Content Recommendations

Last Updated: October 2025

Books

Food and Agriculture Systems

• 1491 by Charles C Mann
• 1493 by Charles C Mann
• The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C Mann
• The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
• The Oyster War by Summer Brennan
• Cuisine and Empire by Rachel Laudan
• Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money and the Future of Food by Dan Charles
• Salt A World History by Mark Kurlansky
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from nature by Vaclav Smil
• Farm and other F words by Sarak Mock
• The Fish that ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
• Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott
• Drawdown by Paul Hawken and Tom Steyer
• Growing a revolution by David Montgomery

Business & Technology

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon by Brad Stone
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
• Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy by Parker, Alstyne and Chaudary
• Who Gets What and Why by Alvin E. Roth
• How Google Works by Erick Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our world by Kevin Kelly
• WTF What’s the Future and Why it’s up to us by Tim O’Reilly
• Kochland by Christopher Leonard

History

• India A History by John Keay
• Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II by Rana Mitter
• Enemy at the Gates: A Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
• Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam: Fredrik Logevall
• Berlin Diaries by William L Shirer
• The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
• Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns
• The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (American in the World) by Jurgen Osterhammel
• The Color of Time: A New History of the World: 1850-1960 by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral
• The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th century history by David Edgerton
• Conquistadors by Michael Woods
• Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Economics & Social Sciences

• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
• The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
• This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff
• Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
• The Third Pillar: How Markets and States leave the community behind by Raghuram Rajan
• Fault Lines: How hidden fractures still threaten the world economy by Raghuram Rajan
• Economic History of India: 1857-1947 by Tirthankar Roy
• Average is Over: Powering American beyond the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
• The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek
• Individualism and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker

India, Cricket

• India: The Emerging Giant by Arvind Panagriya
• Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
• In spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
• A Corner of a Foreign Field: Indian History of a British Sport by Ram Guha
• The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill

Random topics

• Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
• The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe
• The Emperor of All Maladies by Sidhhartha Mukherjee
• Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
• The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh G Rao

Podcasts

Business and Technology

• Invest like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy
• Dialectic by Jackson Dahl
• Dwarkesh Podcast by Dwarkesh Patel
• Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
• Odd Lots by Bloomberg

History

• Hardcore History by Dan Carlin
• Empire by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand
• The Rest is History

Economics and Social Sciences

• Conversations with Tyler by Tyler Cowen
• Econtalk with Russ Roberts
• The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
• The Hope Axis by Anna Gat

India, Cricket

• The Seen and The Unseen by Amit Varma
• Ideas of India by Shruti Rajagopalan

Food and Agriculture Systems

• Future of Agriculture by Tim Hammerich