Tannmay Kumarr Baid

The library

Most of what’s on my shelves, sorted by subject. Each spine below is drawn to its page count.

Philosophy

  1. Thus Spake ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche400 pp
  2. Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche197 pp
  3. On the Genealogy of MoralsFriedrich Nietzsche161 pp
  4. Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Nietzsche224 pp
  5. The AntichristFriedrich Nietzsche119 pp
  6. Ecce HomoFriedrich Nietzsche172 pp
  7. Human, All Too HumanFriedrich Nietzsche111 pp
  8. God Is DeadFriedrich Nietzsche121 pp
  9. Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant708 pp
  10. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle
  11. UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill64 pp
  12. The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau
  13. Discourse on the Origin of InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau
  14. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius228 pp
  15. Tao Te ChingLao Tzu
  16. The Denial of DeathErnest Becker316 pp
  17. Man’s Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl154 pp
  18. The Philosophy BookDK352 pp

Statecraft & power

  1. ArthashastraKautilya494 pp
  2. The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli184 pp
  3. The Art of WarSun Tzu103 pp
  4. PoliticsAristotle303 pp
  5. The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels96 pp
  6. The 48 Laws of Poweron loanRobert Greene452 pp

History & politics

  1. Glimpses of World HistoryJawaharlal Nehru1,155 pp
  2. Mein KampfAdolf Hitler591 pp
  3. The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal Nehru642 pp
  4. Nehru: The Invention of IndiaShashi Tharoor
  5. The Indian StruggleSubhas Chandra Bose415 pp
  6. Without FearKuldip Nayar244 pp
  7. AurangzebAudrey Truschke189 pp
  8. The AnarchyWilliam Dalrymple522 pp
  9. The Forgotten History of IndiaArun Anand198 pp
  10. The Story of My Experiments with TruthM. K. Gandhi447 pp
  11. Annihilation of CasteB. R. Ambedkar200 pp
  12. Why I Am an AtheistBhagat Singh126 pp
  13. NationalismRabindranath Tagore119 pp
  14. HindutvaVinayak Damodar Savarkar141 pp
  15. Why I Killed GandhiNathuram Godse165 pp
  16. The RSSA. G. Noorani547 pp
  17. Why I Am a HinduShashi Tharoor302 pp
  18. India That Is BharatJ. Sai Deepak460 pp
  19. India, Bharat and PakistanJ. Sai Deepak615 pp
  20. Hindus in Hindu RashtraAnand Ranganathan135 pp
  21. The India WayS. Jaishankar226 pp
  22. Why Bharat MattersS. Jaishankar226 pp
  23. The Dragon Needs WingsAryan Dixit213 pp
  24. Indian CoinageSainath Redappa326 pp

Law

  1. The Constitution of India 556 pp
  2. Indian Constitutional LawM. P. Jain
  3. Principles of Statutory InterpretationG. P. Singh
  4. The Law of TortsRatanlal & Dhirajlal
  5. Contract and Specific ReliefAvtar Singh
  6. International LawMalcolm N. Shaw1,213 pp
  7. Ten Judgements That Changed IndiaZia Mody240 pp

Economics & business

  1. The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith1,143 pp
  2. Das KapitalKarl Marx1,392 pp
  3. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes
  4. Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty
  5. Poor EconomicsAbhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo442 pp
  6. Naked EconomicsCharles Wheelan357 pp
  7. The Rational OptimistMatt Ridley452 pp
  8. The Economics BookDK352 pp
  9. Intermediate MicroeconomicsHal R. Varian
  10. MacroeconomicsOlivier Blanchard
  11. MacroeconomicsN. Gregory Mankiw
  12. Introductory EconometricsJeffrey M. Wooldridge
  13. The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial MarketsFrederic S. Mishkin
  14. InvestmentsBodie, Kane, Marcus & Mohanty
  15. Principles of Corporate FinanceBrealey, Myers, Allen, Edmans & Mohanty
  16. Financial Statement AnalysisK. R. Subramanyam
  17. Bad BloodJohn Carreyrou339 pp
  18. Play BiggerAl Ramadan and others255 pp
  19. Woke, Inc.Vivek Ramaswamy

Mathematics & statistics

  1. How to Prove ItreadingDaniel J. Velleman
  2. Linear Algebra Done RightSheldon Axler340 pp
  3. Introduction to Linear AlgebraGilbert Strang
  4. Calculus: Early TranscendentalsJames Stewart, Daniel Clegg & Saleem Watson1,210 pp
  5. All of StatisticsLarry Wasserman
  6. Statistics Without TearsDerek Rowntree199 pp
  7. The Book of WhyJudea Pearl418 pp

Mind & science

  1. The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud543 pp
  2. The Psychopathology of Everyday LifeSigmund Freud239 pp
  3. The UnconsciousSigmund Freud106 pp
  4. Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
  5. The Art of Thinking ClearlyRolf Dobelli326 pp
  6. On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin500 pp
  7. ImmunePhilipp Dettmer341 pp
  8. SapiensYuval Noah Harari
  9. Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari513 pp
  10. FactfulnessHans Rosling
  11. The Future Is Faster Than You ThinkPeter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler365 pp

Literature

  1. HamletWilliam Shakespeare176 pp
  2. MacbethWilliam Shakespeare120 pp
  3. OthelloWilliam Shakespeare152 pp
  4. Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare111 pp
  5. Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare143 pp
  6. The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare110 pp
  7. A Midsummer Night’s DreamWilliam Shakespeare95 pp
  8. Anna Kareninaon loanLeo Tolstoy837 pp
  9. War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1,232 pp
  10. Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky501 pp
  11. The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka100 pp
  12. 1984George Orwell303 pp
  13. Animal FarmGeorge Orwell111 pp
  14. AnandamathBankim Chandra Chatterjee160 pp
  15. The Palace of IllusionsChitra Banerjee Divakaruni360 pp
  16. Mahabharata, in three volumesAmar Chitra Katha1,307 pp
  17. Ramayana, in six volumesAmar Chitra Katha934 pp

Faith & tradition

  1. Gita MakarandaSwami Vidyaprakashananda Giri802 pp
  2. The Concise Textbook of Vedic HinduismDr Vedavyas330 pp
  3. The Ancient Science of MantrasOm Swami466 pp

Work & habits

  1. Deep WorkCal Newport296 pp
  2. Digital MinimalismCal Newport284 pp
  3. Four Thousand WeeksOliver Burkeman271 pp
  4. The Now HabitNeil Fiore206 pp
  5. Getting Things DoneDavid Allen286 pp
  6. Eat That FrogBrian Tracy118 pp
  7. The One ThingGary Keller239 pp
  8. DriveDaniel H. Pink242 pp
  9. Ego Is the EnemyRyan Holiday226 pp
  10. MasteryRobert Greene336 pp
  11. Principles: Life and WorkRay Dalio567 pp
  12. The Magic of Thinking BigDavid J. Schwartz362 pp
  13. The 10x RuleGrant Cardone238 pp
  14. Read People Like a BookPatrick King167 pp
  15. Surrounded by IdiotsThomas Erikson282 pp
  16. Dopamine DetoxThibaut Meurisse67 pp
  17. Wings for Youngstersby my dadMahendra Baid156 pp

Chess

  1. Alexander Alekhine: Master of AttackAlexander Raetsky & Maxim Chetverik175 pp
  2. Build Up Your Chess 1: The FundamentalsArtur Yusupov
  3. Boost Your Chess 1: The FundamentalsArtur Yusupov
  4. 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles