Bookshelf

A list of recent books strewn across nooks and crannies of my bedroom. Brisk reviews available upon request. Books that have spurred wild annotations, occasional re-reads and many a solipsistic silences have been highlighted.

World Order
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Dealers of Lightning
The Gambler's Bedside Book
High Growth Handbook
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Pale Blue Dot
The Emperor of All Maladies
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Consolations of Philosophy
Skunk Works
Everyday Utopias
Life and Fate
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021
Apprentice to Genius
Source Code: My Beginnings
The Great Cities in History
Dear Boy: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son
Boomerang
Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story
The Denial of Death
Founders at Work
Chaos Monkeys
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Wisdom of Crowds
The Courage to Be Disliked
Right Ho, Jeeves
Power and Progress
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
Superintelligence
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Why We Sleep
The Case Against Education
Novelist as a Vocation
How to Know a Person
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Chip War
Autonomy
The Alchemy of Air
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Double Helix
The Zero-sum Society
At the Existentialist Café
Death's End
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Look Who's Back
The Secret of Our Success
The Mind-Body Problem
Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva
What It Takes
Lifespan
India After Gandhi
The Dark Forest
The Power Law
The Three-Body Problem
Scientific Freedom
The Complete Essays — Michel de Montaigne
On the Binding Problem in Artificial Neural Networks
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Financial Shenanigans
The Master Switch
Elon Musk
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1
Immunity to Change
The Evolving Self
Political Order in Changing Societies
India Is Broken
Alexander Von Humboldt
Born to Run
The Code of the Woosters
Where Is My Flying Car?
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
The School of Life
The Art of Travel
Drive
We Are the Nerds
Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
The Patient Will See You Now
The Society of Mind
Surfaces and Essences
Tap Dancing to Work
Discourses on Livy
Personal History
Capitalism, Alone
The Inheritance of Loss
Satisfaction
The Art Spirit
Poor Richard's Almanack
How I Learned to Understand the World
The French Revolution: A Peasant's Revolt
The Outsiders
Self Reliance
Pieces of the Action
Nixon Agonistes
Foucault's Pendulum
Finite and Infinite Games
Heat
Talent
Gödel, Escher, Bach
The Haves and the Have-Nots
Home in the World
Why Nations Fail
How to Live (Montaigne)
Why Does the World Exist?
The Really Hard Problem
Contact
Stress Free for Good
Run the World
Plato at the Googleplex
Uncanny Valley
Yogayog (Nexus)
Chaturanga (Quartet)
Ghore Bhaire (Home and the World)
Chokher Bali (A Grain of Sand)
The Nutmeg's Curse
Wildland
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
The Lunar Men
Age of Ambition
The Moral Landscape
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Billion-Dollar Molecule
The Beginning of Infinity
F*ck Feelings
Coach Knight: The Will to Win
Kodak and the Digital Revolution
All the Light We Cannot See
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Five Days in London, May 1940
Jet Blue Airways: A New Beginning
Phil Knight Managing Nike's Transformation
Inadequate Equilibria
Exhalation
The Changing World Order
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox Through The Perfect Storm
Richard Grasso and the NYSE
Following Lance Armstrong: Excellence Corrupted
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?
The Leadership Code
The Dream Machine
1984
Greenlights
Enough
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Not Fade Away
The Intelligent Investor
The Contrarian
Killing Commendatore
First Person Singular
Interpreter of Maladies
Bombay Balchao
Flow
The Forty Rules of Love
The Book of Why
The Memory Police
Deep Medicine
Steal Like an Artist
The God of Small Things
Milk Teeth
Leonardo da Vinci
Poor Economics
The Book of Life