Jainish's Bookshelf

A curated collection of books I've read, I'm reading, and plan to read

My Books

Aṣṭāvakra Gita
Aṣṭāvakra
Nonduality, Spirituality, Mysticism
Completed - Learnings
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Philosophical Fiction
Completed
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Psychological Fiction, Novella
Completed
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Literary Fiction, Coming-of-Age, Melancholic Realism
Completed
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Science, Cosmology
The Mahabharata
John D. Smith
Epic, Mythology, Hindu Literature
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy, Stoicism, Classical
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
History, Anthropology, Non-fiction
Currently Reading
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Psychological Fiction, Classic
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Gothic Fiction, Tragedy
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Self-Help, Wealth, Philosophy
Currently Reading
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Fiction, Fantasy, Philosophical
Currently Reading
Why I Am an Atheist
Bhagat Singh
Political, Philosophy, Autobiographical

To Be Read

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Magical Realism, Political Satire, Metaphysical Fiction
Next Read
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Magical Realism, Psychological Fiction, Surrealism
Next Read
The Stranger/ The Outsider
Albert Camus
Philosophical Fiction, Absurdism, Existentialism
Next Read
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Philosophical Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Russian Literature
Next Read
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Adventure, Historical Fiction, Revenge Tragedy
Next Read

Favorite Quotes

"He who sees the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self never turns away from It."
― Upanishads
"Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations."
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
"Hell is other people."
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit