Books

I have written about some of them in more depth (depends on which ones have enough depth to write about). I try to extract meaning from each book I read, but obviously it doesn't really work out that well. So, a I figured a better way is to sometimes appreciate that too.

Some series

Rick Riordan

I have to start with him because I have read every single book in the Percy Jackson universe. This includes

• ☑ Percy Jackson series - 5
• ☑ Heros of Olympus series - 5
• ☑ Kane Chronicles - 3
• ☑ Trails of Apollo - 5
• ☑ Magnus Chase - 3
• ☑ Greeks heroes and gods - 2
• ☑ A few latest releases (though I did not like them much, might also be because I am older now)

All thanks to this dude. He really kickstarted my reading journey back in the days (when I was 12 or so)

Geronimo Stilton

I believe any list will be incomplete without mentioning this mouse. Everyone I know has at some point in their lives read about this dude. I have read something like 20 books in this, I don't even remember the names now, but I can recall the feeling of opening up my cupboard just to see all these GS books looking back at me!

Assassin's creed

Yeah I read the book before I played the games. I read only 4 of these though:

• ☑ Renaissance (That's Ezio's story before he's old)
• ☑ Brotherhood (That's a continuation)
• ☑ The Secret Crusade (Personal favourite, Altair's story)
• ☑ Revelations (That's when Ezio dies :()

Diary of a wimpy kid

I mean, who hasn't read the entire series 5 times over (I was so obsessed I would read this instead of youtube while eating)

Tom Gates

I wouldn't count the number of books in this series because I forgot, but it a pretty fun series for kids. I was a kid too you know, loved reading this. I bought the first book named Excellent Excuses because I thought it'll give me a LIST OF EXCUSES to make. Either way, turned out to be a good buy.

That's all for series I guess. I read some science books as well! Yeahh, it was a good passtime.

• ☑ Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time (was possibly the first science book I bought and I understood jackshit back then)
• ☑ Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds (Some mind-twisting stuff inside that, but I was slowly getting a hang of it)
• ☑ Stephen Hawking - Brief Answers to Big Questions (this was still a doable read because of my "experience" now)
• ☑ James Glieck - Chaos (A beautifully complex book, took me a while to finish, and even longer to understand what I had just read)
• ☑ Manjit Kumar - Quantum (Introduced me to quantum mechanics like no other book could ever. I felt like I was living with Bohr)
• ☑ Joshua Foer - Moonwalking with Einstein (Initially I was skeptical about the name but it's a very good and a new t idea which I still could bring to fruition)
• ☑ Daniel Kahneman - Thinking fast and slow (I mean, who hasn't read this. But the real question is, do you use anchor theory in your life? If not, do it. It's awesome)
• ☑ Richard Feynman - Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman (Haha, fuck up, but own it, and recover. Man really liked to live)
• ☑ Steven Strogatz - The joy of X (Thanks to 3b1b who introduced me to him after an interview. This is pretty much a chill and fun book, nothing serious)
• ☑ Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens (A nice and long history of everything we've done right and wrong. I love how blunt he is!)
• ☑ Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (My first book on evolutionary biology and boy it was done right)
• ☑ Roger Penrose - The Emperor's New Mind (The one book which sparked my interest in computer science, and everything in it. What a man!)
• ☑ Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus (Some good ideas. By this time, I had learnt some things that I could have opinions of my own and challenge some of his)

There are some stories that I have absolutely cherished. The ones I can remember off the top of my head are

• ☑ Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (What a surprise, I had been avoiding reading this book for so long for absolutely no reason, glad I came through because it genuinely is one of the most moving books out there!)
• ☑ Fyodor dostoevsky - The White Nights (What a love. I had no words. The neglect hurt more than the fact that he meant nothing)
• ☑ Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment (Classic classic. Betrayed himself for nothing. I think this is the theme for most of his novels!)
• ☑ Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (Haven't/Couldn't finish this yet. Let's see what this brings up. The ideas of self-deception are clear here as well. As I said...)
• ☑ V. S. Naipaul - A house for Mr. Biswas (Never thought I would enjoy the melodrama but here we are, because the setting and plot is so simple, and yet so elegant)
• ☑ Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (Yooo, another melodrama! But damn, reminded me of this one specific movie called malena, though they are completely unrealated, I always pictured her)
• ☑ Franz Kafka - The Trail (Man this was haunting. Led me into a deeper study of absurdism and kafkaesque writing styles. You know, any screenplay I thought of since, always had this element)
• ☑ Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis (Another one of Kafka's "you can't control, you will die" novels.)
• ☑ Samuel R. Delany - Dhalgren (The one novel I still can't finish. That's all you need to know about this)
• ☑ Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner (This felt more raw and emotional that most other stories, again a simple plot but expressed nicely. But honestly, nothing too over the top)
• ☑ Stephenie Meyer - The New Moon (I had no intention of reading Twilight books, but I was gifted this for my birthday once. So, might as well. It wasn't too bad, just plain old plain old romance)

And some Self-help books. I didn't really enjoy them much, I read because my dad had a bunch of them in the house

• ☑ Adam Grant - Think Again (Talks about the need to rethink old ideas and ways of thinking. I always took as a message to break conformity and think for yourself)
• ☑ James Clear - Atomic Habits (Who hasn't read it. I found it reminiscent of this one speech given by Admiral McRaven at the University of Texas. Some ideas were nice, like those for removing distractions)
• ☑ Morgan Housel - The psychology of money (Not really self-help I guess, but I don't remember anything that was there in that book. Besides all of them seem like a part of The Intelligent Investor)
• ☑ Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor (How could I not. The OG self-help book. Reading this, I started my investing journey, with the help of my dad of course)

And for my favourite section: Biographies and Autobiographies! I think I will write indivdual sections for those because I have a lot to say about them.