The Great Big Must Read List

Was just revisiting this thread to check the new titles added. You ILites humble me with all your lists!

How many books yet to be read! How many Authors that I have not heard of! There is so much to read and thinking that my entire lifetime may not be enough makes me anxious

 

This is a useful thread! Here is my 10:

1. Doctors - Eric Segal
2. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
3.
P.S I love you - Cecilia Ahern
4. Jaya - Devdutt Pattanaik
5. Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
6. 7 habits of highly effective people - Stephen Covey
7. Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi
8. Nothing lasts forever - Sidney sheldon
9. When breath becomes air - Paul Kalanithi
10. Malgudi days - R.K. Narayanan

"Keep Reading;Its one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have" - Llyod Alexander.

 

Harry Potter Series
Look Back in Anger(Play)
A Street Car Named Desire(Play)
Sherlock Holmes

 

"No One Wants You" by Celine Roberts is definitely a must!

 

hi, friends & book lovers, here is my list of ten best-reads, no rankings please, just the way...........

1. My Experiments with Truth - M.K. Gandhi
2. Pride and Prejudices - Jane Austen
3.Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
4. Everything you wanted to know about Freelance Journalism - Kavitha rao & Charukesi Ramadurai
5.Stand by me - Sheila O' Flanagan
6. Love among the book shelves - Ruskin Bond.
7.A cup of comfort , classic Edition - edited by Colleen Sell.
8. A poem for CRY- favourite poems of famous Indians- Avanti Maluste & Sudeep Doshi
9. Great works of Mark Twain- Black rose publications, Delhi.
10. India's North East, paradise unexplored - India Tourism Development corporation, NewDelhi.

 

Hi Rajeni,


I love the list you've put up for us all. In fact, the Kite Runner, Angels and Demons and The Alchemist are three of my personal favourites as well. I would highly encourage you to read The Digital Fortress and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown if you haven't already. You will become a huge fanatic of his writing just like I am.

Also, I would like to share something with you. I recently published a novel called 'The Shame's On You'. It's a twisted tale that revolves around the inane struggle associated with being a woman in India. I've made an effort to force readers to rethink right versus wrong & reshape practices that have come to be regarded as the soul of our Indian culture. Here's the Facebook link so please feel free to have a look when you get a chance: www.facebook.com/tsoykk

It's a story that I believe people need to read in order to start asking questions that have the potential to uproot the deeply imbedded gender inequality and gender biases in our Indian society. I would really like to encourage you to read the story and tell me what you think about because even though, we don't know each other but I truly believe you are a thoughtful lady who will understand and act upon the message that I'm trying to send through the story and encourage other women to do the same.

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

Regards,
Khyati

 

"Straight from the gut"- biography of Jack Welch

A must must read my most fav book among biographies

 

1) An Area of Darkness by V.S. Naipaul
2) Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India: 1921-1952 by Nirad Chaudhuri
3) The Continent of Circe by Nirad Chaudhuri
4) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
5) My Secret Life by Walter
6) Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux
7) Natural Enmity: Reflections on the Niti and Rasa of the Panchatantra [Book 1] by Ashay Naik
8) Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
9) Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

 

One more to make it a perfect ten:

10) Dharma, India and the World Order by Chaturvedi Badrinath