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Books I Have Read

Everything I have read since 2005 — across philosophy, climate, economics, crime fiction, literary fiction and everything in between. Books are grouped by theme, with the year noted on each entry. Over 300 books across twenty years.

Non-Fiction

Philosophy · Spirituality

  • A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle (2007)
  • At the Existentialist Cafe — Sarah Bakewell (2017)
  • Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramhansa Yogananda (2005/06)
  • Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017)
  • Books I Have Loved — Osho (2005/06)
  • Caravan of Dreams — Idries Shah (2005/06)
  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism — Chogyam Trungpa (2005/06)
  • Feeling Buddha — David Brazier (2005/06)
  • Four Thousand Weeks — Oliver Burkeman (2022)
  • Freedom from the Known — J. Krishnamurti (2005/06)
  • Help — Oliver Burkeman (2025)
  • Hermit in the Himalayas — Paul Brunton (2005/06)
  • How to Be a Stoic — Massimo Pigliucci (2017)
  • How to Think Like Socrates — Donald J. Robertson (2025)
  • I Am That — Nisargadatta Maharaj (2005/06)
  • Let Life Flow — Ramesh Balsekar (2020)
  • Life is Hard — Kieran Setiya (2023)
  • Light on the Path — Mabel Collins (2005/06)
  • Looking Within: Life Lessons from Lal Ded — Unknown (2019)
  • Madness and Civilization — Michel Foucault (2008)
  • Many Lives, Many Masters — Brian Weiss (2005/06)
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men — G.I. Gurdjieff (2005/06)
  • Midlife — Kieran Setiya (2023)
  • Notes to Myself — Hugh Prather (2005/06)
  • Search in Secret India — Paul Brunton (2005/06)
  • Song of Life — J. Krishnamurti (2005/06)
  • The Age of Reason — Jean-Paul Sartre (2005/06)
  • The Antidote — Oliver Burkeman (2016)
  • The Art of Living — S.N. Goenka (2020)
  • The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm (2005/06)
  • The Collected Works of Ramana Maharishi — Ramana Maharshi (2019)
  • The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins (2007)
  • The Good Heart — Dalai Lama (2005/06)
  • The Outsider — Albert Camus (2005/06)
  • The Perennial Philosophy — Aldous Huxley (2005/06)
  • The Plague — Albert Camus (2005/06)
  • The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle (2005/06)
  • The Rebel — Osho (2005/06)
  • The Science of Meditation — Daniel Goleman & Richard J. Davidson (2020)
  • The Secret — Rhonda Byrne (2007)
  • The Song Celestial — Edwin Arnold (2005/06)
  • The Teachings of Ramana Maharishi in His Own Words — Ramana Maharshi (2025)
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying — Sogyal Rinpoche (2017)
  • The Way of All the Earth — John S. Dunne (2005/06)
  • The Way of the Sufi — Idries Shah (2007)
  • When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chodron (2025)
  • Who Am I — Ramana Maharshi (2005/06)
  • Why Does the World Exist — Jim Holt (2013)
  • You Shall Be as Gods — Erich Fromm (2005/06)
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig (2005/06)

Climate · Environment

  • All We Can Save — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson et al. (2022)
  • Breakneck — Dan Wang (2025)
  • Climate, Catastrophe and Faith — Philip Jenkins (2023)
  • Conflicts of Interest — Sunita Narain (2018)
  • Dirt to Soil — Gabe Brown (2021)
  • Don’t Even Think About It — George Marshall (2022)
  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster — Bill Gates (2021)
  • Living Democracy — Tim Hollo (2025)
  • The Great Derangement — Amitav Ghosh (2019)
  • The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben (2017)
  • The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace-Wells (2020)
  • This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein (2020)

Economics · Business

  • Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2013)
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo (2013)
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty (2014)
  • Catastrophe Ethics — Travis Rieder (2024)
  • David and Goliath — Malcolm Gladwell (2013)
  • Enlightenment Now — Steven Pinker (2018)
  • Freakonomics — Levitt & Dubner (2007)
  • Profit Over People — Noam Chomsky (2017)
  • Saving Capitalism — Robert B. Reich (2016)
  • Scarcity — Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir (2013)
  • Skin in the Game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2018)
  • The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid — C.K. Prahalad (2007)
  • The Price of Inequality — Joseph Stiglitz (2013)
  • The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel (2022)
  • The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell (2007)
  • The Tyranny of Merit — Michael J. Sandel (2021)
  • The Undercover Economist — Tim Harford (2007)
  • Think Like a Freak — Levitt & Dubner (2014)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2013)
  • Wanting — Luke Burgis (2024)
  • Where the Money Is — Adam Seessel (2022)
  • Wikinomics — Tapscott & Williams (2008)

Psychology · Behaviour

  • 10% Happier — Dan Harris (2020)
  • Contagious — Jonah Berger (2021)
  • Doppelganger — Naomi Klein (2023)
  • Egonomics — David Marcum & Steven Smith (2008)
  • Focus — Daniel Goleman (2013)
  • Hooked — Nir Eyal (2016)
  • How Religion Evolved — Robin Dunbar (2024)
  • How to Know a Person — David Brooks (2024)
  • Move Up — Clotaire Rapaille & Andres Roemer (2015)
  • Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell (2012)
  • The Catalyst — Jonah Berger (2021)
  • The People vs Tech — Jamie Bartlett (2021)
  • The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg (2013)
  • The Reality Bubble — Ziya Tong (2021)
  • The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt (2024)
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson (2021)
  • Think Again — Adam Grant (2021)

Politics · Society

  • Connect — John Browne (2016)
  • How to Change the World — David Bornstein (2008)
  • Looking Away — Harsh Mander (2015)
  • The Message — Ta-Nehisi Coates (2025)

Productivity · Knowledge · Writing

  • A Perfect Mess — David Freedman (2008)
  • Consider the Lobster — David Foster Wallace (2016)
  • Deep Work — Cal Newport (2020)
  • Essentialism — Greg McKeown (2015)
  • Excellent Advice for Living — Kevin Kelly (2023)
  • First You Write a Sentence — Joe Moran (2020)
  • Getting Things Done — David Allen (2008)
  • How to Take Smart Notes — Sonke Ahrens (2021)
  • Moonwalking with Einstein — Joshua Foer (2020)
  • Never Stop Learning — Bradley R. Staats (2020)
  • Smarter Faster Better — Charles Duhigg (2016)
  • The Art of Quiet Influence — Jocelyn Davis (2020)
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin (2023)
  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — Marie Kondo (2016)
  • The Organized Mind — Daniel J. Levitin (2017)
  • The Sense of Style — Steven Pinker (2014)
  • The War of Art — Steven Pressfield (2023)
  • Tiny Experiments — Anne-Laure Le Cunff (2025)
  • Ways of Seeing — John Berger (2020)

Science · Technology

  • A Thousand Brains — Jeff Hawkins (2023)
  • Everything and Nothing — Tony Cartwright (2023)
  • Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future — John MacCormick (2018)
  • Now: The Physics of Time — Richard Muller (2018)
  • The Cult of Amateurs — Andrew Keen (2008)
  • The Inevitable — Kevin Kelly (2023)
  • The Stuff of Thought — Steven Pinker (2012)

Memoir · India

  • A Return to Self — Aatish Taseer (2025)
  • Awara Mashiha — Vishnu Prabhakar (2021)
  • Eat by Globe — Simon Majumdar (2013)
  • Ek Desh Sarah Duniya — Shirish Khare (2021)
  • How to Be Alone — Sara Maitland (2015)
  • I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell — Tucker Max (2011)
  • May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss — Arnab Ray (2011)
  • Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy (2025)
  • Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! — Scott Adams (2008)
  • The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch (2008)
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami (2016)
  • Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us — Manu Joseph (2025)

Fiction

Literary Fiction

  • 2666 — Roberto Bolano (2011)
  • A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin (2013)
  • A Spell of Good Things — Ayobami Adebayo (2025)
  • A Storm of Swords — George R.R. Martin (2013)
  • Alchemy of Desire — Tarun Tejpal (2007)
  • Before the Fall — Noah Hawley (2016)
  • Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee (2017)
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman (2019)
  • IQ — Joe Ide (2017)
  • Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino (2025)
  • IQ — Joe Ide (2017)
  • Laburnum for My Head — Temsula Ao (2019)
  • Less Than Zero — Bret Easton Ellis (2012)
  • Live by Night — Dennis Lehane (2013)
  • Love and Other Thought Experiments — Sophie Ward (2024)
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores — Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2008)
  • Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore — Robin Sloan (2014)
  • My Name is Red — Orhan Pamuk (2013)
  • Natchez Burning — Greg Iles (2017)
  • Night Film — Marisha Pessl (2014)
  • Of Human Bondage — Somerset Maugham (2012)
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong (2020)
  • Orbital — Samantha Harvey (2024)
  • Prophet Song — Paul Lynch (2024)
  • Sacred Games — Vikram Chandra (2008)
  • Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (2025)
  • Shibumi — Trevanian (2012)
  • Small Things Like These — Claire Keegan (2023)
  • Snow — Orhan Pamuk (2007)
  • Sweet Bean Paste — Durian Sukegawa (2024)
  • The Anomaly — Herve Le Tellier (2022)
  • The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt (2014)
  • The Last Song of Dusk — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (2007)
  • The Luminaries — Eleanor Catton (2013)
  • The New York Trilogy — Paul Auster (2016)
  • The Sellout — Paul Beatty (2017)
  • The Sympathiser — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
  • What We Can Know — Ian McEwan (2025)

