Books Collection

18 Jul, 2026

Book Collection

Software Engineering & Interviews

• System Design Interview Vol 1 — Alex Xu
• System Design Interview Vol 2 — Alex Xu & Sahn Lam (the Xu + Sahn Lam co-authored volume is Vol 2, not a second copy of Vol 1)
• Effective Java — Joshua Bloch
• Cracking the Coding Interview — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
• Database Internals — Alex Petrov

Science Fiction

• Shroud — Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Alien Clay — Adrian Tchaikovsky
• All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) — Martha Wells
• Childhood's End — Arthur C. Clarke

Mystery & Crime

• Sherlock Holmes set — Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Valley of Fear & His Last Bow
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
• Five Decembers — James Kestrel

Big-Idea Non-fiction & Memoir & Philosophy

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
• Homo Deus — Yuval Noah Harari
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari
• The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins
• Fooled by Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Shoe Dog — Phil Knight

Games, Chess & Puzzles

• Around the World in 80 Games — Marcus du Sautoy
• Lightning Kid: 64 Winning Lessons — Viswanathan Anand (with Susan Ninan) — Anand's life and career told through 64 lessons, one per chessboard square
• Murdle Vol 1 — G.T. Karber
• Murdle Vol 3 — G.T. Karber

Indian Mythology & History — Fiction

• Dharmayoddha Kalki: Avatar of Vishnu (Book 1) — Kevin Missal
• Shiva Trilogy — Amish
  • The Secret of the Nagas
  • The Oath of the Vayuputras
  • (Book 1, The Immortals of Meluha, is not on the list)
• Suheldev: The King Who Saved India — Amish
• Asura: Tale of the Vanquished — Anand Neelakantan
• Samsara — Saksham Garg
• Mrityunjay (Maha-Asura Series Book 1) — Parakh Om Bhatt & Raj Javiya — mythological mystery-thriller told across four timelines

Indian Mythology — Anthologies, Reference & Spirituality

• Myth = Mithya: Decoding Hindu Mythology — Devdutt Pattanaik
• Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas — Satyarth Nayak
• Unusual Tales from Indian Mythology — Sudha Murty
  • The Serpent's Revenge
  • The Man from the Egg
  • The Upside-Down King
  • The Daughter from a Wishing Tree
  • The Sage with Two Horns
• Kali & Her Yoginis — Meenakshii — guide to Kali's 1000 names, the ten Mahavidyas, and the 64 Yoginis
• DK The Illustrated Ramayana

World Mythology & Classic Tales

• The Greek Myths — Robin Waterfield
• Norse Mythology — Neil Gaiman
• The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights — trans. Sir Richard F. Burton
• Myths & Legends Illustrated — Philip Wilkinson

History & Archaeology (incl. graphic nonfiction)

• 1177 BC: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed — Eric H. Cline & Glynnis Fawkes
• The People of the Indus — Nikhil Gulati & Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
• Maus — Art Spiegelman
• Eyewitness Ancient Egypt — DK

Dinosaurs

• Dictionary of Dinosaurs — Dieter Braun & Dr Matthew G. Brown
• DK Knowledge Encyclopedia Dinosaurs

Indian Comics & Graphic Novels

• Nagaraj Vol 1–3 (Raj Comics)
• Rakht Rakshak — Doga (Raj Comics)
• Shiva: The Legends of the Immortal, Books 1–3 — Karan Vir (Vimanika Comics graphic novel series, hence grouped here rather than with the novels)
• Qissa Comics (Pune-based, manga-style)
  • The World Beyond #1–4 — sci-fi space saga
  • Six Paths #1–2 — ancient Indian schools of philosophy reimagined as clans
  • Powerplay #1–2 — futuristic cricket saga
• Indusverse Year Zero (Arunabh Kumar's studio)
  • The Beginning
  • Stunt
  • Outrage
• Namaha — Abhishek Singh
• Purnam — Abhishek Singh

Marvel

Moon Knight

• Moon Knight Vol 6 — Lemire & Smallwood
• Moon Knight by Huston, Benson & Hurwitz Omnibus
• Moon Knight: From the Dead Omnibus
• Marvel-Verse: Moon Knight

Sentry

• The Sentry Vol 1 — Paul Jenkins & Jae Lee
• The Sentry: Fallen Sun #1
• Sentry (2023) #4 — Jason Loo, Luigi Zagaria, Arthur Hesli (x2, finale of the four-issue mini)

Avengers & Cosmic

• New Avengers Omnibus Vol 1 — Bendis, Finch, McNiven
• New Avengers #24
• Dark Avengers Epic Collection: Osborn's Reign
• Annihilation: Scourge

Others

• Thor: God of Thunder — The God Butcher Omnibus — Aaron, Ribic, Guice
• Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja Omnibus
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 1: Squirrel Power — Ryan North
• Spider-Man: India #1

DC

• Saga of the Swamp Thing Box Set (6 volumes) — Alan Moore
• Batman Omnibus Vol 1 — Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
• The Multiversity — Grant Morrison

Indie Comics

• Sweet Tooth Compendium — Jeff Lemire
• Family Tree Vol 1 — Jeff Lemire
• Radiant Black #1 (x2) — Kyle Higgins (Image, not Marvel)