Hardly a day goes by when I don't read at least a few pages from a book.
... apart from what "I have to" read for work and sometimes for teaching (finance, quant books, and research papers), here is the list of books that I read in the last few months... (after July 2010, doesn't include books that are yet to be marked as read or the few that I forgot to note down). The top one is either in my bag or my hands these days.
✮ Indicates that while reading the book, I had to stop once in a while to wonder - "Wow !"(of course, that only shows my taste and doesn't necessarily mean it is a better book than others)
227: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World: Peter Wohlleben
226. Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive: Philipp Dettmer
225. I Contain Multitudes: Ed Yong
224. Upanishads: Eknath Easwaran
224. The Bhagavad Gita: Eknath Easwaran
223. Essence of the Dhammapada: Eknath Easwaran
222.✮ Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shape our futures: Merlin Sheldrake
221. An Immense World: Ed Yong
220. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art: James Nestor
219. The Body: A Guide for Occupants: Bill Bryson
218.✮ The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human: Siddhartha_Mukherjee
217. Principles: Life and Work: Ray Dalio
216.✮ Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: Volume 3
215. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking: Jordan Ellenberg
214. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert M. Pirsig
213.✮ Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
212. How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy: Julian Baggini
211. ✮ Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
210. The Laws of Human Nature: Robert Greene
209.✮ Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: Volume 2
208. ✮ The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race: Walter Isaacson
207. कच्छ का पद यात्री: बालकवि बैरागी
206. युगांत: इरावती कर्वे
205. सौंदर्य की नदी नर्मदा: अमृतलाल वेगड़
204. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness: Morgan Housel
203. ✮ Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress: Steven Pinker
202. न भूतो न भविष्यति: नरेन्द्र कोहली
201. Coolie Woman: Gaiutra Bahadur
200. चीड़ों पर चाँदनी: निर्मल वर्मा
199. अरे यावर, रहेगा याद: अज्ञेय
198. आखिरी चट्टान तक: मोहन राकेश
197. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst: Robert M. Sapolsky
196. ✮ A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, how I Beat the Dealer and the Market: Edward O. Thorp
195. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It: Scott Patterson
194. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance: Emanuel Derman
193. How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite
192. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer: Siddhartha_Mukherjee
191. Being Mortal: Atul Gawande
190. ✮ The Gene: An Intimate History: Siddhartha_Mukherjee
189. When breath becomes air: Paul Kalanithi
188. An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives: Matt Richtel
187. ✮ 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: Yuval Noah Harari
186. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow: Yuval Noah Harari
185. Why Nations fail: Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson
184. Genome: The Autobiography Of A Species In 23 Chapters: Matt Ridley
183. घुमक्कड़ शास्त्र: राहुल सांकृत्यायन
182. बिस्रामपुर का संत: श्रीलाल शुक्ल
181. Essays in Love: Alain De Botton
180. The Art of Travel: Alain De Botton
179. The Consolations of Philosophy: Alain De Botton
178. Algebra of happiness: Scott Galloway
177. Educated: A Memoir: Tara Westover
176. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History: Gregory Zuckerman
175:✮ योगवासिष्ठ
174.✮ The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution: Gregory Zuckerman
173. Flash Boys: Michael Lewis
172: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Charles Mackay
171. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life: Walter Isaacson
169. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: Amy Chua
168. Leonardo Da Vinci: Walter Isaacson
167. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Michael Oren
166. Red Notice A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice: Bill Browder
165. ग़ालिब छुटी शराब: रवीन्द्र कालिया
164. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution: Walter Isaacson
163.✮ The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Michael Lewis
162. Einstein: His Life and Universe: Walter Isaacson
161. Pale Blue Dot: Carl Sagan
160. Checklist Manifesto: Atul Gawande
159. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World : Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
158. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail: Bill Bryson
157. The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell
156. ✮ Steve Jobs: Walter Isaacson
155. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: Daniel James Brown
154.✮ Born a crime: Trevor Noah
153: Love Her Wild: Poems: Atticus
152.✮ Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup: John Carreyrou
151. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing: Marie Kondō
150.✮ Shoe Dog: Phil Knight
149. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness: Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler
148. धुँध से उठती धुन: निर्मल वर्मा
147.✮ Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think: Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
146. ✮ Why buddhism is true: Robert Wright
145. Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk : Peter L. Bernstein
144. I wrote this for you
143.✮ A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson
142. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Jared Diamond
141. Man's Search for Meaning: Viktor Frankl
140.✮ Shantaram: David Gregory Roberts
139. The Art of War: Sun Tzu
138.✮ The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology Robert Wright
137. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom: Jonathan Haidt
136. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion: Jonathan Haidt
135. The Crisis of Crowding: Quant Copycats, Ugly Models, and the New Crash Normal: Ludwig Chincarini
134. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F#ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life: Mark Manson
133. Unfu#k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life: Gary John Bishop
132. A little history of the world: Ernst Gombrich
131.✮ Sapiens: Yuval Noah Harari
130.✮ Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: Volume 1
129. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
128. तमन्ना तुम अब कहां हो: नीधीश त्यागी
127. धम्मपद
126.✮ Rise and Kill First: Ronen Bergman
125. The Buddhism Primer : An Introduction to Buddhism
124. Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
123. The Central Philosophy of Jainism (anekāntavāda): Bimal Krishna Matilal
122. Studies in Jainism: Swami Lokeswarananda
121. The Qur'an: M A S Abdel Haleem
120. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin
119.✮ Sometimes Brilliant : Larry Brilliant
118. Elegant Universe: Brian Greene
117. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
116. मैंने मांडू नहीं देखा: स्वदेश दीपक
115. वे दिन: निर्मल वर्मा
114. मनुस्मृति
113. Be here now: Ram Dass
112.✮ God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita: Paramhansa Yogananda
111. The Elephant Vanishes: Haruki Murakami
110. Complete works: Kahlil Gibran
109. विदुर नीति
108. चाणक्य नीति
107. नाच्यौ बहुत गोपाल: अमृतलाल नागर
106.✮ Love in the time of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
105. One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
104. अंतिम अरण्य: निर्मल वर्मा
103. मित्रो मरजानी - कृष्णा सोबती
102. कैवल्य दर्शनं - The holy Science - युक्तेश्वर गिरी
101.✮ A lover's Discourse: Roland Barthes
100.✮ Buddha's Brain: Rick Hanson
99. How Now
98. Unposted Letter: Mahatria Ra
97. बाणभट्ट की आत्मकथा: आचार्य हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी
96. दीवार में एक खिड़की रहती थी: विनोद कुमार शुक्ल
95. तमस: भीष्म साहनी
94. The Power of Now:Eckhart Tolle
93. A Calendar of Wisdom : Leo Tolstoy
92. Jaya: Devdutt Pattanaik
91.✮ Cosmos: Carl Sagan
90. सुहाग के नूपुर: अमृतलाल नागर
89. पाल ले एक रोक नादां: गौतम रजरिशी
88.✮मेघदूतम: महाकवि कालिदास
87. Secrets of Veda: Aurobindo
86. All about Hinduism: Swami Sivananda
85. Hindu Dharma - The universal way of life: Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
84. तीन रोज़ इश्क़ - पुजा उपाध्याय
83. ऋतुसंहार : महाकवि कालिदास
82.✮ उर्वशी:रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर'
81. Brave new world: Aldous Huxley
79. Siddhartha: Herman Hesse
78. वोल्गा से गंगा : राहुल सांकृत्यायन
77. कव्वे और काला पानी: निर्मल वर्मा
75.✮ Autobiography of a Yogi: Paramhansa Yogananda
74. Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions: Gerd Gigerenzer
73. Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered: E F Schumacher
72.✮ एक चिथड़ा सुख: निर्मल वर्मा
71. वयं रक्षामः: आचार्य चतुरसेन
70. नदी के द्वीप: अज्ञेय
69. Think like a Freak: Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
68. ✮The Lemon Tree: Sandy Tolan
67. Mythology - Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes: Edith Hamilton
66. कितनी नावों में कितनी बार:अज्ञेय
65. अपने अपने अजनबी: अज्ञेय
64.✮ मृत्युंजय: शिवाजी सावंत
63. The Drunkard's Walk: Leonard Mlodinow
62. Hiroshima: John Hersey
61. Predictably Irrational: Dan Ariely
60. शेखर: एक जीवनी: अज्ञेय
59.✮ रश्मिरथी:रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर'
58. मछली मरी हुई: राजकमल चौधरी
57. 1984: George Orwell
56. Tuesdays with Morrie: Mitch Albom
55.✮ To Kill a Mocking bird: Harper Lee
54. गीतगोविन्दम् : जयदेव
53.✮ कसप: मनोहर श्याम जोशी
52. कुरु कुरु स्वाहा: मनोहर श्याम जोशी
51. सुभाषित रत्न भाण्डागार
50. What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character: Richard Feynman
49. The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Leo Tolstoy
48. KamaSutra
47.✮ A hunger Artist, The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka
46. The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins
45.✮ मुझे चाँद चाहिए: सुरेन्द्र वर्मा
44.✮ संस्कृति के चार अध्याय: रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर'
43. ✮ राग दरबारी: श्रीलाल शुक्ल
42.✮ Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman
41.✮ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Richard Feynman
40. The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. रेखा: भगवतीचरण वर्मा
38.✮ कुमारसंभव: महाकवि कालिदास
37. अंधा युग: धर्मवीर भारती
36. Mockingjay : Suzanne Collins
35. Catching fire : Suzanne Collins
34. The Hunger Games: Suzanne Collins
33. Brida: Paulo Coelho
32. रघुवंशमहाकाव्यं : महाकवि कालिदास
31.✮ अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्: महाकवि कालिदास
29.✮ A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking
28.✮ Made in Japan: Akio Morita
27. ✮ Animal Farm: George Orwell
26.✮ काशी का अस्सी: काशीनाथ सिंह
25.✮ कुरुक्षेत्र: रामधारी सिंह दिनकर
24. चंद्रगुप्त: जयशंकर प्रसाद
23. Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness: Annie McKee, Richard E. Boyatzis, Fran Johnston
22. Time to Think, Listening to ignite the human mind: Nancy Kline
21. ✮ Meetings with Remarkable People: Osho
20. The black Swan: The impact of highly improbable: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
19. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
18. रसीदी टिकट: अमृता प्रीतम
17. प्रतिनिधि व्यंग: हरिशंकर परसाई
16. वैष्णव की फिसलन: हरिशंकर परसाई
15. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis
14. The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
13.✮ The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
12. मैला आँचल, फणीश्वर नाथ 'रेणु'
11. ✮ ययाति, विष्णु सखाराम खांडेकर. (in English: Yayati: A classic tale of lust )
10. मानस का हंस, अमृतलाल नागर
9. Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions, Ben Mezrich
8. ✮ Market Wizards, Jack D. Schwager
7. ✮ We the Living, Ayn Rand
6. परती परिकथा, फणीश्वर नाथ 'रेणु'
5. बिल्लेसुर बकरिहा , सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी 'निराला'
4.✮ कोहबर की शर्त, केशव प्रसाद मिश्र
3. Slaughterhouse 5 (The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death), Kurt Vonnegut
2. SuperFreakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
1. ✮ The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, Robert Kanigel
Abhishek Ojha