Bookshelf
I have a special talent for turning books into elaborate bookmarks. My attention span might be shorter than a goldfish's memory, but if I ever curated a personal library, these are the titles that would make it to the shelves. Admittedly, I've only conquered the first chapters of most, but hey, a bookish ambition counts for something, right?- The Sun Does Shine: Anthony Ray Hinton
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
- Annihilation of Caste: B.R. Ambedkar
- Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Cherian George
- The Return of the King: J.R.R. Tolkien
- This Is What Inequality Looks Like: You Yenn Teo
- The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye: Sonny Liew
- Where the Crawdads Sing: Delia Owens
- Evicted: Matthew Desmond
- Educated: Tara Westover
- Solutions and Other Problems: Allie Brosh
- Born a Crime: Trevor Noah
- The Two Towers: J.R.R. Tolkien
- Being Mortal: Atul Gawande
- Invisible Women: Caroline Criado Perez
- Apollo 8: Jeffrey Kluger
- Bad Blood: John Carreyrou
- Can't Hurt Me: David Goggins
- Never Split the Difference: Chris Voss
- Why We Sleep: Matthew Walker
- The Best We Could Do: Thi Bui
- A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini
- East of Eden: John Steinbeck
- Mum Is Where The Heart Is: You Jin
- The Book Thief: Markus Zusak
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: Lori Gottlieb
- The Fellowship of the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien
- Man's Search for Meaning: Viktor E. Frankl
- Atomic Habits: James Clear
- When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi
- A Little Life: Hanya Yanagihara
- Dark Money: Jane Mayer
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!: Miran Lipovača
- They Told Us To Move: Ng Kok Hoe
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Richard Feynman
- The Richest Man in Babylon: George S. Clason
- How to Be Yourself: Ellen Hendriksen
- Types and Programming Languages: Benjamin C. Pierce
- The Last Lecture: Randy Pausch
- Command and Control: Eric Schlosser
- Competitive Advantage: Michael E. Porter
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Heather Morris
- Cryptonomicon: Neal Stephenson
- Homo Deus: Yuval Noah Harari
- The Man Who Stayed Behind: Sidney Rittenberg
- Meditations: Marcus Aurelius
- Swami and Friends: R.K. Narayan
- One Up On Wall Street: Peter Lynch
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Douglas Adams
- Malgudi Days: R.K. Narayan
- The Righteous Mind: Jonathan Haidt
- Lifespan: David Sinclair
- 1984: George Orwell
- Half a World Away: Mike Gayle
- A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking
- Murder on the Orient Express: Agatha Christie
- Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell
- Thinking, Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman
- Recursion: Blake Crouch
- Hyperbole and a Half: Allie Brosh
- Civilized to Death: Christopher Ryan
- Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes
- The Life You Can Save: Peter Singer
- Predictably Irrational: Dan Ariely
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen R. Covey
- The Art of Looking Sideways: Alan Fletcher
- My First Summer in the Sierra: John Muir
- Antifragile: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Erving Goffman
- Metaphors We Live By: George Lakoff
- The Pasteurization of France: Bruno Latour
- Compilers: Alfred V. Aho
- One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel García Márquez
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Philip K. Dick
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Einstein's Dreams: Alan Lightman
- The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Oliver Sacks
- The Checklist Manifesto: Atul Gawande
- Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell
- Engineering a Compiler: Keith D. Cooper
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn
- Trillion Dollar Coach: Eric Schmidt
- Cooling-Off Day: Alfian Sa'at
- Freakonomics: Steven D. Levitt
- The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell
- Bullshit Jobs: David Graeber
- How Not to Be Wrong: Jordan Ellenberg
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Mitch Albom
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: Mark Manson
- The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Timothy Ferriss
- The Shallows: Nicholas Carr
- Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold
- Calling Sehmat: Harinder Sikka
- Superintelligence: Nick Bostrom
- Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O'Neil
- The Art of Thinking Clearly: Rolf Dobelli
- Inferno: Dan Brown
- Adversity Quotient: Paul G. Stoltz
- Too Much and Never Enough: Mary L. Trump
- Nudge: Richard H. Thaler
- Lord of the Flies: William Golding
- Less: Andrew Sean Greer