Many of you have asked about some of my favorite books or book-recommendations on the topics that interest me. Here is a list (a work-in-progress version). I wish to add my notes and probably reviews/thoughts on these books as well but that might take forever so here is a list, not in any particular order (you can share your thoughts in the comment box below):
Climate Change
- Climate Change By Joseph Romm
- How to avoid a climate disaster By Bill Gates
- This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
- The Uninhabitable earth : Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
- The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
- All We an Save : Truth, Coverage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Philosophy / Religion / Buddhism / Meditation
- The Science of Meditation by Daniel Goleman
- How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
- The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman
- The collected Works of Ramana Maharshi
- Four Thousand Weeks : Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burman
Economics / Business Books
- Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan
- Skin in the Game – The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Productivity / Personal Knowledge Management
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Never Stop Learning – Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself and Thrive by Bradley R Staats
- How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens
- Smarter Faster Better- The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin
- Focus- The Hidden Drive of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Writing / Creativity
- The Sense of Style- The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- The Creative Act – A Way of Being by Rick Rubin