Books

Some of the books I have recently read. (Items marked with a 👍 are ones that I really enjoyed.)

• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - 01/2025

• Open: An Autobiography - Andre Agassi - ¹²⁄₂₀₂₄ (👍)

• Animal Farm - George Orwell - ¹¹⁄₂₀₂₄

• Man and Technics - Oswald Spengler - ¹¹⁄₂₀₂₄

• Being Mortal - Atul Gawande - 08/2024 (👍)

• The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives - Ernest Scheyder - 06/2024 (👍)

• The Price We Pay - Marty Makary - 03/2024 (👍)

• The Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant - 01/2024

• Recoding America - Jennifer Pahlka - 01/2024

• The coddling of the american mind - Greg Lukianoff / Jonathan Haidt - ¹²⁄₂₀₂₃ (👍)

• The Obesity Code - Jason Fung - ¹⁰⁄₂₀₂₃

• Omon Ra - Victor Pelevin - ¹⁰⁄₂₀₂₃

• Backyard Guide to the Night Sky - Andrew Fazekas - ⁸⁄₂₀₂₃ (👍)

• Factfulness - Hans Rosling - ⁸⁄₂₀₂₃

• Evicted - Matthew Desmond - ⁵⁄₂₀₂₃ (👍)

• Decoding Reality: The universe as quantum information - Vlatko Vedral - ⁴⁄₂₀₂₃

• A rough ride to the future - James Lovelock - ³⁄₂₀₂₃ (👍)

• The end of the world is just the beginning - Peter Zeihan - 02/2023 (👍)

• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M Persig - ¹⁰⁄₂₀₂₂ (👍)

• Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey - 09/2022

• 1776 - David McCullough - 09/2022 (👍)

• Walden - Henry David Thoreau - 07/2022

• Little and Often - Trent Preszler - 05/2022 (👍)

• Ikigai - Hector Garcia / Francesc Miralles - 05/2022

• The Geography of Nowhere - James Howard Kunstler - 02/2022 (👍)

• Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor Gatto - 01/2022

• Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer - ¹⁰⁄₂₀₂₁ (👍)

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho - 09/2021

• Peace Is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh - 09/2021 (👍)

• Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer - 07/2021 (👍)

• The Simple Path to Wealth - J.L. Collins - 06/2021 (👍)

• The End of Overeating - David A. Kessler - 05/2021

• The Price of Civilization - Jeffrey Sachs - 04/2021

• Small is Beautiful - E. F. Schumacher - 02/2021

• Strong Towns - Charles L. Marohn Jr. - 01/2021 (👍)

• Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh - ¹²⁄₂₀₂₀ (👍)

• On the shortness of life - Seneca - ¹²⁄₂₀₂₀ (👍)

• Freakonomics - Steven Levitt / Stephen Dubner - ¹²⁄₂₀₂₀

• The Joy of Missing Out - Svend Brinkmann - ¹²⁄₂₀₂₀

• Skin in the Game - Nassim Taleb - ¹¹⁄₂₀₂₀ (👍)

• The Salt Fix - Dr. James DiNicolantonio - 09/2020

• How Money Became Dangerous - Christopher Varelas - 07/2020

• Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall - 06/2020 (👍)

• The Art of War - Sun Tzu - 06/2020

• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order - Kai-Fu Lee - 05/2020

• The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee - 04/2020 (👍)

• Misguided Medicine - Colin E Champ - ¹²⁄₂₀₁₉

• Free to Choose - Milton/Rose Friedman - ¹¹⁄₂₀₁₉

• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse - ¹⁰⁄₂₀₁₉ (👍)

• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker - 09/2019 (👍)

• How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan - 07/2019 (👍)

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuation - Robert Cialdini - 06/2019

• The Circadian Code - Satchin Panda

  A very revealing book about all the biological clocks in your body and how they work, which has a direct effect on your overall health. Anecdotally, I can confirm several of my suspicions related to my health after reading this book e.g. bad sleeping habits which sometimes made me feel tired even after waking up in the morn. This book does a good job of revealing the science behind the way our body clocks work and how with relatively simple changes in our schedule / habits we can make vast improvements in health. Will be trying out several of the recommendations in this book.

• Tender Bar - J. R Moehringer (👍)

  One of the best books I have read. It’s a memoir of J. R Moehringer. Beautifully written. Found it very hard to put this book down !

• The Billionaire Raj - James Crabtree

  All about the corruption / crony capitalism in India. A sad state of affiars indeed. To most folks born and raised in India though, it’s nothing new. But to see it defining the future of the country is depressing.

• Death by Food Pyramid - Denise Minger

  An insightful and well researched book about the politics of nutrition. Being healthy today has become confusing owing to the contradictory information coming out of various institutions. Not to mention how special interests and lobbyists of the food industry hijack the health agenda with flimsy science. Read this book, do your own research and make decisions about your health !

• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight (👍)

  Memoir of the creator of Nike. Great stroy of grit and passion. Essential reading for any entrepreneur. (Incidently, it was ghost written by J. R Moehringer)

• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

  Great read about the history of mankind. He goes through a chronological sequence of historical events starting from the early agricultutal era to the present one. Intutive insights into why we are the way we are.

• The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande (👍)

  I started making checkists after reading this book !

• When Breadth Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (👍)

  Poignant read about the fragility of life.