Kirubakaran Athmanathan
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Bookshelf
List of books I've read. The pencil icon means that I've written some notes.
  • 2026
    • 4 books read
  • 2025
    • 10 books read
  • 2024
    • 15 books read
  • 2023
    • 14 books read
  • The Running Grave
  • Project Hail Mary
  • It's Not Luck
  • Fallout
  • Breakaway
  • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  • Brushfire
  • The Ink Black Heart
  • Money for Nothing
  • Never Finished
  • Entangled Life
  • The Hidden Life of Trees
  • Other Minds
  • 2022
    • 8 books read
  • Can't Hurt Me
  • Turn the Ship Around!
  • Mr. Mulliner Speaking
  • Meet Mr. Mulliner
  • Leviathan Falls
  • High Output Management
  • The New New Thing
  • Failing To Win
  • 2021
    • 16 books read
  • Wanting
  • The Inevitable
  • Uncle Fred in the Springtime
  • The Goal
  • Psmith in the City
  • Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
  • Dragon's Egg
  • The Aye-Aye and I
  • Cocktail Time
  • Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
  • Ring for Jeeves
  • The Mating Season
  • Troubled Blood
  • Joy in the Morning
  • Very Good, Jeeves!
  • Squid Empire
  • 2020
    • 17 books read
  • Thank You, Jeeves
  • The Code of the Woosters
  • The Inimitable Jeeves
  • Right Ho, Jeeves
  • My Man Jeeves
  • Summer Moonshine
  • Critical Mass
  • Valkyrie
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  • How to Be Miserable
  • Crossing the Chasm
  • Call Sign Chaos
  • Strategy
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  • The Extreme Life of the Sea
  • Spark
  • Armageddon
  • 2019
    • 33 books read
  • The Body
  • The Worry Trick
  • Calming Your Anxious Mind
  • Indistractable
  • Ultralearning
  • The Vital Abyss
  • Gods of Risk
  • Strange Dogs
  • Before The Exit
  • Tiamat's Wrath
  • Persepolis Rising
  • Babylon’s Ashes
  • Getting Past No
  • The Art of Learning
  • Nemesis Games
  • Cibola Burn
  • Abaddon’s Gate
  • The Practicing Mind
  • Caliban’s War
  • Leviathan Wakes
  • Bad Blood
  • The Garden of the Gods
  • Digital Minimalism
  • Getting to Yes
  • The Sleep Solution
  • Birds, Beasts and Relatives
  • Planetside
  • My Family and Other Animals
  • The Road to Little Dribbling
  • Mindfulness in Plain English
  • Rewire Your Anxious Brain
  • Atomic Habits
  • The Laws of Human Nature
  • 2018
    • 16 books read
  • The Mindbody Prescription
  • Mastery
  • Mavericks
  • Why We Sleep
  • Lethal White
  • The Time Keeper
  • Think Complexity
  • How Will You Measure Your Life?
  • The 48 Laws of Power
  • Zero Hour
  • Creativity
  • The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
  • The Art of Seduction
  • Hungry Ghosts
  • Eat That Frog!
  • The 33 Strategies of War
  • 2017
    • 37 books read
  • Animal Farm
  • 2 B R 0 2 B
  • 2BR02B
  • Everyone Burns
  • Eat People
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Black Ops
  • Burglars Can't Be Choosers
  • Data Science from Scratch
  • You Are Not So Smart
  • Moby-Dick
  • Moby-Dick or, The Whale
  • Trouble on Paradise
  • Paradise
  • SpecOps
  • Columbus Day
  • Boyd
  • Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
  • All These Worlds
  • For We Are Many
  • We Are Legion
  • Flow
  • Ready Player One
  • Mastery
  • Career of Evil
  • Never Split the Difference
  • The Silkworm
  • The Cuckoo's Calling
  • You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
  • Norse Mythology
  • Tuva or Bust!
  • Quarantine
  • Time Enough for Love
  • Neither Here nor There
  • And Then There Were None
  • Start Small, Stay Small
  • 2016
    • 21 books read
  • 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles
  • The Inner Game of Tennis
  • The Dog Stars
  • The Recursive Universe
  • My Brain is Open
  • One Summer
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • The Dip
  • At Home
  • Kings of Kings
  • Blueprint for Armageddon
  • Pitch Anything
  • William Shakespeare
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You
  • The War of Art
  • In a Sunburned Country
  • Cannery Row
  • Traction
  • Deep Work
  • Starship Troopers
  • No Touch Monkey!
