Varun Khurana

I love to read, especially books outside of the mainstream. In the last year, I realized if everyone reads the same books, there’s no differentiated knowledge (unless reading for maximal enjoyment of course!)

Some of the books I've read recently in chronological order descending

• Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body by Jason Kelly

• The Field Guide to Global Payments by Sophia Goldberg

• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis

• Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food by Carl Orsbourn

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

• Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine

• The Cult of We by Eliot Brown

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

• My Body by Emily Ratajkowski

• The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

• HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business by Richard Ruback

• Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era by John Cassidy

• The Cryptopians by Laura Shin

• The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman

• Retail Therapy: Why The Retail Industry Is Broken – And What Can Be Done To Fix It by Mark Plinkington

• Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone

• When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergesson

• American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

• Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by KS Komireddi

• Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution by Jonathan Abrams

• Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy by Lawrence Ingrassia

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

• Tiger Woods by Armen Keteyian

• King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwartzman and Blackstone by David Carey

• DisneyWar by James Stewart

• The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger

• Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car by Lawrence D Burns

• Payments Systems in the U.S: Third Edition by Carol Coye Bensen

• The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma

• China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle by Dinny McMahon

• The Next Factory of the World by Irene Yuan Sun

• Open by Andre Agassi

• The Anatomy of a Swipe by Ahmed Siddiqui

• Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller

• Global Macro Trading: Profiting in a New World Economy by Greg Gilner

• Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy

• Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Weiner

• “Internet Plus” Pathways to the Transformation of China’s Property Sector by Xianling Yang 

• The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann

• Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results by Michael Porter

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

• Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos by Tom Petzinger

• Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller

• Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones

• Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System (History of Computing) by David Stearns

• More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby

• Make Real Estate Great Again: Proptech, Real Estate, Construction Tech by Robin Rivaton

• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

• Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble by Davis Dyer

• Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President by Ron Suskind

• Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy by Bruce Greenwald

• My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company by Cal Turner

• The Innovators by Walter Isaacson

• Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Seagall

• The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator by Randall Strauss

• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick

• Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves by Adam Penenberg

• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

• Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't by Kevin Maney (I should revisit this, remember it being really good, no idea why!)

• How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christensen

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Heimler (a frequent reference)

• Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross

• Master Switch by Tim Wu

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

• The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

• Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies by Bruce Greenwald

• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

• High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil

• Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazed & Nicholas Johnson

• The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World by Suman Sarkar

• The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham

• Bad Blood by John Carreyou

• Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar

• King Icahn: Biography of a Renegade Capitalist by Mark Stevens

• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover

• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz

• The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change by Bharat Anand

• The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy by Bill Simmons

• Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson

• Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowksy (a long one, don't think I'll ever finish!)

• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

• The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson

• The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone