Written by Nitin Prakash

The following is list of books that I’ve read so far grouped by year.

2024
  1. All the light we cannot see - Anthony Doerr
  2. Psycho-cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
  3. What is life? - Erwin Schrödinger
  4. Clear thinking - Shane Parrish
  5. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
  6. Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
  7. For the Love of Physics - Walter Lewin
  8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  9. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
  10. The Nature of Software Development - Ron Jeffries
  11. SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming - Bill Karwin
  12. The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
  13. LOTR #1: The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  14. LOTR #2: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
  15. 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers - Zeno Rocha
  16. Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph - Ted Simon
  17. Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
  18. Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  19. Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
  20. Ego is the enemy - Ryan Holiday
  21. The Science of Storytelling - Will Storr
  22. LOTR #3: The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
2023
  1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  2. The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
  3. Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
  4. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
  5. Notes on an Execution - Danya Kukafka
  6. Chip War - Chris Miller
  7. Land of Lisp - Conrad Barski
  8. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe - Steven H. Strogatz
  9. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  10. The Most Important Thing - Howard Marks
  11. What If? - Randall Munroe
  12. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel
2022
  1. The Minimalist Entrepreneur - Sahil Lavingia
  2. Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
  3. Optics By Example - Chris Penner
  4. Specification by Example - Gojko Adzic
  5. Building Microservices - Sam Newman
  6. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson
  7. The Network State - Balaji S. Srinivasan
  8. Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky
  9. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  10. The Fountains of Silence - Ruta Sepetys
  11. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption - Sebastian Mallaby
  12. What Happened To You? - Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
2021
  1. One Up on Wall Street - Peter Lynch
  2. The Simple Haskell Handbook - Marco Sampellegrini
  3. Deep Work - Cal Newport
  4. Zero To Production In Rust - Luca Palmieri
2020
  1. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow
  2. Attitude Is Everything - Jeff Keller
  3. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  4. Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
  5. The Art of Productivity - Jim Stovall
  6. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  7. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect - John C. Maxwell
  8. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
  9. The Art of Optimism - Jim Stovall
  10. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck- Mark Manson
  11. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
  12. The One Thing - Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
  13. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
  14. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
  15. Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins
  16. The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger, Joel Lovell
  17. Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters - Ryan Singer
  18. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
  19. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
  20. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight
  21. 1984 - George Orwell
  22. Atomic Habits - James Clear
  23. The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts - Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien
  24. The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
  25. Meditations- Marcus Aurelius
  26. The Daily Stoic- Ryan Holiday
  27. A letter to a Hindu - Leo Tolstoy
  28. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness - Eric Jorgenson