Following are some of the books (as part of an attempt to have different viewpoints on various topics) that I have read given in random order:
- Perspective Made Easy, Ernest R. Norling
- The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker
- The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking
- Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd
- The Unfolding of Language, Guy Deutscher
- The Holographic Universe, Michael Talbot
- A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
- A Geography of Time, Robert Levine
- The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner
- Through the Language Glass, Guy Deutscher
- The World as I See It, Albert Einstein
- A Universe from Nothing, Lawrence M. Krauss
- The Half-Life of Facts, Samuel Arbesman
- The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
- How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil
- The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr.
- Hands of My Father, Myron Uhlberg
- Relativity: The Special and The General Theory, Albert Einstein
- The Lights in the Tunnel, Martin Ford
- An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins
- Point of Vuth, VuThéara Kham
- The Fifth Mountain, Paulo Coelho
- The Long Tail, Chris Anderson
- Digital Fortress, Dan Brown
- Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore
- The Zahir, Paulo Coelho
- Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
- Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Five Point Something, Chetan Bhagat
- The Cosmic Serpent, Jeremy Narby
- Stories from Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
- The Gardener, Rabindranath Tagore
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J. K. Rowling
- The Hungry Stones and other stories, Rabindranath Tagore
- Apology, Plato
- Ion, Plato
- Color, Betty Edwards
- A Guide to Stoicism, St. George William Joseph Stock
- The Right to Read, Richard M. Stallman
- One Night @ the Call Center, Chetan Bhagat
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
- Everything Forever, Gevin Giorbran
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- Wings of Fire, A P J Abdul Kalam
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- The Fire Gospel, Michel Faber
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
- A Kingdom for the Brave, Tamara McKinley
- Indomitable Spirit, A P J Abdul Kalam
- A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift
- The Upanishads
- Dhammapada
- The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
- Songs of Kabir, Kabir
- Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience, William Blake
- Third class in Indian Railways, Mahatma Gandhi
- No House To Call My Home, Ryan Berg
- The Obstacle is The Way, Ryan Holiday
- Enchiridion, Epictetus (Translated by Georg Long)
- We are all weird, Seth Godin
- All
Marketers
are LiarsTell Stories, Seth Godin - Dataclysm, Christian Rudder
- Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford
- Our Final Invention, James Barrat
- World Heritage Sites in Sweden, Swedish National Heritage Board
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
- Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull
- A Golden Tongue to Glorify his Master- Wit and Wisdom of Mar Chrysostom, George C. Abraham
- Design Thinking Methodology Book, Emrah Yayici
- Contagious, Jonah Berger
- Night, Elie Wiesel (Translation by Marion Wiesel)
- The Story of the Nedbalka Gallery, Galéria Nedbalka
- The Business Blockchain, William Mougayar
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
- Inferior, Angela Saini
- A Personal Matter, Kenzaburō Ōe (Translation by John Nathan)
- Decolonising Multilingualism: Struggles to Decreate, Alison Phipps
- Berlin, Germany, Elska
- Jānis Ferdinands Tīdemanis, Ingūna Ģēģere
- MO Museum, MO Museum
- Pride: Photographs after Stonewall, Fred W. McDarrah
- Is Gender Fluid?: A Primer for the 21st Century, Sally Hines
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab
- Martin Luther: His Life and Places of Work, Matthias Gretzschel
- No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg
- Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono
- #republic, Cass R. Sunstein
- The Gay Man's Kama Sutra, Terry Sanderson
- Superior, Angela Saini
- Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai
- The Age of Algorithms, Serge Abiteboul, Gilles Dowek
- The Book of Trees, Manuel Lima
- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photo Poche
- Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas, Jean-Jacques Sempé, René Goscinny
- L'étranger, Albert Camus
- Ma confession, Léon Tolstoï
- Carnets de Thèse, Tiphaine Rivière
- Ma Mère et Moi, Brahim Metiba
- Le Trop Grand Vide d’Alphonse Tabouret, Sibylline, Capucine et Jérôme d’Aviau
- Le Maître de Peinture, Tome 1,2,3, Frédéric Richaud, Pierre Makyo, Michel Faure
- L'Ancien Temps (Tome 1 - Le roi n'embrasse pas) , Joann Sfar
- La Rubrique Scientifique #1, Boulet
- L'Alchimiste, Paulo Coelho
- Paysans, Raymond Depardon
- Le Château dans le ciel, Hayao Miyazaki
- La chambre claire, Roland Barthes
- Alice au pays des Merveilles, Lewis Carroll
- Point Cardinal, Léonor de Récondo
- Petit Pays, Gaël Faye
- 40 LGBT+ qui ont changé le monde, Florent Manelli
- La Bible des Lettres Ornées, Catherine Auguste
- Retour au Collège, Riad Sattouf
- Fils à papa(s), Christophe Beaugrand
- Pédale, Ludovic Piétu & Jika
- Le Génie Lesbien, Alice Coffin
- René·e aux bois dormants, Elene Usdin
- Bartleby le scribe, Jose-Luis Munuera
- Let Them Eat Chaos, Kae Tempest
- Qu'on leur donne le chaos, Kae Tempest
- Histoire de France au féminin , Sandrine Mirza, Blanche Sabbah
- Prendre la parole , Benjamin Delmotte, Alice Méteignier
- Le Mont-Saint-Michel pierre à pierre , Marc Déceneux, Maria-Luisa Levak
- Les âmes du purgatoire , Prosper Mérimée
- Dissidanse rose , Antoine Idier
- Le Traité du narcisse , André Gide
- Le Retour de l’enfant prodigue , André Gide
- Mauvais fils , Raphaële Frier
- La rose donne naissance à une épine et une épine donne naissance à une rose , Soufiane Ababri
- Pureté et impureté de l’art : Michel Journiac et le sida , Antoine Idier
- Poussière d’homme , David Lelait-Helo
- Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel , Pierre Seel, Jean Le Bitoux
- Marqués du triangle rose , Ken Setterington