Books
Found this on Poonam’s blog. I thought I would convert in into a page. Since, it will change often… This page will list all the books I have wanted to read and will highlight(read: bold) the ones I already have!! And italicise the ones that I am in the process of reading!!
So, here i go…
- The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
- Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
- The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Who Moved My Cheese? (Spencer Johnson)
- The Inscrutable Americans (Anurag Mathur)
- Falconer (John Cheever)
- A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
- A House for Mr. Biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
- A Painted House (John Grisham)
- Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
- India in Slow Motion (Mark Tully)
- The Stand (Stephen King)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
- The Hobbit (Tolkien)
- The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
- Transmission (Hari Kunzru)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
- East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
- Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
- The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
- The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
- The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
- I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
- The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
- The Bible
- Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
- Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
- Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
- The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
- A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
- Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea)
- Great Expectations (Dickens)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
- The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
- The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- In Xanadu (William Dalrymple)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
- War and Peace (Tolstoy)
- Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
- Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
- This World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
- Les Miserables (Hugo)
- The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
- Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
- Beloved (Toni Morrison)
- The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
- The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
- The Summer Tree (Guy Gravriel Kay)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
- The World According to Garp (John Irving)
- The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
- Notes to Myself (Hugh Prather)
- Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
- Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
- Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
- Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
- Emma (Jane Austen)
- The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- From Russia, With Love (Ian Fleming)
- Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
- Kane and Able (Jeffrey Archer)
- Animal Farm (George Orwell)
- Lord of the Flies (Golding)
- The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
- Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence)
- The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
- A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
- White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
- A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
- Matilda (Roald Dahl)
- Ulysses (James Joyce)
- Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
So, Now I know what all are left to be read 
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I have read just 6… wow… shows my love for books…
lol… I LOVE boooks… but even i have read so few
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown): stimulating, tho superficial and morally subjugating the reader
2. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown): stimulating, tho superficial and morally subjugating the reader
3. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen): outstanding
5. Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell): very interesting, tho if Jane Austen is 100, this is 30, Dan Brown 5
6. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien): outstanding, tho….
7. 1984 (George Orwell): outstanding, a bit boring maybe
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden): I should read it
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. India in Slow Motion (Mark Tully): I should read it
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte): good
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger): outstanding, a great poem in American-40s slang about *difficult* adolescence. It was *my book* at 18, then I discovered some disturbed killers were found with it in their hands…..(true): it is understandable…I’ll talk about it in a future post
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott): good, tho I am not a little woman (nor a big man)
24. Transmission (Hari Kunzru) ?
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) ?
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck): mmmm…good, maybe
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert): very good
33. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley): interesting, …tho don’t take it religiously … plss …mmm…neo-pagan maybe? Interesting anyway…be careful tho girls…(my opinion)
38. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho): great authour, tho I do not believe in signs and I am not religious
39. Shalimar the Clown (Salman Rushdie): read other books by him, not this: OUTSTANDING!
42. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
43. The Bible: *very* boring. Repeating 100 concepts over and over. Some parts are although beautiful (not enough to advice reading it)
44. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy): the BEST of the BEST of the BEST: maybe the most perfect novel ever written (from the times of the ancient Greeks on, pls consider it)
45. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas): outstanding
50. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens): outstanding
51. Girls of Riyadh (Rajaa Alsanea): ????
52. Great Expectations (Dickens): outstanding
53. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald): really outstanding
56. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough): well, dunno, tho I read ALL the Julius Caesar series by her (not bad by the way, Ausssies having good english tho she *totally* lacking the Mediterranean feel. Her work is admirable tho. I thank her.
59. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky): the BEST of the BEST of the BEST since the Greeks again (not read tho lol)
61. War and Peace (Tolstoy): the BEST of the BEST of the BEST: in my view the greatest book EVER written, tho…Anna Karenina probably more …perfect. L-o-n-g religious Christian passages….they not diminishing its tremendous greatness. This the *greatest* since the Greek-Romans in the West. Really. Anna Karenina the *most perfect*.
62. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice): ??
64. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez): super super super wow wow wow wow. I’ll read it again. I MUST
65. This World is Flat (Thomas Friedman): ??
66. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller): outstanding trusting who read it (didn’t read it tho)
67. Les Miserables (Hugo): outstanding outstanding outstanding (read it only a bit tho)
68. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery): boring, never succeeded to finish it (my fault tho: i think it should be outstanding)
69. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding): funny and stimulating for a woman, also loved the movie
70. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez):
71. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
72. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje): I loved the movie a lot (never read the book)
73. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett): maybe…I saw an outstanding movie about it….or maybe I am wrong. Forgot
79. Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris): TO BE AVOIDED ABSOLUTELY: it nourishes the goddam dark side of us!!
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80. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck): read, tho forgot
84. The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins): very GOOD!!!
85. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley): one of the best philosophical works *ever* published in my view (and ALL works by Him, but this one especially of course) and to be read together with Konrad Lorenz’s works (one of special my gurus) to have a total in-depth view of where human kind evolution is going. I met Lorenz much before Huxley, then one day i read in one of Lorenz’s last books: “ALL I did, after all, was continuing Aldous Huxley research”. What??? I said. This *great* german-speaking (Austria) linking to this English guy? Who the hell is he. I soon bought Brave New World and after I read it I …stared at the wall for two days…after that I made a two months seminar for my students on this special German-British connection. British genius and German genius together: lethal, really, no kidding.
86. From Russia, With Love (Ian Fleming): delighful. I love 007
89. Animal Farm (George Orwell): VERY interesting, though a bit boring
90. Lord of the Flies (Golding). interesting, though never got over 50 pages (the promised British reply to Salinger was a bluff, in my view, but I might be wrong)
91. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck): wow (ALL of this autour)
92. Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence): my goodness, this authour is GOOD!! ALL by him. ALL
98. Ulysses (James Joyce): mmm….dunno….read enormous passages of it… heavy, difficult, though …as Dante’s Divine Comedy but not as great, of course not …..Dante is 1000 and Joyce maybe 200-300. OUSTANDING (by the way, Dante would be my only book *forever* (Longfellow: good English translation also on web), I taught it for 16 years in school: only, if he was not so Christian…., but he cannot but be my guru, he cannot but be…..I am not nationalist, but Dante is maybe the greatest author of entire Western past millennium (as British critics suggest: the greatest poet and the greatest engineer at the same time. Germans are so envious about it, ah ah ah. They said: this is is our style of things!!! why is he Italian damn and not German. I say: why wasn’t he Pagan and Roman, damn. Of course Dante’s Guru (or Magister) was ancient-Roman great Virgilius: but if Dante was 1000, Virgilius was only maybe 600…..:-((((( (and great classical Greek authors maybe 1300: damn close Dante, damn close….not so close Virgilius, not so close ….
All the best from
ManofRoma
PS
ALL I just said is ManofRoma’s opinion, apart when I said my opinion was shared by other people….
an admirable list.
Awesome list… I will call you next time I am going book shopping. My current reads (I haven’t maintained a list of already reads
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Owing to a distinct lack of time to devote to book readings currently, I prefer watching GOOD movie adaptations for books at times. While that may not always bring out the soul of the book, Id rather atleast know the story of the book.
One specific mention I would make is for Memoirs of a Geisha (Dont watch the movie. Read the book. Its a decent read.) I picked it up in Tokyo (coz I didnt have anything else for entertainment at that time) and because I was very new to the country, I kind of enjoyed the story outline. Otherwise, it would not rank as a classic.
My personal favourite is The Fountainhead.
ive read most of the books on this list. around half i think.
Wow !
What a great list .Though I am fond of book reading but I’ll read some of them just because I am a busy person.
i recommend Knots and No Crosses by Hitesha Deshpande… a very recent debut novel… check this.. http://knotsandnocrosses.com/
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