Reading List 2012 — To Date
5 min readSep 2, 2017
Moving this finally to medium from blogger. just for my reference!
2023 Reading list
Read/ Completed
- The Interdependency Trilogy — John Scalzi -fast/fun series
- The influence of Sea Power — Alfred T Mahan
- Elements of Sea power — Alfred T Mahan
- Guns of August (WW1)
- Hitchhikers guide to galaxy -refresh
- The God is not willing (Good)
- The Lost metal — Sanderson (sanderson delivers)
- Men Machines and Modern times -Elting Morison
- Fallen Dragon — Peter Hamilton -Ok ish — interesting premise
- Starfishers Trilogy — Glen Cook -book 1 -pass
- The girl and the stars (Mark Lawrence -Meh -pass)
- The storm before the storm — Mike duncan roman empire
- The Final Architecture 1,2
- Masters of Doom- How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
- The Prince (reread)
- Crossing the Chasm
- The order of Time
- Iron druid (1–3) -Decent
- Great Expectations -Charles dickens
- Walt Disney — bio
- Benjamin Franklin -Bio
- Billion Dollar whale
- Conspiracy
- Barbarians at the gate
- American Kingpin
- Smartest guys in the room
- Liars Poker
- Too big to Fail
- The storm of Steel (WW1)
- The First World War -John Keegan
- Winston Churchill — John Keegan
- The Second world war -John Keegan
- Intelligence in War -John Keegan
- American Civil war -John Keegan
- My Life in advertising
- The big short (reread)
- The wise Men
- Guns Germs and Steel
- Going Infinite
- Elon Musk (Issacson)
- The coming wave
- Failure is not an option
- On war
- Suicide of the west
- Innovators dilemma (Re read)
- Destined for war
- Danger Zone
- Chip war
- Only the paranoid survive (re read)
- Failure is not an option (Gene Kranz)
2022 Reading list
Read/ Completed
- Witcher (4,5)
- Tales of Jedi (1,2)
- The Lost Fleet series (Jack Campbell)
- Illiad (Homer)
- The Audacity of Hope
- A promised land
- Andrew Roberts: Napoleon A life
- Churchill — Bio
- Second world war -churchill
- Tools of titans
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Feynman Lectures
- Surely you are joking Mr. Feynmann
- Relativity — Einstein
- Team of Rivals
- Tomorrow the world — the birth of US global supremacy
- Amp it up
- Lee kaun yew
- Bismarck
- Alexander the great
- Kill Chain
- Titan
- The Machiavellians
- Build
- The black swan
- Thomas Jefferson
- The innovators dilemma (reread)
- Cytonic
- Harry potter (re read)
- Reminiscence of a stock operator
- The count of Monte cristo
- The Network state
- The power Broker
- Beyond good and evil
- Tales of greek heroes
- My Life and work: Ford
- The Medici
- Reprogramming the American dream
- Kissinger
- Rise and Fall of Third Reich
- Sea of Poppies
- Becoming Trader Joe
- Waking fire (draconis memorias #1 — Meh..)
- The god engines -John Scalzi
- The powder mage trilogy — Brian McClellan
- Raven Shadow Trilogy
2021 Reading list
Read/ Completed
- Our mathematical universe
- Airbnb story
- Thinking in bets
- Amazon unbound
- Working backwards
- Bob iger: ride of a life time
- Creative selection
- Origin of species- Charles Darwin
- The firm: story of McKinsey
- MindF*ck — Cambridge analytica and the plot to break america
- Black fleet trilogy- Joshua Dalzelle (ok ish)
- Furies of Calderon (book 1–6, it’s okish)
- Dune — Frank Herbert
- Nine princes in amber
- Guns of Avalon
- Psychology of money — Morgan housel
- Artemis — Andy Weir
- Extreme ownership
- The ascent of money — Neil Ferguson
- Wizard: Tesla
- The master switch
- Zero to one (reread)
- A mind at play
- Energy and civilization
- Red flags
- Profiles in courage
- The psychology of money
- Project Hail Mary
- Super pumped: battle for Uber
- Negotiation genius (refresh)
- The unlikely spy
- Daniel Silva — Gabriel Allon (1–3) — MC is tragic so stopping at 3
- Neuromancer
- 21 lessons for 21st century/ Sapiens/Homo deus
- Warren buffet: snowball
- Expanse 09- Leviathan Falls
- Einstein: Life and Universe
- Witcher Series (1–3)
- Great by Choice
- Skunk Works
- Thinking Fast and Slow (re read)
- Great mental models vol 2
- John Scalzi -Old Mans War series (1–3)
- Trillions
- The revolt of the public: Martin Gurri
- Endurance: Shackleton
2020 Reading list
Read/ Completed
- Expanse 06: Babylons ashes
- Expanse 07: Tiamat wrath
- The sovereign individual — reread
- The design of everyday things
- Skyward
- That Will never work: Netflix story
