Books I recommend

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it,you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.That doesn’t happen much, though.

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Now there are books that one reads and there are books that turn something inside you or trigger a spark or rock your boat, if you will .. Here’s a list of some such books(in no particular order). All of them are not cover-to-cover reads but worth a go anyhow..

  • Storm in a TeaCup — Helen Czerski
  • Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chang
  • Behave — Robert Sapolsky
  • The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins
  • Outgrowing God — Richard Dawkins
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics — Carlo Rovelli
  • Poetics — Aristotle
  • God’s Debris — Scott Adams
  • How to — Randall Munroe
  • Total Freedom — J Krishnamurti
  • The Bed of Procrustes — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart — Gordon Livingston
  • Pre-Suasion — Robert B. Cialdini
  • The Man Who Solved the Market — Gregory Zuckerman
  • Ducks, Newburyport — Lucy Ellmann
  • Elanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman
  • Permanent Record — Edward Snowden
  • An Orchestra of Minorities — Chigozie Obioma
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
  • Unstoppable — Ben Angel
  • Scalability Rules — Martin Abbott, Michael Fisher
  • The Art of Scalability — Martin Abbott, Michael Fisher
  • Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Growth Delusion — David Pilling
  • Skin in the Game — Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • Fooled by Randomness — Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • AntiFragile — Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • The Black Swan — Nicholas Nassim Taleb
  • Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker
  • The Fuzzy and the Techie — Scott Harley
  • Life 3.0 Max Tegmark
  • The Second Machine Age — Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
  • Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus — Douglas Rushkoff
  • Life Inc — Douglas Rushkoff
  • Ego is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
  • Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
  • Man’s Search For Meaning — Viktor E Frankl
  • Nudge — Richard H Thaler
  • Letters from a Stoic — Seneca, Robin Campbell
  • The Tibetan Book of Living And Dying — Rinpoche Sogyal
  • A Clockwork Orange — Blake Morrison
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
  • The Dharma Bums — Jack Kerouac
  • Blind Watchmaker r — Richard Dawkins
  • Siddhartha — Herman Hesse
  • Thank You for Being Late — Thomas Friedman
  • As a Man Thinketh — James Allen
  • The Message of a Master — John McDonald
  • Slaughterhouse 5 — Kurt Vonnegut
  • Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Tarkash — Javed Akhtar
  • Go Set a Watchman — Harper Lee
  • The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
  • Have A Little Faith — Mitch Albom
  • Tuesdays With Morrie — Mitch Albom
  • Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
  • Don’t Ask Any Old Bloke For Directions — P.G. Tenzing
  • All the Birds in the Sky — Charlie Jane Anders
  • Berlin Diary — William Shirer
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William Shirer
  • Mossad — Michael Bar-Zoha
  • Serve To Win — Novak Djokovic
  • The China Study — Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II, John Robbins, Howard Lyman
  • The Paradox of Choice — Barry Shwartz
  • Looptail — Bruce Poon Tip
  • Born to Run — Christopher McDougall
  • The Old man and the Sea — Ernest Hemmingway
  • 1984 — George Orwell
  • Turning Point — Fritjof Capra
  • In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat — John Gribbin
  • Fermat’s Last Theorem — Simon Singh
  • The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty — Dan Ariely
  • The World According to Garp — John Irving
  • Wisdom for the Way — Bruce Lee
  • What is Life ? — Erwin Schrodinger
  • The Art of Living — Osho
  • When the Shoe Fits — Osho
  • The Goose is Out — Osho
  • The Dalai Lama’s Cat — David Michie
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig
  • Thinking in Systems — A Primer — Donella H. Meadows
  • The Book of Tea — Kakuzo Okakura
  • The art of Innovation — Tom Kelly
  • You are Here — Thich Nhat Hanh
  • The Hitchhikers’s guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene
  • The Ending of Time - J Krishnamurty & David Bohm
  • SuperIntelligence - Nick Bostrom
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport
  • Different - Youngme Moon

Read as much and leave as much.One paragraph, one sentence, one phrase and sometimes even one word in a context can trigger something awesome.