Books I Read

These are the books I have read and am reading.

Books in 2024

Eknath Easwaran: How to Understand Death
E. O. Wilson: Letters to a Young Scientist
Jeffery Pfeffer: Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Charlie Munger: Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Swami Paramarthananda: Chandogya Upanishad
Swami Paramarthananda: Tattva Bodha++
Loren Pope: Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You
Becky Sabky: Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
Christian Cameron: Killer of Men (The Long War Book 1)
R. F. Kuang: The Poppy War
Lisa Greenwald: TBH #1: TBH, This is so Awkward
Mark Schatzker: The End of Craving
Jackie Chan: Never Grow Up
Ronesh Sinha: The South Asian Health Solution
Jane McGonigal: SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully*
Lauren Myracle: TTYL #1**
Swami Paramarthananda: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor and Park
Sringeri Jagadguru Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Mahaswamigal: Enlightening Expositions (Philosophical Expositions)
Dr. Philip Maffetone: B Sharp
Thich Nhat Hanh: Anger
Jason Karp: Coaching the Kenyans
John Strelecky: The Cafe on the Edge of the World
Gerson: The Gerson Therapy
Stephen Covey: Mission Statement
Swami Paramarthananda: Adhyasa Bashyam++
Shion Miura: The Easy Life in Kamusari (Forest Book 1)
Stephen Cope: The Great Work of Your Life
Swami Paramarthananda: TattvaBodha++
Rajesh Sengamedu: Purposeful Capitalist: The Dark Side of Desire
Shion Miura: Kamusari Tales Told at Night (Forest Book 2)
Katherine Reay: Of Literature and Lattes
Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)*
Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
PRABHAKAR K MISHRA: The Crux of Bhagavad Gita - The Grand Unifier
Cathy Yardley: Love, Comment, Subscribe (Ponto Beach Reunion Book 1)
Cathy Yardley: Gouda Friends (Ponto Beach Reunion Book 2)
Cathy Yardley: Ex Appeal (Ponto Beach Reunion Book 3)
Hillary Allen: Out and Back
Cal Newport: Slow Productivity
Adam Grant: Hidden Potential
Michael Easter: Scarcity Brain
Daavi Gazelle: The Kids Who Get In*
Ichiro Kishmi: The Courage to be Disliked*
Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking*
Swami Paramarthananda: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Bashyam (1.4.10)
Prof. V. Krishnamoorthy: Looking Back
R. F. Kuang: Yellowface
Robin Marantz Henig: Monk in the Garden: Life of Gregor Mendel
Christopher McDougall: Born to Run 2
Lauren Thoman: I’ll Stop the World
Greene and Greene: Hidden Ivies
Peter Pitts: 333 Awesome Small Colleges
John Green: An Abundance of Katherines
Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler: The Future of Us
Natalie Goldberg: Long Quiet Highway
John Stevens: The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei
Dr. Phil Maffettone: Million Dollar Marathon
Dr. John Duffy: Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety
Liane Morirary: Truly Madly Guilty
Deepak Malhotra: I Moved Your Cheese
Brandon Weis: This Is Gonna Hurt: Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail, and Arizona Trail in a Calendar Year
Nisargadatta: I am not the Body
Austin Current: Science of Strength Training
Bob Roth: Strength in Stillness (The Power of Transcendental Meditation)
Britt Frank: The Science of Stuck
Nisadgadatta Maharaj: I am not the Body
Morgan Housel: Same as Ever
Neil Fiore: Now Habit
Carlo Cippola: Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
Rand Fishkin: Lost and Founder
Paul Jarvis: Company of One
Sam Altman: Startup Playbook++
Joel Schwartzberg: Get to the Point!
Sahil Lavingia: The Minimalist Entrepreneur
Leigh Gallagher: The Airbnb Story
Chip Heath, Dan Heath: Made to Stick
Ryan Levesque: Choose
Ryan Levesque: Ask
Caroll Tavris, Elliot Aronson: Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me)
Ash Maurya: Running Lean
Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy: 10x Is Easier Than 2x
Paulo Coelho: The Archer
Eric Ries: The Lean Startup++

Huge & Majestic Works (Repeated Listening)

Swami Paramarthananda: Bhagavad Gita (250 lectures)
Swami Paramarthananda: Bhagavad Gita - Shankara Bashyam (600 lectures)

