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Science 122 books

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever LivedAdam Rutherford A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking An Immense WorldEd Yong Astrophysics for People in a HurryNeil deGrasse Tyson Big BangSimon Singh BlueprintNicholas Christakis Brief Answers to the Big QuestionsStephen Hawking Brilliant BlundersMario Livio ChaosJames Gleick ComplexityM. Mitchell Waldrop ConnectedNicholas Christakis & James Fowler ControlAdam Rutherford CosmosCarl Sagan Endless Forms Most BeautifulSean B. Carroll Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake Everything Is ObviousDuncan Watts ExercisedDaniel Lieberman Extra LifeSteven Johnson Fermat's Last TheoremSimon Singh Galileo's DaughterDava Sobel GenomeMatt Ridley Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas Hofstadter HelgolandCarlo Rovelli How Innovation WorksMatt Ridley How the Mind WorksSteven Pinker How to Argue with a RacistAdam Rutherford How We Got to NowSteven Johnson I Am a Strange LoopDouglas Hofstadter I Contain MultitudesEd Yong Indian MathematicsGeorge Gheverghese Joseph Infinite PowersSteven Strogatz Is God a Mathematician?Mario Livio Lab GirlHope Jahren Life AscendingNick Lane LinkedAlbert-László Barabási LongitudeDava Sobel Mathematics for Human FlourishingFrancis Su Pale Blue DotCarl Sagan PandemicSonia Shah Pandora's SeedSpencer Wells Phantoms in the BrainV. S. Ramachandran QEDRichard Feynman Reality Is Not What It SeemsCarlo Rovelli Rocks of AgesStephen Jay Gould ScaleGeoffrey West Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli Silent SpringRachel Carson Six DegreesDuncan Watts Six Easy PiecesRichard Feynman Some Assembly RequiredNeil Shubin Something Deeply HiddenSean Carroll SpilloverDavid Quammen Stuff MattersMark Miodownik SyncSteven Strogatz The Ancestor's TaleRichard Dawkins & Yan Wong The Ascent of ManJacob Bronowski The Beginning of InfinityDavid Deutsch The Big PictureSean Carroll The Blank SlateSteven Pinker The Blind WatchmakerRichard Dawkins The Body: A Guide for OccupantsBill Bryson The Brain That Changes ItselfNorman Doidge The Character of Physical LawRichard Feynman The Code BookSimon Singh The Crest of the PeacockGeorge Gheverghese Joseph The Disappearing SpoonSam Kean The Double HelixJames D. Watson The Dragons of EdenCarl Sagan The Elegant UniverseBrian Greene The Emperor of All MaladiesSiddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor's New MindRoger Penrose The Evolution of EverythingMatt Ridley The Fabric of RealityDavid Deutsch The Fabric of the CosmosBrian Greene The FormulaAlbert-László Barabási The Gene: An Intimate HistorySiddhartha Mukherjee The Ghost MapSteven Johnson The Glass UniverseDava Sobel The Golden RatioMario Livio The Grand DesignStephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow The Greatest Show on EarthRichard Dawkins The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben The Hot ZoneRichard Preston The InformationJames Gleick The Invention of NatureAndrea Wulf The Joy of xSteven Strogatz The Language InstinctSteven Pinker The Magic of RealityRichard Dawkins The Mismeasure of ManStephen Jay Gould The Music of the PrimesMarcus du Sautoy The Nothing That IsRobert Kaplan The Order of TimeCarlo Rovelli The Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin The Particle at the End of the UniverseSean Carroll The Pleasure of Finding Things OutRichard Feynman The Quantum UniverseBrian Cox & Jeff Forshaw The Rational OptimistMatt Ridley The Red QueenMatt Ridley The Right StuffTom Wolfe The Sea Around UsRachel Carson The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins The Sense of StyleSteven Pinker The Sixth ExtinctionElizabeth Kolbert The Song of the CellSiddhartha Mukherjee The Story of the Human BodyDaniel Lieberman The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas Kuhn The Tangled TreeDavid Quammen The Tell-Tale BrainV. S. Ramachandran The Third ChimpanzeeJared Diamond The Universe in a NutshellStephen Hawking The Vital QuestionNick Lane The Voyage of the BeagleCharles Darwin Time TravelJames Gleick Under a White SkyElizabeth Kolbert Until the End of TimeBrian Greene What Is Life?Erwin Schrödinger Where Good Ideas Come FromSteven Johnson Why We Get SickRandolph Nesse & George Williams Wonderful LifeStephen Jay Gould Wonders of the UniverseBrian Cox & Andrew Cohen Your Inner FishNeil Shubin Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous IdeaCharles Seife

Business 119 books

Zero to OnePeter Thiel Anything You WantDerek Sivers Hackers & PaintersPaul Graham MoneyballMichael Lewis Good Strategy Bad StrategyRichard Rumelt Playing to WinA.G. Lafley & Roger Martin Blue Ocean StrategyW. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne Competitive StrategyMichael Porter $100M OffersAlex Hormozi Amazon UnboundBrad Stone Bad BloodJohn Carreyrou Barbarians at the GateBryan Burrough & John Helyar Big Billion StartupMihir Dalal Billion Dollar LoserReeves Wiedeman BlitzscalingReid Hoffman & Chris Yeh Bridgital NationN. Chandrasekaran & Roopa Purushothaman BuildTony Fadell Built to LastJim Collins & Jerry Porras Built to SellJohn Warrillow Business AdventuresJohn Brooks Business Model GenerationAlexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur Chaos MonkeysAntonio García Martínez Coffee Can InvestingSaurabh Mukherjea, Rakshit Ranjan & Pranab Uniyal Company of OnePaul Jarvis Competing Against LuckClayton Christensen Competing for the FutureGary Hamel & C. K. Prahalad Continuous Discovery HabitsTeresa Torres Creativity, Inc.Ed Catmull Crossing the ChasmGeoffrey Moore Delivering HappinessTony Hsieh DisruptedDan Lyons Don't Make Me ThinkSteve Krug Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic FutureAshlee Vance Elon MuskWalter Isaacson EmpoweredMarty Cagan Escaping the Build TrapMelissa Perri Flash BoysMichael Lewis Founders at WorkJessica Livingston Frugal InnovationNavi Radjou & Jaideep Prabhu Going InfiniteMichael Lewis Good to GreatJim Collins Great by ChoiceJim Collins & Morten Hansen Grinding It OutRay Kroc Hacking GrowthSean Ellis & Morgan Brown High Output ManagementAndrew S. Grove Hit RefreshSatya Nadella How Google WorksEric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg How the Mighty FallJim Collins How Will You Measure Your Life?Clayton Christensen I Too Had a DreamVerghese Kurien Ignited MindsA. P. J. Abdul Kalam Imagining IndiaNandan Nilekani In the PlexSteven Levy InspiredMarty Cagan Invent and WanderJeff Bezos It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at WorkJason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Jugaad InnovationNavi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu & Simone Ahuja Liar's PokerMichael Lewis Losing My VirginityRichard Branson Made in AmericaSam Walton Measure What MattersJohn Doerr Mind MasterViswanathan Anand No Rules RulesReed Hastings & Erin Meyer Obviously AwesomeApril Dunford Only the Paranoid SurviveAndrew S. Grove Polyester PrinceHamish McDonald PowerfulPatty McCord Profit FirstMike Michalowicz Radical FocusChristina Wodtke Ratan Tata: A LifeThomas Mathew Rebooting IndiaNandan Nilekani & Viral Shah RemoteJason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson ReworkJason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Setting the TableDanny Meyer Shoe DogPhil Knight Simply FlyG. R. Gopinath Small GiantsBo Burlingham Small Is BeautifulE. F. Schumacher SprintJake Knapp Stay Hungry Stay FoolishRashmi Bansal Steve JobsWalter Isaacson Super PumpedMike Isaac That Will Never WorkMarc Randolph The Airbnb StoryLeigh Gallagher The Art of the StartGuy Kawasaki The Big ShortMichael Lewis The Cold Start ProblemAndrew Chen The Culture MapErin Meyer The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman The Essays of Warren BuffettLawrence Cunningham (ed.)The Everything StoreBrad Stone The Facebook EffectDavid Kirkpatrick The Fortune at the Bottom of the PyramidC. K. Prahalad The Founder's DilemmasNoam Wasserman The Four Steps to the EpiphanySteve Blank The Future of CompetitionC. K. Prahalad & Venkat Ramaswamy The Innovator's DilemmaClayton Christensen The Innovator's SolutionClayton Christensen & Michael Raynor The Lean StartupEric Ries The Minimalist EntrepreneurSahil Lavingia The Mom TestRob Fitzpatrick The OutsidersWilliam Thorndike The Personal MBAJosh Kaufman The Pumpkin PlanMike Michalowicz The Ride of a LifetimeRobert Iger The Smartest Guys in the RoomBethany McLean & Peter Elkind The SnowballAlice Schroeder The Startup of YouReid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha The Startup Owner's ManualSteve Blank & Bob Dorf The Startup WayEric Ries The Toyota WayJeffrey Liker Too Big to FailAndrew Ross Sorkin TractionGabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares Trillion Dollar CoachEric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle Unreasonable HospitalityWill Guidara Venture DealsBrad Feld & Jason Mendelson When Genius FailedRoger Lowenstein Wings of FireA. P. J. Abdul Kalam Working BackwardsColin Bryar & Bill Carr

Philosophy 107 books

MeditationsMarcus Aurelius Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl DeterminedRobert Sapolsky Freedom from the KnownJ. Krishnamurti The RepublicPlato ApologyPlato Nicomachean EthicsAristotle Letter to MenoeceusEpicurus EssaysMichel de Montaigne EthicsBaruch Spinoza The Wisdom of LifeArthur Schopenhauer Essays and AphorismsArthur Schopenhauer Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard On LibertyJohn Stuart Mill UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre The Conquest of HappinessBertrand Russell The Story of PhilosophyWill Durant The Consolations of PhilosophyAlain de Botton The Wisdom of InsecurityAlan Watts JusticeMichael Sandel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRobert Pirsig Philosophy as a Way of LifePierre Hadot HagakureYamamoto Tsunetomo Hume: Reason and SentimentDavid Hume Isaiah Berlin: Two Concepts of LibertyIsaiah Berlin Tagore: Freedom of the MindRabindranath Tagore A Guide to the Good LifeWilliam B. Irvine A History of Western PhilosophyBertrand Russell A Theory of JusticeJohn Rawls A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume After VirtueAlasdair MacIntyre An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid Hume Anarchy, State, and UtopiaRobert Nozick Animal LiberationPeter Singer At the Existentialist CaféSarah Bakewell Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre Being and TimeMartin Heidegger Being GoodSimon Blackburn Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau Conjectures and RefutationsKarl Popper Creating CapabilitiesMartha Nussbaum Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant Discourse on MethodRené Descartes Doing Good BetterWilliam MacAskill Eichmann in JerusalemHannah Arendt Either/OrSøren Kierkegaard Groundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel Kant How to Be a StoicMassimo Pigliucci How to Live: A Life of MontaigneSarah Bakewell How to Think Like a Roman EmperorDonald Robertson I and ThouMartin Buber Identity and ViolenceAmartya Sen In Praise of IdlenessBertrand Russell Indian PhilosophyS. Radhakrishnan LeviathanThomas Hobbes Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes Mimamsa SutrasJaimini (trad.)MulamadhyamakakarikaNagarjuna NatureRalph Waldo Emerson Nyaya SutrasGautama (trad.)On BullshitHarry Frankfurt PenséesBlaise Pascal Philosophical InvestigationsLudwig Wittgenstein Practical EthicsPeter Singer PragmatismWilliam James Reasons and PersonsDerek Parfit Sankhya KarikaIshvarakrishna Self-RelianceRalph Waldo Emerson The Art of Living (Epictetus)Sharon Lebell The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche The Courage to BePaul Tillich The Ethics of AmbiguitySimone de Beauvoir The Ethics of AuthenticityCharles Taylor The Fragility of GoodnessMartha Nussbaum The Gay ScienceFriedrich Nietzsche The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell The Hindu View of LifeS. Radhakrishnan The Human ConditionHannah Arendt The Idea of JusticeAmartya Sen The Life You Can SavePeter Singer The Logic of Scientific DiscoveryKarl Popper The Most Good You Can DoPeter Singer The Open Society and Its EnemiesKarl Popper The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt The Power of MythJoseph Campbell The PrecipiceToby Ord The Problems of PhilosophyBertrand Russell The RebelAlbert Camus The Sickness Unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau The Sovereignty of GoodIris Murdoch The Tyranny of MeritMichael Sandel The Vaisheshika SutrasKanada (trad.)The Varieties of Religious ExperienceWilliam James The Will to BelieveWilliam James ThinkSimon Blackburn Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Nietzsche Two Treatises of GovernmentJohn Locke WaldenHenry David Thoreau What Money Can't BuyMichael Sandel What We Owe the FutureWilliam MacAskill Why I Am Not a ChristianBertrand Russell

