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Books read in 2021

  1. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey by Michael Collins
  2. India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
  3. How to Build a Car by Adrian Newey
  4. The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  5. The Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
  6. The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
  7. The Return of the Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  8. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  9. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  10. Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
  11. Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
  12. Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Michael Nielsen
  13. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
  14. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  15. Venture Deals by Bred Feld and Jason Mendelson
  16. So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
  17. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  18. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
  19. The Business of Venture Capital by Mahendra Ramsinghani
  20. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson — Walter Isaacson does it again. Revealing complex personalities and this case, the intricate gene-editing with CRISPR wrapped in a skilled narration. Isaacson unravels the story one thread at a time. The Code Breaker is not just a biography of a Nobel Prize laureate, but also a thrilling tale of CRISPR discovery, the competion in science and ethics of editing the Human genome. Revolution in life sciences may have a bigger impact on humankind than technology. There is no better time to read it than now.
  21. Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  22. Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Dr. Gavin Wood
  23. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle
  24. Thank you, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
  25. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
  26. Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
  27. How to Win at College by Cal Newport
  28. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
  29. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
  30. Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming by Marijn Haverbeke
  31. HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett
  32. Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
  33. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  34. Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
  35. Very Good, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
  36. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
  37. The Terra Cotta Army by John Man
  38. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  39. The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton
  40. Kargil From Surprise to Victory by General V. P. Malik
  41. The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
  42. Carry on, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Books read in 2020

  1. The Case that Shook India: The Verdict That Led to the Emergency by Prashant Bhushan
  2. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
  3. Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang
  4. Influence the Psychology of Persuation by Robert B. Cialdini
  5. The Information by James Gleick
  6. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  7. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  8. Gemina the Illuminae Files Book 2 by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
  9. Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli
  10. Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
  11. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  12. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python by Al Sweigart
  13. The Slow Regard of Silence Things by Patrick Rothfuss
  14. Powershell by Don Jones
  15. Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
  16. Princess by Jean Sasson
  17. The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman
  18. Code by Charles Petzold
  19. Metadata by Jeffrey Pomerantz
  20. The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
  21. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  22. The Subscious Mind by Zoltan Torey
  23. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  24. Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts by Santosh Nair
  25. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  26. Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  27. On Writing Well by Willian Zinsser
  28. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  29. Writing to Learn by Willian Zinsser
  30. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  31. The last Lecture by Randy Pausch
  32. An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
  33. Blueprint for Armageddon by Dan Carlin
  34. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  35. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  36. Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur C
  37. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  38. The Creative Spark by Agustin Fuentes
  39. Handprints on Hubble by Kathryn D. Sullivan
  40. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
  41. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mi
  42. How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens
  43. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  44. Inside Black Mirror with Jason Arnopp

Books read in 2019

  1. Devil’s Advocate by Karan Thapar
  2. Endurance by Alfred Lansing
  3. The Martian by Andy Weir
  4. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  5. The Elon Musk Blog Series by Tim Urban
  6. Illumiae The Illuminae Files Book 1 by Amie Kaufman
  7. Hiroshima by John Hersey
  8. In The Plex by Steven Levy
  9. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
  10. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  11. The Subtle Art of not Giving a F*ck by Mark Mason
  12. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  13. Make Your Bed by Amiral William H. McRaven
  14. The Code Book by Simon Singh
  15. Lying by Sam Harris
  16. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  17. Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
  18. The Joy of X by Steven Strogatz
  19. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
  20. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
  21. IC814 Hijacked! by Anil Jaggia
  22. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  23. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  24. Web Scrappping with Python by Ryan Mitchell
  25. Essentialism by Greg Mckeown
  26. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  27. The Great Mental Models Vol. 1 by Shane Parish
  28. The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
  29. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder