Bookshelf

Some of my favorite books that I’ve read

Indian History

  • Smoke and Ashes (Amitav Ghosh)

  • Indian Summer (Alex von Tunzelmann)

  • The Anarchy (William Dalrymple)

  • India after Gandhi (Ramachandra Guha)

  • The Billionaire Raj (James Crabtree)

Economic/Financial History

  • Crude Volatility (Bob McNally)

  • Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street's four great bottoms (Russell Napier)

  • The Prize (Daniel Yergin)

  • The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson)

  • Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Tom Zoellner)

  • American Colossus (H.W. Brands)

Business History

  • Private Empire (Steve Coll)

  • Hard Landing (Thomas Petzinger)

  • The World for Sale (Javier Blas)

  • Saving the Sun (Gillian Tett)

  • Cable Cowboy (Mark Robichaux)

  • Dream Big (Cristiane Correa)

  • Never Settle on Your Ores (Norman Keevil)

Middle Eastern History

  • A Line in the Sand (Robert Parr)

  • Lords of the Desert (Robert Parr)

  • Blood and Sand (Alex von Tunzelmann)

Ancient History

  • The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire (Edward Luttwak)

Investing

  • Soros on Soros (George Soros)

  • Capital Returns (Edward Chancellor)

  • The Joy of Compounding (Gautam Baid)

  • The Model: 37 Years Investing in Asian Equities (Richard Lawrence)

  • UnCommoditized: Uncommon Ideas for Commoditized Markets (Gerrit Reepmeyer and Saikat Dey)

  • Buffett's Early Investments (Brett Gardner)

  • Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (Andrew Kilpatrick)

Entrepreneurship/Technology Business

  • Rework (David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried)

  • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Jessica Livingston)

  • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (Al Ries and Jack Trout)

  • eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (Randall Stross)

  • Softwar (Matthew Symonds)

  • The Making of Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner)

  • Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)

Biographies

  • The Polyester Prince (Hamish McDonald)

  • Titan (Ron Chernow)

  • The King of Oil (Daniel Ammann)

Science/Technology

  • How the World Was One (Arthur Clarke)

Politics/Political History/Political Science

  • Unbelievable (Katy Tur)

  • The End of Power (Moises Naim)

Miscellaneous

  • Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook (Edward Luttwak)