Akash Gupta

Akash Gupta

Inside My Bookshelf: A Personal Collection

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My Personal Book Collection (80 Books)

Over the past few years, I’ve built a collection of books that reflect my interests, growth, and inner shifts—across productivity, mindset, money, spirituality, and literature. Here’s the full list, organized by theme.


🧠 Self-Improvement & Personal Growth

  1. Atomic Habits – James Clear

  2. Feel-Good Productivity – Ali Abdaal

  3. Deep Work – Cal Newport

  4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey

  5. The Compound Effect – Darren Hardy

  6. Eat That Frog – Brian Tracy

  7. Keep Going – Austin Kleon

  8. Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon

  9. Show Your Work – Austin Kleon

  10. The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

  11. Master Your Emotions – Thibaut Meurisse

  12. Stop Overthinking – Nick Trenton

  13. Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins

  14. Mastery – Robert Greene

  15. How to Read a Book – Mortimer Adler

  16. The Rudest Book Ever – Shwetabh Gangwar

  17. This Is Marketing – Seth Godin

  18. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson

  19. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari – Robin Sharma

  20. Shoe Dog – Phil Knight


💼 Money, Business & Productivity

  1. The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham

  2. The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel

  3. Cryptoassets – Chris Burniske

  4. The Richest Man in Babylon – George S. Clason

  5. The Personal MBA – Josh Kaufman

  6. No Rules Rules – Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer

  7. Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

  8. Start With Why – Simon Sinek

  9. So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport

  10. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill

  11. The Technical Analysis of Financial Markets – John J. Murphy

  12. The 80/20 Principle – Richard Koch

  13. Same As Ever – Morgan Housel

  14. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson


🧘 Psychology, Mindset & Spirituality

  1. The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle

  2. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

  3. As a Man Thinketh – James Allen

  4. Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz

  5. Dopamine Detox – Thibaut Meurisse

  6. Ikigai – Héctor García & Francesc Miralles

  7. The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

  8. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

  9. Life’s Amazing Secrets – Gaur Gopal Das

  10. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

  11. Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda

  12. Swami Vivekananda: Meditation and Its Methods

  13. Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday


🕉️ Indian Mythology & Cultural Wisdom

  1. The Hidden Hindu 1 – Akshat Gupta

  2. The Hidden Hindu 2 – Akshat Gupta

  3. The Hidden Hindu 3 – Akshat Gupta

  4. Ram – Amish Tripathi

  5. Ravan – Amish Tripathi

  6. Sita – Amish Tripathi

  7. Mahabharata Unravelled – Ami Ganatra

  8. Ramayana Unravelled – Ami Ganatra

  9. Mahagatha – Satyarth Nayak

  10. Hindus in Hindu Rashtra – Anand Ranganathan


📖 Fiction & Literature

  1. 1984 – George Orwell

  2. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

  3. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga

  4. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

  5. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

  6. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

  7. The Archer – Paulo Coelho

  8. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

  9. Poetics – Aristotle

  10. Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari

  11. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami

  12. The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman


🗣️ Communication, Influence & Social Skills

  1. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

  2. How to Talk to Anyone – Leil Lowndes

  3. Word Power Made Easy – Norman Lewis

  4. Influence – Robert Cialdini

  5. The Art of Seduction – Robert Greene

  6. Power – Robert Greene


🎌 Manga & Miscellaneous

  1. Naruto Manga Vol. 1 – Masashi Kishimoto

  2. Naruto Manga Vol. 2 – Masashi Kishimoto

  3. Naruto Manga Vol. 3 – Masashi Kishimoto

  4. The Secret – Rhonda Byrne

  5. Don’t Believe Everything You Think – Joseph Nguyen