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)