Books
This page lists some of the books I’ve read. My goals for reading books include:
- Satisfying curiosity
- Understanding the world around us
- Develop an informed world view
* indicates book recommendation.
2024
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen
- Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
- Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
- *Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel
2023
- How Big Things Get Done: Lessons from the World’s Top Project Manager by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
- How Not to Age by Michael Greger
- Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To by David Sinclair
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Bill Gifford and Peter Attia
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
- *The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour
- Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- Win Every Argument by Mehdi Hasan
- *They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
- The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
- *Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- *The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts
- *Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- *Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
- How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- *The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
- *Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
- Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
- The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- *What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
- Acceptance by Emi Nietfeld
- Young Forever by Mark Hyman
- *Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
- *How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
- I’m Glad My Mom Died
- The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
- The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety
- Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life
- The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives
- How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- *The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
- Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
- Metabolical by Robert Lustig
- The Montessori Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff
- Cribsheet by Emily Oster
- Expecting Better by Emily Oster
2022
- *How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen
- The Brain and Pain: Breakthroughs in Neuroscience
- Immune by Philipp Dettmer
- *The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
- Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
- How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants
- *Exercised
- *Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
2021
- Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
- Psychiatry and its Discontents by Andrew Scull
- Aroused by Randi Hutter Epstein
- How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
- Chips and Change: How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
- Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
- The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
- *Hidden Valley Road
- *Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
- The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
2020
- Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek Murthy
- Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
- *The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn Saks
- The Disordered Mind
- Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- Highly Sensitive Person
- A Little History of Economics
- Range
2019
- *Why We Sleep
- *Quiet
- Theodore Rex
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- Education
- *The Body Keeps The Score
- Nonviolent Communication
- Becoming
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- *Born a Crime
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth
- *Nudge
2018
- Pacific by Simon Winchester
- Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns
- Negotiation (Harvard Business Essentials Series) by Michael Wheeler
- Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
- The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Zero to One
- *I Contain Multitudes
- Hyperbole and a Half
- An Unquiet Mind
- Principles: Life and Work
- Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
- Serious Cryptography
- The Three-Body Problem
- Hit Refresh
- Awakening the Buddha Within
2017
- To Sell Is Human
- Homo Deus
- Algorithms to Live By
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Audiobook)
- Daring Greatly (Audiobook)
- 1984 (Audiobook)
- The Organized Mind (Audiobook)
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
- High Output Management
- The Innovator’s Dilemma (~ 75% remaining)
- Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
- India After Gandhi
- Elon Musk
- *Sapiens
- Why Nations Fail
- Modern Romance (Audiobook)
- Pitch Anything
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction - link
- Deep Learning - link
2016
- *The Vital Question
- The Checklist Manifesto
- *Thinking Fast and Slow
- *The Emperor of All Maladies
- When Breath Becomes Air
- The Gene
- Godel, Escher, Bach
- *Being Mortal
- The Power of Habit
2015
- A Little History of the World
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- Imagining India (Incomplete)
- One More Thing (Incomplete)
2014
- The Black Swan (Incomplete)
2013
- Durbar
- A Game of Thrones
- A Storm of Swords
- A Feast for Crows (Incomplete)
2012
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
2011
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Hobbit
2009
- Surely, You’re Joking Mr Feynman
- The Alchemist
- The Kite Runner
2008
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
2007
- Five Point Someone
2003
- *My Experiments With Truth (Gujarati) - I mention it in this medium.com post