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What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Now there are books that one reads and there are books that turn something inside you or trigger a spark or rock your boat, if you will .. Here’s a list of some such books. All of them are not cover-to-cover (I wouldn’t know !) reads but worth a go anyhow..
Storm in a TeaCup – Helen Czerski
Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chang
Behave – Robert Sapolsky
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
Outgrowing God – Richard Dawkins
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
Poetics – Aristotle
God’s Debris – Scott Adams
How to – Randall Munroe
Total Freedom – J Krishnamurti
The Bed of Procrustes – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart – Gordon Livingston
Pre-Suasion – Robert B. Cialdini
The Man Who Solved the Market – Gregory Zuckerman
Ducks, Newburyport – Lucy Ellmann
Elanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
Permanent Record – Edward Snowden
An Orchestra of Minorities – Chigozie Obioma
Circe – Madeline Miller
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
Unstoppable – Ben Angel
Scalability Rules – Martin Abbott, Michael Fisher
The Art of Scalability – Martin Abbott, Michael Fisher
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
The Growth Delusion – David Pilling
Skin in the Game – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Fooled by Randomness – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
AntiFragile – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The Black Swan – Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker
The Fuzzy and the Techie – Scott Harley
Life 3.0 Max Tegmark
The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus – Douglas Rushkoff
Life Inc – Douglas Rushkoff
Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Man’s Search For Meaning– Viktor E Frankl
Nudge – Richard H Thaler
Letters from a Stoic – Seneca, Robin Campbell
The Tibetan Book of Living And Dying – Rinpoche Sogyal
A Clockwork Orange – Blake Morrison
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
Blind Watchmakerr – Richard Dawkins
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Thank You for Being Late – Thomas Friedman
As a Man Thinketh – James Allen
The Message of a Master – John McDonald
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda
Tarkash – Javed Akhtar
Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
Have A Little Faith – Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
Jonanthon Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
Don’t Ask Any Old Bloke For Directions – P.G. Tenzing
All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders
Berlin Diary – William Shirer
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William Shirer
Mossad – Michael Bar-Zoha
Serve To Win – Novak Djokovic
The China Study – Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II, John Robbins, Howard Lyman
The Paradox of Choice – Barry Shwartz
Looptail – Bruce Poon Tip
Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
The Old man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway
1984 – George Orwell
Turning Point – Fritjof Capra
In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat – John Gribbin
Fermat’s Last Theorem – Simon Singh
The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty – Dan Ariely
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Wisdom for the Way – Bruce Lee
What is Life ? – Erwin Schrodinger
The Art of Living – Osho
When the Shoe Fits – Osho
The Goose is Out – Osho
The Dalai Lama’s Cat – David Michie
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
Thinking in Systems – A Primer – Donella H. Meadows
The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
The art of Innovation – Tom Kelly
You are Here – Thich Nhat Hanh
Happy Reading ..