Books I Read In 2021

Career, Startup & Biography

• Catalyst: The ultimate strategies on how to win at work and in life - Chandramouli Venkatesan

• The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less - Sahil Lavingia

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance

• Wings of Fire: An Autobiography - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari

• Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography - Usain Bolt

Data, Cloud & Cryptocurrency

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications

• Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10

• Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

• The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum

• The Internet of Money Volume 1,2,3 - Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Life, Living & Mindset

• I Hate Running and You Can Too: How to Get Started, Keep Going, and Make Sense of an Irrational Passion - Brendan Leonard

• The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way - Hector Garcia Puigcerver

• Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing - Pete Davis

• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? - Seth Godin

• Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - NN Taleb

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - NN Taleb

• The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day - Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love - Cal Newport

• The Art of the Good Life - Rolf Dobelli

• Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It - Ethan Cross

• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work - Chip Heath, Dan Heath

• The Comfort Book - Matt Haig

Personal Finance

• Let’s Talk Money - Monika Halan

• The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

• Your Money or Your Life - Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez

Non-Fiction

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

• Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari

• Humankind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman

• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - David Deutsch

• The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - Nicholas Carr

Fiction

• The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak

• The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

• Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

• After Dark - Haruki Murakami

• First Person Singular: Stories - Haruki Murakami

• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

• Manto: Selected Stories - Saadat Hasan Manto

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