Nonfiction
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku
- The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
- The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
- The Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Fiction
- The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Swimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
To be continued…