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Bookshelf

A list of books strewn across nooks and crannies of my bedroom (2021 onwards). Brisk reviews available upon request. Books that have spurred wild annotations, occasional re-reads and many a solipsistic silences have been highlighted

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Novelist as a vocation
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
The Double Helix
The Zero-sum Society: Distribution & the Possibilities for Economic Change
At the Existentialist Café
Death's End
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Look Who's Back
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
The Mind-Body Problem
Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
The Dark Forest
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
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: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Elon Musk
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath
The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato
Immunity to Change
The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development
Political Order in Changing Societies
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
Alexander Von Humboldt: Or, What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
The Code of the Woosters
Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The Art of Travel
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
Samaaj, Sarkaar, Bazaar: A citizen-first approach
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
The Society of Mind
Surfaces and Essences
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything
Discourses on Livy
Personal History
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
The Inheritance of Loss
Satisfaction: Sensation Seeking, Novelty, and the Science of Finding True Fulfillment
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: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Foucalt's Pendulum
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
Heat
Talent
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
Home in the World: A Memoir
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
Contact
Stress Free for Good
Run the World: My 3,500 Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Yogayog (Nexus)
Chaturanga (Quartet)
Ghore Bhaire (Home and the world)
Chokher Bali (A Grain of Sand)
The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Exhalation
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
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: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real Results
The Leadership Code
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
1984
Greenlights
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
The Intelligent Investor
The Contrarion: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power
Killing Commendatore
First Person Singular: Stories
Interpreter of Maladies
Bombay Balchao
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
The Forty Rules of Love
The Book of Why
The Memory Police
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Steal Like an Artist
The God of Small Things
Milk Teeth
Leonardo da Vinci
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The Book of Life