A Comprehensive Book List - Day 75
April 26, 2022•760 words
I've compiled a list of books from all the categories I'm interested in, and I'll add books here as I find them later, but for now, here they are:
(I’ll add all the author’s names soon)
History and economics:
- Freakonomics - Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
- A History of the World in 100 objects - Neil Macgregor
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
- Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World - Nicholas Ostler
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan
Psychology & Life:
- 12000 dreams interpreted
- The Body - Bill Bryson
- Ikigai - Hector Garcia
- In defense of food - Michael Pollan
- Atomic habits - James Clear
- The road less traveled - M. Scott Peck
- Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Deep work - Cal Newport
- The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Green
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Alternative Health:
- Acupuncture Points Handbook: A Patient's Guide to the Locations and Functions of over 400 Acupuncture Points
- Holistic anatomy - Pip Waller
- Understanding Human Nature - Richard Brook
- Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice Book - Ann Swanson
- Breath - James Nestor
- Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World
- Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care
- Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science
- Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine
- The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine, Movement, Massage, Meditation, Breathing
East and West:
- Psychotherapy, East and West
- Eastern Influences on Western Philosophy
- Middle Way Philosophy 4: The Integration of Belief
- Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self
Urdu books & anthologies:
- A thousand yearnings
- The greatest Urdu stories ever told
- Hazaron khwaishen aisi
- An anthology of modern Urdu poetry
- Aag ka Darya
- Urdu ki aakhri kitaab
- Raja Gidh
Entrepreneurship:
- Will it Fly? - Pat Flynn
- 4 hour workweek
- The $100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
- The hard thing about hard things - Ben Horrowitz
- The art of the start
- The lean startup
- Creativity, inc
- The mom test
- The design of everyday things
- Evil by design
- Hooked
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- Start with Why - Simon Sinek
- This is marketing - Seth Godin
Technology:
- The attention merchants
- Digital minimalism - Cal Newport
Fiction:
- The Anarchy - William Darymple
- From the Holy Mountain - William Darymple
- Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors
- Four dervishes - Hammad Rind
- Dune
- The sweetness of tears
Historical Fiction:
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
- Pachinko
- Shogun
- Pillars of the Earth
- One hundred years of solitude
- A gentleman in Moscow
- The Buddha in the attic
- The god of small things
- A long petal of the sea
- The man in the high castle
Religion:
- Believing Women in Islam - Asma Barlas
- A History of God: A 4000-year-old history (Christianity, Judaism, Islam)
- Sexuality in Islam
- Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
- The Prophet - Khalil Jibran
- Rabia Basri
Film-making & writing:
- Everybody writes - Ann Handley
- Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - Natalie Goldberg
- You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One) by Jeff Goins
- On writing - Stephen King
- Story by Robert McKee
- Painting with Light by John Alton
- Cinematography: Theory and Practice: Image Making for Cinematographers and Directors by Blain Brown
- In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch
- The Structure of Story: How to Write Great Stories by Focusing on What Really Matters (Kiingo Storytelling
- Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder