Inventory-In-Progress of Interesting things
I hope my canon inspires yours. I also welcome you to suggest your favourite Interesting Things to add to this list.
Books (Non-fiction)
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Taleb
- Blink, Outliers, Tipping Point, What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell
- Durbar – Tavleen Singh
- Freakonomics, Superfreakonomics, Think like a Freak – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
- Grit – Angela Duckworth
- Poor Economics – Abhijit Bannerjee & Esther Duflo
- The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport
- Storm in a Teacup – Helen Czerski
- The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
- Wild Swans – Jung Chang
- The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig
- When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
Books (Fiction)
- A Different Sky – Meira Chand
- And then there were none – Agatha Christie
- Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
- The Feluda series, and other short stories – Satyajit Ray
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- Less – Andrew Sean Greer
- The Map of Us – Jules Preston (Laugh-Out-Loud funny, I promise!)
History, News & Politics
- Bharat Ek Khoj
- Brookings Institution
- CrashCourse- World History1, World History2, US History, Economics, European History
- CGP Grey
- Dissent
- Economist.com
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
- Freakonomics Radio
- Global Politics
- Great speeches in History
- History of the world in 100 objects
- Incarnations: India in 50 lives
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- LSE Public lectures and events
- More or Less: Behind the Stats
- The Indian Express- Specifically, the Opinion page.
- The Munk Debates
- Now This (not the same as my ‘Now This’)
- Oxford Union
- Planet Money by NPR
- Pradhanmantri
- Ted.com
- Policy Mic
- Samvidhan
- Tell me Something I Don’t Know
- Yale Courses
Art & Culture (and this strange, beautiful world)
- Atlas Obscura & Gastro Obscura
- Colossal
- Cracked
- Raja Rasoi aur Anya Kahaniyan – this show is unmissable if you are interested in Indian food at all.
- Real Simple
- Wait But Why
Social Impact, Development & Innovation
- +Acumen
- Board of Innovation
- Farnam Street – especially interesting for their mental models
- Harvard Business Review Blog
- Ideas for India
- The Innovation Station
- International Development Guide
- Marie Forleo
- Network Capital
- Social Value International
- Stanford Social Innovation Review
- Strategyzer
- Steven Pinker’s research
- The Ken
Wishlist
- Bad Feminist – Roxanne Gay
- Men Explain things to me – Rebecca Solnit
- The colour purple – Alice Walker
- Seeing Like a Feminist – Nivedita Menon
- The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni
- Antifragile- Nassim Taleb
- The Undercover Economist strikes back- Tim Harford
- 23 Things they don’t tell you about capitalism, and Economics: the User’s Guide- Ha Joon Chang
- Thinking Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman
- More than Good Intentions by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel
- When to rob a bank- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Koh-i-noor – William Dalrymple
- Worth Dying For – Tim Marshall
Currently Reading
Gender and Nation – Nira Yuval-Davis
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab
* 25 August 2024
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