Books

Book(s) which I'm reading:

  • Investment Biker by Jim Rogers

Book(s) which I might read in near future:

  • Chance and Necessity by Jacques Monod - The philosophy of biology (and evolution).
  • The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins - This book explains how evolution can come up with creative things purely by random chance.
  • The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype carries on from where The Selfish Gene takes off. The author says that it is his best book.
  • The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil - A book which argues for Singularity. I hope this book will be a great source of knowledge and will inspire me a lot.
  • Chaos by James Gleick - Basics of Chaos Theory explained to a layperson (me!).
  • The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose - The title of the book says it all.
  • One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow - A lay persons guide to science and mathematics.
  • The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg - A popular account of how the universe originated.
  • Next by Michael Crichton - Some biotech sci-fi type?
  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay - A book on why herd mentality is a bad one.
  • Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco Varela - The biological basis of human understanding.
  • What Is Life? by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan - The title says it all.
  • One Hundred Years in Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - A Latin American Masterpiece.
  • Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein - Philosophy 101 through jokes.
  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason - A classic in wealth building.
  • I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter - What is "I"?
  • Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne - Do I need to tell?
  • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi - Everything is linked ultimately.
  • Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda - The title is descriptive.
  • Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono.
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie - Despite the self-help-kinda name, the book is said to be extremely good.
  • Be Here Now by Ram Dass - A Harvard professor on LSD goes to India.
  • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
  • The New Business Road Test: What entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan by John Mullins
  • Automatic Wealth for Grads... and Anyone Else Just Starting Out
    by Michael Masterson
  • Beyond Code: Learn to Distinguish Yourself in 9 Simple Steps!
    by Rajesh Setty
  • Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

Books which I have already read (in order of decreasing importance):

  • Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - This book was the first book I had ever read. The book is so informative and well written that I've read it 5 times. Excellent introduction of high end physics concepts to laymen. This was book which inspired me into philosophy, AI, cosmology and everything else.
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The science of randomness and probability. The best practical book ever.
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - Foundation stone of idealism and practicality.
  • How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis - Don't let the title fool you
  • Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert - The Science of Happiness. Probably one the books I would want to read again and again.
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A good book, but not as good as Fooled by Randomness. Probably, I will read the book again to get the real feel.
  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins - The controversial book which argues that we are nothing more than a tool to replicate the DNA.
  • Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
    by Dan Ariely
  • The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  • The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams - The full compendium of Adam's funniest sci-fi novels. Sheer Pleasure reading it.
  • Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston - At last I found this book in India!
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman - An Autobiography of a Legendary Scientist. Extremely funny.
  • The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
  • The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money by Seth Godin
  • Lila by Robert M. Pirsig - Mother of all the meta physics. I think this book is even better than the author's previous much acclaimed book "Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintainance".
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal golden braid by Douglas R. Hofstarder - An excellent brain bending book dealing with everything ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Godel theorem to consciousness to formal systems. A must read for anyone craving for food for thought.
  • Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal - Story on startups by IIM grads
  • Web Analytics a Day by Avinash Kaushik
  • How to Sell Anything to Anybody by Joe Girad
  • Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry by Michael Dell
  • The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle - They say it is a good book.
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Rober M. Pirsig - Bible of modern philosophy along with a beautiful description of a bike ride across the country. A must read.
  • The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
  • The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
  • Undercover Economist by Tim Harford - Basics of Economics explained using stories.
  • Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove -- Not as entertaining as I thought it would be.
  • How Innovators Connect by Rohit Agarwal and Patricia Brown.
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu - The classic in strategy synthesis.
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - A classic in personal development.
  • What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Speculations on the Future of Biology - Great scientists of the world speculate on the future of biology.
  • Murphy's Laws-Complete - Consists of volume 1, 2 and 3. Murphy's Laws are the most profound laws deeply realising everyday reality. These laws are everyday truths packed in a humorous shell.
  • India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das.
  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Who doesn't know about Frekonomics here?
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki - Self explanatory title.
  • Art of War by Sun Tzu - Nothing spectacular; but good.
  • It Happened In India by Kishore Biyani - A story of how a middle class Indian created a retail empire.
  • The high performance entrepreneur by Subroto Bagchi - I heard its a must read for all wanna-bes entrepreneurs.
  • The Google Story by David Vise and Mark Malseed -The name says it all.
  • Drifters by James A Michener - A book about youth and his philosophy. Interesting read.
  • The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen - Britings on Indian History, Culture and Identity.
  • The Elegant Universe by Brain Greene - A book about hidden dimensions, superstrings, and the quest for the ultimate theory. The book just gives a glimpse of how exciting superstring theory can be, but unfortunately nothing more than that.
  • Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality by John Gribbin - A popular science book on quantum mechanics.
  • Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination by Robert MacFarlane - Describes how people are fascinated by mountains to a degree of madness.
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - A book on intuition and how it matters.
  • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - A prequel to The Da Vinci Code.
  • Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - Everyone knows it or has read it. Needs 0 introduction.
  • Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - The book may be more than 50 years old but the principles presented in the book are valid today more than ever.
  • God's Debris by Scott Adams - Eclectic collection of intellectual tidbits. Good one.
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin - The classic book which started it all. Not much intriguing as a book but certainly an earth shattering theory.
  • 100 Reasons to be a Scientist - The book has essays written by 100 (mostly theoretical physicists) scientists on their lives.
  • The Art of Genes - How organisms make themselves by Enrico Coen - A book which compares the development of multi cellular organisms with creativity in art.
  • 22 immutable laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack trout.
  • A Short History of nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
  • Intelligent Bioinformatics by Edward Keedwell, et al: The application of artificial intelligence techniques to bioinformatics problems.
  • Chaotic thoughts from the old millennium by Sim Wong Hoo - A book written ny Creative's CEO. Random collection of thoughts. I bought it in Singapore.
  • Brand Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout.
  • Marketing Warfare by Al Ries and Jack Trout.
  • Stephen Hawking by Kitty Ferrugson.
  • Stephen Hawking - Essays.
  • Digital Fortress by Dan Brown.
  • Big Blues: The unmaking of IBM.
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Books which I couldn't read completely:

  • The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant: The best of philosophers compressed into one book. The classic work in philosophy. Need I say More, It is a crash course in Philosophy. But you must knoweth the Old English. Really, this kind of English puts me off.
  • Blink by Malcolm Galdwell - A book on how to think without thinking. So do not think, just ignore the book.
  • The Monk who sold his Ferrari - Most boring book. Don't touch it. You'll regret.
  • Who Moved my Cheese - Everything in it is obvious.
  • The Tao of Physics - Illogical and unreadable attempt to fuse Zen with Physics.
  • The Magic of Thinking BIG by David J. Schwartz - It seems to be that this book is just another self-help book. To be frank, it is quite boring. Indeed, very very boring.
  • Our Molecular Future by Douglas Mulhall: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence will transform our world. I thought it would be interesting, but couldn't read even the second chapter.
  • Negotiate for Success - Only picked up this book because pages were glazed; might not read it completely