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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