My Booklist

Read - [A list from Childhood to Now]
  1. Animal Farm by George Orwell [Very Interesting, should have reviewed it immediately, will have to read again now]
  2. The Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin [ Review Done]
  3. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini [ Review Done]
  4. Into The Hidden Valley: A Novel by Stuart Blackburn [ Review Done]
  5. Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer [ Very Interesting, Must Read]
  6. Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita [ Very Interesting, Must Read]
  7. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh [ Outdated for current times, must have been revolutionary when it came out and in that mood, a little bollywood-ish]
  8. The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
  9. Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thorstein Veblen [For Economics Enthusiasts Only]
  10. The Affluent Society by Galbraith, John Kenneth (Jan 2015)[ For Economics Enthusiasts Only]
  11. India Unbound: From Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das (Sep-2013) [ Must read, For Economics Enthusiasts+Anyone curious about India's economic journey, Simple style of storytelling]
  12. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [Basic for current times, must have been revolutionary when it came out, and in that environment]
  13. The 50 Shades Series [Written like a 6 year old wrote it, not my genre but good read]
  14. The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga [Basic read, didn't live up to the hype for me but very important insight into Indian society]
  15. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [ Simple Writing, True Story, Must Read]
  16. The Immortals of Meluha [ Fiction - Not My Genre but a decent read]
  17. Life of Pi by Yann Martel [ A good read - Simple and thought provoking]
  18. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [ Can't Remember much, will have to read again]
  19. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho [ 16 was probably too early to read it, need to read again and decide]
  20. Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho [ Interesing, Need to Read this author at the right age maybe]
  21. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts [Very, Very Interesting, Must Read]
  22. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth [A very long bollywood movie but an interesting perspective on Indian Society,  A must read in that sense] 
  23. The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan [ Decent read, this author is good For Non-Readers, would suggest for people who want to start reading]
  24. One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat [ Can Skip]
  25. Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat [ A very good read, the only one i liked by this author]
  26. The Da Vinci Code [ For Adoloscents and For All- Mind Blowing, Must Read]
  27. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [ For Adoloscents- Good Read]
  28. Around the World in Eighty Days [ For Adoloscents- Good Read]
  29. Tell Me Your Dreams by Sydney Sheldon [ Thriller, Interesting, Good For Adoloscents and For All in general]
  30. The Room on the Roof  by Ruskin Bond [ Can't Remember, will have to read again]
  31. List of Novels I Read around 6th Std to be posted
  32. Chicken Soup for the Soul Series [ Short Storeis - Good For Non-Readers]
  33. Animorphs [ Science Fiction For Kids- Read a few but wasn't fond of the genre even then]
  34. Hardy Boys Series [ Mystery books For Kids -Read a few, did not interest me don't know why]
  35. Full House- Michelle Series [ For Kids, Reason why i became a regular reader in around 4th-5th Std]
  36. Nancy Drew Series [Amazing mystery books For Kids, The reason i started reading books around 4th Std]
(I've read 4 books of Harry Potter around 8th Std i think and the rest again around 11th std but it's just not my genre but highly suggested For Kids and For Adoloscents)


Yet to Finish
  1. Land of the Seven Rivers by  Sanjeev Sanyal [ Currently Reading, Very Interesting]
  2. The Arguementative Indian by Amartya Sen [ Writing style- Too much sentence formation to say simple things] 
  3. Poor Economics by Abhijeet Banerjee and Esther Duflo [Writing Style-More like a simple Research Paper+ Novel Style, can be read by anyone]
  4. Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera [ Writing Style- Simple, Interesting]
  5. Rag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla [ Writing Style- Satire, Very Interesting but picked Hindi]
  6. An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India by Kaushik Basu [I keep looking at it on my rack, not able to go beyond Chapter 1 don't know why, it's a good book]
  7. A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
  8. Lord of the Flies by William Goulding [ Writing Style- Simple]
  9. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth

To Read (On the rack/ In my Kindle)
  1. 1984 by George Orwell 
  2. The Legends of Khasak by O V Vijayan
  3. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 
  4. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  5. Anti Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [ To be read in the same order]
  6. Twelve Years a Slave (AmazonClassics Edition) by Solomon Northup
  7. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
  8. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
  10. Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
  11. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
  12. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
  13. On the origin of species by Charles Darwin
  14. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  15. Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century by Shashi Tharoor
  16. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
  17. The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
  18. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  19. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell


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