Nerve Endings Firing Away

by Pratik

Books I am currently reading

The Iliad by Homer
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by William Bryson
Life: A User's Manual by Julian Baggini

Read in 2024

Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse by Maya Phillips
Cultures of Growth by Mary C. Murphy
Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
The Every by Dave Eggers
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

Read in 2023

Effortless by Greg McKeown
Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
The Survivors by Jane Harper
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
Taste by Stanley Tucci
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, PhD
Couch Fiction by Philippa Perry
EXILES. by JANE. HARPER
Force of Nature by Jane Harper
How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy
Finding Me by Viola Davis
I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
The Dry by Jane Harper
An Immense World by Ed Yong
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban
Chatter by Ethan Kross
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
How to Walk a Dog by Mike White
The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink
A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
A World Without Email by Cal Newport
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Blood, Sweat & Chrome by Kyle Buchanan
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
It's What I Do by Lynsey Addario
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
Life on Delay by John Hendrickson
Imaginable by Jane McGonigal
The Self-Driven Child by William Stixrud, PhD
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Read in 2022

Indie Microblogging
The Trees: A Novel by Percival Everett
The Maid by Nita Prose
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Paige Harden
Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India by Rukmini S
I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education by Malcolm Gladwell
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
The Case of the Missing Finger by Cheri Baker
Scarred Roses - RakShak Series Book 1 by Preeti Nair-Nayak
Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
Exactly What to Say by Phil Jones
Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Made to Stick by Chip Heath
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Bittersweet by Susan Cain
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Expectation Effect by David Robson
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
War Minus The Shooting : A journey through South Asia during the 1996 Cricket World Cup by Mike Marqusee

Read in 2021

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
Ratchetdemic by Christopher Emdin
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
A Lonely Man by Chris Power
The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Medicus by Ruth Downie
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Fred P. Hochberg
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Read in 2020

Annihilation of Caste by Bhimrao R Ambedkar
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lock In by John Scalzi
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Won’t Lose This Dream by Andrew Gumbel
Educated by Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing Deluxe Edition by Delia Owens
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Atomic Habits by James Clear
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Range by David Epstein
The Last Emperox by JOHN. SCALZI
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee
The Body by Bill Bryson
Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Moriarty by ANTHONY. HOROWITZ
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Recursion by Blake Crouch
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Years That Matter Most by Paul Tough
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Read in 2019

How To by Randall Munroe
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty
The Fourth Monkey by J. D. Barker
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
The World According To Garp by John Irving
The Other End of the Leash by Patricia McConnell, Ph.D.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Happiness by Aminatta Forna
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Originals by Adam Grant
The Art of Community by Charles Vogl
Upheaval by Jared Diamond
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Night by Elie Wiesel
On Writing by Stephen King
Get Some Headspace by Andy Puddicombe
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Becoming by Michelle Obama
So Here's the Thing . . . by Alyssa Mastromonaco
Life After Suicide by Jennifer Ashton, M.D.
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Rework by Jason Fried
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Lab Rats by Dan Lyons
Artemis by Andy Weir
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Soucouyant by David Chariandy
Making Sense of People by Samuel Barondes
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Silicon City by Cary McClelland
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Lead Yourself First by Raymond M. Kethledge
Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik
The Book of Beautiful Questions by Warren Berger
The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith
Still Lives by Maria Hummel
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) by Min Jin Lee
Small Animals by Kim Brooks
Ikigai by Héctor García
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Lieber
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton

Read in 2018

The President Is Missing by James Patterson
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
The Circle by Dave Eggers
The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
The Genius Plague by David Walton
The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree
Neither here nor there by Bill Bryson
Origin by Dan Brown
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Read in 2017

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Read in 2016

A Brief History of Creation by Bill Mesler
The Martian by Andy Weir
Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
The Whites by Harry Brandt
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

Read in 2015

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quiet by Susan Cain
A Nation of Nations by Tom Gjelten
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Read in 2014

What If? by Randall Munroe
One Summer by Bill Bryson
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Bossypants by Tina Fey
One and Only by Lauren Sandler
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
The Sceptical Patriot by Sidin Vadukut
All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg

Books I want to read

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar
The Fund by Rob Copeland
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by RenŽ Girard
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
A Failure of Nerve by Edwin H. Friedman
Radical Inclusion by David Moinina Sengeh
A More Just Future by Dolly Chugh
Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter) by Steve Krug
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
The Shallows by Nicholas G. Carr
How to Change by Katy Milkman
Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Green Metropolis by David Owen
Run to Win: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World by Stephanie Schriock
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
Teaching To Transgress by Bell Hooks
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One Life is Not Enough by K. Natwar-Singh
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter by Paul J. Steinhardt
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them by Shakil Choudhury
Ignorance: How it drives science by Stuart Firestein
Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs by Lauren A. Rivera
Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Books I abandoned reading

The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
On the Road (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac
How Money Became Dangerous: The Inside Story of Our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance by Christopher Varelas
The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Calm the F*ck Down: How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On With Your Life (A No F*cks Given Guide Book 4) by Sarah Knight