More books, less online reading (but more mindful).
More deep focus, less ephemeral content.
I choose my books carefully after much deliberation. I hope you get around to reading some of these. The full list:
IN 2023
Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Kitchen Confidential - Anothny Bourdain
The Ink Black Heart - Robert Galbraith
The Twist Of A Knife - Anthony Horowitz
The Sentence Is Death - Anthony Horowitz
The Heist - Daniel Silva
The Prophet (Audiobook) - Khalil Ghibran
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl
River of Stories - Orijit Sen
In 2022
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain
The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
Dark Matter (Audiobook) - Blake Crouch
The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang
The Poppy War - R.F. Kuang
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
The Kill Artist - Daniel Silva
The Final Empire: Mistborn Book 1 - Brandon Sanderson
Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Finding Ultra (Audiobook) - Rich Roll
The Emperor’s Soul - Brandon Sanderson
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor
Later - Stephen King
The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami
Agent Running in the Field - John le Carré
Dead Lions: Slough House Series - Mick Herron
Billy Summers - Stephen King
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products - Nir Eyal
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
Yearbook - Seth Rogen
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life - Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
Ram - Scion of Ikshvaku (Audiobook) - Amish Tripathi
IN 2021
How to Live - Derek Sivers
October Junction (Audiobook) - Divya Prakash Dubey
400 days - Chetan Bhagat
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Midnight Library (Audiobook) - Matt Haig
The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie
Fool Moon (Audiobook) - Jim Butcher
Storm Front (Audiobook) - Jim Butcher
Project Hail Mary (Audiobook) - Andy Weir
After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well - Meik Wiking
Weep Not, Child - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
In Order To Live - A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom - Yeonmi Park
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle
First Person Singular - Haruki Murakami
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel - Rolf Potts
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Audiobook) - Haruki Murakami
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country - Helen Russell
IN 2020
Just Kids - Patti Smith
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
One Arranged Murder - Chetan Bhagat
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win - Maria Konnikova
Poirot’s Finest: BBC Radio dramatisation (Audiobook) - Agatha Christie
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling
Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell
The Tales of Beetle the Bard (Audiobook) - J.K. Rowling
Norse Mythology (Audiobook) - Neil Gaiman
Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life - Viswanathan Anand, Susan Ninan
IN 2019
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Art of Purring - David Michie
The Dalai Lama’s Cat: A Novel - David Michie
The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure - Alex Honnold, David Roberts
The Murder on the Links - Agatha Christie
Tiger Woods - Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
IN 2018
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson
The Girl in Room 105 - Chetan Bhagat
The Shooting Star: A Girl, Her Backpack and The World - Shivya Nath
The Great Indian Diet - Shilpa Shetty Kundra & Luke Coutinho
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra - Ruskin Bond
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - Daniel Pink
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story - Billy Gallagher
How to Win: Lessons from the Premier League - The Secret Footballer
Exit West: A Novel - Mohsin Hamid
Women - Charles Bukowski
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Peter Camenzind: A Novel - Hermann Hesse
Wilderness Tips - Margaret Atwood
M Train - Patti Smith
Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig
Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen - Christopher McDougall
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
The Journey to the East - Hermann Hesse
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir - Marina Abramovic
The Complete MAUS - Art Spiegelman
IN 2017
Origin - Dan Brown
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
Ego is The Enemy - Ryan Holiday
A Clash of King (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
A Game of Throne (A Song of Ice and Fire) - George R.R. Martin
The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak
Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
The Art of Living : The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness - Epictetus
Musafir Cafe - Divya Prakash Dubey
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
Murder on The Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Last Man in Tower - Aravind Adiga
The Song Machine : How to Make a Hit - John Seabrook
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child - J. K. Rowlin, John Tiffany, Jack Thorne
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
IN 2016
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Malice - Keigo Higashino
Salvation Of A Saint - Keigo Higashino
The Devotion Of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
One Indian Girl - Chetan Bhagat
The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Okakura
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
The Girl With All The Gifts - M. R. Carey
The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
Catch - 22 - Joseph Heller
The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe
Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
The Professor, The Banker, and The Suicide King - Michael Craig
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Revenant - Michael Punke
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
IN 2015
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
A Personal Matter (Audiobook) - Kenzaburo Oe
The Martian (Audiobook) - Andy Weir
Elon Musk : How The Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping Our Future - Ashlee Vance
Antifragile : Things that Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Playing to Win - David Sarlin
Boats on Land - A Collection of Short Stories - Janice Pariat
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Mohsin Hamid
On Writing - Stephen King
Jaya - An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata - Devdutt Patnaik
How to Live On 24-Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator - Ryan Holiday
The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help - Amanda Palmer
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway
Shatranj Ke Khiladi (Hindi Edition) - Munshi Premchand
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray and What it Means for Modern Relationships - Christopher Ryan
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Earlier
On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
Show Your Work - Austin Kleon
One Year Lived - Adam Shepard
Daily Rituals: Find Inspiration, and Get to Work - Mason Currey
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
The Trial - Franz Kafka
My Autobiography - Alex Ferguson
The Geography of Bliss - Eric Weiner
The One Skill - Leo Babauta
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
Everything That Remains - Joshua Fields Millburn
Running: The Autobiography - Ronnie O'Sullivan
God Explained in a Taxi Ride - Paul Arden
The Fall - Albert Camus
The Outsider - Albert Camus
Much Earlier
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré
After Dark - Haruki Murakami (I read most of the Murakamis back to back)
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Kafka on The Shore - Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever - Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Notes on some of the books I have read
Blogs I follow
Zen Habits - I have now lost count of the number of times this blog has made my day. If there was just one blog I would recommend to you, this would be it.
The Minimalists - These guys really drilled in me the concept of simple and minimal living even though I had always known about it. Their book 'Everything that remains' is also a book that I would recommend to you.
Aeon Magazine - In this fast paced world of fast food articles, Aeon is slow journalism. They publish just one single, in depth, well researched article from the subject matter experts a day. Covering various genres, it is one of the best places to get an introduction on some new subject.
Mark Manson - Mark is a digital entrepreneur who has travelled the world and shares his experience in well written, insightful articles. No fluff, pure gold.