Books

This list is a Work in Progress. It has been maintained by Chaitanya Bapat based on recommendations from real-life people, articles, mailing lists, among other things. Originally, this repo was conceptualized as a Git-based summarization for books. However, realizing that it quickly blows up out of proportion, this remains a list of completed, ongoing and upcoming books on his radar. Moreover, the summaries of the books have been transferred over to a Medium publication by the name Read with Chai.

Medium Publication

Read with Chai

This Medium publication houses over 20+ articles on summaries & byte-sized take-aways from the books read so far.

Contributions

Feel free to drop your suggestions via Issues/Pull Requests. Additoinally, if you have summaries of your own, do share.

Ongoing

1. A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

Discontinued

1. Bursts

Miscellaneous

1. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2. The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Book by Ben Horowitz
3. Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner
4. How to talk to anyone (92 lil tricks for big success in relationships) Leil Lowndes
5. "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking" by Susan Cain.
6. how to stop worrying and start living dale carnegie
7. how to win friends and influence people dale carnegie
8. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind Paperback – Dr. Joseph murphy
9. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
10. Emotional Agility - Susan David
11. Chasing the Scream - Johann Hari
12. What i know for sure - oprah winfrey
13. The Small Big - small changes that spark big influence
14. Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
15. How to lie with statistics?
16. magic of thinking big
17. Paul Graham, How You Know
18. Seth Godin the dip
19. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain: - maryanne wolf
20. The Power of One Percent Better: Small Gains, Maximum Results
21. This is water by dfw
22. If by Rudyard kipling
23. Pale blue dot by Carl sagan
24. Self reliance by emerson
25. Existentialism: From Dostoyevsky to Sartre.
26. Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul
27. Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin—Discusses the mental models of Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett.
28. Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb—One of my favorite mental models. Helps with understanding how random events influence outcomes.
29. Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein—Explains how our decisions are influenced by different factors.
30. China in the 21st century - what everyone needs to know

Historical

1. Pablo Escobar - my father - Juan pablo escobar
2. Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
3. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warric
4. Gideon's Spies - Gordon Thomas
5. The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui. (Vietnam War family)
6. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
7. Energy and Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil
8. Study of Civilization - Will and Ariel Durant
9. Yuval Noah Harari — Sapiens

Technical

1. Gentle Introduction to Apache Spark
2. Grokking Deep Learning - Andrew Trask
3. Developing Analytic Talent: Becoming a Data Scientist / Edition 1 by Vincent Granville
4. Deep Learning with python francois cholle
5. Truth machine blockchain future everything

Finance / Investment / Economics (MONEY $$$)

1. Intelligent investor by benjamin graham [WIP]
2. Cashflow quadrant - Robert Kiyosaki
3. Millionaire Success Habits - Dead Graziosi
4. The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason
5. Your money or your life - vicky robin
6. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by Jack Bogle
7. A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
8. How buffet does it?
9. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
10. Barter to Bitcoin - Ravin aarya
11. The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On with Your Life
12. THE ONLY INVESTMENT GUIDE YOU’LL EVER NEED
13. THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON VALUE INVESTING. A BOOK OF PRACTICAL COUNSEL (REVISED EDITION) (COLLINS BUSINESS ESSENTIALS)
14. THE MILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE INVESTOR 12 millionaire fast lane mj demarc 13 made inamerica sam walton
15. More money than god - sebastian mallaby
16. the billionaire's apprentice - anita raghavan
17. differentiate or die - survival in our era of killer competition
18. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder
19. 1000 ways to make 1000$ [Buffet's favorite book]
20. cashing in on american dream - retire at 35 - By Paul Terhorst
21. millionaire next door - By Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
22. “The Wealthy Barber” By David Chilton
23. “The Automatic Millionaire” By David Bach
24. “The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing” By Taylor Larimore, Mel Landauer and Michael LeBoeuf
25. "If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly" By William Bernstein
26. Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager
27. Wall Street The Other Las Vegas by Nicolas Darvas
28. How I made $2,000,000 on the Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas
29. How to trade in stocks by Jesse Livermore
30. How to make money in stocks by O'Neil
31. New Market Wizards - Conversations with America's Top Wizards by Schwager
32. Come into my trading room by Elder
33. Trade your way to
34. Complete Turtle Trader by Michael W. Covel
35. Trend Following by Covel
36. The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
37. Fearless Salary Negotiation

