Part A
Self-discovered books. Picked them up after reading the summary. The main focus was to learn more about religion, philosophy, and a little bit of psychology, politics and love.
History
- The Last Jew of Treblinka ― Chil Rajchman
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World―Jack Weatherford
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus ― Charles C. Mann
- The Wonder That Was India ― Arthur Llewellyn Basham .
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics ― Tim Marshall
Classics / Non Fiction
Philosophy
- The Myth of Sisyphus ― Albert Camus
- Nausea ― Jean-Paul Sartre
- Steppenwolf ― Hermann Hesse
- What is Called Thinking? ― Martin Heidegger
- The Stranger ― Albert Camus
- The Wisdom of Insecurity ― Alan Watts
- The Book of Disquiet ― Fernando Pessoa
- Meditations ― Marcus Aurelius
- Critique of Pure Reason ― Immanuel Kant
- Who am I? ― Sri Ramana Maharshi
- Mortality ― Christopher Hitchens
- At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails ― Sarah Bakewell
- On Love ― Alain De Botton
- The Plague ― Albert Camus
- Tao Te Ching ― Lao Tzu
- A History of Western Philosophy ― Bertrand Russell
- Poetry, Language, Thought ― Martin Heidegger
- Being and Time ― Martin Heidegger
- On Violence ― Hannah Arendt
- Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown ― Alan W. Watts
Science / Philosophy
- The Demon-Haunted World ― Carl Sagan
- A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing ― Lawrence M. Krauss
- The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God- Carl Sagan
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ― Thomas S. Kuhn
Religion
- God Is Not Great ― Christopher Hitchens
- God Delusion ― Richard Dawkins
- Outgrowing God ― Richard Dawkins
- Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources ― Martin Lings
- History of God ― Karen Armstrong
- The Great Divorce ― C.S. Lewis
- God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist ― Victor J. Stenger
- Atheism: The Case Against God ― George H. Smith
- Why I am Not a Muslim ― Ibn Warraq
- Islam: A Short History ― Karen Armstrong
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason ― Sam Harris
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith ― Jon Krakauer
Spirituality / Philosophy
- A Search In Secret India ― Paul Brunton
- The Dhammapada ― Ananda Maitreya
- The Way of Zen ― Alan W. Watts
- The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi ― Ramana Maharshi
Politics
- Manufacturing Consent ― Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Fascism: A Warning ― Madeleine K. Albright
Classics / Literature / Fiction / Contemporary
- Persuasion ― Jane Austen
- Something Wicked This Way Comes ― Ray Bradbury
- The Sirens of Titan ― Kurt Vonnegut
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ― Jonathan Safran Foer
- Dandelion Wine ― Ray Bradbury
- A Passage to India ― E.M. Forster
Psychology
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion ― Jonathan Haidt
- Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are ― Daniel Nettle
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions ― Dan Ariely
- The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty ― Simon Baron-Cohen
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Part B
On Instagram, I asked for the recommendations, and received tons of suggestions., but I found two books interesting.
- Metamorphosis ― Franz Kafka
- Outliers ― Malcolm Gladwell
- 1984 George Orwell
- Animal Farm George Orwell
The last two books were suggested by one of my friends during a conversation. She also introduced me to George Orwell’s work. I’m also thankful to my another friend who introduced me to Kafka’s work.
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Part C
A few more books that I came across and skimmed through the pages. They are in my reading list. I do have read the summary, dozens of quotes, and watched videos based on them if they were available.
- Crime and Punishment ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Idiot ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Kite Runner ― Khaled Hosseini
- The 48 Laws of Power ― Robert Greene
- The Castle ― Franz Kafka
- War and Peace ― Leo Tolstoy
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison ― Michel Foucault
In case you’re reading this -
Don’t get intimidated by the number of books. The only reason I could read them is due to the lockdown. I had nothing better to do, and that’s why I could explore this dimension. I’m not an avid reader, but as I mentioned earlier - I like the idea of having something read. Nothing more, nothing less. This is where it ends.