books i like

fiction & poetry

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Mrityunjaya by Shivaji Sawant
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
• Gulbadan by Rumer Godden
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

science, technology & ideas

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Black Holes: The Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

biography & history

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• Wings of Fire by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• Nehru: The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor
• Vikram Sarabhai by Amrita Shah
• Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
• Bajirao: The Warrior Peshwa by Jaiwant Paul
• A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music by Nasreen Munni Kabir

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