Books in 2023

S. K. Sridharan: Adi Shankaracharya : Biography
Varadaraja Raman: Manikkavasagar’s Sivapuranam
Bruce Lawrence: Quran
William Deresiewicz: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Swami Paramarthananda: Ashtavakra Gita (88 lectures)
Jeffrey Selingo: Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
Swami Paramarthananda: Dakshinamurthi Stotram - summary
Swami Paramarthananda: Brahma Sutras (Adhyasa bashyam and First few sutras)
Albert Woodfox: Solitary
Swami Paramarthananda: Shankara and Gita
Swami Paramarthananda: Meditation Theory
Swami Paramarthananda: Gita Saaram (tamil)
Scott Galloway: Adrift
Shoba Rao: My Race Against Death
Tom Neale: An Island to Oneself(++)
Swami Paramarthananda: Gita Summarized (english)
Swami Gurubhaktananda: Manisha Panchakam (Chinmaya Mission)
Swami Paramarthananda: Manisha Panchakam
Swami Paramarthananda: Dakshinamoorthy Stotram
David Goggins: Can’t Hurt Me
Prof. VK: Thus Spake Krishna(++)
Tim Urban: Wait But Why : One Year
Scott Galloway: The Algebra of Happiness
Swami Paramarthananda: Shivananda Lahari (selected verses)
Prof. VK: Paramacharya on Soundarya-Lahari
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Stephen Wolfram: What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
James Gleick: The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Ethan Kross: Chatter
Hal Higdon: Marathon, Revised and Updated 5th Edition, Training Guide
Alex Hutchinson: Endure - Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Adam D’ Alessandro: How You Can Run Faster Effortlessly
George Mahood: Did Not Finish: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming (DNF Series Book 1)
Patrick McKeown: The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques
Danny Dryer: ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running
Dr. Philip Maffetone: The MAF Method
Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Kim Brown Seely: Uncharted: A Couple’s Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another
Haruki Murakami: Novelist as a Vocation
Rich Roll: Finding Ultra - Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Tom Rath: It’s Not About You
Taylor Jenkins Reid: Carrie Soto is Back
Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir
Sarah Gearhart: We Share the Sun: The Incredible Journey of Kenya’s Legendary Running Coach Patrick Sang and the Fastest Runners on Earth
Peter Attia: Outlive
Christina Baker Kline: The Scenic Route
Cameron Hanes: Endure
Mirna Valerio: A Beautiful Work In Progress
Simone Stolzoff: The Good Enough Job
Wendelin Van Draanen: The Running Dream
Krishna Das: Chants of a Lifetime
Dana Ayers: Confessions of an Unlikely Runner
Radhanath Swami: The Journey Within
Swami Paramarthananda: Bhagavad Gita Shankara Bashyam (to call this one book does not do it justice. This was a 600 leactures each (one-hour) magnum opus. And I am eternally thankful for this journey and learning).
Tom Michaud: Injury Free Running
James Nestor: Breath
Swami Paramarthananda: Dakshinamurthy Ashtakam lectures
Swami Paramarthananda: Tattva Bodha
Hiroaki Tanaka: Slow Jogging
Jay Dicharry: Anatomy for Runners
Katalin Kariko: Breaking Through: My Life in Science
Matt Fitzgerald: Running the Dream
Jennifer Wallace: Never Enough
Frank Bruni: Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be
Mark Cucuzzella: Run for Your Life
Simon Sinek: Start with Why
Karthikeyan Nagarajan: Making Music - The Ilaiyaraaja Way
Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Kyla Stone: Edge of Collapse
Clayton Christensen: How Will You Measure Your Life?
Grant Lindsley: Mediocre Monk
Ekanth Easwaran: Climbing the Blue Mountain
Christopher Hitchens: Mortality
Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander: The Art of Possibility
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir: Scarcity
John Grisham: The Exchange: After The Firm

Books in 2022

Swami Paramarthananda: Essence (Summary) of Bhagavad Gita
Dr. Jason Fung: Cancer Code
Swami Paramarthananda: Kaivalya Upanishad
Swami Gurubhaktananda: Atma Bodha
Nicholas Sutton: Bhagavad Gita
Hari Chetan: Bhagavad Gita - The Perfect Philosophy
Oliver Burkeman: Four Thousand Weeks
Mihaly Csikszentmihalhi: Finding Flow
Paul Brunton: A Search in Secret India
Swami Paramarthananda: Taittriya Upanishad
Swami Parthasarathy: The Holocaust of Attachment
Tom Shanley: Heaven’s Favorite Book 1 (Ascent: The rise of Chinggig Khan)
Swami Paramarthananda: Mandukya Upanishad
Alan Lightman: In Praise of Wastinng Time
Taylor Jenkins Reid: Evidence of the Affair
Julie Schumacher: Dear Committee Members
Emmet Fox: Sermon on the Mount*
Swami Paramarthananda: Advaita Makaranda
Swami Paramarthananda: Drig Drishya Viveka
Andy Weir: Hail Mary
Tom Shanley: Heaven’s Favorite Book 2 (Dominion: Dawn of the Mongol Empire)
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
Robert Caro: Writing
George Dyson: Turing’s Cathedral
Shauna Robinson: Must Love Books
Carol Anderson: White Rage
Adam Savage: Every Tool’s a Hammer
Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hays: Meditations: A new translation
Elizabeth Gilbert: Big Magic
Emily Henry: Book Lovers
Dan Roam: The Back of the Napkin
Cal Newport: Digital Minimalism
Dan Roam: Blah Blah Blah
John Green: The Fault in Our Stars
Thomas Merton: Seven Storey Mountain
Scott Adams: God’s Debris
Swami Paramarthananda: Viveka Choodamani Part 1
Swami Paramarthananda: Saddarshanam
David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber: Dawn of Everything*
Abby Jimenez: Friend Zone
Radhanath Swami: The Journey Home (Autobiography of an American Swami)
Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Swami Paramarthananda: Ashtavakra Gita*
Dan Barker: Godless*
Sriram Iyer: Kandhar Anubhuthi
Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry
Stephen Batchelor: Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist*
Daniel Keys: Flowers for Algernon
Atul Gawande: Being Mortal
Anand Giridhardas: Winners Take All
Danile Lieberman & Michael Long: The Molecule of More
Jonathan Rauch: The Happiness Curve
Victoria Loustalot: Future Perfect
Prof. V. Krishnamurthy: A Primer of Spirituality
Arnold Bennett: How Live on 24 Hours a Day
Daniel James Brown: Boys in the Boat
Captivating History: The Mongol Conquests

