Books — Vamsi Krishna

2025

Bhagavad-gita — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ★★★★★

My Gita — Devdutt Pattanaik ★★★★★

Shiva Sutras — Ravi Shankar ★★★☆☆

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse ★★★★★

The Shiva Sutras — Ranjit Chaudhri ★★★★★

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life — Luke Burgis ★★★★★

Not exhaustive, but a really good starting point for the uninitiated. Inspired me to think deeply and carefully about my choices.

Who Am I? The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi — Ramana Maharshi ★★★★★

2023

A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel — Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal ★★★★★

Looking for Alaska — John Green ★★★★☆

The Giving Tree — Shel Silverstein ★★★★★

The Stranger — Albert Camus ★★★★★

2022

1984 — George Orwell ★★★★★

Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl ★★★★★

The Book Thief — Markus Zusak ★★★★★

The Lean Startup — Eric Ries ★★★★★

Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill ★★★★★

Tuesdays with Morrie — Mitch Albom ★★★★★

When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi ★★★★★

2021

Dark Matter — Blake Crouch ★★★★☆

The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel ★★★★★

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson ★★★★★

Vicious — V.E. Schwab ★★★★★

2020

Krishna's Secret — Devdutt Pattanaik ★★★★☆

Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta — Amish Tripathi ★★★★☆

Recursion — Blake Crouch ★★★★★

Scion of Ikshvaku — Amish Tripathi ★★★★★

Sita: Warrior of Mithila — Amish Tripathi ★★★★☆

The Thunderstorm: Shanmukh's First Case — VNS Pavan Kumar ★★★★★

Intriguing and heavily connected. Every element and detail from the beginning gets beautifully woven together in the end. The surprise and the cliffhanger are great.

2019

Deep Work — Cal Newport ★★★★★

Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance ★★★☆☆

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products — Nir Eyal ★★★★★

The Manual for Indian Start-Ups — Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi ★★★★☆

Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely ★★★★★

Rich Dad, Poor Dad — Robert T. Kiyosaki ★★★★★

Zero to One — Peter Thiel ★★★★★