My Booklist
Read - [A list from Childhood to Now]
Yet to Finish
To Read (On the rack/ In my Kindle)
- Animal Farm by George Orwell [Very Interesting, should have reviewed it immediately, will have to read again now]
- The Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin [ Review Done]
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini [ Review Done]
- Into The Hidden Valley: A Novel by Stuart Blackburn [ Review Done]
- Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer [ Very Interesting, Must Read]
- Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita [ Very Interesting, Must Read]
- Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh [ Outdated for current times, must have been revolutionary when it came out and in that mood, a little bollywood-ish]
- The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn
- Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thorstein Veblen [For Economics Enthusiasts Only]
- The Affluent Society by Galbraith, John Kenneth (Jan 2015)[ For Economics Enthusiasts Only]
- 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]
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [Basic for current times, must have been revolutionary when it came out, and in that environment]
- The 50 Shades Series [Written like a 6 year old wrote it, not my genre but good read]
- The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga [Basic read, didn't live up to the hype for me but very important insight into Indian society]
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank [ Simple Writing, True Story, Must Read]
- The Immortals of Meluha [ Fiction - Not My Genre but a decent read]
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel [ A good read - Simple and thought provoking]
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri [ Can't Remember much, will have to read again]
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho [ 16 was probably too early to read it, need to read again and decide]
- Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho [ Interesing, Need to Read this author at the right age maybe]
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts [Very, Very Interesting, Must Read]
- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth [A very long bollywood movie but an interesting perspective on Indian Society, A must read in that sense]
- 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]
- One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat [ Can Skip]
- Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat [ A very good read, the only one i liked by this author]
- The Da Vinci Code [ For Adoloscents and For All- Mind Blowing, Must Read]
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens [ For Adoloscents- Good Read]
- Around the World in Eighty Days [ For Adoloscents- Good Read]
- Tell Me Your Dreams by Sydney Sheldon [ Thriller, Interesting, Good For Adoloscents and For All in general]
- The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond [ Can't Remember, will have to read again]
- List of Novels I Read around 6th Std to be posted
- Chicken Soup for the Soul Series [ Short Storeis - Good For Non-Readers]
- Animorphs [ Science Fiction For Kids- Read a few but wasn't fond of the genre even then]
- Hardy Boys Series [ Mystery books For Kids -Read a few, did not interest me don't know why]
- Full House- Michelle Series [ For Kids, Reason why i became a regular reader in around 4th-5th Std]
- 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
- Land of the Seven Rivers by Sanjeev Sanyal [ Currently Reading, Very Interesting]
- The Arguementative Indian by Amartya Sen [ Writing style- Too much sentence formation to say simple things]
- Poor Economics by Abhijeet Banerjee and Esther Duflo [Writing Style-More like a simple Research Paper+ Novel Style, can be read by anyone]
- Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera [ Writing Style- Simple, Interesting]
- Rag Darbari by Shrilal Shukla [ Writing Style- Satire, Very Interesting but picked Hindi]
- 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]
- A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
- Lord of the Flies by William Goulding [ Writing Style- Simple]
- An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
To Read (On the rack/ In my Kindle)
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Legends of Khasak by O V Vijayan
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Anti Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb [ To be read in the same order]
- Twelve Years a Slave (AmazonClassics Edition) by Solomon Northup
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
- Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
- Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
- On the origin of species by Charles Darwin
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Pax Indica: India and the World of the Twenty-first Century by Shashi Tharoor
- India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
- The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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