Books in 2021

Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 8 (Covers Chapter 9 of BG)
Swami Dayananda Saraswati : The Teachings of Bhagavad Gita
Josh Brown, Brian Portnoy: How I Invest My Money
Matthew Kratter: Beginner’s Guide to the Stock Market
Tyler Larimore et al: Bogleheads Guide to Investing
Tyler Larimore et al: Bogleheads Guide to the Three-Fund Portfolio
William Bernstein: Four Pillars of Investing
William Bernstein: If You Can
Allan Roth: How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street
John Bogle: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Edward Yardeni: The Yield Curve - What is it Really Predicting?
Edward Yardeni: Stock Buybacks - The True Story
Edward Yardeni: S&500 Earnings, Valuation and the Pandemic
Tyler Larimore et al: Bogleheads Guide to Retirement Planning
Robin Moriarty: What Game Are You Playing?
Bill Schultheis: The Coffeehouse Investor
Michael Edleson: Value Averaging
Joel Greenblat: The Little Book that still Beats the Market
Richard Ferri: All About Asset Allocation
Edward Yardeni: Watching the Fed - for Fun and Profit
Howard Marks: Mastering the Market Cycle
Bari Tessler: The Art of Money
Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich: Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes
Brandon Turner / Bigger Pockets: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Real Estate Investing
Daniel Pecaut, Corey Wrenn: University of Berkshire Hathaway
William Bernstein: The Investor’s Manifesto
Swami Chinmayananda: Bhaja Govindam
Nathan Winklepleck: Dividend Growth Machine
Ian Ayres, Barry Nalebuff: Lifecycle Investing
William Bernstein: Rational Expectations
Meb Faber: Global Asset Allocation
George Clason: The Richest Man In Babylon
Thich Nhat Hanh: Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise
Prof. Ian Stewart: Incredible Numbers
Roopa Pai: The Gita For Children
Swami Chinmayananda: AS I Think
Harriet Beveridge and Ben Hunt-Davis: Will it make the Boat go faster?
Rajesh Sengamedu: Happiness Beyond Mind
Aswath Damodaran: The Little Book of Valuation*
Jennifer Doudna: A Crack in Creation
Sarah Lacy: Once you are Lucky, Twice you are Good*
Linda Sue Park: Single Shard
Derek Sivers: Hell Yeah or No
Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson: We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Prof. Thad Polk: The Learning Brain (Great courses)
Robert Cialdini: Presuasion
Richard Davis: The Bhagavad Gita - A Biography
Matthieu Ricard: Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill
Scott Jurek: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Ram Dass: Journey of Awakening
Bob Buford: Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance
Thomas Deetjen: Published
Amy Cuddy: Presence
Michael Lewis: The Undoing Project
David Epstein: Range
Martin Seligman: Authentic Happiness
Kathe Koja: Buddha Boy
Jordan Peterson: 12 rules for life
Sriram Gopalan: Sage, Rosemary and Time comics Vol. 1
Swami Mukundananda: The Science of Mind Management
Mindy Kaling: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Ursula K. Le Guin: No Time to Spare
Swami Dayananda Saraswathi: Bhagavad Gita : Vol. 1 (Intro & Chap. 1)
Paul Coelho: The Alchemist
Swami Dayananda Saraswathi: Bhagavad Gita : Vol. 2 (Chap. 2)
Miyamoto Musashi: The Book of Five Rings
Rev. Heng Sure and Rev. Heng Chau: Highway Dharma Letters
Rick Hanson: Hardwiring Happiness
Swami Paramarthananda: Mundaka Upanishad
Rickey Gates: Cross Country
Swami Tadatmananda: The Roar of the Ganges
Swami Paramarthananda: Tattva Bodha
Alan Watts: The Book
Swami Paramarthananda: Kena Upanishad
Roopa Pai: The Vedas and the Upanishads for Children
Swami Paramarthananda: Atma Bodha
Swami Paramarthananda: Essense of Vedanta
Swami Paramarthananda: Vedanta Saara
Prof. V. Krishnamoorthy: Thus Spake Krishna (Bhagavad Gita)
Swami Paramarthananda: Essence of Upanishads
Sri M: Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master
Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The Vision of the Gita (in 10 verses)
Swami Muktananda: 7 Divine Laws to Awaken Your Best Self
John Williams: Stoner
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
David Miller: AWOL on the Appalachian Trail
Sarada Chiruvolu: Home at Last
Kushal Choksi: On a Wing and a Prayer
Frank McLynn: Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
Andy Weir: Randomize
Sharon Lee Alexander: Love and Other Unknown Variables
Swami Paramarthananda: The Bhagavad Gita (magnificient work of 246 lectures / roughly 3800 pages epic!).
Swami Tejomayananda: Manah Sodhanam
Swami Paramarthananda: Katha Upanishad
Sam Altman: Startup Playbook
Robert Greene: Masters*
Rich Karlgaard: Late Bloomers
Swami Tejomayananda: Aditya Hrudayam
Swami Paramarthananda: Isavasya Upanishad
Richard Bach: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Swami Paramarthananda: Aitareya Upanishad
Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens
Sam Harris: Free Will
Daniel Levitin: The Organized Mind
Swami Sarvapriyananda: Who Am I?
Edward Yardeni: The Fed and the Great Crisis
Edward Yardeni: In Praise of Profits
Swami Paramarthananda: Prashna Upanishad

