Reading List

This is a book list I have created for my kids – I highly recommend these…Sid has finished these and Shaurya is progressing. Will keep adding more as I come across ones I recommend.

1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashley Vance
2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
3. Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
4. The Gene : An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee
5. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee
6. The Body Builders : Inside the Science of the Engineered Human – Adam Piore
7. The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
8. The Road to Character – David Brooks
9. Hit Makers – Derek Thompson
10. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
11. President Barack Obama – David Blum
12. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
13. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
14. A Path Appears – Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
15. Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
16. Lord of the Rings Series – J R R Tolkien
17. Harry Potter Series – J K Rowling
18. David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
19. The Audacity of Hope – Barack H Obama
20. Dreams from my Father – Barack H Obama
21. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
22. Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neil
23.  1984 – George Orwell
24. Animal Farm – George Orwell
25. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
26. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
27. Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
28. God : A Human History – Reza Aslan

And these are some that I recommend from my professional life –

1. The Startup of You – Reid Hoffman/ Ben Casnocha
2. Principles : Life and Work – Ray Dalio
3. Smarter Faster Better : The Transformative Power of Real Productivity – Charles Duhigg
4. Influence Without Authority : Allan R. Cohen & David L. Bradford
5. The Situational Leader – Dr. Paul Hersey
6. Leadership and the One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi & Drea Zigarmi
7. The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8. Anti Fragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
9. Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10. The Back of the Napkin – Dan Roam
11. Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver
12. Flash Boys – Michael Lewis
13. Dark Pools – Scott Patterson
14. The Goal – Eli Goldratt