Fiction

1. John Green’s new novel, Turtles All the Way Down,

Legal

1. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

AutoBio

1. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens, by Eddie Izzard
2. my spiritual journey dalai lama

Bio

1. Mark Zuckerberg: Ten Lessons In Leadership by Michael Essan
2. Inside Apple Adam Lashinsky
3. Hit refresh - Satya Nadella
4. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

Motivational / Self-Help / Productivity

1. 5AM Book Club by Robin Sharma
2. Four hour workweek by Tim Ferris
3. Show your work - Kleon Austin
4. Anything you want - Derek Sivers
5. Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
6. 7 habits of highly influential people
7. Memorization - How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week
8. Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
9. clear your clutter with feng shui
10. The life changing magic of tidying up - Marie Kondo
11. paradox of choice
12. The subtle art of not giving a fuck - Mark Mason
13. Do it today - Darius Foroux
14. Deep Work - Cal Newport
15. Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
16. Mark McCormack what they don't teach you at HBS
17. Dr. Will Miller and Glenn Sparks, in their book Refrigerator Rights: Creating Connections and Restoring Relationships
18. Never Eat Alone - Keith Ferrazzi
19. The Six thinking hats - Edward Bono
20. “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, David Alle
21. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg
22. Outliers
23. 21 lessons for the 21st century by yuval noah harari
24. Influence by Robert Cialdini
25. “High Output Management” by Andrew Grove
26. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgensen

Business / Leadership

1. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber - Mike Isaac
2. Zero To One by Peter Thiel
3. Option B - Sheryl Sandberg
4. power of moments
5. barking up wrong tree
6. the four
7. reset ellen pao
8. tehnically wrong
9. the four tendencies - gretchen rubin
10. perennial seller - ryan holiday
11. wierd is a world that's not
12. The psycholigy of selling brian tracy
13. Starting a Business All-in-One For Dummies
14. Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice
15. Rich dad poor dad - Robery Kiyosaki [need to reread]
16. Eyes wide open - Isaac Lidsky
17. MBA To do or not to
18. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
19. Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb

Science

1. visual intelligence amy eherman

Sports

1. Playing it my way - Sachin Tendulkar
2. The test of my life - Yuvraj Singh
3. and god created cricket - simon hughes
4. i dont like cricket i love it - chris gayle
5. roy going for broke - andrew symonds
6. Out of my comfort zone - steve waugh
7. corner of a foreign field - ramachandra guha
8. clear blue sky jonny bairstow
9. beyond a boundary clr james
10. ab devilliers - autobio
11. Driven: The Virat Kohli Story by Vijay Lokapally
12. century is not enough - sourav ganguly
13. dhoni touch - unraveling enigma
14. second innings - andrew flintoff
15. think and win like dhoni
16. glenn maxwell lucky break
17. its not about bike - lance armstrong

Epics

1. Mahabharata [WIP]

2. Ramayana

3. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

4. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch

5. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

6. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chaptersby Matt Ridley

7. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

8. The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperationby Matt Ridley

9. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley

10. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb

11. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb

12. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb

13. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and Markets by Nassim Taleb

14. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman

15. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space by Richard Feynman

16. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Feynman

17. The Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

18. Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein

19. The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

20. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

21. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman)

22. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

23. Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli

24. The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy by J.D. Williams

25. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

Philosophy

1. Theory of Everything (The Enlightened Perspective) - Dreamstate Trilogy
2. Jed McKenna’s Notebook
3. Jed Talks #1 and #2
4. A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who abhor noise and seek The Truth about life and living
5. Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-prescriptive Truths to the enduring questions of life
6. Atmamun: The Path to achieving the bliss of the Himalayan Swamis. And the freedom of a living God.
7. The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
8. Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti
9. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
10. The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho
11. The Great Challenge: Exploring the World Within by Osho
12. The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony DeMello by Anthony DeMello
13. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer
14. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
15. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant
16. The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master
17. How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
18. Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living by Bruce Lee
19. The Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts
20. Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl [reco by Ben, Mailchimp guy]
21. Lying: Sam Harris [reco by Vinod Khosla]