Books in 2020

Edwin Abbott: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Nir Eyal: Indistractable
Prof. Sean Carroll: The Higgs Boson and Beyond (great courses)
Stanislas Dehaene: Consciousness and the Brain
Patrick Lencioni: The Advantage
Niall Kishtaiiny: A Little History of Economics
Ming-Dao Deng: 365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Mary Roach: Stiff
Sam Kean: Caesar’s Last Breath
Marguerite De Angeli: The Door in the Wall (with Savit)
Robert Sapolsky: Behave (*)
Gary Taubes: The Case Against Sugar
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman: A Mind at Play
J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Andrew Tobias: The Only Investment Guided You’ll Ever Need
Graham Summers: The Everything Bubble
Ben Orlin: Math with Bad Drawings*
US History in Five Stock Market Crashes*
Rebecca Goldstein: Incompleteness (Biography of Godel)*
Philip Guo: The PhD Grind (a memoir)
Forrest Knutson: Hacking the Universe : The Process of Yogic Meditation
Chris Niebauer: No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
Darius Foroux: What It Takes To Be Free
Sri Ramana Maharishi: Who Am I?
Sri Adi Shankaracharya: Manisha Panchakam (lectures + text : various sources)
Sri Adi Shankaracharya: Nirvana Shatakam (lectures + text : various sources)
Veda Vyasa: The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit Channel lectures)
Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari: Biography of Lokenath Babaji
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
James Clear: Atomic Habits
F. Max Mueller : The Dhammapada
Swami Parthasarathy : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 1
Swami Parthasarathy : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 2
Swami Parthasarathy : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 3
Swami Parmarthananda : TattvaBodha
Graham Schweig : The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran : The Bhagavad Gita
Swami Vivekananda : Lectures on Bhagavad Gita
Mahatma Gandhi : The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
Swami Swarupananda : The Bhagavad Gita
Swami Satchidananda : Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
C. Radhakrishnan: The Bhagavad Gita
Sir Edwin Arnold: The Bhagavad Gita
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 1 (Covers chapters 1&2 of BG)
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 2 (Covers chapter 3 of BG)
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 3 (Covers chapter 4 of BG)
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 4 (Covers chapter 5 of BG)
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 5 (Covers chapter 6 of BG)
Eknath Easwaran: How to Meditate (Easwaran Inspirations Book 1)
Swami Dayananda Saraswati: What is Meditation
Swami Chinmayananda : Art of Contemplation
Swami Chinmayananda : Meditation and Life
Om Swami: A Million Thoughts
Om Swami: Gayathri Mantra
Swami Chinmayananda: My Trek Through Uttarkhand
Om Swami: If Truth Be Told (memoir)
Swami Chinmayananda: Tune in the Mind
Swami Chinmayananda: Forgive Me (Shiva Aparatha Kshamapana Stotram)
Swami Tejomayananda: Upadesa Saaram (Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi)
Swami Paramarthananda: Isavasaya Upanishad
Om Swami: Mantras
Philip Renard: ‘I’ is a Door: The essence of Advaita as taught by Ramana Maharshi, Atmananda & Nisargadatta Maharaj
Swami Tejomayananda: Meditation Verses: Nirvana Shatakam
Swami Tejomayananda: Shiva Manasa Puja
Pema Chodron: How to Meditate
Swami Dayananda Saraswati : Value of Values
Eric Jorgenson: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Michael S. A. Graziano: God Soul Mind Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Reflections on the Spirit World
Malcolm Cameron: Mathematics the Truth: Moving mathematics teaching into the age of quantum mechanics and relativity
Timothy D Wilson: Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By
Tina Seelig: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 6 (Covers chapter 7 of BG)
Laura Bates: Shakespeare Saved My Life
Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness: Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
Michael Matthews: Bigger Leaner Stronger
Swami Chinmayananda : The Bhagavad Gita : Volume 7 (Covers Chapter 8 of BG)
Christopher McDougall: Running with Sherman
Todd Rose: The End of Average
Todd Rose: Square Peg
Vishwanathan Anand: Mind Master

Books in 2019

Thanhha Lai: Inside Out and Back Again
Rachel Rene Russell: Dork Diaries 1
Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues
RC Sproul, Robert Wolgemuth: What’s in the Bible: A One-Volume Guidebook to God’s Word
Cynthia Lord: Rules
Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines: The Magnolia Story
Diana Winston, Susan Smally: Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness
Beverly Cleary: Dear Mr. Henshaw
Jon Ronson: The Last Days of August
Susan Trott: The Man on the Mountaintop
Cressida Cowell: How to Train your Dragon
Patricia MachLachlan: Sarah Plain and Tall
David Rock: Your Brain at Work
Morten T. Hansen: Great at Work
Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi
Beverly Cleary: Henry Huggins
Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Meaning
Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Prof. Jay: Great Courses: Meaning of Life
Scott Carney: What Doesn’t Kill Us
Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Illyich
Mahatma Gandhi: My Life in my Own Words
Phillip Hoose: Claudette Colvin
Dr. Carol Dweck: Mindset
A. A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh
Nicholas Nassim Taleb: Skin in the Game
L. Subramaniam: History of Carnatic Music
Ray Bradbury: Farenheit 451
Ken Ilgunas: Walden on Wheels
Nigel Warburton: Little History of Philosophy
Ryan Holiday: The Obstacle is the Way
Benjamin Hoff: The Tao of Pooh
Brian Tracy: Bull’s Eye: The Power of Focus
Sophocles: Oedipus : Book 1
Pavan Sharma: Sri Adi Sankaracharya
Prof. Amy Jill Levine: Old Testament
Annie Duke: Thinking in Bets
God: Book of Genesis
God: Book of Job
Sara Pennypacker: Pax
Joan Druett: Island of the Lost
Xenophon: The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
Plato: Apology
Plato: Crito
Tom Tompkins: Understanding the Book of Job
Charles Duhigg: The Power of Habit
Plato: Meno
Hans Christian Andersen: Snow Queen
Dr. Wendy Mogel: Voice Lessons for Parents
Prof. Tilar J J Mazzeo: Creative Non-fiction Writing [great courses]
Deepak Chopra: Buddha
Thubten Chodron: Buddhism for Beginners
Prof. Daniel Robinson: Great Ideas of Philosophy [great courses]
Dr. Jason Fung: Diabetes Code
Dr. Ronald Siegel: Science of Mindfulness [great courses]
Dr. Valter Longo: The Longevity Diet
Prof. Mark Leary: Why you are Who you are
Jacqueline Davies: Lemonade War
Dr. Jason Fung: The Complete Guide to Fasting
Max Muller: Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha
Lama Surya Das: Awakening the Buddha Within
Dr. Patrick Grim: Philosophy of Mind [great courses]
Connel Fullenkamp: Crashes and Crises
Dr. Steven Gimbel: Redefining Reality [great courses]
Dan Rust: Workplace Poker
Shane Snow: Smartcuts
Bobby Bones: Fail Until You Don’t : Fight Grind Repeat
Warren Berger: A More Beautiful Question
Greg Mckeown: Essentialism
Prof. Alan Charles Kors: The Birth of the Modern Mind
Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing
Robert Maurer: One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
Laszlo Bock: Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google
William Ury: Getting to Yes with Yourself
Kelly Leonard, Tom Yorton: Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses “No, But” Thinking
Susan David: Emotional Agility
Napoleon Hill: Selling You!
Daniel Pink: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Tina Fey: Bossypants
Prof. Robert Solomon: No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi: The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success
Bernard Roth: The Achievement Habit
Veronica Roth: Ark
Blake Crouch: Summer Frost
N. K. Jemisin: Emergency Skin
Amor Towles: You Have Arrived at Your Destination
Paul Tremblay: The Last Conversation
Andy Weir: Randomize
Brian Grazer: A Curious Mind
Jeff Goins: The Art of Work
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Sonia Faruqi: Project Animal Farm
Brian Tracy: The Science of Motivation
Amy Poehler: Yes, Please!
Kathryn Schulz: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Ron Chernow: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
Sean Young: Stick with it
Dr. Herbert Benson: The Relaxation Response
Austin Kleon: Show Your Work
Katherine Reynolds Lewis: The Good News About Bad Behavior
Merrill Markoe, Megan Koester: The Indignities of being a Woman
Epictetus and Sharon Lebell: The Art of Living
John Maxwell: 3 Things Successful People Do
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Book 1: Little House in the Big Woods
Mary Roach: Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Virginia Cowles: The Rothschilds
Bill Bryson: The Lost Continent : Travels in Small Town America
Howard Schultz, Rajiv Chandrasekaran: Upstanders (Season 1)
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Series : Book 1)
Tara Westover: Educated
Komal Singh: Ara the Explorer
Jeff Kinney: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Getaway (book 12)

Books in 2018

Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Deborah Hopkinson: Who was Charles Darwin?
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Book 4: Dog Days]
Fradin: Who was Sacagawea?
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Book 5: Cabin Fever]
Jayakanthan: Jayakanthan Short Stories
Rupert Colley: Adolf Hitler
David McCoy: Who was George Washington?
Prof. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day
Michael Harris: What is the Declaration of Independence
Tom Heany: First Learn How to Practice
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Book 10: Old School]
Ursula K. Le Guin: Left Hand of Darkness
Yevgeny Zamyatin: We
Rupert Colley: World War One
Seth Godin: Tribes
Kazuki Kaneshiro (Author), Takami Nieda (Translator): Go
Kwame Alexander: Booked
Mary Beard: Women and Power
David Sedaris: Holidays on Ice
Prof. Nathan DeWall: Secrets for Self Control [great courses]
Rupert Colley: World War Two
Annie Barrows: Ivy and Bean [Book 2: The Ghost That Had to Go]
Prof. Aniruddh Patel: Music and the Brain [great courses]
William McRaven: Make Your Bed: Little Things that can Change your Life
GrandMaster Flash: Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
Ice-T: Ice
Jane Goodall: My Life with Chimpanzees [audible. narrated by her]
Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence
Robert Caro: On Power
Philip Roth: Nemsis
Prof. Michael Shermer: Skepticism 101 [great courses]
Prof. Anne Curzan: How Conversation Works [great courses]
Prof. Monisha Pasupathi: How We Learn [great courses]
Sherman Alexie: Flight
Darryl McDaniels: Ten Ways not to Commit Suicide
LitRPG: The Land: Book 1
How is Thomas Alva Edison?
Prof. Stephen P. Hinshaw: Origin of the Human Mind [great courses]
James Ryan: Wait, What?
Danielle Krysa: Your Inner Critic
Michael Lewis: Home Game
Benjamin Bergen: Louder than Words
Iliza Shlesinger: Girl Logic
Richard Feynman: What do you care what other people think
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Double Down]
Prof. Indre Viskontas: Brain Myths Exploded [great courses]
Scott Pape: The Barefoot Investor
Dr. Jason Fung: Obesity Code
Peter Brown: Make it Stick
Dr. Peter Vishton: Understanding the secrets of Human Pyschology [great courses]
Sharon Washington: Feeding the Dragon
Michael Lewis: The Coming Storm
Dr. Peter Vishton: Scientific Secrets to Raising Kids [great courses]
Pete Egoscue: Pain Free
Robert Greene: 48 Laws of Power
Dr. John Sarno: Mind-Body Prescription
Elle Luna: The Crossroads of Should and Must
Prof. Jason Satterfield: Mind-Body Medicine [great courses]
Malala: I am Malala
Julie Wheeler: Henry VIII’s Wives [history in an hour]
Rupert Coley: The Russian Revolution [history in an hour]
Kat Smutz: The American Civil War [history in an hour]
Rupert Colley: Stalin [history in an hour]
Rupert Colley: Cold War [history in an hour]
Neil Smith: Vietnam War [history in an hour]
Kaye Jones: 1066 [history in an hour]
Edward Gosselin: The Reformation [history in an hour]
Anthony Holmes: Ancient Egypt [history in an hour]
Rupert Colley: 1914 [history in an hour]
Seth Godin: Linchpin
James Humes: Speak like Churchill, Stand like Lincoln
Richard Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Angela Duckworth: Grit
Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese?
Prof. Stanley Ridgley: Strategic Thinking Skills [great courses]
Cal Newport: Deep Work
Sue Hubbell: A Book of Bees
Derek Thompson: Hit Makers
Steven Pressfield: Do the Work
Kurt Gray, David Wegner: The Mind Club
Gordon Korman: Ungifted
Steven Pressfield: Turning Pro
Leah Remini: Troublemaker
Seth Godin: The Dip
Prof. Gerard Puccio: Creative Thinker’s Tookit [great courses]
Ryan Holiday: The Daily Stoic
Gordon Korman: Restart
Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Brian Tracy: Focal Point
Brian Tracy: Eat That Frog
L.David Marquet: Turn the ship around
Kwame Alexander: The Playbook
Jimmy O. Yang: How to American
Thich Naht Hanh: The Miracle of Mindfulness
Atul Gawande: Checklist Manifesto
James Altucher: The Rich Employee
James Kingsland: Siddartha’s Brain
James Altucher: Reinvent Yourself
Andy Andrews: The Little Things
Helen Russell: The Year of Living Danishly
Thich Naht Hanh: Art of Communicating
Katherine Applegate: The One and Only Ivan
Niall Ferguson: Civilization
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg: How Google Works
A.J.Hartley: Macbeth
Mikal Gilmore: The Queen - Aretha Franklin
Scott Jurek, Jenny Jurek: North
Alan Arkin: Out of my Mind
Bart Ehrman: The History of the Bible [great courses]
John Maxwell: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Gordon Korman: Slacker
Shakespeare: Macbeth
Rasmus Hougard: One Second Ahead
Joe Drape: American Pharoah
Sudhir Venkatesh: Gang Leader for a Day
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night
Ram Dass: Grist for the Mill
Eric Barker: Barking up the Wrong Tree
L. T. Ryan: Noble Beginnings
Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell: There is no Good Card for this

Books in 2017

Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
P.G. Wodehouse: Man of Means
Gary Taubes: Why We Get Fat
Lin Manuel Miranda: Hamilton
NYTimes: Hamilton (chronicles)
Margot Leitman: Long Story Short
David McRaney: You’re not so smart
Prof. Neil deGrasse Tyson: My Favorite Universe
Trevor Noah: Born a Crime
Amy Stewart: Drunken Botanist
Diane Guerrero: In the Country we Love
Shea Serrano: The Rap Year Book
Jo Marchant: Cure
Chris Crompton: The Producer’s Mindset
Jason Timothy: Music Habits: 101 Production Tips
George Goodrich: Spotify Method
Walter Dailey: JingleMoney
Amos Clarke: 56 Mix Tips for the Small Recording Studio
Robin Frederick: Song Starters: 365 Lyric, Melody, & Chord Idea
Gio Williams: Hip Hop Rhyming Dictionary
Duane Shinn: Piano Chords & Chord Progressions
Justina Chi: HipHop Biz 4 Kids
Tayker: How to Rap
Ben Westhoff: Original Gangstas
Fred Stoller: My Seinfeld Year
Jesse: Hip Hop Lyricist Guide
Roy Winlkenfeld: Music Theory
Anthony Thomas: How to rap with ease
Anthony Thomas: How to freestyle rap with ease
Roy Wilkenfeld: Electronic Music
Tom Griffiths, Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live by
David Boyle: Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma
Jesse D. Kramer : The Rap Rebirth Lyricist Guide: How to Write Amazing Hip-Hop Lyrics
Bjorgvin Benediktsson, James Wasem: Step By Step Mixing
Stephen King: Guns
Paul Kalanithi: When Breath Becomes Air
Stephen Hawking: Universe in a Nutshell
Sylvia Tara: Secret Life of Fat
James Altucher: Choose Yourself
Ramit Sethi: Your Move: The Underdog’s Guide to Building Your Business
Peter Bregman: 18 Minutes
Hal Elrod: Miracle Morning
Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins: What Every BODY is saying
Haemin Sunim: The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
Various Authors: 36 Books that Changed the World [great courses]
Prof. Jeffrey Rosen: Privacy, Property and Free Speech [great courses]
Brian Greene: Light Falls
Prof. Michael Finke: Money Management Skills [great courses]
Fumio Sasaki: Goodbye, Things
Jordan Sonnenblick: Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
Hugh Alersey-Williams: Anatomies
Paul Moore: The Perfect Investment
Ron Chernow: Death of a Banker
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [book 2 : Rodrick Rules]
Prof. Anne Cruzan: English Grammar Boot Camp [great courses]
Annie Barrows: Ivy and Bean [book 1]
Charles River Editors: History for Kids: A biography of Harry Houdini
Prof. Mark Leary: Understanding the Mysteries of Human Bheavior [great courses]
Haemin Sunim: Things you can see only when you slow down
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [book 3: The Last Straw]
Yona Zeldis McDonough: History for Kids: A biography of Wolfgang Mozart
Jess Brallier: History for Kids: A biography of Albert Einstein
George J. Thompson & Jerry B. Jenkins: Verbal Judo
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid [book 5: The Ugly Truth]
Celeste Mannis: Who was William Shakespeare?
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Books I read in 2016