- Rocannon’s world
- Gardens of the moon (MBOTF#1 Malazan Book of the fallen#1 reread)
- Deadhouse Gates (MBOTF#2)
- Memories of Ice (MBOTF #3)
- House of Chains (MBOTF #4)
- Midnight Tides (MBOTF #5)
- The Bonehunters (MBOTF #6)
- Reapers Gale (MBOTF #7)
- Toll the hounds (MBOTF #8)
- Dust of Dreams (MBOTF #9)
- The crippled god (MBOTF #10)
- Surface Detail
- No Rules Rules (NFLX)
- Super Intelligence
- Sons of the Oak (Runelords #5)
- WorldBinder (Runelords #6)
- Wyrmling Horde (Runelords #7)
- History of US in 5 market crashes
- Rhythm of War (Sanderson)
2019 Reading list
Read/ Completed
- New Spring (Wheel of Time WOT #00)
- The Eye of the world (WOT #1)
- The Great Hunt (WOT #2)
- The Dragon Reborn (WOT #3)
- The shadow rising (WoT #4)
- Fires of Heaven (WOT #5)
- Army of None
- How the internet Happened
- AI superpowers
- Kellenved’s reach (path of ascendancy #3)
- Genghis Khan
- Bad Blood
- Cryptonomicon
- The Warrior Prophet
- The Thousandfold Thought
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- Matter — Ian Banks
- Mental Models
- The Prophet
- Dealers of lightning (Xerox Parc)
- Flatland -reread
- The expanse 04: Cibola burn
- Three body problem #1
- Dark forest: Three body #2
- Deaths end: Three body #3
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic tales from the world of wall street
- Where the wizards stay up late: The origins of internet
- Hit Refresh
- Expanse 05: Nemesis games
- Business Adventures: 12 classic tales from wall st
- Getting Naked: A Business Fable
2018 Reading list
Read/ Completed
- Foundation
- Foundation and Empire
- Second Foundation
- Foundation Edge
- The Black Company
- Dancers lament: Path to ascendancy book 1
- Deadhouse landing: Path to ascendancy book 2
- Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire #1)
- King of Thorns (Broken Empire #2)
- Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire #3)
- Life 3.0
- Business @ speed of thought
- Meditations (by Marcus Aurelius — Re read)
- Illidan — world of Warcraft
- The everything store : Jeff Bezos and age of amazon
- Antifragile
- The rational optimist — how prosperity evolves
- The bitcoin standard
- Onward: Howard Schultz
- Measure what matters — John Doerr
- In the plex: Google
- How google works
- Elantris
- Arcanum unbounded: cosmere.collection
- Blitzscaling
- Seven Eves
2017 Reading list
- Read-completed
- Norse Mythology — Neil Gamon
- State of the art — Ian banks
- Shoe dog — Phil knight
- Platform revolution
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- The rise of superman
- The Sovereign Individual
- The twilight of Sovereignty
- Competing against luck
- Forward the foundation
- OathBringer
- Principles- Life and work by Ray Dalio
2016 Reading list
- Read
- The Innovators How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- Mistborn: Secret history
- Bands of mourning
- Book of five rings
- Technological revolutions and financial capital -Carlota Perez
- Steve jobs — re read
- The Silmarillion
- Player of games
- prelude to foundation
- Use of weapons
- Creativity Inc.
- Fall of light
- High Output management
- Inferno
2015 reading list
- Read
- The hard thing about hard things
- Becoming Steve jobs
- Elon musk
- Once lucky twice good
- Only the paranoid survive
- Return to the little kingdom
- Good to great
- Negotiation genius
- Shadows of self — mistborn
- Kiss your Butt goodbye
- Boom
2014 reading list
Read:
1. How to create a mind
2. Words of radiance
3. Immortals of Meluha
4. Secret of the nagas
5. Oath of vayuputhras
6. Einstein ( issacson)
7. Flash boys
8. A more beautiful question
9. Willful child
10. The innovators dilema
11. Zero to one
12. Ray Dalio — principles
13. Start up nation
2013 Reading List
- Steve Jobs
- The Last man (Vince flynn)
- Forge of darkness (Steven Erikson, Karkhanas trilogy book 1)
- Atlas Shrugged (Re read)
- Magicians End
- Way of kings
- consider phelbas
- Steelheart
- Excession
- Start with Why
- Signal and the Noise
2012 Reading list
2012 Reading List (completed books)
- The Big Short
- Boomerang
- freakonomics
- The name of the wind
- Wise Man’s Fear
- A crown imperiled
- Mist Born: Final Empire
- Mist Born 2: Well of ascension
- MistBorn 3: The hero of ages
- Kill Shot (Vince Flynn)
- MistBorn 4: The alloy of law
- Super Freaknomics