Bookshelf

This is a non-exhaustive list of books I have read over the years since I turned 18. I prefer non-fiction and try to cover a wide breadth of topics. This list reflects my reading activity, not my opinions, values, or personal philosophy.

Books I am currently reading

  • How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle - Ray Dalio
  • The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Books I have read

  • Sophie’s World - Jostein Gaarder
  • Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
  • Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters - Steven Pinker
  • The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
  • The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
  • Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie
  • The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
  • I Will Teach You to Be Rich - Ramit Sethi
  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
  • The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
  • The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values - Sam Harris
  • A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson
  • Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • Smile - Roddy Doyle
  • On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
  • Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy - Sadhguru
  • The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives - Ravi Zacharias
  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
  • To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
  • Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Short Cuts - Raymond Carver
  • The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • Lying - Sam Harris
  • Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? - Richard J. Maybury
  • How to Solve It - George Pólya
  • Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs - Johann Hari
  • Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
  • Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India - Shashi Tharoor