel Reingold
- The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley
- The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story - Arnold Schwarzenegger
- More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
- How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
- Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen
- A Bank For The Buck - Tamal Bandyopadhyay
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefèvre
- The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics
- Lectures on Computation - Richard Feynman
- The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
- The Art of Short Selling - Kathryn F. Staley
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Will - Will Smith and Mark Manson
- Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
- Commodities Demystified - Trafigura
- Prepayments Demystified - Trafigura
- Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy
- One More Ride on the Merry-Go-Round
- Amul’s India
- Born Wild: Journeys into the Wild Hearts of India and Africa
- The Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramhansa Yogananda
- Out of the Box - Harsha Bhogle
- Everest 1953 - Mick Conefrey
- Insects - MS Mani
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
- Living with the Himalayan Masters - Swami Rama
- Into the wild - Jon Krakauer
- The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
- Forge your future - A.P.J Abdul Kalam
- Ramayana of Valmiki
- Panther on the Prowl - M.D. Chaturvedi
- Mahabharata
- Walking with a Himalayan Master
- No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan
- Himalaya - Michael Palin
- Wings of Fire: Autobiography of Abdul Kalam
- The One That Got Away: My SAS Mission Behind Enemy Lines
- Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Social Life of Animals - Sukanya Dutta
- The Very Best of the Common Man - R.K. Laxman
- The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
- The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
- A Complete Guide to the Futures Market - Jack D. Schwager
- A Complete Guide To Volume Price Analysis - Anna Coulling
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- Algorithms to Live By The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt - Michael Lewis
- Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Diaster
- It’s Not All About “Me”: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone
- Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Open: An Autobiography - Andre Agassi
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Six easy pieces - Richard Feynman
- So Good They Cant Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- “Surely You`re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” – Adventures a Curious Character
- The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn - Richard Hamming
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- Inside the Aquarium: The Making of a Top Soviet Spy
- The Unusual Billionaires - Saurabh Mukherjea
- Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
- Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts: A Story of the Indian Stock Market
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
- The Alchemy of Air - Thomas Hager
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain
- The Laws of Trading: A Trader’s Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone
- No Worries: How to Live a Stress Free Financial Life
- Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
- Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader
- How the Economic Machine Works
- On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
- The Trading Game: A Confession
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
fiction
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Death’s End - Liu Cixin
- The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin
- The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
- The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
- The Black Cloud - Fred Hoyle
- Permutation City - Greg Egan
- The Deep Sky - Yume Kitasei
- Interface - Neal Stephenson
- Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
- Circe
- Recursion
- Leviathan Wakes
- The Night Manager - John Le Carre
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- Legend of Suheldev - Amish
- The Complete Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson
- Pearls Before Swine - Stephan Pastis
- The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Boxset - Douglas Adams
- Summit - Harry Farthing
- End Game - Matthew Glass
- The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- Harry Potter - JK Rowling
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
- Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
- Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
- 1984 - George Orwell
- Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
- The Martian - Andy Weir
- Fishbowl - Matthew Glass
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- Right and Glory - Max Adams
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
- Lorien Legacies Series - Pittacus Lore
- Cicero Trilogy - Robert Harris
- Jason Bourne Series - Robert Ludlum
- The Case of Deadly Butter Chicken - Tarquin Hall
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
- Immortal - Krishna Udayasankar
- Asterix Omnibus - René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
- Time Stops at Shamli - Ruskin Bond
- Coup D’Etat - Ben Coes
- The Himalayan Conspiracy - Sutradhar
- Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
- Next - Michael Crichton
- Tamasha in Bandargaon - Navneet Jagannathan
- The Shadow Throne - Aroon Raman
- Giver - Lois Lowry
- The Revenant - Michael Punke
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
- Breach: A Cyber Thriller - Amrita Chowdhury
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Firm - John Grisham
- The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
- The Rainmaker - John Grisham
- Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
- The Ash Mistry Chronicles - Sarwat Chadda
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Behind Her Eyes - Sarah Pinborough
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Designated Survivor - John Matthews
- Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- God is a Gamer - Ravi Subramanian
- Good Omens - Neil Gaiman,Terry Pratchett
- Home Before Dark - Riley Sager
- House of Cards - Michael Dobbs
- The Shiva Trilogy - Amish
- Ram Chandra Series - Amish
- The Daevabad Trilogy - S. A. Chakraborty
- Lie in the Dark - Dan Fesperman
- Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less - Jeffrey Archer
- Outbreak - Robin Cook
- Safe Houses - Dan Fesperman
- Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
- The 22 Murders of Madison May - Max Barry
- The Dinner - Herman Koch
- The Fist of God - Frederick Forsyth
- The Guest List - Lucy Foley
- The Humans - Matt Haig
- The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
- The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
- The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- The Poppy War - R. F. Kuang
- The Rebel Allocator - Jacob Taylor
- Termination Shock - Neal Stephenson
- The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
- The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
- The Third Secret - Steve Berry
- The Woman in the Window - A. J. Finn
- Verity - Colleen Hoover
- The Devourers - Indra Das
- Tom Clancy’s Op-Center
- Politika: Power Plays 01 - Tom Clancy
- Artemis - Andy Weir
- A Short Walk Through a Wide World - Douglas Westerbeke
- Exadelic - Jon Evans
- Moby-Dick or, The Whale
- Children of Time
- The Devotion of Suspect X
- We are Legion