I love books. One of my favourite book is Siddhartha. I discovered listening to books recently. I started with Audible during pandemic and later moved to Storytel. Listening combined with reading has enabled me to complete almost 1 book/week. Also I have become use to listening at 1.5 – 2x speed in general. Downside of that is that I don´t like now watching live programs as sometimes it is more efficient to go through them in a recorded version.

I love book recommendations. If you have one please let me know.

Here is not so complete list of my readings over the last years.

2020

1. Consciousness and the Brain : Stanislas Dehaene
2. Boulevard of Broken Dreams : Josh Lerner 
3. Architects of Intelligence : Martin Ford
4. The Book of Why : Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
5. The Everything Store : Brad Stone
6. Thinking, Fast and Slow : Daniel Kahneman
7. The Ride of a Lifetime : Robert Iger
8. Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution : Klaus Schwab, Nicholas Davis
9. Atomic Habits : James Clear
10. Elon Musk : Ashlee Vance
11. The Hard Thing About Hard Things : Ben Horowitz
12. From Bacteria to Bach and Back : Daniel C. Dennett
13. The Tatas : Girish Kuber
14. Heist with Michael Caine : Michael Caine
15. The Unusual Billionaires : Saurabh Mukherjea
16. Range : David Epstein
17. What Is Life? : Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose – foreword
18. The Double Helix : James D. Watson
19. Kama: The Riddle of Desire : Gurcharan Das
20. Inspired : Marty Cagan

2021 

21. Human Compatible: Stuart Russell
22. India Moving: Chinmay Tumbe
23. Indica: A deep natural history of the Indian subcontinent: Pranay Lall 
24. How Innovation Works : Matt Ridley
25. God’s own office: James Jacob
26. Bhujia Barons: Pavitra Kumar 
27. Novacene: James Lovelock
28. Inspired: Marty Cagan
29. The Diabetes Code: Jason Fung 
30. How to avoid a climate disaster: Bill gates
31. The Alchemy of Air: Thomas Hager
32. Idris: Anita Nair 
33. The Innovation Illusion: Fredrik Erexion, Bjorn Weigel 
34. Blitzscaling: Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh 
35. The Codebreaker: Walter Issacsson
36. The Lost River: Michel Danino
37. The Master Algorithm: Pedro Domingo
38. Marconi: Marc Raboy 
39. 50 Super desi drinks : Lovneet Batra 
40. A thousand brains: Jeff Hawkins
41. Azim Premji: Sundeep Khanna
42. Genius Makers: Cade Metz
43. Invent & Wander: Jeff Bezos
44. The Inevitable: Kevin Kelly 
45. A Golden Age: Tahmima Anam 
46. An Ordinary Man: Paul Rusesabagina 
47. Gene Machine: Venky Ramakrishnan
48. The sovereign individual: James Dale Davidson 
49. Benjamin Franklin: Walter Issacson 
50. Bolna hi hai : Ravish Kumar 
51. Leonardo Da Vinci: Walter Issacson  
52. Man’s search for ultimate meaning: Viktor Frankl
53. What I talk about when I talk about running: Murukami 
54. Red Notice: Bill Browder 
55. The Rational Optimist: Matt Ridley
56. Lifespan: David Sinclair 
57. Principles: Life and Work : Ray Dalio 
58. Animal Farm: George Orwell
59. The Serengeti Rules: Sean B Carroll 
60. The Innovators: Walter Isaacson 
61.  Genome: Matt Ridley 
62. RAW, ISI Aur Shanti Ka Bhram: A S Dulat 
63. Post Office: Charles Bukowski 
64. Women: Charles Bukowski 
65. The Golden Triangle: Bertil Lintner 
66. The Ancient Indus Valley Civilization’s Biggest Cities: Charles River editors 
67. The psychology of Money: Morgan Housel  
68. The feeling of life itself: Christof Koch 
69. Zero the biography of a dangerous idea: Charles Seife 
70. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: Eric Jorgenson 
71. Afterlives: Abdulrazak Dehaene
72. The Hard thing about hard thing: Ben Horowitz 
73. 12 Rules for Life: Jorden Peterson 
74. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck: Mark Manson 