Crime · Thriller

  • 1st to Die — James Patterson (2017)
  • A Clash of Kings — George R.R. Martin (2012)
  • A Gambling Man — David Baldacci (2021)
  • A Killer’s Mind — Mike Omer (2018)
  • A Line to Kill — Anthony Horowitz (2022)
  • A Minute to Midnight — David Baldacci (2020)
  • After the Crash — Michel Bussi (2018)
  • Along Came a Spider — James Patterson (2011)
  • Before I Go to Sleep — S.J. Watson (2012)
  • Best Served Cold — Bhaskar Chattopadhyay (2021)
  • Birdman — Mo Hayder (2016)
  • Black Lands — Belinda Bauer (2020)
  • Blowback — Brad Thor (2013)
  • Blue Moon — Lee Child (2019)
  • Child 44 — Tom Rob Smith (2015)
  • Cold Harbor — Matthew FitzSimmons (2017)
  • Cross Justice — James Patterson (2020)
  • Dark Horse — Gregg Hurwitz (2022)
  • Daylight — David Baldacci (2020)
  • Debris Line — Matthew Fitzsimmons (2019)
  • Deception — Jonathan Kellerman (2014)
  • Deception Point — Dan Brown (2013)
  • Decoded — Mai Jia (2014)
  • Descent — Tim Johnston (2015)
  • Eight Detectives — Alex Pavesi (2021)
  • Fair Warning — Michael Connelly (2021)
  • Fool Me Once — Harlan Coben (2016)
  • Full Dark, No Stars — Stephen King (2011)
  • Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn (2012)
  • Hellbent — Gregg Hurwitz (2018)
  • House of Spies — Daniel Silva (2017)
  • I Am Pilgrim — Terry Hayes (2015)
  • Immoral — Brian Freeman (2013)
  • In Too Deep — Lee Child (2025)
  • Inferno — Dan Brown (2013)
  • Instruments of Night — Thomas H. Cook (2016)
  • Into the Fire — Gregg Hurwitz (2020)
  • Iron House — John Hart (2017)
  • Lazy Bones — Mark Billingham (2020)
  • Long Shadows — David Baldacci (2023)
  • Lone Wolf — Gregg Hurwitz (2024)
  • Lying in Wait — Liz Nugent (2018)
  • Magpie Murders — Anthony Horowitz (2017)
  • Make Me — Lee Child (2016)
  • Memory Man — David Baldacci (2016)
  • Mercy — David Baldacci (2021)
  • Moonflower Murders — Anthony Horowitz (2021)
  • Nemesis — Gregg Hurwitz (2025)
  • Night School — Lee Child (2017)
  • Nine Perfect Strangers — Liane Moriarty (2019)
  • One False Move — Harlan Coben (2015)
  • Origami Man — Matthew Fitzsimmons (2020)
  • Origin — Dan Brown (2017)
  • Orphan X — Gregg Hurwitz (2016)
  • Out of the Dark — Gregg Hurwitz (2019)
  • Penumbra — Bhaskar Chattopadhyay (2019)
  • Perfect People — Peter James (2018)
  • Personal — Lee Child (2014)
  • Poisonfeather — Matthew FitzSimmons (2017)
  • Prodigal Son — Gregg Hurwitz (2021)
  • Rock Paper Scissors — Alice Feeney (2025)
  • Redemption Road — John Hart (2017)
  • The Absent One — Jussi Adler-Olsen (2016)
  • The Arsonist — Kiran Nagarkar (2019)
  • The Black Book — James Patterson & David Ellis (2021)
  • The Broker — John Grisham (2007)
  • The Colorado Kid — Stephen King (2014)
  • The Crooked Staircase — Dean Koontz (2018)
  • The Crucifix Killer — Chris Carter (2013)
  • The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth (2012)
  • The Dry — Jane Harper (2017)
  • The Edge — David Baldacci (2024)
  • The Escape — David Baldacci (2018)
  • The Fallen — David Baldacci (2018)
  • The Farm — Tom Rob Smith (2015)
  • The Fix — David Baldacci (2017)
  • The Footprints of God — Greg Iles (2013)
  • The Girl in the Spider’s Web — David Lagercrantz (2015)
  • The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins (2015)
  • The Girl Who Lives Twice — David Lagercrantz (2019)
  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye — David Lagercrantz (2017)
  • The Gods of Guilt — Michael Connelly (2020)
  • The Guest List — Lucy Foley (2020)
  • The Guise of Another — Allen Eskens (2016)
  • The Guilty — David Baldacci (2017)
  • The Hard Way — Lee Child (2020)
  • The Housemaid — Frieda McFadden (2025)
  • The Ice Princess — Camilla Lackberg (2013)
  • The Informationist — Taylor Stevens (2025)
  • The Innocent Man — John Grisham (2007)
  • The Kingdom — Jo Nesbo (2021)
  • The Killings at Badger’s Drift — Caroline Graham (2013)
  • The Last Mile — Michael Connelly (2016)
  • The Last Orphan — Gregg Hurwitz (2023)
  • The Last Thing He Told Me — Laura Dave (2021)
  • The Laughing Policeman — Maj Sjowall (2013)
  • The Lost Man — Jane Harper (2019)
  • The Maid — Nita Prose (2022)
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie (2012)
  • The Naturalist — Andrew Mayne (2017)
  • The Night Window — Dean Koontz (2019)
  • The Nowhere Man — Gregg Hurwitz (2017)
  • The Order — Daniel Silva (2020)
  • The Outsider — Stephen King (2018)
  • The Poet — Michael Connelly (2012)
  • The Postscript Murders — Elly Griffiths (2022)
  • The Red Book — James Patterson & David Ellis (2021)
  • The Redbreast — Jo Nesbo (2014)
  • The Righteous Men — Sam Bourne (2007)
  • The Secret — Lee Child (2024)
  • The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown (2025)
  • The Short Drop — Matthew Fitzsimmons (2016)
  • The Silent Corner — Dean Koontz (2017)
  • The Silent Patient — Alex Michaelides (2019)
  • The Stalker — Bill Pronzini (2012)
  • The Thirst — Jo Nesbo (2021)
  • The Trespasser — Tana French (2017)
  • The Twist of a Knife — Anthony Horowitz (2024)
  • The White Lioness — Henning Mankell (2013)
  • The Whispering Room — Dean Koontz (2018)
  • The Word is Murder — Anthony Horowitz (2021)
  • The Year of the Locust — Terry Hayes (2023)
  • To Die For — David Baldacci (2024)
  • Tell No One — Harlan Coben (2019)
  • The 6:20 Man — David Baldacci (2023)
  • The Sentence is Death — Anthony Horowitz (2021)
  • Trunk Music — Michael Connelly (2016)
  • Two Kinds of Truth — Michael Connelly (2018)
  • Walk the Wire — David Baldacci (2020)
  • Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? — Agatha Christie (2012)
  • Wild Fire — Nelson DeMille (2007)

