Books

I love reading both non-fiction (popular science and history) as well as fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers). Some of my favorite books/authors -

• Foundation trilogy by Issac Asimov
• Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
• The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Lost River: On the Trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino
• Genome by Matt Ridley
• Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling
• The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
• The Man Who Knew Infinity Robert Kanigel
• Asterix and Obelix by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• The Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• A World Without Time by Palle Yourgrau
• The Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Entanglement by Amir Aczel
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Everything is Obvious by Duncan Watts
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• One, Two, Three … Infinity by George Gamow
• Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Chronotantra by Prithwis Mukerjee

This list would be incomplete without mentioning some writers whose books and stories I enjoy in general. These include:

• R. K. Narayan
• Ruskin Bond
• Isaac Asimov
• Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
• Roald Dahl
• Arthur Clarke
• P. G. Wodehouse