I started reading voraciously only in my late 20s. The book that kickstarted my reading habit was Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - which was kind of random, but I’m glad I picked that particular book. Since then, I’ve maintained my own collection of physical books as I prefer them over digital/audio copies. Below is a list of all the physical books that I own.
I usually pick up books through others’ (friends/virtual mentors/authors) lists or when strolling inside a local bookstore. I started noting down the year I read the book only from 2017. There are few books that I’ve read in the past, and since I don’t remember the year, I’ll just put them in the Bookshelf section. That section also holds the list of books that I haven’t started or completed.
I’ve marked books that I enjoyed reading in green and those that I highly recommend reading in red. If you’d like to suggest me a book, please drop me a message.
Shelf:
- A Great Place to Work For All
- Poor Economics
- Barbarians to Bureaucrats
- Engineers of Victory
- Writing with Power
- The Good Jobs Strategy
- Moral Mazes
- Reinventing Organizations
- The Revenge Of Geography
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy
- The Wikipedia Revolution
- The Medici Effect
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Lean In
- My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas' Deepest Mystery
- Leadership HBS
- A History of Nepal
- The Constitution of Nepal
- Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal and Flexible Approach to Innovation for the 21st Century
- The Sellout
- 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
- How Not to Be Wrong
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
- Talk Like TED
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- Introduction to Algorithms
- The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
- The Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal
- Start with Why
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- DNA: The Secret of Life
- Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
- All of Us in Our Own Lives
- India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
- The Intelligent Investor
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
- A Writer's Reference
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Originals
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- The Dragon and the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order
- Global Citizen from Gulmi
- Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Outliers: The Story of Success
- Battles of The New Republic
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- The Industries of the Future
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
- Homo Deus
- The Internet of Money
- The Internet of Money Volume Two
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
- Hit Refresh
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
- Principles
- It All Matters