bookshelf
here are the books i’ve read recently.
listed year-wise. feel free to reach out with recommendations.
2026
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Incognito by David Eagleman
Normal People by Sally Rooney
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2025
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
The Economist’s Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
2024
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle Laakmann
Breaking the Mould by Raghuram Rajan
The Story Selling Method by Philipp Humm
Inspired by Marty Cagan
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
2023
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Rationality by Steven Pinker
Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The India Way by S. Jaishankar
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
2022
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The One Thing by Gary Keller
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Just Keep Buying by Nick Maggiulli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Superforecasting by Tetlock & Gardner
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
2021
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Ikigai by García & Miralles
No Limits by Mukesh Bansal
The Archer by Paulo Coelho
The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
Contagious by Jonah Berger
Wise and Otherwise by Sudha Murty
The Winning Ways by Harsha Bhogle
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2020
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss
Three Thousand Stitches by Sudha Murty
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
2019
Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Like the Flowing River by Paulo Coelho
Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
You Can Win by Shiv Khera
Challenging Destiny: A Biography of Chhatrapati Shivaji by Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma