This is what The StoryGraph said about my reading preference: “Mainly reads nonfiction books that are reflective, informative, and emotional. Typically chooses medium-paced books that are 300-499 pages long.”
DNF
Books I did not finish reading for whatever reason.
- The Sun Is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon
- Nudge - Richard H. Thaler
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Travelling To Infinity - Jane Hawking
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
- How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil
- Wanderers, Kings, Merchants - Peggy Mohan
Currently Reading
- Accelerating India’s Development - Karthik Muralidharan 1
- Heart Lamp: Selected Stories - Banu Mushtaq
- বাতাসে বারুদের গন্ধ - Manoranjan Byapari
Books Read
I really loved the books in bold.
- These Hills Called Home - Temsula Ao
- Bitter Wormwood - Easterine Kire
- Accelerating India’s Development - Karthik Muralidharan
- The Living Mountain - Amitav Ghosh
- The Tatas - Girish Kuber
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- Poor Economics - Abhijit V. Banerjee
- Northeast India: A Political History - Samrat Choudhury
- Gandhi Before India - Ramachandra Guha
- Defiant Dreams - Sola Mahfouz
- The Stationery Shop of Tehran - Marjan Kamali
- Slow Boat (Japanese Novellas) - Hideo Furukawa
- System Error - Rob Reich
- Censoring the Word (Manifestos for the 21st Century) - Julian Petley
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
- Policymaker’s Journal - Kaushik Basu
- Slow Boat - Hideo Furukawa
- Humble Pi - Matt Parker
- Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
- The Nine-Chambered Heart - Janice Pariat
- Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
- The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
- The Perfect Murder - Ruskin Bond
- At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop
- How to Win an Election - Quintus Tullius Cicero
- Both/And - Huma Abedin
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask - T.R. Raghunandan
- The Girl in Room 105 - Chetan Bhagat
- One Indian Girl - Chetan Bhagat
- Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat
- Wings of Fire - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie - Jordan Sonnenblick
- Quichotte - Salman Rushdie
- Revolution 2020 - Chetan Bhagat
- Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
- The Moment of Lift - Melinda French Gates
- Becoming - Michelle Obama
- Born A Crime - Trevor Noah
- I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
- Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
- The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
- Looking for Alaska - John Green
- The 3 Mistakes of My Life - Chetan Bhagat
- What Young India Wants - Chetan Bhagat
- Like It Happened Yesterday - Ravinder Singh
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- Educated - Tara Westover
- Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
- Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance
- Ikigai - Hector Garcia Puigcerver
- Memories of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon
- A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
- India After Gandhi - Ramachandra Guha
- Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor
- A Burning - Megha Majumdar
- Master of the Game - Sidney Sheldon
- Azaadi - Arundhati Roy
- The Perfect Wife (Jessie Hunt #1) - Blake Pierce
- The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Shiksha - Manish Sisodia
- All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
- A Promised Land - Barack Obama
- Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman
- Humankind - Rutger Bregman
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Zikora - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Who Will Cry When You Die? - Robin S. Sharma
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Nothing Much Happens - Kathryn Nicolai
- My Journey - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Gandhi - Mahatma Gandhi
- My Life in Full - Indra Nooyi
- The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson
- How I Learned to Understand the World - Hans Rosling
- Hit Refresh - Satya Nadella
- AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
- Yuganta: The End of an Epoch - Irawati Karve
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - Lori Gottlieb
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI - Yuval Noah Harari
- Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future - Raghuram G. Rajan, Rohit Lamba
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa
- The Last Queen - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- A Life in Diplomacy - Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
- India and the Bangladesh Liberation War - C. Dasgupta
- The Far Field - Madhuri Vijay
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