Despite being an avid user of Goodreads, I keep track of books I am reading and read here. Recommendations are in maroon:

What I'm reading now:

On the deck to read:

• Truly Like Lightning: A Novel by David Duchovny.
• Why I am so Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche.
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins.
• V. by Thomas Pynchon

2024

• My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
• ★★★★★ Nenu by Brahmanandam.
• ★★★★☆ Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.

2023

• ★★★☆☆ Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.
• ★★★★☆ Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance.
• ★★★★☆ Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Thomas L. Griffiths.
• ★★★★☆ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez.
• ★★★★☆ Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.
• ★★★★☆ How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton.
• ★★★★☆ The Garden State by Gary Krist.
• The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner.
• ★★★★★ A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner.
• ★★★★★ Light in August by William Faulkner.
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
• ★★★★☆ Candide by Voltaire.
• ★★★☆☆ Point Omega by Don DeLillo.

In 2022

• ★★★★☆ Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit by Charles Bukowski.
• ★★★★☆ What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami.
• Intercom on Product Management by Des Traynor.
• This Is Water by David Foster Wallace.
• ★★★★☆ Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
• ★★★★★ Deep Focus: Reflections On Cinema by Satyajit Ray.
• The Lilies of the Field by William Edmund Barrett.
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
• ★★★★☆ Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk.
• ★★★☆☆ Naa Ishtam by Ram Gopal Varma.
• City of Thieves by David Benioff.
• ★★★★☆ My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett.
• ★★★★★ The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace.

In 2021

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling.
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. [3]
• ★★★★☆ Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.
• Conversations with Mani Ratnam by Baradwaj Rangan.
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty.
• ★★★★☆ Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King.
• Me by Elton John.
• ★★★★☆ Animal Farm by George Orwell.
• ★★★☆☆ The Dip by Seth Godin.
• ★★★★★ Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah.
• ★★★☆☆ Notes of a Dream: The Authorized Biography of A.R. Rahman by Krishna Trilok.
• ★★★★☆ On Writing by Ernest Hemingway.
• ★★★★☆ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• ★★★★☆ Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg.
• ★★★★☆ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. [2]
• ★★★☆☆ Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller.
• We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange.

In 2020

• ★★★★☆ Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson.
• ★★★☆☆ The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett.
• The Art Of War by Sun Tzu.
• ★★★★☆ Women by Charles Bukowski.
• ★★★★★ Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama.
• ★★★★☆ The days run away like wild horses over the hills by Charles Bukowski.
• Educated by Tara Westover.
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden.
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.
• ★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling.
• ★★★★☆ Complications: Notes from the life of a young Surgeon by Atul Gawande.
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.
• ★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling.
• ★★★★★ Can't hurt me by David Goggins.
• ★★★★☆ Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
• Becoming by Michelle Obama.
• ★★★☆☆ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
• Greenlights by Mathew McConaughey.
• Harry Potter and the order of Phoenix by J.K Rowling.
• ★★★★☆ South of No North by Charles Bukowski.
• ★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling.

In 2019

• When Breathe becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. [2]
• ★★★★☆ Post Office by Charles Bukowski.
• ★★★★★ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K.Rowling.
• ★★★★☆ Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella.
• ★★★★★ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway.
• ★★★★☆ Holy Cow by David Duchovny.
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight.
• ★★★☆☆ Poke the Box by Seth Godin.
• ★★★★☆ The Stranger by Albert Camus.

In 2018

• ★★★★☆ Anthem by Ayn Rand.
• When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. [1]
• Hollywood by Charles Bukowski.
• ★★★★☆ Less than zero by Ellis Bret Easton
• ★★★★☆ Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life by Richard Branson.
• ★★★★★ Mr. Robot: Red Wheelbarrow: (eps1.91_...) by Sam Esmail, Courtney Looney.
• How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing... Jimmy.O.Yang.
• ★★★★☆ The Universe Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You by Johnny B. Truant

In 2017

• ★★★★★ Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
• ★★★★☆ Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Sadhguru.
• ★★★★★ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive... by Mark Manson.
• ★★★☆☆ The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling... by Robin S. Sharma.