More books, less online reading (but more mindful).

More deep focus, less ephemeral content.

I choose my books carefully after much deliberation. I hope you get around to reading some of these. The full list:

IN 2024

1. Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do - Chris Guillebeau

2. How to Be Everything - Emilie Wapnick

3. The Way of The Superior Man - David Deida

4. The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

5. Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke

6. French Children Don’t Throw Food - Pamela Druckerman

IN 2023

1. Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

2. Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson

3. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4. Kitchen Confidential - Anothny Bourdain

5. The Ink Black Heart - Robert Galbraith

6. The Twist Of A Knife - Anthony Horowitz

7. The Sentence Is Death - Anthony Horowitz

8. The Heist - Daniel Silva

9. The Prophet (Audiobook) - Khalil Ghibran

10. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl

11. River of Stories - Orijit Sen

In 2022

1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

2. The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu

3. Dark Matter (Audiobook) - Blake Crouch

4. The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang

5. The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang

6. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu

7. The Kill Artist - Daniel Silva

8. The Final Empire: Mistborn Book 1 - Brandon Sanderson

9. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

10. Exhalation - Ted Chiang

11. Finding Ultra (Audiobook) - Rich Roll

12. The Emperor’s Soul - Brandon Sanderson

13. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor

14. Later - Stephen King

15. The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell

16. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

17. Agent Running in the Field - John le Carré

18. Dead Lions: Slough House Series - Mick Herron

19. Billy Summers - Stephen King

20. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal

21. Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

22. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson

23. Yearbook - Seth Rogen

24. Atomic Habits - James Clear

25. Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life - Héctor García, Francesc Miralles

26. Ram - Scion of Ikshvaku (Audiobook) - Amish Tripathi

IN 2021

1. How to Live - Derek Sivers

2. October Junction (Audiobook) - Divya Prakash Dubey

3. 400 days - Chetan Bhagat

4. Dune - Frank Herbert

5. The Midnight Library (Audiobook) - Matt Haig

6. The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie

7. Fool Moon (Audiobook) - Jim Butcher

8. Storm Front (Audiobook) - Jim Butcher

9. Project Hail Mary (Audiobook) - Andy Weir

10. After the Funeral - Agatha Christie

11. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well - Meik Wiking

12. Weep Not, Child - Ngugi wa Thiong'o

13. In Order To Live - A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom - Yeonmi Park

14. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle

15. First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami

16. Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel - Rolf Potts

17. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Audiobook) - Haruki Murakami

18. The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country - Helen Russell

IN 2020

1. Just Kids - Patti Smith

2. The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

3. One Arranged Murder - Chetan Bhagat

4. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win - Maria Konnikova

5. Poirot’s Finest: BBC Radio dramatisation (Audiobook) - Agatha Christie

6. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling

7. Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

8. The Tales of Beetle the Bard (Audiobook) - J.K. Rowling

9. Norse Mythology (Audiobook) - Neil Gaiman

10. Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life - Viswanathan Anand, Susan Ninan

IN 2019

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

2. Permanent Record - Edward Snowden

3. The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Art of Purring - David Michie

4. The Dalai Lama’s Cat: A Novel - David Michie

5. The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie

6. Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure - Alex Honnold, David Roberts

7. The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie

8. Tiger Woods - Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian

9. Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

10. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut

IN 2018

1. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson

2. The Girl in Room 105 - Chetan Bhagat

3. The Shooting Star: A Girl, Her Backpack and The World - Shivya Nath

4. The Great Indian Diet - Shilpa Shetty Kundra & Luke Coutinho

5. Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra - Ruskin Bond

6. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - Daniel Pink

7. How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story - Billy Gallagher

8. How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League - The Secret Footballer

9. Exit West: A Novel - Mohsin Hamid

10. Women - Charles Bukowski

11. Post Office - Charles Bukowski

12. Peter Camenzind: A Novel - Hermann Hesse

13. Wilderness Tips - Margaret Atwood

14. M Train - Patti Smith

15. Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig

16. Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen - Christopher McDougall

17. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson

18. The Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse

19. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir - Marina Abramovic

20. The Complete MAUS - Art Spiegelman

IN 2017

1. Origin - Dan Brown

2. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

3. Ego is The Enemy - Ryan Holiday

4. A Clash of King (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin

5. A Game of Throne (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin

6. The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak

7. Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami

8. The Art of Living : The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness - Epictetus

9. Musafir Cafe - Divya Prakash Dubey

10. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

11. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie

12. Murder on The Orient Express - Agatha Christie

13. Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

14. And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

15. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

16. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

17. Last Man in Tower - Aravind Adiga

18. The Song Machine : How to Make a Hit - John Seabrook

19. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway

20. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child - J. K. Rowlin, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne

21. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport

22. As a Man Thinketh - James Allen

IN 2016

1. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

2. Malice - Keigo Higashino

3. Salvation Of A Saint - Keigo Higashino

4. The Devotion Of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino

5. One Indian Girl - Chetan Bhagat

6. The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Okakura

7. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams

8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

9. The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

10. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

11. The Girl With All The Gifts - M. R. Carey

12. The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri

13. Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller

14. The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe

15. Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson

16. The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King - Michael Craig

17. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

18. The Revenant - Michael Punke

19. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - Dan Harris

20. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut

21. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

IN 2015

1. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

2. A Personal Matter (Audiobook) - Kenzaburo Oe

3. The Martian (Audiobook) - Andy Weir

4. Elon Musk : How The Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping Our Future - Ashlee Vance

5. Antifragile : Things that Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

6. The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White

7. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

8. Playing to Win - David Sarlin

9. Boats on Land - A Collection of Short Stories - Janice Pariat

10. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid

11. On Writing - Stephen King

12. Jaya - An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata - Devdutt Patnaik

13. How to Live On 24-Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett

14. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

15. Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton

16. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator - Ryan Holiday

17. The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help - Amanda Palmer

18. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

19. Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway

20. Shatranj Ke Khiladi (Hindi Edition) - Munshi Premchand

21. Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray and What it Means for Modern Relationships - Christopher Ryan