Reading List

Currently Reading

1) In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel
2) The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
3) Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

Articles I Re-read

I Love the University - Aaron Schwartz
The Awfulness of College Lectures - Aaron Schwartz
The Greatness of College Lectures - Aaron Schwartz
Media History Timeline - Major Inventions and Discoveries - J Mcpherson
John Green - Make Gifts for People - ZEN Pencils
C.S Lewis - To Love at all - ZEN Pencils
Playgrounds around the World
Design History of Childhood
Frighteningly Ambitious Start - Up Ideas. Paul Graham
On Entrepreneurial Skill Sets Sebastien Marshall
40 Alternatives to College - Slideshare. James Altucher
Peter's Laws: Creed of the Persistent and Passionate Mind - Peter Diamandis
Google's 8 Innovation Principles - Peter Diamandis
Singularity University - Companies that aim to help a billion people - Peter Diamandis
The World in 2025 - Peter Diamandis
The Cult of Sanga - Kumar Sangakkara's Cricketing Career
Why Education? - Leandro Pisaroni
This is what Self - Directed Learning Looks Like - Catherine Stevens
The Making of an Expert - HBR Article by K Anders Ericcson et al
Fast Company Article - on Sebastien Thurn, Online Learning and Udacity by Max Chafkin
College - Commodity or Community? - Aaron Schwartz
Getting it wrong - Aaron Schwartz
Getting it right - Towards a Theory of Graduated Achievement?- Aaron Schwartz
Lessons from Chilean Student's Movement for Education - Nishant Chhinkwani
Sea Level rise could last twice as long as human history - The Guardian
Rethinking College Admissions - Frank Bruni - New York Times
What Higher Education Should Be For - Barry Schwartz
John Naughton's - Top Ten Books about the Internet
How we Learn Best - Dominic Randolph
What is School? - Dominic Randolph
How Schools Should Change - Max Ventilla
Bright - What's New in Education - Medium
Never Let Schooling Get in the way of Education - Henry Jenkins
66 Medium and High Schools Worth Visiting - Getting Smart

Blogs I love

• ASB Re.Studio Findings - Innovation in Education

• Paris Review -Writer Interviews
• BrainPickings - Maria Popova
• Seth Godin
• Zen Habits
• Mars Dorian - Visual Story-telling
• Chris Guillebeau  - Travel Hacker
• Sebastien Marshall - Strategy and Historical Insights
• Steve Blank - Entrepreneurship and Conservation
• Derek Sivers  - Book Notes and Insights
• Psychology Today Blogs
• Open Culture.com - Great Learning Content Online
• Hugh Mcleod - Cartoons and Creativity
• Paul Graham's Essays - On Start-Ups
• Edutopia - A blog on education
• Cal Newport - Study Habits and Expert Performance
• Austin Kleon - a writer who draws
• Peter Diamandis - Tech Blog
• New York Times - Education Blog - The Learning Network
• The Guardian - Education Blog- Guardian Education
• The New Yorker - Education Archive -Annals of Education

 Reading Lists and Resources

1) Uncollege Resources 
2) Josh Kaufman – Personal MBA Reading List
3) Derek Sivers Book Notes
4) TEDsters Recommend 200 Books - TED.com blog
5) Steve Blank - Books for Start-Ups
6) Harvard Book Store - Top 100 Books Reading List
7) Harvard College Admissions Reading List
8) Stanford Business School - Reading List
9) Joe Hanson - Reading List for Books on Science
10) Comparative Politics - Reading List - Yale University
11) E- books Online (600)  @ Open Culture

Brainpicking Articles 

1) Annie Dillard on Reclaiming our Capacity for Joy and Wonder 

2) Peter Mendel and What the World Eats
3) Ann Patchett on Writing and Self Forgiveness
4) Marina Abhramovic on Turning Trauma to Power
5) Delacroix on The Importance of Solitude for Creative Work
6) Virginia Woolf on How to Read
7) The Storm and the Whale - An Illustrated Children's Story
8) The Harvey Milk Story - Illustrated Book by Kari Krakow
9) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's - 24 Favorite Books
10) Writers on Keeping a Diary 
11) Commencement Speeches and Life Lessons
12) Playgrounds around the World
13) Design History of Childhood
14) William Styron on Education and Writing
15) The Creative Experience
16) How we got to Now - Steven Johnson

Paris Review - Art of Fiction Interviews

1) Salman Rushdie - Until you know who you are, you can't write

Books @ 14

1) 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a magical village filled with intriguing characters
2) Sacred Games – Vikram Chandra on gangsters, policemen and life in Mumbai
3) The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint Exupery on a little prince and a beautiful adventure
4) Born to Run – Christopher Mcdougall on a tribe that loves running
5) Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer description of an everest climb by an everest climber
6) The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant a perfect introduction to the world of philosophy
7) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho a seeker's journey
8) Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin the best Political biography I have read
9) God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy characters and style that make you want to re-read the book
10) Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts Mumbai and a book that made me love the city more
11) Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson history of science from the start of time
12) In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel a memoir about neuroscience research by a neuroscientist
13) Mind's New Science - Howard Gardner first full scale history of the cognitive science revolution
14) The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise - K Anders Ericcson on expert performance studies