Psychology 102 books

Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman The Courage to Be DislikedIchiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga The Laws of Human NatureRobert Greene The Art of Thinking ClearlyRolf Dobelli Talking to StrangersMalcolm Gladwell Daring GreatlyBrené Brown Predictably IrrationalDan Ariely The Upside of IrrationalityDan Ariely The Undoing ProjectMichael Lewis Stumbling on HappinessDaniel Gilbert The Happiness HypothesisJonathan Haidt MindsetCarol Dweck BehaveRobert Sapolsky The Paradox of ChoiceBarry Schwartz Emotional IntelligenceDaniel Goleman FlowMihaly Csikszentmihalyi Rethinking Positive ThinkingGabriele Oettingen Atlas of the HeartBrené Brown AttachedAmir Levine & Rachel Heller Authentic HappinessMartin Seligman Being WrongKathryn Schulz BittersweetSusan Cain BlinkMalcolm Gladwell Braving the WildernessBrené Brown BurnoutEmily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski ChatterEthan Kross Come As You AreEmily Nagoski Dare to LeadBrené Brown David and GoliathMalcolm Gladwell Dopamine NationAnna Lembke Drunk Tank PinkAdam Alter Emotional AgilitySusan David Feeling GoodDavid D. Burns FlourishMartin Seligman Games People PlayEric Berne Give and TakeAdam Grant HappierTal Ben-Shahar Hold Me TightSue Johnson How Emotions Are MadeLisa Feldman Barrett I'm OK, You're OKThomas A. Harris IncognitoDavid Eagleman IrresistibleAdam Alter Learned OptimismMartin Seligman LivewiredDavid Eagleman Lost ConnectionsJohann Hari Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneLori Gottlieb MindsightDaniel J. Siegel MindwiseNicholas Epley MisbeliefDan Ariely Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson MusicophiliaOliver Sacks Obedience to AuthorityStanley Milgram PresenceAmy Cuddy QuietSusan Cain Rising StrongBrené Brown ScarcitySendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir Self-CompassionKristin Neff SelfieWill Storr Seven and a Half Lessons About the BrainLisa Feldman Barrett So You've Been Publicly ShamedJon Ronson Stolen FocusJohann Hari SubliminalLeonard Mlodinow The Art of ChoosingSheena Iyengar The Art of SeductionRobert Greene The Body Keeps the ScoreBessel van der Kolk The BrainDavid Eagleman The Chimp ParadoxSteve Peters The Confidence GapRuss Harris The Courage to Be HappyIchiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga The Drunkard's WalkLeonard Mlodinow The Gifts of ImperfectionBrené Brown The Happiness TrapRuss Harris The Honest Truth About DishonestyDan Ariely The How of HappinessSonja Lyubomirsky The Introvert AdvantageMarti Olsen Laney The Invisible GorillaChristopher Chabris & Daniel Simons The Lucifer EffectPhilip Zimbardo The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatOliver Sacks The Marshmallow TestWalter Mischel The Molecule of MoreDaniel Lieberman & Michael Long The Mountain Is YouBrianna Wiest The Myths of HappinessSonja Lyubomirsky The Organized MindDaniel Levitin The Power of MomentsChip Heath & Dan Heath The Psychopath TestJon Ronson The Road Less TravelledM. Scott Peck The Science of StorytellingWill Storr The Secret of Our SuccessJoseph Henrich The ShallowsNicholas Carr The Social AnimalElliot Aronson The Status GameWill Storr The WEIRDest People in the WorldJoseph Henrich The Whole-Brain ChildDaniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson Thinking in PicturesTemple Grandin This Is Your Brain on MusicDaniel Levitin Unwinding AnxietyJudson Brewer UpstreamDan Heath Useful DelusionsShankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler What the Dog SawMalcolm Gladwell Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?Julie Smith Why We SleepMatthew Walker Why Zebras Don't Get UlcersRobert Sapolsky

Economics 86 books

Adam Smith: Markets and SympathyAdam Smith Marx: Class and LabourKarl Marx Elinor Ostrom: Governing the CommonsElinor Ostrom Hayek: Knowledge and OrderFriedrich Hayek Amartya Sen: Development as FreedomAmartya Sen 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made HistorySanjaya Baru 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismHa-Joon Chang An Uncertain GloryJean Drèze & Amartya Sen BackstageMontek Singh Ahluwalia Bad SamaritansHa-Joon Chang Basic EconomicsThomas Sowell Breaking the MouldRaghuram Rajan & Rohit Lamba Capital and IdeologyThomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty Capitalism and FreedomMilton Friedman Chip WarChris Miller CollapseJared Diamond Deaths of DespairAnne Case & Angus Deaton Development as FreedomAmartya Sen Doughnut EconomicsKate Raworth EclipseArvind Subramanian Economics in One LessonHenry Hazlitt Economics RulesDani Rodrik Economics: The User's GuideHa-Joon Chang Everybody Loves a Good DroughtP. Sainath Fault LinesRaghuram Rajan FreakonomicsSteven Levitt & Stephen Dubner Free to ChooseMilton & Rose Friedman Globalization and Its DiscontentsJoseph Stiglitz Good Economics for Hard TimesAbhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond I Do What I DoRaghuram Rajan India Grows at NightGurcharan Das India UnboundGurcharan Das India's Long RoadVijay Joshi Kama: The Riddle of DesireGurcharan Das Kicking Away the LadderHa-Joon Chang Mission EconomyMariana Mazzucato Naked EconomicsCharles Wheelan Nudge: The Final EditionRichard Thaler & Cass Sunstein Of CounselArvind Subramanian Power and ProgressDaron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson Prisoners of GeographyTim Marshall Radical MarketsEric Posner & Glen Weyl Saving Capitalism from the CapitalistsRaghuram Rajan & Luigi Zingales SuperFreakonomicsSteven Levitt & Stephen Dubner Thank You for Being LateThomas Friedman The Affluent SocietyJohn Kenneth Galbraith The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff The Argumentative IndianAmartya Sen The Billionaire RajJames Crabtree The Bottom BillionPaul Collier The BoxMarc Levinson The Difficulty of Being GoodGurcharan Das The Dollar TrapEswar Prasad The Elusive Quest for GrowthWilliam Easterly The End of PovertyJeffrey Sachs The Entrepreneurial StateMariana Mazzucato The Fatal ConceitFriedrich Hayek The Future of MoneyEswar Prasad The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes The Globalization ParadoxDani Rodrik The Great Crash 1929John Kenneth Galbraith The Great EscapeAngus Deaton The Great Indian Middle ClassPavan K. Varma The Great TransformationKarl Polanyi The Lexus and the Olive TreeThomas Friedman The Mystery of CapitalHernando de Soto The Myth of CapitalismJonathan Tepper The Narrow CorridorDaron Acemoglu & James Robinson The Power of GeographyTim Marshall The Price of InequalityJoseph Stiglitz The Rise and Fall of American GrowthRobert Gordon The Road to SerfdomFriedrich Hayek The Theory of Moral SentimentsAdam Smith The Third PillarRaghuram Rajan The Undercover EconomistTim Harford The Value of EverythingMariana Mazzucato The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith The White Man's BurdenWilliam Easterly The World Is FlatThomas Friedman The Worldly PhilosophersRobert Heilbroner Think Like a FreakSteven Levitt & Stephen Dubner To the Brink and BackJairam Ramesh UpheavalJared Diamond Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu & James Robinson

Indian History 83 books

1962: The War That Wasn'tShiv Kunal Verma Akbar the Great MogulVincent Smith Ambedkar: A LifeShashi Tharoor An AutobiographyJawaharlal Nehru An Era of DarknessShashi Tharoor Ancient IndiaR. S. Sharma Annihilation of CasteB. R. Ambedkar Ashoka and the Decline of the MauryasRomila Thapar Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost EmperorCharles Allen Being IndianPavan K. Varma Bhagat Singh: Why I Am an AtheistBhagat Singh Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign PolicyShivshankar Menon City of DjinnsWilliam Dalrymple Dr. Ambedkar: Life and MissionDhananjay Keer Early IndiansTony Joseph Freedom at MidnightLarry Collins & Dominique Lapierre From Plassey to PartitionSekhar Bandyopadhyay Gandhi Before IndiaRamachandra Guha Gandhi: The Years That Changed the WorldRamachandra Guha Glimpses of World HistoryJawaharlal Nehru Hind SwarajMahatma Gandhi IncarnationsSunil Khilnani India: A HistoryJohn Keay India After GandhiRamachandra Guha India in the Persianate AgeRichard M. Eaton India Since IndependenceBipan Chandra et al.India Wins FreedomMaulana Abul Kalam Azad Indian PolityM. Laxmikanth Indian SummerAlex von Tunzelmann India's Ancient PastR. S. Sharma India's Struggle for IndependenceBipan Chandra et al.IndicaPranay Lal Indira Gandhi: A Life in NatureJairam Ramesh Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru GandhiKatherine Frank Introduction to the Constitution of IndiaD. D. Basu Jinnah: India, Partition, IndependenceJaswant Singh Koh-i-NoorWilliam Dalrymple & Anita Anand Land of the Seven RiversSanjeev Sanyal Makers of Modern IndiaRamachandra Guha Medieval IndiaSatish Chandra Midnight's FuriesNisid Hajari Modern IndiaSumit Sarkar Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an EmpireRajmohan Gandhi Nehru: The Invention of IndiaShashi Tharoor Nine LivesWilliam Dalrymple Our ConstitutionSubhash C. Kashyap Patel: A LifeRajmohan Gandhi Pax IndicaShashi Tharoor RajLawrence James Return of a KingWilliam Dalrymple RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal Shivaji: India's Great Warrior KingVaibhav Purandare SomanathaRomila Thapar Swami Vivekananda: Complete Works (selections)Swami Vivekananda The AnarchyWilliam Dalrymple The Buddha and His DhammaB. R. Ambedkar The Buddha and the SahibsCharles Allen The Burden of DemocracyPratap Bhanu Mehta The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru The Emergency: Indian Democracy's Darkest HourGyan Prakash The EmergencyCoomi Kapoor The Golden RoadWilliam Dalrymple The Great PartitionYasmin Khan The Idea of IndiaSunil Khilnani The India WayS. Jaishankar The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a NationGranville Austin The Last MughalWilliam Dalrymple The Mughal EmpireJohn F. Richards The Ocean of ChurnSanjeev Sanyal The Paradoxical Prime MinisterShashi Tharoor The Partition of IndiaIan Talbot & Gurharpal Singh The Penguin History of Early IndiaRomila Thapar The Story of My Experiments with TruthMahatma Gandhi The Wonder That Was IndiaA. L. Basham UnbreakableMary Kom Understanding the Founding FathersRajmohan Gandhi Veer SavarkarDhananjay Keer We the PeopleNani Palkhivala White MughalsWilliam Dalrymple Who Were the Shudras?B. R. Ambedkar Why Bharat MattersS. Jaishankar Women of the RajMargaret MacMillan Working a Democratic ConstitutionGranville Austin

Leadership 79 books

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz DriveDaniel Pink PrinciplesRay Dalio Start With WhySimon Sinek The Infinite GameSimon Sinek SwitchChip Heath & Dan Heath Lal Bahadur Shastri: Simplicity and ResponsibilityLal Bahadur Shastri Mandela: ReconciliationNelson Mandela Abdul Kalam: Dreams and DutyA. P. J. Abdul Kalam A Sense of UrgencyJohn P. Kotter An Everyone CultureRobert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey Bargaining for AdvantageG. Richard Shell Crucial AccountabilityKerry Patterson et al.Crucial ConversationsKerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler Death by MeetingPatrick Lencioni Developing the Leader Within YouJohn C. Maxwell Difficult ConversationsDouglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen Eleven RingsPhil Jackson Getting Past NoWilliam Ury Getting to YesRoger Fisher, William Ury & Bruce Patton Humble InquiryEdgar Schein Immunity to ChangeRobert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey Indra Nooyi: My Life in FullIndra Nooyi InfluencerJoseph Grenny et al.It's Your ShipD. Michael Abrashoff Leaders Eat LastSimon Sinek Leadership and Self-DeceptionThe Arbinger Institute Leadership: In Turbulent TimesDoris Kearns Goodwin Leadership on the LineRonald Heifetz & Marty Linsky Leading ChangeJohn P. Kotter LeadingAlex Ferguson LegacyJames Kerr Lincoln on LeadershipDonald T. Phillips Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, PracticesPeter F. Drucker Managing OneselfPeter F. Drucker MultipliersLiz Wiseman Negotiating the ImpossibleDeepak Malhotra Negotiation GeniusDeepak Malhotra & Max Bazerman Nonviolent CommunicationMarshall Rosenberg On Becoming a LeaderWarren Bennis PossibleWilliam Ury Primal LeadershipDaniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee Quiet LeadershipDavid Rock Radical CandorKim Scott Right Kind of WrongAmy Edmondson Servant LeadershipRobert K. Greenleaf Team of RivalsDoris Kearns Goodwin Team of TeamsStanley McChrystal Thanks for the FeedbackDouglas Stone & Sheila Heen The 21 Irrefutable Laws of LeadershipJohn C. Maxwell The AdvantagePatrick Lencioni The Anatomy of PeaceThe Arbinger Institute The Art of GatheringPriya Parker The Art of PossibilityRosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander The Captain ClassSam Walker The Coaching HabitMichael Bungay Stanier The Culture CodeDaniel Coyle The Effective ManagerMark Horstman The Fearless OrganizationAmy Edmondson The First 90 DaysMichael D. Watkins The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni The Ideal Team PlayerPatrick Lencioni The Leader Who Had No TitleRobin Sharma The Leadership ChallengeJames Kouzes & Barry Posner The Making of a ManagerJulie Zhuo The Manager's PathCamille Fournier The Practice of ManagementPeter F. Drucker The Score Takes Care of ItselfBill Walsh The Speed of TrustStephen M. R. Covey The Truth About LeadershipJames Kouzes & Barry Posner TopgradingBradford Smart TriggersMarshall Goldsmith Turn the Ship Around!L. David Marquet Up the OrganizationRobert Townsend What Got You Here Won't Get You ThereMarshall Goldsmith WhoGeoff Smart & Randy Street WinningJack Welch Work Rules!Laszlo Bock Your Brain at WorkDavid Rock

History 70 books

SapiensYuval Noah Harari 1491Charles C. Mann 1493Charles C. Mann 1776David McCullough A Distant MirrorBarbara Tuchman A People's History of the United StatesHoward Zinn A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill Bryson Against the GrainJames C. Scott At HomeBill Bryson Bullshit JobsDavid Graeber Bury the ChainsAdam Hochschild Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson CodMark Kurlansky Debt: The First 5,000 YearsDavid Graeber Destiny of the RepublicCandice Millard DiplomacyHenry Kissinger DominionTom Holland Empire of CottonSven Beckert HiroshimaJohn Hersey History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari HumankindRutger Bregman John AdamsDavid McCullough King Leopold's GhostAdam Hochschild Leadership: Six Studies in World StrategyHenry Kissinger Mao: The Unknown StoryJung Chang & Jon Halliday NexusYuval Noah Harari NightElie Wiesel On ChinaHenry Kissinger Persian FireTom Holland Plagues and PeoplesWilliam H. McNeill PostwarTony Judt SaltMark Kurlansky Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott SPQRMary Beard StalingradAntony Beevor The Art of Not Being GovernedJames C. Scott The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker The Cheese and the WormsCarlo Ginzburg The Clash of CivilizationsSamuel Huntington The Cold WarJohn Lewis Gaddis The CrusadesThomas Asbridge The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber & David Wengrow The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank The End of History and the Last ManFrancis Fukuyama The Fate of AfricaMartin Meredith The Great DivergenceKenneth Pomeranz The Gulag ArchipelagoAleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Guns of AugustBarbara Tuchman The HistoriesHerodotus The Lessons of HistoryWill & Ariel Durant The Making of the Atomic BombRichard Rhodes The March of FollyBarbara Tuchman The Origins of Political OrderFrancis Fukuyama The PrizeDaniel Yergin The Rape of NankingIris Chang The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersPaul Kennedy The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer The Second World WarAntony Beevor The Silk RoadsPeter Frankopan The SwerveStephen Greenblatt The Twelve CaesarsSuetonius The Wages of DestructionAdam Tooze The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson The Wizard and the ProphetCharles C. Mann The Wright BrothersDavid McCullough Utopia for RealistsRutger Bregman What Is History?E. H. Carr Wild SwansJung Chang World OrderHenry Kissinger

Society 65 books

OutliersMalcolm Gladwell The Tipping PointMalcolm Gladwell 21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyYuval Noah Harari The Righteous MindJonathan Haidt The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt Enlightenment NowSteven Pinker FactfulnessHans Rosling Status AnxietyAlain de Botton Ela Bhatt: Organising Informal WorkersEla Bhatt Baba Amte: Dignity Through WorkBaba Amte Florence Nightingale: Care by EvidenceFlorence Nightingale Mary Wollstonecraft: Rights of WomenMary Wollstonecraft Simone de Beauvoir: The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir Rachel Carson: Silent SpringRachel Carson Habermas: Public Sphere and DialogueJürgen Habermas Raja Ram Mohan Roy: Reason and ReformRaja Ram Mohan Roy Jyotirao Phule: Truth-Seeking and EqualityJyotirao Phule Savitribai Phule: Teacher and ReformerSavitribai Phule Maulana Azad: Composite NationalismMaulana Abul Kalam Azad Vinoba Bhave: BhoodanVinoba Bhave Sri Narayana Guru: One Caste, One ReligionSri Narayana Guru Periyar: Self-RespectE. V. Ramasamy Dayananda Saraswati: Back to the VedasSwami Dayananda Saraswati A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf Age of AngerPankaj Mishra Behind the Beautiful ForeversKatherine Boo Bowling AloneRobert Putnam Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville From the Ruins of EmpirePankaj Mishra Homo HierarchicusLouis Dumont How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt Ill Fares the LandTony Judt Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson Invisible WomenCaroline Criado Perez JoothanOmprakash Valmiki NonzeroRobert Wright On TyrannyTimothy Snyder OrientalismEdward Said PropagandaEdward Bernays Public OpinionWalter Lippmann Smoke and AshesAmitav Ghosh Social Change in Modern IndiaM. N. Srinivas Strangers in Their Own LandArlie Hochschild The Beauty MythNaomi Wolf The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs The Death of ExpertiseTom Nichols The End of PowerMoisés Naím The Federalist PapersHamilton, Madison & Jay The Feminine MystiqueBetty Friedan The Great DerangementAmitav Ghosh The Moral AnimalRobert Wright The Nutmeg's CurseAmitav Ghosh The Power EliteC. Wright Mills The Revenge of PowerMoisés Naím The Rise of the Creative ClassRichard Florida The Second ShiftArlie Hochschild The Spirit LevelRichard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett The True BelieverEric Hoffer The Tyranny of MetricsJerry Z. Muller The Uninhabitable EarthDavid Wallace-Wells The Wisdom of CrowdsJames Surowiecki Triumph of the CityEdward Glaeser We Should All Be FeministsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie Why Buddhism Is TrueRobert Wright

Biography 57 books

A Beautiful MindSylvia Nasar A Promised LandBarack Obama Alexander HamiltonRon Chernow Alexander the GreatRobin Lane Fox AlivePiers Paul Read BecomingMichelle Obama Benjamin Franklin: An American LifeWalter Isaacson Between the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates Born a CrimeTrevor Noah Catherine the GreatRobert K. Massie Churchill: Walking with DestinyAndrew Roberts DarwinAdrian Desmond & James Moore Dreams from My FatherBarack Obama EducatedTara Westover Einstein: His Life and UniverseWalter Isaacson EnduranceAlfred Lansing Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldJack Weatherford Gift from the SeaAnne Morrow Lindbergh GrantRon Chernow I Am MalalaMalala Yousafzai Into the WildJon Krakauer Into Thin AirJon Krakauer Isaac NewtonJames Gleick Just MercyBryan Stevenson Lean InSheryl Sandberg Leonardo da VinciWalter Isaacson Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke Long Walk to FreedomNelson Mandela Madame CurieÈve Curie Mother Teresa: Come Be My LightBrian Kolodiejchuk (ed.)Mountains Beyond MountainsTracy Kidder Napoleon the GreatAndrew Roberts Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass OpenAndre Agassi Personal HistoryKatharine Graham Peter the GreatRobert K. Massie SeabiscuitLaura Hillenbrand Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!Richard Feynman The Autobiography of Charles DarwinCharles Darwin The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X & Alex Haley The Boys in the BoatDaniel James Brown The Code BreakerWalter Isaacson The Glass CastleJeannette Walls The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot The InnovatorsWalter Isaacson The Life of Mahatma GandhiLouis Fischer The Man Who Knew InfinityRobert Kanigel The Path to PowerRobert Caro The Power BrokerRobert Caro The Story of My LifeHelen Keller TitanRon Chernow Touching the VoidJoe Simpson UnbrokenLaura Hillenbrand Up from SlaveryBooker T. Washington Washington: A LifeRon Chernow What Do You Care What Other People Think?Richard Feynman Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?Louis V. Gerstner

Money 50 books

The Psychology of MoneyMorgan Housel Same as EverMorgan Housel The Almanack of Naval RavikantEric Jorgenson MisbehavingRichard Thaler A Random Walk Down Wall StreetBurton Malkiel Against the GodsPeter L. Bernstein Beating the StreetPeter Lynch Capital IdeasPeter L. Bernstein Cashflow QuadrantRobert Kiyosaki Common Stocks and Uncommon ProfitsPhilip Fisher Die With ZeroBill Perkins Digital GoldNathaniel Popper EnoughJohn C. Bogle Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsCharles Mackay Financial FreedomGrant Sabatier Fooling Some of the People All of the TimeDavid Einhorn I Will Teach You to Be RichRamit Sethi Just Keep BuyingNick Maggiulli Let's Talk MoneyMonika Halan Lords of FinanceLiaquat Ahamed Manias, Panics, and CrashesCharles Kindleberger Margin of SafetySeth Klarman Market WizardsJack Schwager Mastering the Market CycleHoward Marks Money: Master the GameTony Robbins MoneyJacob Goldstein One Up on Wall StreetPeter Lynch Poor EconomicsAbhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo Rich Dad Poor DadRobert Kiyosaki The Ascent of MoneyNiall Ferguson The Automatic MillionaireDavid Bach The Barefoot InvestorScott Pape The Behavior GapCarl Richards The Bitcoin StandardSaifedean Ammous The Dhandho InvestorMohnish Pabrai The Four Pillars of InvestingWilliam Bernstein The Intelligent InvestorBenjamin Graham The Little Book of Common Sense InvestingJohn C. Bogle The Little Book That Still Beats the MarketJoel Greenblatt The Millionaire Next DoorThomas Stanley & William Danko The Money GameAdam Smith (George Goodman)The Most Important ThingHoward Marks The Simple Path to WealthJL Collins The Total Money MakeoverDave Ramsey This Time Is DifferentCarmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff UnshakeableTony Robbins Where Are the Customers' Yachts?Fred Schwed You Can Be a Stock Market GeniusJoel Greenblatt Your Money and Your BrainJason Zweig Your Money or Your LifeVicki Robin & Joe Dominguez

