Anni's Blogs

This page is dedicated to Books. My own personal Markdown version of goodreads or Hardcover.

I love to read. I learn so many new things and through books, I get to immerse myself in situations I probably will never actually experience in "real life".

This page is dedicated to documenting the Books I a) am currently reading, b) want to read and c) have read.

Currently Reading

• My Life in Full by Indra Nooyi (~25% done; Started: 14th May 2026)
• Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

Began to read but then paused/stopped half-way:

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
• Build, Don't Talk by Raj Shamani
• Attitude is Everything by Jeff Keller
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• Manifest by Roxie Nafousi (~ Oct 2025)
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Want to Read

I’m still not sure. If possible I’d really like to finish the books that I began but then put down first before touching new books.

However, I have been told by a couple of my friends to read classics like:

• 1984
• Crime and Punishment
• Moby Dick
• War and Peace

But, I don’t feel inclined to them at the moment… later someday perhaps.

Currently I’m more interested in reading books like:

• Yuval Noah Harari
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Homo Deus
  • Nexus
• So Good They Cannot Ignore You by Cal Newport
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
• The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
• The Great Mental Models by Shane Parish
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• Let’s Talk Money by Monika Halan

Have Read

• A lot of Geronimo Stilton books
• The Artemis Fowl Series
• The Alex Rider Series
• The Percy Jackson Series
• The Heroes of Olympus Series
• The Harry Potter Series
• A little bit of Fantastic Five and The Hardy Boys
• Agatha Christie
  • The A.B.C. Murders
  • And Then There Were None
  • Death on the Nile
  • Murder on the Orient Express
• Jeffrey Archer
  • Heads You Win
• Ashwin Sanghi
  • Keepers of the Kalachakra (April 2026)
  • The Magicians Of Mazda (~July 2026)
• Dan Brown
  • Deception Point
  • Digital Fortress
  • Angels & Demons
• The Second Lady by Irving Wallace (May 2026)
• Past Perfect by Danielle Steel (2026)
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (April 2026)
• Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi (2026)
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (May 2026)
  • Such a nice book that takes the reader through the lives of several different characters. Really enjoyed the hard-hitting passages about how the different characters perceive life through their different lenses and the meaning of it all.
  • While it is about a bank robber, the book is really about human relationships. I enjoyed reading the father-son dynamic between Jim and Jack, the “affair” that Estelle had via exchanging story books (this is something I do as well! (ahem, exchanging books and scribbling my thoughts in the margins— what were you thinking?)), the passages about marriage and how to make a marriage last and lastly the pages of discussions between Zara and the Psychologist- they were SO SO FUNNY xD- but seeing her personal transformation reminded me of the title of a famous book I’m yet to read as of writing this review “The Mountain is You”.
  • The book kept me on the edge of my seat right until the very last page. There was always another twist waiting. And the final few pages, where everything finally pans out, are rich with references to different moments from earlier in the book, which is delightful. The best analogy I can think of is that those last few pages feel like the conductor of an orchestra, directing different instruments, here, pieces of information revealed at different points as the story progressed, to play at different times. But ultimately, when those pages are read together, they lead to a beautiful melody.
  • I could go on and on writing about the book- but I highly recommend you pick this book up and read it. It’ll leave you with deep food for thought and an enriched world-view…