Patil's Library

I'm Atharva Patil, a product designer currently located in Seattle & I love to read.

I've been tracking my reading habits publically since 2013 & finally decided to dedicate a digital bookshelf to my progress so far. Books I loved are highlighted in color/icon combination.

2023

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

The Leadership Challenge

James M. Kouzes , Barry Z. Posner

Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3)

Brandon Sanderson

Organizational Behavior: Emerging Knowledge. Global Reality

Steven McShane

2022

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

John Donohue, J.T. Molloy

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott

Sustainable Web Design

Tom Greenwood

Edgedancer(The Stormlight Archive #2.5)

Brandon Sanderson

Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)

Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1)

Brandon Sanderson

2021

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Kate Crawford

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

Anthony M. Townsend

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Nathalia Holt

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Ready Player Two

Ernest Cline

2020

Interaction of Color

Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber

Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World

Christopher Wylie

Did Monkeys Invent the Monkey Wrench?: Hardware Stores and Hardware Stories

Vince Staten

Design Engineering Handbook

Natalya Shelburne, Adekunle Oduye, Kim Williams, Eddie Lou, Caren Litherland (Editor)

Animation Handbook

Ryan McLeod

Face: A Visual Odyssey

Jessica Helfand

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam M. Grant

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Kat Holmes

The People's Guide to A.I.

Mother Cyborg, Mimi Onuoha

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby

Machine Learning for Designers

Patrick Hebron

Smarter Homes: How Technology Will Change Your Home Life

Alexandra DesChamps-Sonsino

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

2019

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

Meredith Broussard

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations

Dan Ariely

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

Adam Greenfield

The Nether

Jennifer Haley

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Alan Cooper

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

2018

Worlds' End (Sandman #8)

Neil Gaiman et al

Only Human (Themis Files #3)

Sylvain Neuvel

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore, David Lloyd

Pimp: The Story Of My Life: The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim

The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah

Waking Gods (Themis Files #2)

Sylvain Neuvel

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1)

Sylvain Neuvel

Artemis

Andy Weir

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

Ali Almossawi, Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

2017

Origin

Dan Brown

The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman

Batman: The Black Mirror

Scott Snyder et al

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Brad Kowitz

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

Bill Nye

Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult

The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

The Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Dan Ariely

2016

Tony and Susan

Austin Wright

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-fiction

Neil Gaiman

Watchmen

Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling

Batman: Hush

Jeph Loeb, et al

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley

The Complete Maus

Art Spiegelman

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3)

Stephen King

Coraline

Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell (Illustrator)

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2)

Stephen King

Hansel and Gretel

Neil Gaiman, Lorenzo Mattotti (Illustrator)

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1)

Stephen King

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs

The Golden Tap: The Inside Story of Hyper-Funded Indian Startups

Kashyap Deorah

2015

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Brief Lives (The Sandman #7)

Neil Gaiman

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Fables & Reflections (The Sandman #6)

Neil Gaiman

Hatching Twitter

Nick Bilton

Career of Evil

Robert Galbraith

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

A Game of You (The Sandman #5)

Neil Gaiman

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Douglas Adams

The Stranger

Albert Camus

It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Lynsey Addario

The Circle

Dave Eggers

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J.K. Rowling

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Scott Adams

The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide

Leah Buley

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Unbroken: An Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival

Laura Hillenbrand

Season of Mists (The Sandman #4)

Neil Gaiman

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams

JLA, Vol. 7: Tower of Babel

Mark Waid et al

Dream Country (The Sandman #3)

Neil Gaiman

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Designing for People

Henry Dreyfuss

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling

The Last Town

Blake Crouch

Wayward

Blake Crouch

Pines

Blake Crouch

The Doll's House (The Sandman #2)

Neil Gaiman

The girl on the train

Paula Hawkins

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

UX Design For Startups

Marcin Treder

Animal Farm

George Orwell

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield

Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman #1)

Neil Gaiman

Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!

Nicholas Carlson

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Neil Gaiman

Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

Grant Morrison, Dave McKean (Illustrator)

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

Paper Towns

John Green

Batman: The Killing Joke

Alan Moore, Brian Bolland (Illustrator)

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience

Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

J.K. Rowling

For the Win

Kevin Werbach, Dan Hunter

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

Insurgent

Veronica Roth

2014

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Stieg Larsson

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

The Martian

Andy Weir

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K. Rowling

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hobbit or There and Back Again

J.R.R. Tolkien

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

Isaiah Hankel

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith

Contagious

Jonah Berger

David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell

The Giver

Lois Lowry

The Egg

Andy Weir

A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast

George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust

George R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows

George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

George R.R. Martin

A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

John Green, David Levithan

The Bourne Identity

Robert Ludlum

Hind Swaraj and Other Writings

Mahatma Gandhi

The Zahir

Paulo Coelho

Looking for Alaska

John Green

An Abundance of Katherines

John Green

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

Divergent

Veronica Roth

Contact

Carl Sagan

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

2013

1984

George Orwell

The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

Word Power Made Easy

Norman Lewis

Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Inferno

Dan Brown

Cosmos

Carl Sagan