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