Books read in 2024

• As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer
• The Anarchy by William Darlymple
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Ramrao by Jaideep Hardikar
• The ultimate Wodehouse collection by PG Wodehouse
• The subtle art of not giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
• The Art Of Saying NO: How To Stand Your Ground …

The English East India Company (EIC) is known for its role in colonising India. But it also has other notorieties to its name, like being one of the first joint stock companies to have a monopoly; to be bailed out by a government; to lobby by buying access to MPs …

"As the Crow Flies" is a fiction work of Jeffrey Archer. It is a biography of Charlie Trumper, an English retail magnate. It documents Charlie's life from his childhood until he retires from the huge retail empire he builds.

Vincent Van Gogh is extremely famous now but he was barely able to make ends meet and struggled with mental health issues while alive. His work became extremely famous posthumously. "The Lust for Life" is his biography written by Irving Stone.

Ernesto Guevera, popularly known as Che Guevera, along with his friend Alberto wanted to go on an adventure. An adventure that would span the whole South American continent partly on their motorcycle and the rest hitch hiking. This journey would plant the inklings of revolution in Che and Alberto.

Our lives are heavily controlled by algorithms, far more than we concede. Our choice of entertainment, shopping, commute to work, appraisal at work etc are all driven by algorithms. Sometimes we feel that algorithms are better than humans because they are not arbitrary.

"Algorithms to live by" is a collection …

What are the odds that a person will consult their lawyer when denied a health insurance claim? If the odds are extremely small, the insurance company benefits immensely! Rudy Baylor, who has recently passed the bar has picked up a insurance bad faith case. It's a tough case to crack …

Peter Miller, a journalist, receives a diary from an old Jew who committed suicide. He begins to read the diary and learns that the old man was liberated from a concentration camp after the second World War and that he had spotted the in-charge of the camp recently. Peter turns …

Imagine you are incarcerated for a crime you haven't committed. The reason for targeting being your race and skin colour. But you have the world's best detective novel author untiringly championing your cause. Would you be exonerated?

"The mystery of the Parsee Lawyer" is the story of the curious case …