Bookshelf

If I ever had a library of books just for myself, these are some of the books which would definitely be on the shelves. I haven't read all of them but I hope to be able to someday:

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