The following are notes, synopses and reflections on some of the books/publications I have read/studied. They are ordered by subject. General nonfiction is any nonfiction work not belonging to any other category.
This page is still under construction and some notes may be missing.
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Literature
- History, prehistory and big history
- Evolutionary biology
- General nonfiction
- Derbyshire, Prime Obsession
- Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind
- Gaarder, Sophie's World
- Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Thoreau, Walden
- Dante, Divine Comedy
- Dickens, David Copperfield
- Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead
- Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
- Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations
- Gibran, The Prophet
- Homer, Iliad
- Homer, Odyssey
- Proust, In Search of Lost Time
- Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Chandra & co., India's Struggle for Independence
- Chandra & co., India After Independence
- Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Graeber, Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
- Harari, Sapiens
- Kamei, History of Manipur
- Tuchman, The Guns of August
- Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
- Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype
- Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
- Futuyma, Evolution
- Lane, The Vital Question
- Shubin, Your Inner Fish
- Weiner, The Beak of the Finch
- Bhatia, Elements of Educational Psychology
- Carson, Silent Spring
- Laxmikanth, Indian Polity
- Livio, Brilliant Blunders