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My Bookshelf

Books are the greatest teachers in this world overflowing with information. You’ll often find me carrying one or two wherever I go. This is a collection of books I’ve recently read—each one has played a part in shaping my thinking about life and business.

Life Philosophy History Biographies & Autobiographies Finance & Economics Management & Leadership Science & Technology Startups & Entrepreneurship Sales & Marketing Politics General Knowledge Fiction

Life

  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Dhammapada
  • The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
  • The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
  • The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
  • 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
  • The Definitive Book of Body Language by Barbara & Allan Pease
  • Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
  • The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
  • The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith

Philosophy

  • The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
  • Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
  • The Joy of Living Dangerously by Osho
  • Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu

History

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Lady Doctors by Kavitha Rao
  • Rajasthan: A Concise History by Rima Hooja

Biographies & Autobiographies

  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wings of Fire by APJ Abdul Kalam
  • Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Finance & Economics

  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
  • ABCs of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroy
  • Real Estate Evam Estate Planning (Hindi) by Yogesh Sharma
  • The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Gary Keller
  • Maniac, Panic and Crashes: History of Financial Crises by Charles Kindleberger
  • Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week! by Phil Town
  • Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller

Management & Leadership

  • Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan
  • Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
  • Execution by Larry Bossidy
  • Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
  • Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried
  • Start with Why by Simon Sinek
  • The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton
  • High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
  • Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
  • The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles by John Rossman
  • Selling Your Startup by Alejandro Cremades
  • Abundance by Peter Diamandis
  • TED Talks by Chris Anderson

Science & Technology

  • Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson
  • Vedic Math
  • Anatomy 101 by Kevin Langford
  • The Fourth Age by Byron Reese
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Startups & Entrepreneurship

  • The Golden Tap by Kashyap Deorah
  • Mastering The VC Game by Jeffrey Bussgang
  • It Happened in India by Kishore Biyani
  • Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman
  • How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
  • How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban
  • Startup Boards by Mahendra Ramsinghani
  • Startup CEO by Matt Blumberg
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  • Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel
  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  • Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Startupland by Mikkel Svane
  • Lovability by Brian de Haaff
  • Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston

Sales & Marketing

  • Presenting to Win by Jerry Weissman
  • Inbound Marketing by Dharmesh Shah
  • The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino
  • Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross
  • SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
  • Up and to the RIGHT by Richard Stiennon
  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Politics

  • Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

General Knowledge

  • The Golden Bird 2.0 by Raina Singhwi Jain
  • What Millennials Want by Vivan Marwaha

Fiction

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  • Sevasadan by Premchand
  • Ranbhoomi by Premchand