Books That Shaped My Reading Journey

📚 My Reading Journey

Books have played a quiet but powerful role in shaping my thinking, values, and imagination. Below is a curated list of books I’ve read over the years, organized by timeline and genre.

📖 2025 — Top Reads

A year of reflection, philosophy, and personal growth:

1. Ikigai — Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles
2. The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

📖 2021-2024

3. Atomic Habits — James Clear
4. The Forty Rules of Love — Elif Shafak
5. Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
6. The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
7. The Story of My Life — Helen Keller
8. Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World — Bill Clinton
9. Dreams from My Father — Barack Obama
10. Wings of Fire — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
11. Paradise Lost — John Milton
12. Gabhi Bittanto (গাভী বিত্তান্ত) — Ahmed Sofa
13. Ardhek Nari Ardhek Ishwari (অর্ধেক নারী অর্ধেক ঈশ্বরী) — Ahmed Sofa
14. Saatkahon (সাতকাহন) — Samaresh Majumdar
15. Kaalpurush (কালপুরুষ) — Samaresh Majumdar
16. A Brief History of Time (1988) — Stephen Hawking
17. My Brief History (2013) — Stephen Hawking
18. The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
19. Zero to One — Peter Thiel

📖 2020

📝 Novels & Fiction

1. In Search of Happiness — Bertrand Russell
2. The Spy — Paulo Coelho
3. The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
4. War in the Forest — Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
5. The Vagabond’s Scripture — Rahul Sankrityayan
6. Gora — Rabindranath Tagore
7. Although My Guru — Ahmad Shafa
8. Kafka’s Short Stories — Franz Kafka
9. Paradoxical Sajid — Arif Azad
10. Seven Tales — Samaresh Majumdar
11. From Volga to Ganga — Rahul Sankrityayan

📚 Self-Help & Non-Fiction

1. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind — Dr. Joseph Murphy
2. The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
3. Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
4. The Miracle Morning — Hal Elrod
5. Dell Carnegie Collection — Dale Carnegie

📖 2019

📝 Novels

1. Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
2. The Outsider — Albert Camus
3. The Da Vinci Code — Dan Brown

📚 Non-Fiction & Biographies

1. Chanakya’s Strategy — Unknown
2. Swami Vivekananda — Unknown
3. Biography of Maxim Gorky — Maxim Gorky / biographer unknown
4. Mother — Maxim Gorky
5. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History — Michael H. Hart
6. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi — Katherine Frank

📖 2018

📝 Classics & Literature

1. Homer’s Odyssey — Homer
2. Mein Kampf — Adolf Hitler

✨ Final Note

Reading has shaped how I think, question, and understand the world. This list is not just a collection of books—it’s a timeline of growth. I look forward to continuing this journey and sharing more along the way.