Reading List

2024

• Storyworthy — Matthew Dicks

2023

• Invent and Wander — The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
• The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner

2022

• Ikigai — Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia
• How to live on 24 hours a day — Arnold Bennett

2021

• The Midnight Library — Matt Haig
• Creativity Inc — Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

2020

• The Culture Map — Erin Meyer
• द्वन्दको अवसान — राजेश्वर देवकोटा
• Notes on a Nervous Planet — Matt Haig
• Good Economics for Hard Times — Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

2019

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari
• The undoing project — Michel Lewis
• Purple cow — Seth Godin
• Leonardo Da Vinci — Walter Issacson (Best read of the year)

2018

• An Astronauts guide to life on Earth — Chris Hadfield
• Eat Dirt — Dr. Josh Axe
• The Hard Thing About Hard Thing — Ben Horowitz
• The Emperors new Mind — Roger Penrose (Read ~50%)
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Age of Spiritual Machines — Ray Kurzweil (Left somewhere in between)
• Jaya — Devdutt Patnaik
• Skin in the game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Reinventing Organizations — Frederic Laloux

2017

• The Monk who sold his Ferrari — Robin Sharma
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail — King, Jr. - Read Online
• The Story of My Experiments with Truth — M.K. Gandhi
• The chronicles of Hanuman — Shubha Vilas
• Inner Engineering (A Yogi’s guide to Joy) — Sadhguru
• Truth is a pathless land - Jiddu Krishnamurti - Read Online
• Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
• The First and Last Freedom - Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Why Zebras don’t get Ulcers — Robert M. Sapolsky
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• The Elephant Paradigm — Gurcharan Das
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson (Read Partially, self help books start good, don’t end well)
• Never eat alone — Keith Ferrazzi (Read ~50%)
• The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2016

• How Stella Saved the Farm — Vijay Govindarajan
• Banker to the Poor — Muhammed Yunus
• Being Mortal — Atul Gawande
• The Prophet — Khalil Gibran
• Recasting India — Hindol Sengupta
• The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
• Stuff Matters — Mark Miodownik
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
• Mans search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
• Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren — John Maynard Keynes (Essay) - Read Online
• Letters to a young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt
• चिना हराएको मान्छे — Hari Bansha Acharya
• Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau (Essay) 
• The Theory of Everything — Stephen Hawking
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• Walden — Henry David Thoreau
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - An Inquiry into Values — Robert M. Pirsig

2015

• खुसी (Khusi) — Vijay Kumar Pandey
• The Tibetian Book of Living and Dying — Sogyal Rinpoche
• The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Sapiens - A Brief History of Mankind — Yuval Noah Harari
• एबस्ट्रयाक्ट चिन्तन प्याज (Abstract Chintan : Pyaj) — Shankar Lamichhane
• Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Self Reliance - Read blog
  • Circles
  • Compensation
  • Love
• Autobiography of a Yogi — Yogananda Paramahansa
• Outliers - The story of success — Malcom Galdwell
• The Difficulty of Being Good - On the Subtle Art of Dharma — Gurcharan Das (re-read)
• The Moneyless Man - A Year of Freeeconomic Living — Mark Boyle
• सुम्निमा (Sumnima) — B.P. Koirala (Audiobook)
• Sophie’s World : A Novel about the History of Philosophy — Jostein Gaarder