2025 Books List

The 2025 Books List

Last Updated: 25th May 2025

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

Completed

• 7.83 ஹெர்ட்ஸ் (Science Fiction)

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 (Non Fiction)

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 (Non fiction as fiction, Finance)

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.

• Goal - The process of ongoing improvement (Management Fiction)

written by Eliyahu Goldratt for explaining his Theory of Constraints concept in a novel fashion through Alex Rogo and Jonah. Really liked the book, mainly the ToC concepts which he had explained through the problems faced by the manufacturing plant, finding their goal, improving their operations and also about Socratic Dialogue, etc. A Management Fiction. This is my second time reading this book (the english version) as the BEE (Business and Entreupreneurship for Engineers) class which I took made me interested to re-read this book, previously read its tamil version, during COVID (Mar’ 20) from Ananda Vikatan magazine collections of my father. Grateful to him. Finished it within few days both the time.

Current

• அசிமவ்வின் தோழர்கள் (Science Fiction)

  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.

• Bottle of Lies - Ranbaxy and the Darkside of Indian Pharma (Non Fiction)

  written by investigative journalist Katherine Eban, exposing quality issues found in Ranbaxy, the generic drug manufacturer and why it had happened.

• 100$ Startup - Reinvent the way you make a living (Non Fiction, Business)

• Crypto Confidential (Non Fiction, Business)

  Recently been exploring various schema of investments and so learning about stocks, crypto and web3 stuffs…

• குளோப்-சாமுன் (Non Fiction, Geo Politics)

  பாராவின் உலக அரசியல் கருத்துக்கள்…

Next

• Bed of Procrustes (Philosophy)

  written by Nassim Taleb, recently being following him for his unconventional philosophical views….

• Heart of Darkness (Fiction)

• Selected stories by Anton Chekov (Fiction)