This list is to keep track of what I have read, how it has changed over time, as a mirror of my own transformation!
Comments, suggestions and recommendations are welcome.
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Favourites
Current reading:
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Climb On! Skills for More Efficient Climbing, Hans Florine and Bill Wright
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States), James T. Patterson
Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen
Following are the books I have read recently (in reverse chronological order).
2008
234. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned, Alan Alda 233. Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, Amartya Sen 232. Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, Arianna Huffington 231. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Ramachandra Guha 230. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman 229. India: A Million Mutinies Now, V. S. Naipaul 228. Entry from Backside Only: Hazaar Fundas of Indian English, Binoo K. John 227. How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, David Bornstein 226. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 225. India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, Gurcharan Das 224. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines 223. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck2007
222. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 221. Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen 220. The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 219. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States), David M. Kennedy 218. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Thomas Frank 217. Links, Nuruddin Farah 216. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 215. Performance Rock Climbing, Dale Goddard and Udo Neumann 214. The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani, Hamish McDonald 213. We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance, David Howarth 212. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer 211. The Climb Up to Hell, Jack Olsen 210. Riot, Shashi Tharoor 209. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, Amartya Sen 208. Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar 207. Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World...and Then Nearly Lost It All, Monica Langley 206. Autobiography of A Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda 205. Forever Liesl: A Memoir of The Sound of Music, Charmian Carr 204. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 203. The Holcroft Covenant, Robert Ludlum 202. The Matrese Circle, Robert Ludlum 201. Zorro, Isabel Allende 200. Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, Neal Peart 199. With God on our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, William Martin 198. Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety, Wendy Kaminer 197. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt 196. Ishmael, Daniel Quinn 195. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri 194. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell 193. The Roots of Muslim Rage: An Essay, Bernard Lewis 192. The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 191. Son of the Revolution, Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro 190. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey Sachs2006
189. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman 188. The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins 187. In Praise of Idleness: An Essay, Bertrand Russell 186. Why I am Not A Christian: An Essay, Bertrand Russell 185. Timeline, Michael Crichton 184. All About Hedge Funds, Robert A. Jaeger 183. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki 182. My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös, Bruce Schechter 181. Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis 180. 1st to Die, James Patterson 179. The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende 178. Global Justice: Liberation and Socialism, Che Guevara 177. Fate of Tibet: When Big Insects Eat Small Insects, Claude Arpi 176. Everything is Illuminated, Johnathan Safran Foer 175. Manna, Marshall Brain 174. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Roger Lowenstein 173. Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, P. Sainath 172. The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham 171. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, John Womack 170. State of Fear, Michael Crichton 169. The Little Book That Beats the Market, Joel Greenblatt 168. Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, S. Hussain Zaidi 167. Lord Arthur Saville's Crime, Oscar Wilde 166. 9-11, Noam Chomsky 165. The Uses of Haiti, Paul Farmer 164. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 163. The Master & Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov 162. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen 161. A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn 160. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X 159. Sins of the Fathers, Ruth Rendell 158. The Rough Guide to Guatemala, Iain Stewart2005
157. Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Jon Lee Anderson 156. Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott 155. Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy 154. Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman 153. The Bridge Across Forever, Richard Bach 152. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank 151. Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins 150. Life of Pi, Yann Martel 149. Five Point Someone: What Not to Do in IIT, Chetan Bhagat 148. The Art of War, Sun Tzu 147. The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas 146. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawkins 145. Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway 144. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling 143. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 142. Stupid White Men, Michael Moore 141. A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle 140. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Bill Bryson 139. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser 138. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories, Frank Kafka 137. The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Arundhati Roy 136. Deception Point, Dan Brown 135. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown2004
134. The Mismeasure of Man, Stephan Jay Gould 133. A Fate Worse Than Debt: The World Financial Crisis and the Poor, Susan George 132. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 131. Hard Frost, R. D. Wingfield 130. A Touch of Frost, R. D. Wingfield 129. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris 128. Bridget Jones Diary, Helen Fielding 127. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, U. S. Grant 126. The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo 125. They Called Him Stonewall, Burke Davis 124. Sherman's March, Burke Davis 123. Brown Vs Board of Education, James T. Patterson 122. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James M. McPherson 121. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream, H. W. Brandes 120. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, Anita Loos 119. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos 118. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence, Robert Pirsig 117. How to Move Mount Fuji, William Poundstone 116. My Best Logic and Mathematical Puzzles, Martin Gardener 115. Nonsensus, Edward Lear 114. Up the Down Staircase, Bel Kaufman 113. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum 112. Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow and The Tin Woodman, Martin Gardner 111. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery 110. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury 109. 1984, George Orwell 108. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling 107. Animal Farm, George Orwell 106. Operation Eichmann: The Truth about the Pursuit, Capture and Trial, Zvi Aharoni 105. Going Solo, Roald Dahl 104. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle 103. Time Machine, H. G. Wells
These are some of the lovely books I read before 2004. Not in any chronological order.
102. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling 101. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling 100. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling 99. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J. K. Rowling 98. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 97. Catch 22, Joseph Heller 96. English August, Upamanyu Chatterjee 95. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 94. A Farewell to Arms, Ernst Hemingway 93. The Testament, John Grisham 92. Tell Me Your Dreams, Sidney Sheldon 91. One, Richard Bach 90. Jonathon Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach 89. The Last Don, Mario Puzo 88. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 87. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle 86. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster 85. Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card 84. Shadow of the Hegemon, Orson Scott Card 83. Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card 82. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card 81. The View from Saturday, E. L. Konigsburg 80. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg 79. T'is, Frank McCourt 78. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt 77. The Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur S. Golden 76. An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde 75. A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde 74. Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde 73. The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde 72. The Model Millionare, Oscar Wilde 71. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde 70. An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce 69. Erewhon, Samuel Butler 68. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 67. Wuthering Heigths, Emily Bronte 66. Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb 65. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter 64. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling 63. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 62. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne 61. The 1,000,000 Pound Bank Note, Mark Twain 60. Tom Sawyer Detective, Mark Twain 59. Tom Sawyer Abroad, Mark Twain 58. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 57. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain 56. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift 55. She, Henry Haggard Rider 54. King Solomon's Mines, Henry Haggard Rider 53. The Copper Beeches, Arthur Conan Doyle 52. The Beryl Coronet, Arthur Conan Doyle 51. The Noble Bachelor, Arthur Conan Doyle 50. The Engineer's Thumb, Arthur Conan Doyle 49. The Speckled Band, Arthur Conan Doyle 48. The Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle 47. The Man with the Twisted Lips, Arthur Conan Doyle 46. The Five Orange Pips, Arthur Conan Doyle 45. The Boscombe Valley Mystery, Arthur Conan Doyle 44. A Red-Headed League, Arthur Conan Doyle 43. A Case of Identity, Arthur Conan Doyle 42. A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle 41. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle 40. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Dafoe 39. Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson 38. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 36. The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll 35. Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll 34. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 33. The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams 32. Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams 31. Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams 30. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams 29. Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams 28. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams 27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 26. The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas 25. Ten Years Later, Alexandre Dumas 24. Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas 23. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas 22. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 21. Icon, Frederick Forsyth 20. The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth 19. The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth 18. The Great Train Robbery, Michael Crichton 17. Sphere, Michael Crichton 16. Congo, Michael Crichton 15. The Lost World, Michael Crichton 14. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton 13. Lady Susan, Jane Austen 12. Emma, Jane Austen 11. Mansfield Park, Jane Austen 10. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen 9. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 8. To Cut a Long Story Short, Jeffrey Archer 7. First Among Equals, Jeffrey Archer 6. The Fourth Estate, Jeffrey Archer 5. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, Jeffrey Archer 4. The Prodigal Daughter, Jeffrey Archer 3. Shall we Tell the President?, Jeffrey Archer 2. Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer 1. The Eleventh Commandment, Jeffrey Archer