This is a simple list of books I have read or keep close.
Fiction
| Book | Author |
|---|
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Godan | Premchand |
| Shekhar: Ek Jeevani | Agyeya |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
| The Martian | Andy Weir |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy |
| Musafir Cafe | Divya Prakash Dubey |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Diwar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi | Vinod Kumar Shukla |
Non-fiction
| Book | Author |
|---|
| Leonardo da Vinci | Walter Isaacson |
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson |
| On Writing | Stephen King |
Spirituality & Philosophy
| Book | Author |
|---|
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| The Only Life | Osho |
| Krishna | Osho |
| Meetings with Remarkable Men | G. I. Gurdjieff |
| In Search of the Miraculous | P. D. Ouspensky |
| Bhagavad Gita | Traditional |
| The Book of Mirdard | Mikhail Naimy |
| The Prophet | Khalil Gibran |
Business & Psychology
| Book | Author |
|---|
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel with Blake Masters |
Tech
| Book | Author |
|---|
| Systems Performance | Brendan Gregg |
| Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach | John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson |
| The Go Programming Language | Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan |
| The C Programming Language | Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie |
| Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces | Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau |