reading list

Now reading:

• • The Hard Thing about Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

  • High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove

  • The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Norman Doidge, M.D.

Non-Fiction

I usually read non-fiction. Here are some books that I enjoyed reading:

• • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - a biography of Warren Buffett by Alice Schroeder

  • Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms - Shellye Archambeau

  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg

  • Becoming - Michelle Obama

• Raising Trump - Ivana Trump

  • Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond - Gene Kranz, Former Flight Director, NASA

• Tesla: Man Out of Time - Margaret Cheney

  • Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart

  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson (The real world Atticus Finch of 'To Kill a Mockingbird')

  • Trump: The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (Note: Controversy - New York Times article )

  • My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla

  • Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia - Frank Kusy

  • The Laughing Policeman: My Brilliant (!) Career in the New Zealand Police - Glenn Wood

  • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - Anthony Bourdain

  • Tumult in the Clouds: The Classic Story of War in the Air - Lt. Col. James Goodson, USAF

  • Chasing Freedom - Ella Miriam

  • The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe - Anil Ananthaswamy

  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell

  • An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything - Chris Hadfield

  • Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua

  • I Dare ! The Crusade Against Corruption: Changing People's Destiny - Kiran Bedi

• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround - Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

  • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory - Albert Einstein

  • A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking

  • The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA - James D. Watson

  • The Pursuit of HappYness - Chris Gardner

  • I Too Had a Dream - Verghese Kurien

  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

  • Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama

  • The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barack Obama

  • Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty - Muhammad Yunus

  • The Google Story - David A. Vise

  • Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey - Captain G.R. Gopinath

  • Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World - Bruce Schneier

  • It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong

  • Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Rashmi Bansal

  • Wings of Fire - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

  • Indomitable Spirit - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

  • Ignited Minds - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

  • "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard Feynman

  • "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard Feynman

• The Diary Of A Young Girl - Anne Frank

  • Mamma Margherita: St. John Bosco's mother - Marieli Benziger & Rita Benziger

  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi

  • Letters from a Father to His Daughter - Jawaharlal Nehru