Children’s Shakespeare Series
- Othello
- The Winter’s Tale
- Merchant of Venice
- Julius Caesar
- Romeo and Juliet
- Macbeth
- Taming of the Shrew
- King Lear
- The Tempest
- Anthony and Cleopatra
- Much Ado about Nothing
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Timon of Athens
- Cymbeline, King of Britain
- Twelfth Night
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Alls well that ends well
- As you like it
- Comedy of Errors
Prof. Robert Greenberg: How to listen to and understand Opera [great courses]
David Byrne: How Music Works
Dee Williams: The Big Tiny
SMBC : Religion - ruining everything since 4004 BC
Prof. Neil Fiore: Now Habit
Prof. Robert Greenberg: Operas of Mozart [great courses]
Prof. Robert Greenberg: Piano Sonatas of Beethoven [great courses]
Jonathan Biss: Beethoven’s Shadow
Mark Levy: Accidental Genius
Eunsun Kim: Thousand Miles to Freedom
Mike Michalowicz: Pumpkin Plan
Kwame Alexander: Crossover
Prof. Bill Messenger: Great American Music: Broadway Musicals [great courses]
Jonathan Biss: Pianist under influence
Mark Forsyth: Etymologicon
NPR: Tinsel Tales
Paul Brickhill: The Great Escape
Steven Citron: Songwriting
Elizabeth Kolbert: Sixth Extinction
Michael Fisher: A History of India
Mark Stoler: Skeptics Guide to America [great courses]
Tom Foreman: My Year of Running Dangerously
Jay Elliot: The Steve Jobs Way
Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles: Ghost Army of WW2
Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace is Every Step
Leah Pearlman: DharmaComics
Thomas Goetz: The Remedy
Gavin Francis: Adventures in Human Being
Thomas Levenson: The Hunt for Vulcan
Alan Hirshfeld: Starlight Detectives
Dave Barry: Worst Class Trip Ever
J.K. Rowling: Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies
J.K. Rowling: Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists
J.K. Rowling: Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: Study in Scalet
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (about a dozen short stories)
Prof. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius: World War I : The Great War [great courses]
Prof. Thomas Childers: World War II : A Military and Social History [great courses]
John Scalzi: The Dispatcher
John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage
Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes: More Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (about a dozen short stories)
Shakespeare: Hamlet
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice
Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Book 9
Prof. Patrick N. Allitt: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire [great courses]
Prof. Eamonn Gearon: Turning Points in Middle Eastern History [great courses]
George Orwell: 1984

Books in 2015

Mark Derby: England my England
Bill Messenger: Elements of Jazz [great courses]
David Mamet: GlenGary Glen Ross
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Pluto Files
Elizabeth Vandiver: The Illiad by Homer [great courses]
Elizabeth Vandiver: The Odyssey by Homer [great courses]
Elizabeth Vandiver: The Aeneid by Virgil [great courses]
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Liszt - His Life and Music [great courses]
David Christian: Big History [great courses]
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Robert and Clara Schumann - Their Lives and Music [great courses]
Steven Novella: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills [great courses]
Ramesh Menon (Veda Vyasa): Mahabharatha
Mark W. Muesse: Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation [great courses]
J.K. Rowling: Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling: Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
Barnaby Conrad, Monte Schulz: Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life
J.K. Rowling: Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Ramesh Menon (Veda Vyasa): Siva Puranam
Professor Allen C. Guelzo, Professor Gary W. Gallagher, Professor Patrick N. Allitt: The History of the United States, 2nd Edition [great courses]
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Brahms - His Life and Music [great courses]
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Tchaikovsky - His Life and Music [great courses]
Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni: The Palace of Illusions
J.K. Rowling: Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Austin Kleon: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Stephen King: On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft
David McCullough: 1776
Prof. Roy Benaroch: Medical School for Everyone [great courses]
J.K. Rowling: Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
Siddartha Mukherjee: The Emperor Of All Maladies
J.K. Rowling: Book 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Shostakovich - His Life and Music [great courses]
J.K. Rowling: Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries [great courses]
Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli: Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Shurnyu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
William Shirer: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies
Stephen Greenblatt: The Swerve: How the world became modern
Professor Andrew R. Wilson: The Art of War [great courses]
Prof. Jennifer Paxton: 1066: The Year That Changed Everything [great courses]
Prof. Sherwin B. Nuland: Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography [great courses]
Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Prof. Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Mahler - His Life and Music [great courses]
Prof. Seth Lerer: The Life and Writings of John Milton [great courses]
Prof. Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Stravinsky - His Life and Music [great courses]
Stephen Guise: Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
J.R.R. Tokien: Hobbit
George Orwell: Animal Farm
Prof. Seth Freeman: The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal [great courses]
Ram Dass: Be Here Now
Prof. Gregory S. Aldrete: The Decisive Battles of World History [great courses]
Conn Iggulden: Conqueror Series Book 1: Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Conn Iggulden: Conqueror Series Book 2: Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Prof. Frederick Gregory: History of Science 1700-1900 [great courses]
Prof. Indre Viskontas: 12 Essential Scientific Concepts [great courses]
Conn Iggulden: Conqueror Series Book 3: Genghis: Bones of the Hill
Conn Iggulden: Conqueror Series Book 4: Khan: Empire of Silver
Conn Iggulden: Conqueror Series Book 5: Conqueror
Prof. Robert Hazen: Origin and Evolution of Earth [great courses]
Mark Forsyth: Elements of Eloquence
Prof. Patrick Allitt: Industrial Revolution [great courses]
Ramesh Menon (Valmiki): Ramayana
Prof. John McWhorter: Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage [great courses]
Dava Sobel: Longtitude
Prof. Robert Hazen: Origins of Life [great courses]
Prof. Daniel Robinson: The Great Ideas of Psychology [great courses]
Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine
Prof. Garrett Fagan: History of Ancient Rome [great courses]
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Kalki: Ponniyin Selvan: Book 1: Pudhu Vellam [apple music]
Upton Sinclair : The Jungle
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Kalki: Ponniyin Selvan: Book 2: Suzhar Kaatru [apple music]
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engles: Manifesto of the Communist Party
Kalki: Ponniyin Selvan: Book 3: KoduVaal [apple music]
Kalki: Ponniyin Selvan: Book 4: Mani Magudam [apple music]
Kalki: Ponniyin Selvan: Book 5: Suzhar Kaatru [apple music]
Kalki: Parthiban Kanavu [apple music]
Hugh Howey: Wool [Silo Series : Book 1 of 3]
Kalki: Sivagamiyin Sabatham: Book 1: Boogambam [apple music]
Kalki: Sivagamiyin Sabatham: Book 2: Kanchi Mutrugai [apple music]
Kalki: Sivagamiyin Sabatham: Book 3: Bhikshuvin Kadhal [apple music]
Kalki: Sivagamiyin Sabatham: Book 4: Sidhaindha Kanavu [apple music]
Thomas Sterner: The Practising Mind
don Miguel Ruiz: The Fifth Agreement
Prof. Jonah Berger: How Ideas Spread [great courses]
Prof. Robert Sapolsky: Being Human [great courses]
Michio Kaku: Einstein’s Cosmos
Guy Kawasaki: Art of the Start 2.0
Edward Dolnick: Clockwork Universe
Prof. John Medina: Your Best Brain [great courses]
Sherman Alexie: Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Prof. Thad Polk: Addictive Brain [great courses]
Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Prof. Scott Huettel: Behavioral Economics [great courses]
Rob Walling: Start Small, Stay Small
Ernest Hemmingway: Old Man and the Sea
Prof. Robert Greenberg: Brief History of Holiday Music [great courses]

Books in 2014

Bill Bryson : Shakespeare: The world as a stage
Robert Greenberg : 30 Greatest Orchestral works
John Powell : How Music Works [book]
Bill Bryson : At Home
Edmund Morris : Beethoven [library book]
Robert Greenberg : How to listen to and understand great music
Alexis Ohanian : Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed [ebook]
Andy Weir : Martian
Mitchell Zukoff : Frozen in Time
Scott Adams : How to fail at almost everything and still win
John McWhorter : Language A to Z
Robert Greenberg : String Quartets of Beethoven
Gideon Lewis-Kraus: No Exit
Andrii Sedniev : The Business Idea Factory
S. J. Scott : Habit Stacking
Eric Ries : Lean Startup
Robert Greenberg: The Concerto
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Mozart
Robert Greenberg: The Symphony
Daniel Gilbert: Stumbling on Happiness
Madeline Miller: Song of Achilles
Allie Brosh: Hyperbole and a half
Robert Greenberg: Symphonies of Beethoven
Jeremy Dean: Make Habits Break Habits
E.T. Bell: Men of Mathematics [INCOMPLETE]
Bill Bryson: Notes from a small Island
Bill Bryson: Neither here nor there
Bill Bryson: I am a stranger here myself
Robert Greenberg: Bach and the High Baroque
John McWhorter : Our Magnificient Bastard Tongue
Robert Greenberg: 23 Greatest solo piano works
Elizabeth Vandiver: Classical Mythology
Marc Conner: How to read and understand Shakespeare
Madison Moore: How to be Beyonce
Timoty Pychyl: Solving the procrastination puzzle
Shakespeare Abridged
- Merchant of Venice
- Taming of the Shrew
- Twelfth Night
- Measure for Measure
- Macbeth
- King Lear
- Julius Caesar
- All’s well that ends well
- As you like it
- Antony and Cleopatra
Chrissy Stockton, Sarah Heuer : PhiLOLZophy
Robert Greenberg: Great Masters: Haydn

Books in 2012

Moneyball : Michael Lewis
The Omnivore’s Dilemma : Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire : Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food : Michael Pollan
Atlas Shrugged : Ayn Rand
The Last Lecture : Randy Pausch
Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
The Big Short : Michael Lewis
Crime and Punishment : Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Ascent of Money : Niall Ferguson
The Snowball : Alice Shroeder
Enough : John Bogle
Nurture Shock : Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Benjamin Franklin : Walter Isaacson
Too Big to Fail : Andrew Ross Sorkin
Boomerang : Michael Lewis
Einstein : Walter Isaacson
Why We Get Fat : Gary Taubes
Autobiography of a Yogi : Paramahamsa Yogananda
Go the F–k to Sleep : Adam Mansbach
Accidental Genius : Mark Levy
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman : Richard Feynman
59 Seconds : Richard Wiseman
iWoz : Steve Wozniack & Gina Smith
Crash Proof 2.0 : Peter Schiff
How to Win Friends and Influence People : Dale Carnegie
Stein on Writing : Sol Stein
The Steve Jobs Way : Jay Elliot, William Simon
The Happiness Hypothesis : Jonathan Haidt
Steve Jobs
The Long Walk
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Daemon - Daniel Suarez
Freedom(TM) - Daniel Suarez
The Hunger Games - Suzzane Collins
Catching Fire - Suzzane Collins
Mocking Jay - Suzzane Collins
The Girl with the dragon tatoo - Steig Larrsson
The Girl who played with fire - Steig Larrsson
The Girl who kicked hornet’s nest - Steig Larrsson
Battle Hymn of the tiger mother - Amy Chua
The Litigators - John Grisham
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
Congo - Michael Crichton
The Prey - Michael Crichton
I Used to Know That
162 Questions : Curious folks ask
Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Turn Left at Orion
In the Plex - Stephen Levy
Ultimate Guide to Playing Scrabble
Word Freak - Stefan Fatsis
Imagine - John Lehrer

Prior to this, I did not keep a track - I am in the process of creating that list from amazon orders, old notes and memory. :)