Productivity 45 books

Deep WorkCal Newport Four Thousand WeeksOliver Burkeman The 5 Second RuleMel Robbins Digital MinimalismCal Newport Slow ProductivityCal Newport Smarter Faster BetterCharles Duhigg WhenDaniel Pink The 4-Hour WorkweekTim Ferriss Tools of TitansTim Ferriss A World Without EmailCal Newport Building a Second BrainTiago Forte Do the WorkSteven Pressfield Eat That Frog!Brian Tracy EffortlessGreg McKeown EssentialismGreg McKeown Feel-Good ProductivityAli Abdaal First Things FirstStephen R. Covey Getting Things DoneDavid Allen HookedNir Eyal How to Take Smart NotesSönke Ahrens HyperfocusChris Bailey IkigaiHéctor García & Francesc Miralles IndistractableNir Eyal Keep GoingAustin Kleon Make TimeJake Knapp & John Zeratsky Peak PerformanceBrad Stulberg & Steve Magness Procrastinate on PurposeRory Vaden RestAlex Soojung-Kim Pang ShorterAlex Soojung-Kim Pang Show Your Work!Austin Kleon So Good They Can't Ignore YouCal Newport Solving the Procrastination PuzzleTimothy Pychyl Steal Like an ArtistAustin Kleon The 5 AM ClubRobin Sharma The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen R. Covey The Bullet Journal MethodRyder Carroll The Checklist ManifestoAtul Gawande The Effective ExecutivePeter F. Drucker The Miracle MorningHal Elrod The Now HabitNeil Fiore The One ThingGary Keller & Jay Papasan The Power of Full EngagementJim Loehr & Tony Schwartz The Practice of GroundednessBrad Stulberg The Productivity ProjectChris Bailey Turning ProSteven Pressfield

Spirituality 42 books

The Yoga SutrasPatanjali The MasnaviRumi The ProphetKahlil Gibran GitanjaliRabindranath Tagore Who Am I?Ramana Maharshi Autobiography of a YogiParamahansa Yogananda The Miracle of MindfulnessThich Nhat Hanh Zen Mind, Beginner's MindShunryu Suzuki The Power of NowEckhart Tolle Songs of the Bhakti SaintsMeera, Tulsidas, Surdas, Tukaram (trad.)The Sermon on the MountJesus of Nazareth (trad.)Japji SahibGuru Nanak (trad.)Sufi Saints of IndiaMoinuddin Chishti, Nizamuddin Auliya, Bulleh Shah (trad.)The Alchemy of HappinessAl-Ghazali The GathasZarathustra (trad.)The PsalmsDavid and others (trad.)EcclesiastesKohelet (trad.)Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)The Sages (trad.)The Way of the BodhisattvaShantideva The Art of HappinessThe Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler The Gospel of Sri RamakrishnaMahendranath Gupta (M.)Rig Veda: Selected HymnsVedic rishis (trad.)Isha UpanishadUpanishadic sages (trad.)Katha UpanishadUpanishadic sages (trad.)Mandukya UpanishadUpanishadic sages (trad.)Chandogya UpanishadUpanishadic sages (trad.)Mundaka UpanishadUpanishadic sages (trad.)Ashtavakra GitaAshtavakra (trad.)Yoga VasisthaValmiki (trad.)Vivekachudamani (Crest-Jewel of Discrimination)Adi Shankaracharya (attr.)Uddhava GitaVyasa, from the Bhagavata Purana (trad.)Vidura NitiVyasa, from the Mahabharata (trad.)Narada Bhakti SutraNarada (trad.)DnyaneshwariSant Dnyaneshwar Lal Ded: VakhsLalleshwari (Lal Ded)Akka Mahadevi: VachanasAkka Mahadevi TiruvasagamManikkavasagar TirumantiramTirumular Avvaiyar: Aathichudi and VersesAvvaiyar Vijnana Bhairava TantraKashmir Shaiva tradition (trad.)Tattvartha SutraUmaswati Jataka TalesBuddhist tradition (trad.)

Decisions 40 books

AntifragileNassim Nicholas Taleb The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb Skin in the GameNassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas Taleb Thinking in BetsAnnie Duke QuitAnnie Duke Clear ThinkingShane Parrish The Great Mental ModelsShane Parrish Think AgainAdam Grant NoiseDaniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass Sunstein NudgeRichard Thaler & Cass Sunstein SuperforecastingPhilip Tetlock & Dan Gardner Risk SavvyGerd Gigerenzer Gut FeelingsGerd Gigerenzer Sources of PowerGary Klein DecisiveChip Heath & Dan Heath RationalitySteven Pinker Poor Charlie's AlmanackPeter Kaufman (ed.), Charlie Munger AdaptTim Harford Algorithms to Live ByBrian Christian & Tom Griffiths Bad ScienceBen Goldacre Calling BullshitCarl Bergstrom & Jevin West FarsightedSteven Johnson How Not to Be WrongJordan Ellenberg How to DecideAnnie Duke How to Lie with StatisticsDarrell Huff How to Measure AnythingDouglas Hubbard Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for ThinkingDaniel Dennett Lateral ThinkingEdward de Bono MessyTim Harford Six Thinking HatsEdward de Bono Smart ChoicesJohn Hammond, Ralph Keeney & Howard Raiffa Super ThinkingGabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann The Data DetectiveTim Harford The Demon-Haunted WorldCarl Sagan The Halo EffectPhil Rosenzweig The Mind Map BookTony Buzan The Scout MindsetJulia Galef The Signal and the NoiseNate Silver Thinking StrategicallyAvinash Dixit & Barry Nalebuff

