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Reading

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On this page, you can find books I’ve read grouped by what they’re about and a separate section for my personal favorites.

Personal Favorites

• A Horse Walks into a Bar
• Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir
• Last Evenings on Earth
• Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
• Snow Crash
• The Ardent Swarm
• The Effective Executive
• The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
• The Last Lecture
• Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories
• Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
• Why Information Grows


Topics

Building a Company

•Who: The A Method for Hiring
•The Lean Startup
•The Culture Map
•The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
•The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders
•Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Building Products

•Outcomes Over Output
•Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
•Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
•Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
•Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines
•HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking

Understanding Humans

•How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation

Artificial Intelligence / Crowdsourcing

•Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
•Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media

Everything Economics

•The Economics of Religion in India
•Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
•Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Science & Science-Fiction

•Snow Crash
•Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir

Personal Productivity

•The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
•The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
•The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career

Other Professions

•Life Support: Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis
•The Dramatic Decade: Landmark Cases of Modern India
•Legal Eagles: Stories of the Top Seven Indian Lawyers
•10 Judgements That Changed India

Biographies & Memoirs

•Home in the World: A Memoir
•Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
•A Century Is Not Enough: My Roller-coaster Ride to Success

Literary Fiction

•Frankenstein in Baghdad
•Jokes for the Gunmen
•The Blue Mountain
•Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
•Animal Farm

Silicon Valley

•Hatching Twitter
•Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Others

•Nine Lives: In Search Of The Sacred In Modern India
•In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
•The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
•The Last Lecture