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