BOOKS I READ ( from january 2006)
1. OF BRAHMINS AND BUNGLAWS – KAVITA WATSA ( SOUTH INDIAN TRAVELLOGUE)
2. INSIDE AN ELUSIVE MIND – LTTE PRABAKARAN
3. A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME – STEVEN HAWKING
4. EMPIRES OF THE MIND – DENIS WAITLEY
5. ELEVEN MINUTES – PAULO COELHO
6. THE ZAHIR – PAULO COELHO
7. MANUAL OF THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT – PAULO COELHO
8. LIFE OF PI – YANN MARTEL
9. CHE GUEVRRA READER – WRITINGS ON POLITICS AND REVOLUTION
10. CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD BOOK 1 AND
11. BOOK 2 – NEALE DONALD WALSH
12. THE FOUNTAIN HEAD – AYN RAND
13. COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES – O. HENRY
14. VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE – PAULO COELHO
15. THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM – PAULO COELHO
16. WISE AND OTHERWISE – SUDHA MURTHY
17. BY THE RIVER PIEDRA I SAT DOWN AND WEPT – PAULO COELHO
18. JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL a story – RICHARD BACH
19. THE PILGRIMAGE – PAULO COELHO
20. WE THE LIVING – AYN RAND
21. HOW OPAL METHA GOT KISSED GOT WILD AND GOT A LIFE – KAVYA VISWANATHAN
22. ANTHEM – AYN RAND
23. TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD – HARPER LEE
24. THE EARLY AYN RAND – AYN RAND
25. THE VOICE OF REASON – AYN RAND
26. A ROMANTIC MANIFESTO – AYN RAND
27. IN COLD BLOOD – TRUMAN CAPOTE
28. FIVE POINT SOMEONE – CHETAN BHAGAT
29. THE STRANGER – ALBERT CAMUS
30. WAR AND PEACE – LEO TOLSTOY
31. THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF AN ALBINO TERRORIST – BREYTEN BREYTENBACH
32. ATLAS SHRUGGED – AYN RAND
33. MATTHEW
34. MARK
35. LUKE
36. JOHN
37. Midnights Children – Salman Rushdie
38. The Argumentative Indian – Amartya Sen
39. The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor
40. Mahabharata – C. Rajaji
41. The Tao of Physics – Fritjof Capra
42. David Ogilvy – An autobiography
43. The mystery of the invisible thief – Enid Blyton
44. Three men in a boat – Jerome K. Jerome
45. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
46. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time – Mark Haddon
47. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
48. Why men don’t listen & women can’t read maps – Allan & Barbara Pease
49. Confessions of an Advertising man – David Ogilvy
50. Its not about the bike My journey back to life – Lance Amstrong
51. Train to Pakistan – Khushwant Singh
52. Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
53. My name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
54. One hundred year of solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
55. Strange Pilgrims- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
56. The Clown – Heinrich Böll
57. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
58. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka
59. The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy – Douglas Adams
60. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werther) – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -[will never forget the situation when I read this book in one sitting at a stretch]
61. The way I am – Eminem with Sacha Jenkins
62. Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
63. Surely you are joking Mr.Feynman – Richard Feynman
64. Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts – P. Sainath
65. Beyond Good and evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
66. The Adventures of Huckleberyy finn – Mark Twain
67. A long way gone Memoirs of a boy soldier – Ishmael Beah
68. My stroke of insight – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor
69. The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
70. Born on a blue day – Daniel Tammet
71. Three cups of tea – Greg Mortenson
72. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
73. Animal farm – George Orwell
74. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
75. QED – Richard Feynman
76. Plato and platypus walk into a bar … – Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
77. Untouchables – Narendra Jadhav
78. A spot of bother – Mark Haddon
Some books I read might not have been updated during this period
79. Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
80. A journey to the East – Herman Hesse
81. Outliers – Malcom Gladwell
82. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
83. One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest – Ken Kesey
Some books I read might not have been updated during this period
84. The NEW Asian Hemisphere – Kishore Mahubani (** A MUST read for anyone planning to live in the 21st Century **)
Currently Reading:
1. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life – Charles Darwin
2. The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
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