Books and Resource Websites on Learning and Education 

• Emile – Jean Jacques Rousseau
• The Underground History of American Education - John Taylor Gatto
• Dumbing Us Down - John Taylor Gatto
• How Children Fail – John Holt
• Summerhill - A.S Neill
• History of Education in Modern India - Suresh Chandra Ghose
• Out of Our Minds - Learning to be Creative – Ken Robinson
• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – Ken Robinson
• Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World - Dr Tony Wagner
• The Global Achievement Gap: Why even our best schools don't teach what the children need, and what we can do about it  - Dr Tony Wagner
• The Education of Millionaires: It’ Not What You Think and It is Not Too Late – Michael Eisenberg
• Hacking Your Education: Ditch Your Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will – Dale Stephens
• Grace Llewellyn The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education – Grace Llewellyn
• Free to Learn: Why Unleashing The Instinct to Play Will Make our Children Happier, More Self Reliant and Better Students for Life – Dr. Peter Gray
• Stop Stealing Dreams – Seth Godin (Manifesto)
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
• A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a world of constant change - Douglas Adams and John Seely Brown
• DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the coming transformation of Higher Education - Anya Kamenetz
• Five Minds for the Future - Dr Howard Gardner
• On Education - Bertrand Russel
• Program for International Student Assessment - PISA - Key Findings Documents - 2000-2012
• National Knowledge Commission -India - Reports and Recommendations
• ASER - Annual Status of Education Report - India - Surveys and Publication - 2005 - 2013
• Ministry of Human Resource and Development, India - Documents and Reports - 2004 - 2014
• National Achievment Survey - Class III - Report - MHRD, India
• National Policy on Education Report NCERT - Document - 1986
• National Curriculum Framework - Position Papers and Frameworks - NCERT - 1975 -2005
• District Information System of Education - Annual District and State Reports
• National Council for Teacher Education - NCFTE - Reports - 2010
• National Family Health Survey - NFHS - Reports - 1992 - 2014


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Non Fiction

General Non - Fiction

• Born to Run – Christopher Mcdougall on a Tribe that loves running
• What I Talk about When I Talk about Running – Haruki Murakami a memoir about running
• Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer the story of Christopher Mccandies
• Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer the story of an Everest Climb by an Everest Climber
• Bill Bryson Books. Loved A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Enquiry into Values by Robert m Pirsig on the road as a metaphor for life

History, Policy and Politics

• Plato's Republic
• Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our times - Caroll Quigley
• Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Audacity of Hope – Barrack Obama
• Curfewed Night - Basharat Peer
• Pakistan: A Personal History – Imran Khan
• India Grows at Night - A Liberal Case for a Strong State - Gurcharan Das

Psychology

• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Far from the tree – Andrew Soloman
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert P Cialdini
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success -  Carol Dweck
• The Time Paradox – John Boyd and Philip Zimbardo
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikmentsayi
• Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
• How To Create a Mind - Secret of Human Thought Revealed - Ray Kurzweil
• Love: What is Life All About by Leo Buscaglia
• Wisdom of Compassion by Dalai Lama
• The Professional: Defining The New Standard of Excellence at Work - Subroto Bagchi
• Wisdom of Crowds - James Suroweicki

Travel Writing and Places

• A Time of Gifts - Patrick Le Ferme

• A Lost Continent - Bill Bryson

Technology

• Physics of the Future – Michio Kaku
• What Technology Wants – Kevin Kelly
• The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil

Science

• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel (History of Neuroscience and Memoir of a neuroscientist)

Ideas and Trends

• A Whole New Mind – Why Right Brainers will rule the future – Daniel Pink
• The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink – The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
• Quiet: Power of Introverts In a world that cannot stop talking – Susan Cain
• Impact Equation – Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
• Mastery – Robert Greene
• The Wisdom of Crowds – James Suroweicki
• The Thank You Economy - Gary Vaynerchuck

Biographies and Memoirs

• Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta – Chaturvedi Badrinath
• Walden – Henry David Thoreau
• Steve Jobs – By Walter Isaacson
• Losing My Virginity – Richard Branson
• Open – Andre Agassi
• A Stolen Life – A Memoir – Jaycee Duggard
• Total Recall – Arnold Schwarznegger
• Life Without Limits - Nick Vujicic
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Bookless in Baghdad – Shashi Tharoor

Philosophy and Thinkers

• The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant
• Vedanta Treatise – Artha Parasarathy
• Total Freedom – Jiddu Krishnamurthi
• Wings of Fire – APJ Abdul Kalam
• Philosophy: Who Needs It? - Ayn Rand

Mythology and Spirituality 

• Tao Te Ching
• A Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
• The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers
• Change your thought, Change your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao – Dr Wayne Dyer
• Dhammapada
• Bhagavad Gita 
• Jaya – An Illustrated Re-Telling of the Mahabharata - Devdutt Pattnaik
• Gospel of Paramhansa Ramakrishna
• Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• Difficulty of Being Good – Gurcharan Das
• You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

Sociology and Culture

• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• The Culture Code – Clotaire Rapaille
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

Productivity, Lifestyle Design and Habits

• 4 Hour Work Week: Escape Nine to Five, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich – Tim Ferris
• Corporate Chanakya – Radhakrishnan Pillai
• Maximum Achievement – Brian Tracy
• The Power of Less – Leo Babuata
• Awaken the Giant Within – Tony Robbins
• Unlimited Power – Tony Robbins
• The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch
• The Little Book of Talent – Daniel Coyle
• Over The Top – Zig Ziglar
• Search Inside Yourself – Chad Meng Te
• Re Work - Jason Fried
• The Power of Intention - Dr Wayne Dyer

Entrepreneurship and Business 

• Delivering Happiness – A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
• Start Something That Matters – Blake Mycoskie
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life, Without Losing its Soul - Howard Schultz
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon with Brad Stone
• The 100$ Startup: Re-Invent the Way you make a living, Do what you love and Create a New Future – Chris Guillebeau
• How I braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Company – Varun Agarwal
• Business Stripped Bare – Richard Branson
• Reality Check – Guy Kawasaki
• Crush It: Why Now is the Time to Cash in on your Passion - Gary Vaynerchuck
• Young Entrepreneur World - Sabirul Islam
• Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions - Guy Kawasaki
• The Lean Start Up - How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to create radically Successful Businesses - Eric Reis
• Founders at Work - Stories of Start-Ups Early Days - Jessica Livingstone
• High Performance Entrepreneur: Golden Rules for Success in Today's World - Subroto Bagchi
• Go Kiss the World: Life Lessons for the Young Entrepreneur - Subroto Bagchi
• Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth - Subroto Bagchi
• Zen Garden: Conversation with Path Makers - Subroto Bagchi

Communication - Presentation and Writing

• Made to Stick – Chip and Dan Heath
• Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds
• The Definitive Book of Body Language – Allan and Barbara Pease
• Stephen King on Writing
• Confessions of a Public Speaker – Scott Berkun
• Elements of Style – William Strunk Jr., E.B White, Roger Angell

Sales, Social Media, Marketing and Branding

• Psychology of Selling – Brain Tracy
• The Ultimate Sales Machine – Chet Holmes
• Linchpin – Are You Indispensible? – Seth Godin
• Purple Cow – Seth Godin
• All Marketers are Liars - Seth Godin
• Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy

Story-Telling

• Jab, Jab, Jab Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World - Gary Vaynerchuck
• You, Inc – The Art of Selling Yourself – Harry Beckwith
• The Start Up of You - Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It is Grown. Here is How - Daniel Coyle

Creativity and Innovation

• Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono
• The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Austin Klien
• Ignore Everybody and 30 Other Keys to Creativity - Hugh Mcleod

Leadership

• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
• Bhagavad Gita – As It Is
• Tribes – Seth Godin
• The Leader with No Title – Robin Sharma
• On Becoming a Leader - Warren Bennis

Crowdsourcing

• The Wisdom of Crowds – James Suroweicki
• Wikinomics – Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
• Crowdsourcing – Jeff Howe

Economics, Management and Finance

• Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
• Capital in the Twenty First Century - Thomas Piketty
• Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - EF Schumacher
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and other Don’t – Jim Collins
• Great By Choice - Jim Collins
• Re-Imagine: Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age – Tom Peters
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Niall Ferguson

Customer Service

• Delivering Happiness – A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
• Up Your Service 3 Book Series by Ron Kaufman 

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Fiction 

• Sacred Games – Vikram Chandra
• 100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• On the Road – Jack Kerouac
• The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint Exupery
• The Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpha Lahiri
• Arzee the Dwarf – Chandrahans Choudhary
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

Poetry

• The Essential Rumi: New Expanded Edition by Jalal al Din Rumi, Coleman Barks and John Moyne
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
• Sunshine Lanes - Prasoon Joshi
• Quiver: Poems and Ghazals by Javed Akhtar

Magazines

• TIME
• Economist
• The Caravan
• Entrepreneur.com
• Wired
• The Hindu
• The Indian Express

Would love to know what you are reading? Do comment with any recommendations. We can become book buddies and recommend good reads to each other.