[ This page is under construction .... will be updated only sporadically!]

As a disclaimer, this is just a catalogue of some of the books I possess and consider good reads. In the case of several of them, books that I like to read time and again. It is not necessarily a proportionate reflection of my interests. For instance, books on history are expensive buys - so their sparse presence on my bookshelf does not accurately convey the extent of my love for the subject.

Classics

  • The Illiad - Homer
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
  • Persuasion - Jane Austen
  • Lady Susan - Jane Austen
  • Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
  • Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  • A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
  • Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  • The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
  • The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

    • Fantasy/Sci-Fi

  • The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
  • The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
  • The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
  • The Hitchhiker's Trilogy - Douglas Adams
  • The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
    1. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • The Star Wars Series
    1. A New Hope - George Lucas
    2. The Empire Strikes Back - Donald F. Glut
    3. Return of the Jedi - James Kahn
    4. The New Jedi Order: Star by Star - Troy Denning
  • The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
  • The Empire Series (The Stars, Like Dust, The Currents of Space, Pebble in the Sky) - Isaac Asimov
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    • Humor/Satire

  • Jingo - Terry Pratchet
  • Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchet
  • Going Postal - Terry Pratchet
  • A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  • The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
  • Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

    • Contemplative/Philosophical

  • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  • Illusions - Richard Bach
  • The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  • A Painted House - John Grisham (Well .... philosophy needn't be one's USP to write a thought-provoking book.)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
  • Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  • People I Wanted to Be - Gina Ochsner
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    • Historical/Biographical/Political/Cultural

  • Freedom at Midnight - Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
  • Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru
  • My Experiments with Truth - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written - Martin Seymour-Smith
  • In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul
  • Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Out of My Comfort Zone - Steven Waugh
  • Greek Legends - Anthology

    • Action/Adventure/Thriller

    All these books are also up for disposal.
  • Lost Horizon - James Hilton
  • Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum

    • Short Stories

  • Complete Works - O'Henry
  • Complete Works - H.H. Munro (Saki)
  • Complete Works - Guy de Maupassant

    • Borrowed Books

  • The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen (from Satya Mallick)

    • Lent Books

  • Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco (to Sandeep Bala)
  • The Empire Series (The Stars, Like Dust, The Currents of Space, Pebble in the Sky) - Isaac Asimov (to Dhruv Jain)

    • Last updated February 12, 2006.