Reading List - 2023

 For the first time ever, I managed to read as many non-fiction titles as I did fiction, in a year. And I found that these very well-recommended titles deserved all the praise they got from others. Well, most of them. 

Here's the list- 

  1. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson

  2. The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel

  3. What got you here won’t get you there – Marshall Goldsmith

  4. The Richest Man in Babylon – George S Classon

  5. Nudge – Richard H. Thaler

  6. The Compound Effect – Daren Hardy

  7. Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker

  8. Think Again – Adam Grant

  9. The Inugami Curse – Seishi Yokomizo

  10. The Village of Eight Graves – Seishi Yokomizo

  11. The Afghan – Frederick Forsyth

  12. James Moriarty: Consulting Criminal – Andy Weir

  13. Murder House – James Patterson

  14. Moonflower Murders – Anthony Horowitz

  15. Shikhandi – Devdutt Pattanaik

  16. Black Wind – Clive Cussler




Would definitely recommend #3 - 'What got you here...', #7 - 'Why we Sleep' and #8 - 'Think Again' to anyone. Talk about broadening the horizons of one's mind. 

Would certainly NOT recommend #4- 'The Richest Man in Babylon'. Read the blurb, get the general idea and move on. Definitely not worth spending 5 hrs on this elementary read. 

I really should get better at picking good fiction though. 


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Manish
04-Jan-2024
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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