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.

1. The Sun Is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon
2. Nudge - Richard H. Thaler
3. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
4. Travelling To Infinity - Jane Hawking
5. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
6. How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil
7. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants - Peggy Mohan

Currently Reading

1. Accelerating India’s Development - Karthik Muralidharan ¹
2. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories - Banu Mushtaq
3. বাতাসে বারুদের গন্ধ - Manoranjan Byapari

Books Read

I really loved the books in bold.

1. These Hills Called Home - Temsula Ao
2. Bitter Wormwood - Easterine Kire
3. Accelerating India’s Development - Karthik Muralidharan
4. The Living Mountain - Amitav Ghosh
5. The Tatas - Girish Kuber
6. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
7. Poor Economics - Abhijit V. Banerjee
8. Northeast India: A Political History - Samrat Choudhury
9. Gandhi Before India - Ramachandra Guha
10. Defiant Dreams - Sola Mahfouz
11. The Stationery Shop of Tehran - Marjan Kamali
12. Slow Boat (Japanese Novellas) - Hideo Furukawa
13. System Error - Rob Reich
14. Censoring the Word (Manifestos for the 21st Century) - Julian Petley
15. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
16. Policymaker’s Journal - Kaushik Basu
17. Slow Boat - Hideo Furukawa
18. Humble Pi - Matt Parker
19. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
20. The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
21. The Nine-Chambered Heart - Janice Pariat
22. Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
23. The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
24. The Perfect Murder - Ruskin Bond
25. At Night All Blood is Black - David Diop
26. How to Win an Election - Quintus Tullius Cicero
27. Both/And - Huma Abedin
28. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask - T.R. Raghunandan
29. The Girl in Room 105 - Chetan Bhagat
30. One Indian Girl - Chetan Bhagat
31. Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat
32. Wings of Fire - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
33. Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie - Jordan Sonnenblick
34. Quichotte - Salman Rushdie
35. Revolution 2020 - Chetan Bhagat
36. Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson
37. Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
38. The Moment of Lift - Melinda French Gates
39. Becoming - Michelle Obama
40. Born A Crime - Trevor Noah
41. I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
42. Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
43. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
44. Looking for Alaska - John Green
45. The 3 Mistakes of My Life - Chetan Bhagat
46. What Young India Wants - Chetan Bhagat
47. Like It Happened Yesterday - Ravinder Singh
48. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
49. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
50. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
51. Educated - Tara Westover
52. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
53. Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance
54. Ikigai - Hector Garcia Puigcerver
55. Memories of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon
56. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
57. India After Gandhi - Ramachandra Guha
58. Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
59. Atomic Habits - James Clear
60. Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor
61. A Burning - Megha Majumdar
62. Master of the Game - Sidney Sheldon
63. Azaadi - Arundhati Roy
64. The Perfect Wife (Jessie Hunt #1) - Blake Pierce
65. The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
66. Shiksha - Manish Sisodia
67. All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
68. A Promised Land - Barack Obama
69. Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman
70. Humankind - Rutger Bregman
71. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates
72. Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
73. Zikora - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
74. Who Will Cry When You Die? - Robin S. Sharma
75. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
76. On Tyranny - Timothy Snyder
77. Deep Work - Cal Newport
78. Nothing Much Happens - Kathryn Nicolai
79. My Journey - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
80. Gandhi - Mahatma Gandhi
81. My Life in Full - Indra Nooyi
82. The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson
83. How I Learned to Understand the World - Hans Rosling
84. Hit Refresh - Satya Nadella
85. AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
86. Yuganta: The End of an Epoch - Irawati Karve
87. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - Lori Gottlieb
88. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI - Yuval Noah Harari
89. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future - Raghuram G. Rajan, Rohit Lamba
90. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
91. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - Satoshi Yagisawa
92. The Last Queen - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
93. A Life in Diplomacy - Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
94. India and the Bangladesh Liberation War - C. Dasgupta
95. The Far Field - Madhuri Vijay

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