2022 

75. EffortLess: Greg McKeown
76. Snow Crash: Neal Stephenson
77. How we Learn: Stanislas Dahaene
78. Speed and Scale: John Doerr
79. The Beginning of Infinity: David Deutsch  
80. My Life and Work: Henry Ford 
81. The Hidden Life of Trees: Peter Wohlleben
82. Our Oriental Heritage: Will Durant 
83. River out of Eden: Richard Dawkins
84. The Cold Start Problem: Andrew Chen
85. Trust: Tarun Khanna
86. Principles for dealing with the World Order: Ray Dalio
87. How the Scotts invented the mordern world: Arthur Herman
88. Plato´s greater hippias
89. Surfaces and Essences: Douglas Hofstadter
90. Multipliers : Liz Wisman
91. Nine Lives : Aimen Dean
92. Baruch Spinoza: Thomas Cook
93. Viral: The search for the origin of Covid-19 : Matt Ridley
94. The emperor of all Maladies: Siddhartha Mukherjee
95. The end of the world is just the beginning: Peter Zeihan
96. Upanishads: Narmad Darsha
97. Einstein´s Dreams: Alan Lightman
98. Dutch East India Trading Company: Its Trade, Exploration, and Colonization in the 17th and 18th Century: Kelly Mass
99. Ham on Rye: Charles Bukowski
100. Making Excellence A Habit: V Mohan
101. The Magicians of Mazda: Ashwin Sanghi
102. Chip War: Chris Miller

2023 

103. Kim : Rudyard Kipling
104. We Don´t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 : Fanron O´Toole
105. Debt: The First 5000 Years , David Graeber
106. The Silk Road: A New History , Valerie Hansen
107. Oxygen: The molecule that made the world, Nick Lane
108. Great State: China and the World, Timothy Brook
109. Kalibangan: The History of the Indus Valley Civilization’s Provincial Capital in Ancient India, Charles River Editors
110. The Ancient Indus Valley Civilization’s Biggest Cities: The History and Legacy of Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, and Kalibangan, Charles River Editors
111. Harappa: The History of the Ancient Indus Valley Civilization’s Most Famous City, Charles River Editors
112. The Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru
113. Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies, and Maps in 19th-Century Asia, Riaz Dean
113. RIYASAT KA DIWAN, Munsi Premchand
114. Sach Pyar Aur Thodi Si Shararat, Khushwant Singh
115. Capital: The Eruption of Delhi, Rana Dasgupta
116. Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Jerry Kaplan
117. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey through Opium’s Hidden Histories, Amitav Ghosh
118. Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda
119. Main Pakistan mein bharat ka jasoos tha , Mohanlal Bhaskar
120. A handbook for my lover, Rosalyn D´Mello
121. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispathces from a Precarious State, Declan Walsh
122. Smoke and Ashes: A writer´s journey through Opium´s hidden histories, Amitav Ghosh

2024

123. Taliban, Third Edition: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond, Ahmed Rashid
124. Ghachar Ghochar, Vivek Shanbhag
125. The Braided River: A Journey Along The Brahmaputra, Samrat Choudhary
126. Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
127. The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Created and Extraordinary Company, Narotam Sekhsaria
128. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History, Jeremy Bowen
129. Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership when and algoirthms and networks run the world, Karim Lakhani, Marco Lanisti
130. Ultra Processed People, Chris van Tuleken
131. But I Am One of You: Northeast India and the Struggle to Belong, Samrat Choudhary
132. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Ethan Mollick
133. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War, Raj M. Shah , Christopher Kirchhoff
134. Pattern Breakers: The Secrets Behind the World’s Most Successful Start-Ups, Mike Maples Jr , Peter Ziebelman

2025

135. The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut
136. Reimagining Health: Inspiring Stories of Innovators at the Intersection of Health and Technology, Sonali Sundari Shivhare and Dr. Anurag Prabhakar Mairal
137. The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip – Stephen Witt
138. More from Less for More: Inclusive Innovation to Solve India’s Grand Challenges at Scale | Innovation’s Holy Grail – Sushil Borde and Raghunath Mashelkar
139. The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World Book – Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
140. The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty – Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon
141. The Forty Rules of Love – Elif Shafak

2026

142. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
143. The Digital Decades: Thirty Years of the Internet in India – Subimal Bhattacharjee
144. The Museum of Innocence – Orhan Pamuk
145. AI NATION: BHARAT’S PATH TO AI POWER – AJAY KUMAR
146. The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence – Sebastian Mallaby
147. The People of Indus – Nikhil Gulati
148. Nalanda: How it Changed the World – Abhay Kumar
149. Demian – Hermann Hesse
150. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company – Eva Dou
151. Read Your Mind: Proven Habits for Success from the World’s Greatest Mind Reader – Oz Pearlman
152. Unboxing Bengaluru – Nalini Goyal & Prashanth Prakash
153. Kafka on the Shore Novel – Haruki Murakami
154. Design Thinking with Artificial Intelligence: Practical Tools for Business Innovation – Daniel Graff , Mark A. Clark , Dan Li and Lei Xia
155. Mother Mary Comes to Me – Arundhati Roy