Wellbeing 38 books

Reasons to Stay AliveMatt Haig The Comfort BookMatt Haig 10% HappierDan Harris A New EarthEckhart Tolle Being MortalAtul Gawande Escape from FreedomErich Fromm Full Catastrophe LivingJon Kabat-Zinn Hope in the DarkRebecca Solnit How to Be an Adult in RelationshipsDavid Richo How to Do NothingJenny Odell How to Stop Worrying and Start LivingDale Carnegie Inner EngineeringSadhguru Man and His SymbolsCarl Jung Option BSheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant Peace Is Every StepThich Nhat Hanh Radical AcceptanceTara Brach Staring at the SunIrvin D. Yalom The Art of LovingErich Fromm The Art of StillnessPico Iyer The Book of JoyDalai Lama & Desmond Tutu The ChoiceEdith Eger The Comfort CrisisMichael Easter The Denial of DeathErnest Becker The Four AgreementsDon Miguel Ruiz The Last LectureRandy Pausch The Little Book of HyggeMeik Wiking The Monk Who Sold His FerrariRobin Sharma The Top Five Regrets of the DyingBronnie Ware The Untethered SoulMichael A. Singer The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion Think Like a MonkJay Shetty To Have or to Be?Erich Fromm Tuesdays with MorrieMitch Albom Waking UpSam Harris When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi When Things Fall ApartPema Chödrön Wherever You Go, There You AreJon Kabat-Zinn Who Moved My Cheese?Spencer Johnson

Indian Lives 37 books

281 and BeyondV. V. S. Laxman A Shot at HistoryAbhinav Bindra Ace Against OddsSania Mirza An Uncommon LoveChitra Banerjee Divakaruni An Unsuitable BoyKaran Johar And Then One DayNaseeruddin Shah C. V. Raman: A BiographyUma Parameswaran Democracy's XIRajdeep Sardesai Driven: The Virat Kohli StoryVijay Lokapally His Majesty's OpponentSugata Bose Homi Bhabha: A LifeBakhtiar K. Dadabhoy ImperfectSanjay Manjrekar Lata Mangeshkar: In Her Own VoiceNasreen Munni Kabir Lessons Life Taught Me UnknowinglyAnupam Kher Matters of DiscretionI. K. Gujral My JourneyA. P. J. Abdul Kalam My Years with ApuSatyajit Ray One Life Is Not EnoughK. Natwar Singh Our Films, Their FilmsSatyajit Ray Playing It My WaySachin Tendulkar R. D. Burman: The Man, The MusicAnirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded ManKrishna Dutta & Andrew Robinson Ramanujan: Letters and CommentaryBruce Berndt & Robert Rankin Straight from the HeartKapil Dev Sunny DaysSunil Gavaskar The Dramatic DecadePranab Mukherjee The Life of RamakrishnaRomain Rolland The Monk Who Became Chief MinisterShantanu Gupta The Presidential YearsPranab Mukherjee The Race of My LifeMilkha Singh The Test of My LifeYuvraj Singh The Untold VajpayeeUllekh N. P.Three Thousand StitchesSudha Murty Turning PointsA. P. J. Abdul Kalam UnfinishedPriyanka Chopra Jonas Vikram Sarabhai: A LifeAmrita Shah Vivekananda: A BiographySwami Nikhilananda

Habits 34 books

Atomic HabitsJames Clear The Power of HabitCharles Duhigg A Mind for NumbersBarbara Oakley Better Than BeforeGretchen Rubin Black Box ThinkingMatthew Syed BounceMatthew Syed Can't Hurt MeDavid Goggins Courage Is CallingRyan Holiday Discipline Is DestinyRyan Holiday Extreme OwnershipJocko Willink & Leif Babin Good Habits, Bad HabitsWendy Wood Learning How to LearnBarbara Oakley & Terrence Sejnowski Lives of the StoicsRyan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman Make It StickPeter C. Brown, Henry Roediger & Mark McDaniel Make Your BedWilliam H. McRaven Mini HabitsStephen Guise Moonwalking with EinsteinJoshua Foer PeakAnders Ericsson & Robert Pool RangeDavid Epstein Rebel IdeasMatthew Syed Talent Is OverratedGeoff Colvin The Compound EffectDarren Hardy The Daily StoicRyan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman The Four TendenciesGretchen Rubin The Happiness ProjectGretchen Rubin The Inner Game of TennisW. Timothy Gallwey The Little Book of TalentDaniel Coyle The Slight EdgeJeff Olson The Talent CodeDaniel Coyle The Upside of StressKelly McGonigal The Willpower InstinctKelly McGonigal Tiny HabitsBJ Fogg UltralearningScott H. Young WillpowerRoy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Technology 31 books

AI SuperpowersKai-Fu Lee Alone TogetherSherry Turkle Amusing Ourselves to DeathNeil Postman Atlas of AIKate Crawford ExponentialAzeem Azhar Genius MakersCade Metz HackersSteven Levy Hello WorldHannah Fry Human CompatibleStuart Russell Life 3.0Max Tegmark Prediction MachinesAjay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb Start-up NationDan Senor & Saul Singer SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom TechnopolyNeil Postman Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right NowJaron Lanier The Alignment ProblemBrian Christian The Attention MerchantsTim Wu The Cathedral and the BazaarEric S. Raymond The Coming WaveMustafa Suleyman The Curse of BignessTim Wu The Filter BubbleEli Pariser The InevitableKevin Kelly The Master AlgorithmPedro Domingos The Master SwitchTim Wu The Mythical Man-MonthFrederick Brooks The Second Machine AgeErik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder Understanding MediaMarshall McLuhan Weapons of Math DestructionCathy O'Neil Where Wizards Stay Up LateKatie Hafner & Matthew Lyon You Are Not a GadgetJaron Lanier

Self 29 books

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson Everything Is F*ckedMark Manson The AntidoteOliver Burkeman Hell Yeah or NoDerek Sivers MasteryRobert Greene GritAngela Duckworth Hidden PotentialAdam Grant 10x Is Easier Than 2xDan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy Attitude Is EverythingJeff Keller Don't Believe Everything You ThinkJoseph Nguyen Everything Is FigureoutableMarie Forleo Feel the Fear and Do It AnywaySusan Jeffers Life's Amazing SecretsGaur Gopal Das Man's Search for HimselfRollo May Mindfulness in Plain EnglishBhante Henepola Gunaratana Outwitting the DevilNapoleon Hill Personality Isn't PermanentBenjamin Hardy Psycho-CyberneticsMaxwell Maltz The Fifth AgreementDon Miguel Ruiz & Don Jose Ruiz The Gap and the GainDan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy The High 5 HabitMel Robbins The Laws of SuccessNapoleon Hill The MagicRhonda Byrne The Mastery of LoveDon Miguel Ruiz The Power of IntentionWayne Dyer The PowerRhonda Byrne The Success PrinciplesJack Canfield Who Not HowDan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy You Are a BadassJen Sincero

Indian Classics 27 books

7 Secrets of ShivaDevdutt Pattanaik 7 Secrets of VishnuDevdutt Pattanaik Akbar and Birbal TalesTraditional AryabhatiyaAryabhata BuddhacharitaAshvaghosha Business SutraDevdutt Pattanaik HitopadeshaNarayana Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the MahabharataDevdutt Pattanaik KathasaritsagaraSomadeva LilavatiBhaskaracharya MahabharataC. Rajagopalachari MeghadutaKalidasa Myth = MithyaDevdutt Pattanaik NatyashastraBharata Muni Neeti ShatakamBhartrihari NitisaraKamandaka PanchatantraVishnu Sharma RamayanaC. Rajagopalachari Sangam Poetry (Purananuru and Akananuru)Tamil Sangam poets (trad.)Sarama and Her ChildrenBibek Debroy ShikhandiDevdutt Pattanaik Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the RamayanaDevdutt Pattanaik SubhashitasTraditional Tenali Raman StoriesTraditional The Mahabharata (Unabridged Translation)Bibek Debroy Vairagya ShatakamBhartrihari Vikram and BetaalTraditional (Vetala Panchavimshati)

