Books

1. A Burglar's Guide to the City — Geoff Manaugh
2. All About Love — Bell Hooks
3. All Fours — Miranda July
4. Amp It Up — Frank Slootman finished
5. Arrangements in Blue — Amy Key
6. Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
7. Babel — R. F. Kuang finished
8. Bangalore Blues — Kirtana Kumar finished
9. Bangalore Through the Centuries — M. Fazlul Hasan finished
10. Bangkok Wakes to Rain — Pitchaya Sudbanthad
11. Beach Read — Emily Henry
12. Becoming — Michelle Obama finished
13. Behave — Robert M. Sapolsky finished
14. Breaking the Mould — Raghuram G. Rajan, Rohit Lamba
15. Building a Second Brain — Tiago Forte finished
16. Butter — Asako Yuzuki
17. Cleopatra and Frankenstein — Coco Mellors
18. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. Cultural Amnesia — Clive James
20. Cursed Bunny — Bora Chung
21. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh — Shrayana Bhattacharya finished
22. Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia — S. Hussain Zaidi
23. Dune — Frank Herbert
24. East of Eden — John Steinbeck
25. Emma — Jane Austen
26. Emperor of Rome — Mary Beard
27. Essence of Indian Art — B. N. Goswamy
28. Everything I Know About Love — Dolly Alderton finished
29. Flashlight — Susan Choi
30. Fool Me Twice — Nona Uppal finished
31. For the Love of Physics — Walter Lewin finished
32. Giovanni's Room — James Baldwin
33. Girl Made of Gold — Gitanjali Kolanad
34. Give and Take — Adam Grant finished
35. Gods, Guns and Missionaries — Manu S. Pillai
36. Good to Great — Jim Collins finished
37. H-Pop — Kunal Purohit finished
38. Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell
39. Hit Refresh — Satya Nadella finished
40. Home — Marilynne Robinson
41. Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari finished
42. How the World Really Works — Vaclav Smil
43. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster — Bill Gates finished
44. How to Kill Men and Get Away With It — Katy Brent finished
45. How to Raise an Adult — Julie Lythcott-Haims
46. How to Take Smart Notes — Sönke Ahrens
47. Humble Pie — Gordon Ramsay finished
48. Hurda — Atharva Pandit
49. I Do What I Do — Raghuram G. Rajan finished
50. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden — Joanne Greenberg
51. If on a winter's night a traveller — Italo Calvino
52. Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
53. Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri
54. Invention: A Life — James Dyson finished
55. Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata — Devdutt Pattanaik
56. Katabasis — R. F. Kuang finished
57. Kitchen Confidential — Anthony Bourdain finished
58. Lady Doctors — Kavitha Rao
59. Latitudes of Longing — Shubhangi Swarup
60. Lust for Life — Irving Stone finished
61. Luv (Un)Arranged — N. M. Patel finished
62. Mansfield Park — Jane Austen
63. Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar
64. May We Feed the King — Rebecca Perry finished
65. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius finished
66. Metamorphosis and Other Stories — Franz Kafka
67. Mother India — Prayaag Akbar finished
68. Mottled Dawn — Saadat Hasan Manto
69. My Friends — Hisham Matar
70. My Seditious Heart — Arundhati Roy
71. No Bad Parts — Richard C. Schwartz
72. No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai finished
73. No Place to Call My Own — Alina Gufran
74. Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen
75. Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
76. Novelist as a Vocation — Haruki Murakami finished
77. Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
78. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
79. On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
80. On Writing — Charles Bukowski finished
81. Permanent Record — Edward Snowden
82. Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi
83. Persuasion — Jane Austen
84. Pnin — Vladimir Nabokov
85. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
86. Principles — Ray Dalio finished
87. Prophet Song — Paul Lynch
88. Read Write Own — Chris Dixon
89. Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3 — Deborah Levy
90. Sakina's Kiss — Vivek Shanbhag
91. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari finished
92. Sati Series — Koral Dasgupta
93. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting — Syd Field
94. Selected Works — Franz Kafka
95. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen
96. Show Your Work! — Austin Kleon finished
97. Stubborn Attachments — Tyler Cowen
98. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity — Amartya Sen
99. The Art of Noticing — Rob Walker finished
100. The Art of the Personal Essay — Phillip Lopate
101. The Artist's Way — Julia Cameron
102. The Barbary Coast — Herbert Asbury
103. The Battle of Belonging — Shashi Tharoor
104. The Bell Jar — Sylvia Plath
105. The Best of Tagore — Rabindranath Tagore
106. The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth — Veeraporn Nitiprapha
107. The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa
108. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
109. The Castle — Franz Kafka
110. The Catcher in the Rye — J. D. Salinger finished
111. The City and Its Uncertain Walls — Haruki Murakami
112. The Collected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto, Volume 1: Poona and Bombay — Saadat Hasan Manto
113. The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran — Kahlil Gibran
114. The Cooking of Books — Ramachandra Guha finished
115. The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2 — Deborah Levy
116. The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
117. The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese
118. The Coworker — Freida McFadden
119. The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin finished
120. The Diaries of Franz Kafka — Franz Kafka
121. The Employees — Olga Ravn
122. The Fever — Sonia Shah finished
123. The Girl Who Knew Too Much — Vikrant Khanna finished
124. The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
125. The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
126. The Infinite Game — Simon Sinek finished
127. The Jackfruit Chronicles: Memories and Recipes from a British-Bangladeshi Kitchen — Shahnaz Ahsan
128. The Lion and the Lily: The Rise and Fall of Awadh — Ira Mukhoty
129. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai
130. The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner finished
131. The Midnight Library — Matt Haig finished
132. The Origins of Efficiency — Brian Potter
133. The Paris Review Interviews, Volume 1 — The Paris Review finished
134. The Pearl — John Steinbeck
135. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
136. The Poppy War Trilogy — R. F. Kuang
137. The Quran — Traditional
138. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium — Martin Gurri
139. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan
140. The Society of the Spectacle — Guy Debord finished
141. The Stories of John Cheever — John Cheever
142. The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich
143. The Third Pillar — Raghuram G. Rajan finished
144. The Trial — Franz Kafka
145. The Vegetarian — Han Kang
146. Things I Don't Want to Know: Living Autobiography 1 — Deborah Levy
147. Tom Lake — Ann Patchett
148. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
149. Train to Pakistan — Khushwant Singh
150. Unboxing Bengaluru: The City of New Beginnings — Malini Goyal, Prashanth Prakash finished
151. Unsealed Covers — Gautam Bhatia
152. Victory City — Salman Rushdie
153. Whole Numbers and Half Truths — Rukmini S finished
154. Why the Poor Don't Kill Us: The Psychology of Indians — Manu Joseph finished
155. Why We're Polarized — Ezra Klein
156. Yellowface — R. F. Kuang finished

