Rishi Chandra
Reading
Writing
Reading
Books I've read, some with notes.
= personal standout
2026
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
2025
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide
Samir Chopra
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino
Under the Midnight Sun
Keigo Higashino
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
The City and its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
The NVIDIA Way
Tae Kim
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
▾
Ultralearning
Scott H. Young
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Norweigan Wood
Haruki Murakami
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
2024
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Tyranny of Merit
Michael J. Sandel
▾
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
A Thousand Brains
Jeff Hawkins
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
▾
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
Chaos
James Gleick
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
What Money Can't Buy
Michael J. Sandel
The Plague
Albert Camus
▾
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Probable Impossibilities
Alan Lightman
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Free Will
Mark Balaguer
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
▾
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
2023
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian
The Master of Go
Yasunari Kawabata
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
▾
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
Death's End
Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The God Equation
Michio Kaku
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima
The Stranger
Albert Camus