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

1. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen
2. Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
3. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
4. *Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life by Morgan Housel

2023

1. How Big Things Get Done: Lessons from the World’s Top Project Manager by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
2. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
3. How Not to Age by Michael Greger
4. Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To by David Sinclair
5. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Bill Gifford and Peter Attia
6. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
7. Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin
8. *The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents by Lisa Damour
9. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace
10. Win Every Argument by Mehdi Hasan
11. *They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
12. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
13. *Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
14. *The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America by Monica Potts
15. *Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
16. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
17. An Immense World by Ed Yong
18. *Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
19. How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
20. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
21. *The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
22. Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
23. *Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
24. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
25. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
26. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
27. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
28. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
29. Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
30. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
31. The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
32. *What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
33. Acceptance by Emi Nietfeld
34. Young Forever by Mark Hyman
35. *Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
36. *How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
37. The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
38. I’m Glad My Mom Died
39. The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
40. The Scaffold Effect: Raising Resilient, Self-Reliant, and Secure Kids in an Age of Anxiety
41. Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life
42. The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives
43. How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will
44. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
45. *The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
46. Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
47. Metabolical by Robert Lustig
48. The Montessori Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding
49. Atomic Habits by James Clear
50. What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff
51. Cribsheet by Emily Oster
52. 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