Santosh

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