Book Recommendations


I have loved reading as long as I could read properly. Early on it was graphic comics. I have tracked my reading list for quite some time. The ratings are my own personal out of 5.

2026

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant
4.0 / 5
Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
4.0 / 5
Psycho-Cybernatics
Maxwell Maltz
4.0 / 5

2025

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
5.0 / 5
Music for Chameleons
Truman Capote
4.0 / 5
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
4.8 / 5

2024

The Great Dune Trilogy
Frank Herbert
4.4 / 5
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
4.2 / 5

2023

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
3.5 / 5
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
C.G. Jung
4.2 / 5
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
3.6 / 5
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
4.1 / 5

2022

The Trial
Franz Kafka
4.8 / 5

2021

Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
4.2 / 5
Meditation in Action
Chögyam Trungpa
2.5 / 5
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
4.9 / 5

2020

Future Shock
Alvin Toffler
4.1 / 5
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.5 / 5
The Fall
Albert Camus
4.7 / 5
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
4.0 / 5

2019

All for Love
John Dryden
3.0 / 5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
4.0 / 5

2017

Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
4.1 / 5
Out of the Desert
Ali Al-Naimi
3.5 / 5
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
3.8 / 5
The billion dollar killing
Paul Emil Erdman
3.6 / 5
When Markets Collide
El-Erian
4.0 / 5

2016

Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
3.4 / 5
A Journey in Ladakh: Encounters with Buddhism
Andrew Harvey
3.4 / 5
Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
3.8 / 5
Security Analysis: The Classic 1951 Edition
Benjamin Graham
4.0 / 5
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
4.0 / 5
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
3.0 / 5
The Brothers Karamazov: Volume 1 & 2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
5.0 / 5

2015

The Buddha of Suburbia
Hanif Kureishi
4.2 / 5
To Jerusalem and Back
Saul Bellow
2.8 / 5
Nothing Venture, Nothing Win
Edmund Hillary
3.5 / 5
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
4.6 / 5
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
4.0 / 5

2014

Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
3.8 / 5
Return to Almora
R.K. Pachauri
2.5 / 5
The Age of Absurdity
Michael Foley
4.0 / 5

2013

The White House Years
Henry Kissinger
3.8 / 5
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.8 / 5
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
3.6 / 5

2012

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
4.5 / 5
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
3.5 / 5
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
4.8 / 5

2011

The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
4.2 / 5

2010

The Everest Hotel: A Calendar
I. Allan Sealy
3.8 / 5
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
4.0 / 5

2009

The Gathering
Anne Enright
4.1 / 5
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
4.0 / 5
The Passions of the Mind
Irving Stone
4.0 / 5

2008

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
3.8 / 5
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
4.1 / 5
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
3.8 / 5
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
Paul Auster
3.8 / 5
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
4.0 / 5

2007

Murder Is Easy
Agatha Christie
3.0 / 5

2006

The Firm
John Grisham
3.8 / 5
Collected Poems and Plays of
Rabindranath Tagore
4.0 / 5

2005

The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
4.6 / 5
The da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
4.2 / 5

2004

The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I & II
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.8 / 5
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
4.6 / 5
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
4.4 / 5

2002

The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
3.5 / 5
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