Vamsi Krishna

Books

2025

Bhagavad-gita — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ★★★★★
My Gita — Devdutt Pattanaik ★★★★★
Shiva Sutras — Ravi Shankar ★★★☆☆
Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse ★★★★★
The Shiva Sutras — Ranjit Chaudhri ★★★★★
Vivekachudamani — Adi Shankara ★★★★★

The crest jewel of discrimination — a verse-by-verse examination of how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the self from the not-self. Dense, demanding, and the clearest systematic statement of Advaita I’ve read.

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 ★★★★★