I’ve spent way too much of my childhood reading books. Here’s my bookshelf with all the books I’ve read, loved, and recommend, along with my current to-read list.
I’m always down to discuss books and share recommendations!
Current To-read (recommend me more!)
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The Shining
Stephen King
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
How Not to Die
Michael Greger
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
The Greatest Stories
Anton Chekhov
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop
Mother of Learning
Domagoj Kurmaic
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Mohammed Hanif
2026 (let’s chat about them!)
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Circe
Madeline Miller
There is no Antimemetics Division
QNTM
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
I don’t have a per-year list for before 2026, so here are all of them categorized by how much I liked them:
Before 2026: Books I’d absolutely recommend!
There and Back Again – Hobbit
JRR Tolkien
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Alice In Wonderland
Lewis Caroll
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Relativity: The Special and The General
Albert Einstein
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Rashmirathi
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Harry Potter
JK Rowling
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Before 2026: Books I Loved and would read again!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings
JRR Tolkien
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Angels and Demons
Dan Brown
Origin
Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K Jerome
The Dairy of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The Story of my Life
Helen Keller
Flatland
Edwin Abott Abott
The Story of my Experiments With Truth
Mahatma Gandhi
Five Point Someone
Chetan Bhagat
The Five Find-Outers
Enid Blyton
Mastery
Robert Greene
The Shiva Trilogy
Amish Tripathi
Visual Group Theory
Nathan Carter
Cormoran Strike
Robert Galbraith
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carniege
Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction
Eleanor Rieffel, Wolfgang Polak
Five Lords, Yet None a Protector
Samoli Mitra
Educated
Dr Tara Westower
The Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Kane and Abel
Jeffrey Archer
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
The Book Thief
Markus Zusac
Wise and Otherwise
Sudha Murty
Godel Escher Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Beloved
Toni Morrison
The PhD Grind
Philip Guo
Man’s Search For Meaning
Victor Frankl
And then there Were None
Agatha Christie
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Beneath The Wheel
Hermann Hesse
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Madhushala
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Kindred
Octavia E Butler
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
The Simple Path to Wealth
J. L. Collins
Before 2026: Books I really liked!
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
The Fault in our Stars
John Green
Incompleteness
Rebecca Goldstein
The Chronicles of Narnia
CS Lewis
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
The Bone Season
Samantha Shannon
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
Little Women
Louisa M Alcott
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie
Great Expectations (Abridged)
Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes – A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
If Tomorrow Comes
Sidney Sheldon
Brida
Paulo Coelho
Computing With Quantum Cats
John Gribbin
Old Love
Jeffrey Archer
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodo
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
Programming the Universe
Seth Lloyd
Sophie’s World
Jostien Gaardner
The House of Hades
Rick Riordan
Ready Player One
Earnst Cline
Cinderella
Brothers Grimm
The Hunger Angel (Atemshaukel)
Hërta Muller
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Peak
Anders Ericsson
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
Swami Vivekananda
Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living
Fumio Sasaki
The Dip: When to Quit
Godin Seth
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Haruki Murakami
Just Listen
Dr Mark Goulston
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
Looking for Alaska
John Green
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Srimad Bhagavad Gita
Srila Vyasadeva
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang
Don Quixote
Cervantes
Usne Kaha Tha
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri
Freedom in Exile
Dalai Lama
Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Books I liked (but wouldn’t read again)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
Case in Point
Marc Cosentino
Just for Fun
Linus Torvalds
The Black Swan
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The Three Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari
Robin Sharma
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Deception Point
Dan Brown
Inferno
Dan Brown
Playing it my Way
Sachin Tendulkar
The Invisible Man
HG Wells
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Adventures of Tintin
Herge
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Mckeown Greg
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret
Hector Garcia
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Good Omens
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Best Indian Short Stories (Volume 1)
Khushwant Singh Selects
The Difficulty of Being Good
Gurcharan Das
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
Before 2026: Books that were not for me!
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Tiffany and Thorpe
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman
Richard Feynman
The Theory of Everything
Stephen Hawking
The Heartfulness Way
Kamlesh D Patel
I’ve Never Been (un)Happier
Shaheen Bhatt
Paper Towns
John Green
How to Have a Beautiful Mind
Edward De Bono
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks
Hardy Boys #145
Franklin W. Dixon
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
The Power of you Subconscious Mind
Joseph Murphy
The 11 Laws of Likability
Michelle Tillis Lederman
6 Thinking Hats
Edward De Bono
