Books Read 2023

This year was a bad book year. The year I suffered from readers block. So, taking stock of what I read this year. 

Five Seats of Power by Raghu Ananthanarayan

Invaders and Infidels by Sandeep Balakrishna

Hindu Rashtra by Anand Ranganathan

Humble Inquiry by Edgar Schein (re-read)

Navigating Polarities by Brian Emerson and Kelly Lewis

Trust and Inspire Stephen Covey

The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by Admiral William Mc Raven

The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd

Night sky tells the time by Prof V Krishnamurthy

From Manjunath to Manjamma by Harsha Bhatt

Four thousand weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

Seeing Systems by Barry Oshry

The Darkening age: Christian destruction of the classical world by Catherine Nixey

Build by Tony Fadell

I have more books in my to-read list than ever before

A translation of the Kumarasambhava by MR Kale

Shankaras translation of the Viveka Chudamani

Upanishads by Dr. Radhakrishnan

The systems thinker by Albert Rutherford

The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran

Started and given up for now

The India Way by S Jaishankar

Genius Makers Cade Metz

To summarise - my appetite for business and non-fiction remains. Fiction is almost absent in reading this year except for the usual re-reads of old favourites. And I think this is the year when I purchased more digital books than physical books. Plus my OD course meant more OD studies - which is reflected in the list. I am gravitating towards history and Indian epics and shastras.