Textbooks

1. A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout
2. AI Engineering — Chip Huyen
3. AI Systems Performance Engineering — Chris Fregly
4. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management — Will Larson
5. An Introduction to Probability and Statistics — Vijay K. Rohatgi, A. K. Md. Ehsanes Saleh
6. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications — William Feller
7. Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide — Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, Alex Merced
8. Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) — Sebastian Raschka
9. Computer Networks: A Top-Down Approach — Behrouz A. Forouzan, Firouz Mosharraf
10. Computer Organization — Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, Safwat Zaky
11. Crafting Interpreters — Robert Nystrom
12. Database Internals — Alex Petrov
13. Database System Concepts — Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
14. Deep Learning — Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
15. Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing — Jared Bhatti, Sarah Corleissen, Jen Lambourne, David Nunez, Heidi Waterhouse
16. Effective Software Testing — Mauricio Aniche
17. Engineering Management for the Rest of Us — Sarah Drasner
18. Foundations of Databases — Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu
19. Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms — Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
20. Fundamentals of Data Engineering — Joe Reis, Matt Housley
21. Fundamentals of Database Systems — Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe
22. Fundamentals of Software Architecture — Mark Richards, Neal Ford
23. Grokking Streaming Systems — Josh Fischer, Ning Wang
24. Introduction to Algorithms — Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
25. Introduction to Information Retrieval — Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schutze
26. Learning Dapr — Haishi Bai, Yaron Schneider
27. Learning eBPF — Liz Rice
28. Linear Algebra and Its Applications (4th edition) — Gilbert Strang
29. Modern Operating Systems — Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos
30. Operating System Concepts — Abraham Silberschatz, Peter B. Galvin, Greg Gagne
31. Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces — Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau
32. Patterns of Distributed Systems — Unmesh Joshi
33. Podman in Action — Daniel J. Walsh
34. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd edition) — Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto
35. Relevant Search — Doug Turnbull, John Berryman
36. Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice — Mara Bos
37. Rust for Rustaceans: Idiomatic Programming for Experienced Developers — Jon Gjengset
38. Software Architecture: The Hard Parts — Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani
39. Software Engineering at Google — Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright
40. Systems Performance — Brendan Gregg
41. The Annotated Turing — Charles Petzold
42. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn — Richard W. Hamming
43. The Essence of Compilers — Robin Hunter
44. The Future of Text, Vol. 1 — Frode Hegland (editor)
45. The Rust Programming Language — Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
46. The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025 — Dwarkesh Patel
47. The Software Engineer's Guidebook — Gergely Orosz
48. The Staff Engineer's Path — Tanya Reilly
49. Understanding Software Dynamics — Richard L. Sites
50. Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns — Vladimir Khorikov