shubham shah

core

Below is an incomplete & unordered list of stuff I appreciate.

The one true list of everything extraordinaire (read: everything I happen to like).

Books

  • Science & Math
    • Chaos – James Gleick
    • The Man Who Bent Light: Father of Fibre Optics – Narinder Singh Kapany
    • Richard Feynman: A Life in Science – John & Mary Gribbin
  • Non-Fiction
    • Incerto Series – Nassim Taleb
    • Zero to One – Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
    • Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
  • Fiction & Mythology
    • Suheldev and the Battle of Bahraich – Amish Tripathi
    • Shiva Trilogy – Amish Tripathi
    • The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
    • Circe – Madeline Miller
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach

Films, Shows & Anime

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, dir. Wes Anderson)
  • Boyhood (2014, dir. Richard Linklater)
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)
  • The Swan (2023, dir. Wes Anderson)
  • Silicon Valley (2014, cr. Mike Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky)
  • A Rainy Day in New York (2019, dir. Woody Allen)
  • Manchester by the Sea (2016, dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
  • Dead Poets Society (1989, dir. Peter Weir)
  • Call Me By Your Name (2017, dir. Luca Guadagnino)
  • Anand (1971, dir. Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
  • The Wind Rises (2013, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
  • The Fault in Our Stars (2014, dir. Josh Boone)
  • Your Name (2016, dir. Makoto Shinkai)
  • Suzume (2022, dir. Makoto Shinkai)
  • Death Note (2006, dir. Tetsurō Araki)
  • Attack on Titan (2013, dir. Tetsurō Araki)
  • Ao Ashi (2022, dir. Akira Satō)

On Internet

(this section will soon be replaced with specific suggestions instead of pointing at an entire channel - as soon as i can make time for it.)