  • 2015
    • 13 books read
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Laughter in the Dark
  • Daily Rituals
  • Post Office
  • Axiomatic
  • Wait
  • The Supermen
  • Three Men on the Bummel
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • The Charisma Myth
  • The Game
  • 2014
    • 12 books read
  • Zero to One
  • Lolita
  • Poirot Investigates
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • Murder on the Orient Express
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Three Worlds Collide
  • The Martian
  • Notes from a Small Island
  • Secrets of Consulting
  • Predictable Revenue
  • Endurance
  • 2013
    • 12 books read
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • The Keeper of Lost Causes
  • How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
  • The Golden Transcendence
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • The Phoenix Exultant
  • The Golden Age
  • Schild's Ladder
  • Blondie24
  • The Making of Prince of Persia
  • Accidental Genius
  • The Brain That Changes Itself
  • 2012
    • 18 books read
  • The 4-Hour Chef
  • Small Gods
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
  • The Hobbit
  • The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
  • Timeline
  • The Hunger Games
  • Million Dollar Consulting
  • The Power of Now
  • A Walk in the Woods
  • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
  • East of Eden
  • Intimate Connections
  • Sphere
  • The Andromeda Strain
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
  • The Now Habit
  • The Salmon of Doubt
  • 2011
    • 13 books read
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Convict Conditioning
  • Anything You Want
  • She Comes First
  • Last Chance to See
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  • The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
  • The Girl Who Played with Fire
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Mostly Harmless
  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
  • The 4-Hour Body
  • 2010
    • 13 books read
  • A Guide to the Good Life
  • Dune
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Grumby
  • Skunk Works
  • Problem Solving 101
  • Learned Optimism
  • iWoz
  • iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon
  • Life, the Universe and Everything
  • The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • What Do You Care What Other People Think?
  • What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
  • 2009
    • 7 books read
  • Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
  • Man's Search for Meaning
  • Founders at Work
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Coders at Work
  • Beginning Python
  • Influence
  • 2008
    • 7 books read
  • Getting Things Done
  • Ready for Anything
  • Feeling Good
  • The Day of the Jackal
  • Self-Discipline in 10 Days
  • Smile When You're Lying
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • 2007
    • 5 books read
  • How to Get Rich
  • On Writing
  • Stumbling on Happiness
  • The 4-Hour Workweek
  • Selected Stories
  • 2006
    • 5 books read
  • Angels & Demons
  • Blink
  • Hackers and Painters
  • The Art of War
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • 2005
    • 2 books read
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • 2004
    • 4 books read
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Night Over Water
  • 2003
    • 7 books read
  • Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  • Mischief Marketing
  • Purple Cow
  • Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad
  • The Monk and the Riddle
  • 2002
    • 7 books read
  • Fish
  • Kallikaattu Ithigaasam
  • Losing My Virginity
  • The Fountainhead
  • The One Minute Manager
  • The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
  • Who Moved My Cheese?
  • 2001
    • 3 books read
  • Permission Marketing
  • The Diaries of Adam and Eve
  • The Doomsday Conspiracy
  • 2000
    • 4 books read
  • Disclosure
  • Eye of the Needle
  • Lie Down with Lions
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • 1999
    • 3 books read
  • Are You Afraid of the Dark?
  • Bloodline
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
  • 1998
    • 3 books read
  • Master of the Game
  • Nothing Lasts Forever
  • Rage of Angels
  • 1997
    • 2 books read
  • Stiletto
  • The Class
  • 1996
    • 12 books read
  • Abduction
  • Coma
  • Airframe
  • Airport
  • Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Broken Symmetries
  • Contact
  • Ender's Game
  • Ender’s Game
  • Hotel
  • Wheels
  • Your Erroneous Zones
  • 1995
    • 4 books read
  • If Tomorrow Comes
  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
  • Lincoln the Unknown
  • Raj Bapna's Mind Power Study Techniques
  • 1994
    • 13 books read
  • A Brief History of Time
  • A Study in Scarlet
  • His Last Bow
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Odessa File
  • The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Sign of Four
  • The Valley of Fear
  • 1993
    • 2 books read
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • 1991
    • 1 books read
  • The Prince and the Pauper
  • 1990
    • 8 books read
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
  • Conceptual Physics
  • David Copperfield
  • Oliver Twist
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Three Men in a Boat
  • Your First Move
  • 0001
    • 1 books read
  • Prisoner's Dilemma