The 2025 Books List

Last Updated 27th Jan 2026

Here’s the list of books that I’ve read so far and about to…

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• 7.83 ஹெர்ட்ஸ் (5/5)

a science fiction novel in tamil by K Sudhakar dealing with wolves, remote mind control and a whole deal of terror behind all those. An interesting, page turning read stuffed with a load of info on bio-chemistry, wild life etc.

• The American Trap (4/5)

written by Frederic Pierucci, a senior executive in Alstom, who unfortunalely got held as a hostage for FCPA violations of Alstom, shares the struggles he faced to overcome it. Got shocked to know about these hostage based diplomacy and corporate practices.

• Bulls, Bears and other Beasts - A story of Indian Stock Market (4/5)

written by Santosh Nair, former editor of moneycontrol and many other finance journals. Tells the history of our Indian Stock Market From 80s to pre-COVID from a trader’s perspective, covering everything from cartels, reliance, harshad mehta to bubbles, formation of NSE, SEBI and so on. Must book to know about the history so far in a story fashion.

• Learn Javascript in Tamil (4.5/5)

written by Nithya long time back in Kaniyam. Had a glance over it, to learn about JS basics which I needed inorder to understand the JS in my dashboard and as well as for XSS payloads as well (I’d been learning about some basics of Web Security, from Cyber Adam as I got interested to know about common vulnerabilities found in webapps and how to check for that in my dashboard which I’d vibed). It’s a good book to get some idea about JS and JQuery.

• அசிமவ்வின் தோழர்கள் (4/5)

  an another tamil science fiction short story collection written by Ayesha Era. Natarasan. Usually used to read all his science fiction and popular science books. The book setting is in a “fantasy science fiction world” where popular sci-fi solves current sociological problems or expresses humor, etc.

• Ed Mastery (4/5)

  another book from Michael Lucas of BSD fame, he writes well, in an interesting way as like his previous book git commit murder, where he highlights up why you should learn the classic Unix Editor ed, predecessor to vi, vim etc (how Ken Thompson wrote an OS from it !) and also with a easy to consume version of man ed. It is a must book for one who want to learn any of the terminal based text editors and you get to know the elegance once you learn this editor ed, I’ve also have posted about this in Mastodon as well.

• Bottle of Lies - Ranbaxy and the Darkside of Indian Pharma (4.5/5)

  written by investigative journalist Katherine Eban, exposing quality issues found in Ranbaxy, the generic drug manufacturer and why it had happened. Very interesting insider info on what happens in a pharma company trying to maximize its profits over quality.

• வள்ளுவா ரோபாட் யுத்தம் (4/5)

  written by Ayesha Era. Natarasan. It’s a collection of short stories written in the same fashion as “அசிமவ்வின் தோழர்கள்”.

There are still several other partially read books or uncompleted books. Have to read more !