Akil Rammohan's Bookshelf

I've been reading voraciously my whole life, and figured I should try to track it on goodreads (and sync it here), but I'm sure I forgot many books when I went through adding stuff to goodreads. I.e. this is far from an exhaustive list.

favorites

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers
• Playground by Richard Powers
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

other (ordered by rating descending)

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
• Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Blindness by José Saramago
• The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
• Death's End by Cixin Liu
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Table for Two by Amor Towles
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Looking for Alaska by John Green
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• Paper Towns by John Green
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Artemis by Andy Weir
• Armada by Ernest Cline
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Recursion by Blake Crouch
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Dune by Frank Patrick Herbert
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig