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Bookshelf

I was inspired by patrick collison who shared a virtual bookshelf reflecting his real bookshelf.

I don’t maintain a real life bookshelf since I move around often. But, here’s some books that I’ve read recently. I’ve bolded the ones I find especially great. These are in no specific order.

  • 1984, George Orwell
  • Sapiens, Yuval Harari
  • Kafka By the Sea, Haruki Murakami
  • Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
  • Vagabonding, Rolf Potts
  • Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
  • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
  • The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
  • The Travelers, Chris Pavone
  • Asimov Short stories, Isaac Asimov
  • Anti-fragile, Nassim Taleb
  • Demian, Hermann Hesse
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  • The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
  • Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
  • A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
  • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
  • Guns, Sails and Empires, Carlo Cipolla
  • On the Shortness of Life, Seneca The Younger
  • Debt: The first 5,000 years, David Graeber
  • Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb
  • The French Revolution and What Went Wrong, Stephen Clarke
  • My Life in Red and White, Arsène Wenger
  • Republic, Plato
  • The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber & David Wengrow
  • Play Winning Chess, Yasser Seirawan
  • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  • Inverting the Pyramid, Jonathan Wilson
  • The Mixer, Michael Cox
  • India After Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
  • The Diary of a Madman, Nikolay Gogol
  • Zonal Marking, Michael Cox
  • The Iliad, Homer
  • The Odyssey, Homer
  • On the Nature of Things, Lucretius
  • Rubicon, Tom Holland
  • Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
  • The Doctor and the Saint, Arundhati Roy
  • The Annihilation of Caste, Bhimrao Ambedkar
  • Dominion, Tom Holland
  • Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
  • Open Society and it’s Enemies, Karl Popper
  • Shame, Salman Rushdie
  • Discourse on the Method, René Descartes
  • Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
  • The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Essays, Michel de Montaigne
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • Mythos, Stephen Fry
  • Oedipus Tyrannos, Sophocles
  • Oedipus, Seneca
  • The Oresteia, Aeschylus
  • Dynasty, Tom Holland
  • Pax, Tom Holland
  • Seneca: A Life, Emily Wilson
  • Persian Fire, Tom Holland
  • A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume
  • The Mahabharata, Vyasa
  • The Ramayana, Valmiki
  • Why I Am a Hindu, Shashi Tharoor
  • The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Encountering the Goddess, Thomas Coburn
  • India in the Persianate Age, Richard Eaton
  • The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb
  • Victory City, Salman Rushdie
  • Identity and Violence, Amartya Sen
  • The Annotated Arabian Nights, Yasmine Seale
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie
  • The Book of Travels, Hanna Diyab
  • The Anarchy, William Dalrymple