My favorite 5 books of 2019

My definition of favorite books include books that:

a. I can re-read. 

b. has taught me something profound ( I expect 10 times returns from books, not linear outputs)

c. give me the knowledge that I can transfer in real life easily.

d. Maximum wisdom per page.

So on the basis of that, my favorite books are:

1.  Atomic Habits by James Clear: I had read "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg before reading this book. While Duhigg's book focuses on history/scientific anecdotes of habits, James's book is a more practical guide to forming habits. I particularly liked the "Focus on Systems, not on goals" and " Design your environment" principles. I am quite positive that I am going to pick up this book again in 2020.
2. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport: The biggest lesson that I learned from this book was that we should define our values first and then use technology to achieve that. Just mindless wandering on the Internet will make you caught in a loop and the loop will generally end with feelings of guilt and negativity. One thing that I implement after reading this book was to not use those services which serve news feeds on the basis of NN algorithms whether its youtube or quora or Instagram. 
3. Quiet by Susan Cain: One belief that I always had is that being extrovert is the way to live life and have success. This book made me appreciate my introvert nature and not go against it. Probably, this is a book which I am going to gift a lot to parents. Most of the parents believe in this principle of extrovert= success. 
4. Deep Work by Cal Newport: The biggest takeaway I got from this book was that we focus more on convenience than the effectiveness of employees in this century. I like books written by professors/ academicians/ researchers because they rely on scientific research and often the sources are cited in the end.
5. Transcripts of Naval Ravikant's podcasts: Naval Ravikant is the founder of Angel list and he has a famous tweetstorm " How to get rich " on twitter. I particularly liked his views on happiness, desires and reading books. 

Some other books that I liked are Jordan Peterson's "12 Rules for Life", Robert Wright's "Why Buddism is true", Sadhguru's "Inner Engineering", Make it Stick,  Why we sleep by Mathew Walker, and Ultralearning by Scott Young.