Japanese Crime · Fiction

  • A Midsummer’s Equation — Keigo Higashino (2016)
  • Grotesque — Natsuo Kirino (2014)
  • Invisible Helix — Keigo Higashino (2025)
  • Journey Under the Midnight Sun — Keigo Higashino (2015)
  • Malice — Keigo Higashino (2014)
  • Newcomer — Keigo Higashino (2019)
  • Silent Parade — Keigo Higashino (2021)
  • Six Four — Hideo Yokoyama (2016)
  • The Devotion of Suspect X — Keigo Higashino (2012)
  • The Final Curtain — Keigo Higashino (2025)
  • The Salvation of a Saint — Keigo Higashino (2013)
  • The Thief — Fuminori Nakamura (2013)
  • The Tokyo Zodiac Murders — Soji Shimada (2015)
  • Villain — Shuichi Yoshida (2015)

Science Fiction · Dystopia

  • 1984 — George Orwell (2011)
  • Einstein’s Dreams — Alan Lightman (2015)
  • Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury (2011)
  • Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (2012)
  • The Accidental Universe — Alan Lightman (2015)

Indian Writing

  • Bandicoots in Moonlight — Avijit Ghosh (2008)
  • Laburnum for My Head — Temsula Ao (2019)
  • Sacred Games — Vikram Chandra (2008)
  • Sanskaar — U.R. Ananthamurthy (2018)
  • The Arsonist — Kiran Nagarkar (2019)
  • The Last Song of Dusk — Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi (2007)
  • Yatrik — Arnab Ray (2014)

Hindi Literature

  • Aashad Ka Ek Din — Mohan Rakesh (2020)
  • Aughad — Nilotpal Mrinal (2019)
  • Baba Batesarnath — Nagarjun (2020)
  • Chitralekha — Bhagvaticharan Varma (2017)
  • Hindnaama — Krishna Kalpit (2020)
  • Mayapuri — Shivani (2019)
  • Mujhe Chand Chahiye — Surendra Varma (2019)
  • Naukar Ki Kameez — Vinod Kumar Shukla (2025)
  • Pratinidhi Kahaniyan — Uday Prakash (2025)
  • Rehan Par Raghu — Kashinath Singh (2019)

Classics

  • The Green Mile — Stephen King (2012)
  • The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011)
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M. Cain (2011)
  • Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe (2012)