{"id":710,"date":"2023-01-20T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaymreddy.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:17:19","slug":"reading-aspirations-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaymreddy.com\/reading-aspirations-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Aspirations for 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the longest time, i&#8217;ve mostly focused on reading sci-fi. This year, i want to try and change &#8211; i want to read older books still relevant for today, regardless of the genre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked for suggestions on twitter, linkedin and here are the books i was recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a long list, and hopefully a worthy one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Management: High Output Management, Mythical Man Month<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Psychology: Influence (Robert Cialdini), Thinking Fast and Slow (Dan Kahneman)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Money: Freakonomics, Lying for Money<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dystopian: Animal Farm (Orwell), Brave New World (this one is a classic but I found it ok)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fantasy: The Bartimaeous Trilogy (Johnathan Stroud &#8211; I love these books because of the narration style)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flowers for Algernon (1959) &#8211; an absolutely readable classic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raag Darbaari (1968) &#8211; Srilal Shukla<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On Photography (1973) &#8211; Susan Sontag<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yuganta (1967) &#8211; Irawati Karve<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anything by Saadat Hasan Manto<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>old travelogues by Dervla Murphy and Eric Newby<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>brave new world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>silent spring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophie&#8217;s World<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Catcher in the Rye<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jed Mckenna?s theory of everything<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anna Kareninna &#8211; Le?n Tolstoi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephan Wolf- Hermann Hesse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cien a?os de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)- Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Gene for Bio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carlo Rovelli for Physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Das Kapital? Karl Marx<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wealth of Nations?Adam Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A brief history of time? Hawking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Uses of literacy? Hoggart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Origin of species ? Darwin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Orientalism?Said<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The republic? Plato<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>War and peace? Tolstoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Swami and his friends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Siddhartha, Herman Hesse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zen mind beginners mind, Shunryu Suzuki<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The second sex, Simone de Beauvoir<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bhagvad Gita<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thirukurral by Thiruvalluvar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yuganta (1967) &#8211; Irawati Karve<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mahaswetha devi&#8217;s After Kurukshetra<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Valmik&#8217;s women (based on Ramayana women)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aranyak by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the longest time, i&#8217;ve mostly focused on reading sci-fi. 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