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What LightCastle Read in 2025 highlights the books that have influenced our work and supported our team’s development over the past year. Covering both non-fiction and fiction, these selections reflect our focus on continuous learning and building a knowledge-driven culture.
As we navigate an increasingly complex environment, these books have offered perspectives that inform how we approach challenges and identify opportunities. We invite you to explore the titles that have contributed to our thinking and shaped our approach to problem-solving and innovation.
Author: Patrick Stewart
Reviewed by: Bijon Islam, CEO and Co-founder, LightCastle Partners
Memoir of Sir Patrick Stewart best known for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men. He reflects on his early journey from his working class roots in Yorkshare to the fame of Los Angeles, California.
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Reviewed by: Ameera Fairooz, Senior Business Consultant, LightCastle Partners
Woven through a series of short stories, it tells the story of a café in Tokyo that allows its customers to travel back in time, as long as they return before their coffee gets cold.
It reminds readers to cherish the moments we have with loved ones and to express our feelings before it is too late, as regrets often stem from words left unsaid or time taken for granted. Despite knowing that the past cannot be changed, the characters find catharsis and clarity, allowing them to face the future with a renewed perspective.
“No matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart.”
Author: Amartya Sen
Reviewed by: Ainan Tajrian, Senior Business Consultant, LightCastle Partners
An enjoyable autobiography of Professor Amartya Sen, “Home in the World” is an intellectually engaging journey. The book serves as a time machine, enabling a peek into Professor Sen’s life and connecting key development economics concepts and theories to his life journey. Sen’s way of presenting complex economic concepts through his stories and experiences not only simplifies one’s understanding of the world but also creates a deep connection to social justice.
“Justice is not an abstract ideal; it is the daily struggle to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to live with dignity and purpose”
Author: Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
Reviewed by: Sadia Karim, Business Analyst, LightCastle Partners
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness is a highly engaging and accessible exploration of behavioral economics. What makes Nudge particularly compelling is its real-world relevance, especially in policy development. The book highlights how understanding human behavior, shaped by cultural contexts and psychological tendencies, allows policymakers and institutions to craft environments that steer people toward beneficial decisions.
The Illusion of Free Choice:
The Power of Nudging:
The Struggle of Self-Control & the Need for Nudges:
Many choices are hard because of how we perceive immediate vs. future consequences. For instance:
Why This Matters for Policy Development?
Nudge makes it clear: understanding human behavior isn’t just an academic exercise. It’s a powerful tool for shaping society in meaningful way!
“In economics (and in ordinary life), a basic principle is that you can never be made worse off by having more options, because you can always turn them down. Before Thaler removed the nuts the group had the choice of whether to eat the nuts or not, now they didn’t. In the land of Econs, it is against the law to be happy about this!”
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Reviewed by: Ishrat Ashique ; Senior Specialist, (Marketing and Partnerships), LightCastle Partners
This book explores how to turn social media attention into real brand value. “Day trading attention” is about mastering the art of capturing, nurturing, and converting attention into sales. Weiner and Miller share actionable strategies for building a strong digital presence, creating content that resonates, and using social platforms to drive growth.
“In the world of social media, attention isn’t just earned, it’s traded, refined, and turned into something that powers your brand.”
Author: Daniel Susskind
Reviewed by: Zahedul Amin, Managing Director and Co founder, LightCastle Partners
The book explores the role of economic growth over the past 2,000–3,000 years of human civilization. For much of history, the global economy remained stagnant, with intermittent periods of decline, and there was no formal system for measuring economic growth. However, during World War II, a group of economists was tasked with assessing the size of economies to determine military investment.
Policymakers worldwide face the challenging task of balancing competing priorities to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Major carbon-emitting countries must drive aggressive mitigation efforts while also financing climate-vulnerable developing economies.
“How can we look beyond GDP and develop new metrics that balance growth with human flourishing and environmental well-being? How can we be more engaged global citizens? In this age of AI, what does it really mean to be human? And how are our technologies transforming us?”
Author: Donna Tartt
Reviewed by: Nuzhat Naoshin, Human Resources Officer, LightCastle Partners
A psychological thriller that follows a group of elite Classics students at a New England college as they become entangled in murder, secrets, and the intoxicating power of beauty, knowledge, and exclusivity.
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
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