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
Currently Reading
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Philosophical Fiction
Completed
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Science, Cosmology
Currently Reading
The Mahabharata
John D. Smith
Epic, Mythology, Hindu Literature
Currently Reading
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy, Stoicism, Classical
Currently Reading
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
History, Anthropology, Non-fiction
Currently Reading

To Be Read

Complete Novels of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Literary Fiction, Existentialism
Next Read
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Psychological Fiction, Classic
Next Read

Favorite Quotes

"He who sees the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self never turns away from It."
― The Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata
"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