Last Updated: May 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
Food and Agriculture Systems
- Future of Agriculture by Tim Hammerich
Business and Technology
- Invest like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy
History
- Hardcore History by Dan Carlin
- Empire by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand
Economics and Social Sciences
- Conversations with Tyler by Tyler Cowen
- Econtalk with Russ Roberts
- The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
India, Cricket
- The Seen and The Unseen by Amit Varma
- Ideas of India by Shruti Rajagopalan