Bookshelf

Non-fiction

• Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
• On Writing
• The Psychology of Money
• Caste
• The Medium is the Message
• Invisible Cities
• Indian Federalism
• The Roman Republic
• A Never Before World
• Ideology: A Short Introduction
• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of A Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader
• The Crossroads of Should and Must
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
• Debt: The first 5000 years
• Things a Little Bird Told Me
• The Intel Trinity
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• The Elements of Style
• The Art of War
• Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work and In Your Life
• The Last Lecture
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Predictably Irrational
• Six Thinking Hats
• All Marketers are Liars
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• Iacocca: An Autobiography
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Creativity, Inc.
• The Firm
• Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
• Elon Musk
• Zero to One: Note on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
• Sapiens
• Think and Grow Rich
• Steve Jobs
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• The East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation
• Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles:
• Inside Apple
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products
• Ready For Anything
• What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School
• The Question Book
• Man Alone with Himself
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Game Over
• Originals
• Philosophy as a Way of Life
• Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
• The Utopia of Rules
• The Society of Mind
• Pitch Invasion
• Ogilvy on Advertising
• Whatever You Think Think the Opposite
• The Communist Manifesto
• What If?
• The Origins of Political Order
• Political Order And Political Decay
• Plato: The Republic
• Travels in Hyperreality
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Shoe Dog
• The Wealth of Humans
• Big Brands Big Trouble
• Common Sense
• Nationalism
• Why I Write
• On the Shortness of Life
• Banker To The Poor
• Meditations — Rene Descartes
• Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
• Skin in the Game
• Days of Reading
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
• Caste as Social Capital
• On Bullshit
• The Logic of Life
• Utopia — Thomas More
• The Field Study Handbook
• Good to Great
• If I Could Tell You Just One Thing…
• Five Presidents
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Hit Makers
• We Are Like That Only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Creative Selection
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
• Hitler’s Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall
• The Outsider
• The Third Curve
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Gigged
• Money
• As One Is
• Dan & Phil Go Outside
• Let My People Go Surfing
• The Success Equation
• Men, Machines, and Modern Times
• From Bacteria to Bach and Back
• How I Almost Blew It
• Super Pumped
• Mother Pious Lady
• How to Build a Car
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
• Range
• Trick Mirror
• Alchemy
• The Making of Star: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch’s India Adventure
• The Secret Lives of Color
• The Story of Philosophy
• Shoe Dog
• No Filter: How Instagram transformed business, celebrity and culture
• The Next Billion Users
• Caste as Social Capital
• The Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story
• Existential Digital Marketing
• The Gervais Principle
• The CEO Factory: Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever
• Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles: India through 50 Years of Advertising
• Big Billion Startup
• The Psychology of Money
• The Roman Republic
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• Caste
• Invisible Cities
• The Medium is the Message
• Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine
• Indian Federalism
• Indian Cities
• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Never-Before World
• The Courage to Be Disliked
• Charlie Munger
• The Messy Middle
• The Culture Code
• Titan
• Calling Bullshit
• The Billionaire Raj
• Thinking in Bets
• Anthro-Vision
• The Elephant in the Brain
• What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
• The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals
• Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth

Fiction

• Walden and Civil Disobedience
• Animal Farm
• The Martian
• Gone Girl
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Ready Player One
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Godfather
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Remains of the Day
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Shantaram

Book recommendations are always welcome.

Last Updated: 07 May 2023