Bookshelf
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” - Napoleon
My heart has been consumed by an unyielding desire for conquest, a flame ignited by the depths of my soul, yearning to breach the very limits of my being. In the darkest moments of despair, when no man graced my path, no master ushered his guidance, I embarked on a fervent quest for such titans of history. Oh! To emulate their courage, to decimate my arch nemisis, to tread the unknown trail, to take grip of a dream that burns my hand, to do what no one dreamed of doing!
It was within the sacred pages of history that I discovered these legends, those who defied their crippling obstacles, achieved feats so monumental that the world penned endless pages in their memory. The tales of their bravery have been etched into the very fabric of our existence, shaping the folklore and films that permeate our collective consciousness and capture the essence of what we hold most dear.
These books, like loyal companions, more loyal than any man, any woman, any animal, they whisper their wisdom to me, and I embrace their words with a fervor that knows no bound.
- The Odyssey
- Bang-e-Dara: Call of the Marching Bell
- Napoleon
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Faust
- Sorrows of Young Werther
- Meditations
- Nicholas and Alexandra: Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
- Julie
- Deep Work
- Beloved
- Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives (Chapter on Caesar is worth reading. A true eye opener.)
- The Iliad
- Ghost Wars
- Directorate S
- Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built
- Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
- The Tatas
- The Lord of the Rings
- Hobbit: There and back again
- Sense and Sensibility
- Wuthering Heights
- Napoleon: A Life
- Pakistan: A Personal History
- Plassey:The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History
- Grokking Deep Learning: A smooth beginner's guide to DL
- Steve Jobs
- The Confessions
- 1984
- My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Long Walk To Freedom
- The Book of Sand
- Labyrinths
- The Soul of a New Machine
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Romantics: A novel
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
- The Book of Sand
- This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
- Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
- Linear Algebra and Its Applications
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Talking to my daughter about the economy
- The Second Machine Age
- AI Superpowers
- The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Sehii Plokhy
- The Future is Faster Than You Think
- Dating AI by Alex Zhavoronkov
- The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
- AI 2041: Ten Visions of Our Future
- Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economies of AI
- The Fall of Public Man
- The Power Broker
- Socrates: A Man for Our Times
- All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, From Lincoln to Roosevelt
- Eiesenhower in War and Peace
- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
- Empire State of Mind
- Ukraine and The Art of Strategy
- The 50th Law
- Putin by Philip Short
- Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan
- Cyropedia
- The Weaponization of Everything: The Field Guide to A New Way of War
- The Founders by Jimmy Soni
- The Worldly Philosophers
- The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
- How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History: The Hinge Factor
- Payback by Margert Antwood
- Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
- The Entrepreneurs: The Relentless Quest for Value
- Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- John Mearsheimer
- The Oxford Handbook of Governance
- Smart City Governance
- Digital Governance: New Technologies for Improving Public Service and Participation
- The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (2006)
- The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013)
- The Effortless Economy of Science? (2004)
- Adults in the room
- The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
- The Challenge to NATO: Global Security and the Atlantic Alliance