Governance 17 books

T. N. Seshan: Enforcing the RulesT. N. Seshan E. Sreedharan: Delivery with IntegrityE. Sreedharan Verghese Kurien: The Cooperative WayVerghese Kurien M. S. Swaminathan: Food SecurityM. S. Swaminathan Vikram Sarabhai: Technology for DevelopmentVikram Sarabhai Armstrong Pame: The People's RoadArmstrong Pame Hobbes: Order and the StateThomas Hobbes Locke: Rights and ConsentJohn Locke Rousseau: The General WillJean-Jacques Rousseau Max Weber: Bureaucracy and AuthorityMax Weber Nozick: Liberty and EntitlementRobert Nozick Kautilya: The ArthashastraKautilya Ashoka: Dhamma and WelfareEmperor Ashoka Nehru: Scientific Temper and InstitutionsJawaharlal Nehru Sardar Patel: Unity and Civil ServiceVallabhbhai Patel Gokhale: Moderate ReformGopal Krishna Gokhale Akbar: Sulh-i-kulEmperor Akbar

Communication 16 books

Bird by BirdAnne Lamott How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will TalkAdele Faber & Elaine Mazlish Never Eat AloneKeith Ferrazzi On Writing WellWilliam Zinsser On WritingStephen King Presentation ZenGarr Reynolds ResonateNancy Duarte StoryworthyMatthew Dicks SupercommunicatorsCharles Duhigg Talk Like TEDCarmine Gallo Thank You for ArguingJay Heinrichs The Charisma MythOlivia Fox Cabane The Elements of EloquenceMark Forsyth The Elements of StyleWilliam Strunk Jr. & E. B. White The Pyramid PrincipleBarbara Minto Writing Down the BonesNatalie Goldberg

Indian Philosophy 11 books

Bhagavad GitaVyasa (trad.)The UpanishadsVarious sages TirukkuralThiruvalluvar Karma YogaSwami Vivekananda Raja YogaSwami Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo: Integral GrowthSri Aurobindo Basavanna: Work Is WorshipBasavanna Kabir: Beyond RitualsKabir Mahavira: Nonviolence and Many ViewsMahavira Adi Shankaracharya: AdvaitaAdi Shankaracharya Guru Nanak: Equality and ServiceGuru Nanak

Ethics 11 books

Kant: Duty and DignityImmanuel Kant Bentham: Greatest HappinessJeremy Bentham Rawls: Justice as FairnessJohn Rawls Hannah Arendt: Thinking and ResponsibilityHannah Arendt Martin Luther King Jr.: Nonviolent JusticeMartin Luther King Jr.Peter Singer: Effective CompassionPeter Singer Martha Nussbaum: CapabilitiesMartha Nussbaum Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for LifeAlbert Schweitzer Hans Jonas: Ethics for a Technological AgeHans Jonas Gandhi: Truth and NonviolenceMahatma Gandhi Ambedkar: Equality and Constitutional MoralityB. R. Ambedkar

Polity 11 books

Age of PandemicsChinmay Tumbe An Undocumented WonderS. Y. Quraishi Full SpectrumArjun Subramaniam India's Founding MomentMadhav Khosla India's WarsArjun Subramaniam Offend, Shock, or DisturbGautam Bhatia Supreme WhispersAbhinav Chandrachud The Long GameVijay Gokhale The Transformative ConstitutionGautam Bhatia The VerdictPrannoy Roy & Dorab Sopariwala Tiananmen SquareVijay Gokhale

Relationships 9 books

ModelsMark Manson The Let Them TheoryMel Robbins How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale Carnegie All About Lovebell hooks Men Are from Mars, Women Are from VenusJohn Gray Modern RomanceAziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg The Five Love LanguagesGary Chapman The Good LifeRobert Waldinger & Marc Schulz The Seven Principles for Making Marriage WorkJohn Gottman & Nan Silver

Parenting 9 books

Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherAmy Chua Bringing Up BébéPamela Druckerman Free-Range KidsLenore Skenazy How to Raise an AdultJulie Lythcott-Haims iGenJean Twenge NurtureShockPo Bronson & Ashley Merryman Punished by RewardsAlfie Kohn The Gardener and the CarpenterAlison Gopnik Unconditional ParentingAlfie Kohn

Career 8 books

Designing Your LifeBill Burnett & Dave Evans Shop Class as SoulcraftMatthew Crawford The 100-Year LifeLynda Gratton & Andrew Scott The Defining DecadeMeg Jay The World Beyond Your HeadMatthew Crawford WantingLuke Burgis Working IdentityHerminia Ibarra WorkingStuds Terkel

Stoicism 7 books

The Obstacle Is the WayRyan Holiday Ego Is the EnemyRyan Holiday Stillness Is the KeyRyan Holiday Letters from a StoicSeneca On the Shortness of LifeSeneca EnchiridionEpictetus DiscoursesEpictetus

Manifestation 7 books

The SecretRhonda Byrne The Power of Your Subconscious MindJoseph Murphy As a Man ThinkethJames Allen The Power of Positive ThinkingNorman Vincent Peale The Seven Spiritual Laws of SuccessDeepak Chopra Feeling Is the SecretNeville Goddard Ask and It Is GivenEsther & Jerry Hicks

Persuasion 5 books

Never Split the DifferenceChris Voss InfluenceRobert Cialdini Pre-SuasionRobert Cialdini The CatalystJonah Berger Made to StickChip Heath & Dan Heath

Eastern Philosophy 5 books

The DhammapadaBuddha (trad.)Tao Te ChingLao Tzu The AnalectsConfucius ZhuangziZhuangzi I Ching (The Book of Changes)Traditional Chinese (Zhou dynasty)

Abundance 5 books

Think and Grow RichNapoleon Hill The Magic of Thinking BigDavid J. Schwartz The Science of Getting RichWallace D. Wattles Secrets of the Millionaire MindT. Harv Eker The Richest Man in BabylonGeorge S. Clason

Health 5 books

BetterAtul Gawande Born to RunChristopher McDougall ComplicationsAtul Gawande The Complete Book of YogaSwami Vivekananda The Omnivore's DilemmaMichael Pollan

1496 books, 11312 ideas

Science 122 books

Business 119 books

Philosophy 107 books

Psychology 102 books

Economics 86 books

Indian History 83 books

Leadership 79 books

History 70 books

Society 65 books

Biography 57 books

Money 50 books

Productivity 45 books

Spirituality 42 books

Decisions 40 books

Wellbeing 38 books

Indian Lives 37 books

Habits 34 books

Technology 31 books

Self 29 books

Indian Classics 27 books

Marketing 25 books

Creativity 21 books

Education 21 books

Strategy 20 books

Environment 20 books

Governance 17 books

Communication 16 books

Indian Philosophy 11 books

Ethics 11 books

Polity 11 books

Relationships 9 books

Parenting 9 books

Career 8 books

Stoicism 7 books

Manifestation 7 books

Persuasion 5 books

Eastern Philosophy 5 books

Abundance 5 books

Health 5 books