A continuously updated list of books I read. February 2010 Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes Ahmed Rashid - Descent into Chaos January 2010 Chetan Bhagat - 2 States Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach October 2009 Brandon Sanderson & Robert Jordan - The Gathering Storm Lawrence G. McDonald - A Colossal Failure of Common Sense Doctors - Erich Segal July 2009 Nick Hornby - How to Be Good June 2009 Ethan Canin - America, America Gerald Durrell - The Picnic & Other Inimitable Stories Jonathan A. Knee - The Accidental Investment Banker April 2009 Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire of the Vanities March 2009 Janet Evanovich - One for the Money Alexander McCall Smith - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency February 2009 Michael Lewis - Liar's Poker Rolf Potts - Vagabonding November 2008 Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore October 2008 Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow - The Last Lecture Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Imperial Life in the Emerald City Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 September 2008 P. G. Wodehouse - Ukridge Hari Kunzru - Transmission P. G. Wodehouse - Do Butlers Burgle Banks? August 2008 Neil Gaiman - Death: The High Cost of Living Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha July 2008 Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children Joseph O'Neill - Netherland Geoffrey R. Stone - Perilous Times Cynthia J. Alexander & Leslie A. Pal - Digital Democracy June 2008 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays May 2008 Ian McEwan - Saturday Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love April 2008 Nassim Taleb - The Black Swan Maxx Barry - Syrup Ian McEwan - Saturday Dick Francis - Forfeit Dick Francis - Flying Finish P. G. Wodehouse - Meet Mr. Mulliner Sudhir Venkatesh - Gang Leader for a Day March 2008 Alan Greenspan - The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World David Mitchell - Black Swan Green Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen February 2008 Neal Asher - Gridlinked Jostein Gaardner - Sophie's World January 2008 Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore - Earth in the Balance Andrew X. Pham - Catfish and Mandala Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss Edgar Wallace - The Mind of J. G. Reeder December 2007 P. G. Wodehouse - Ukridge Bill Bryson - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid David Mitchell - Ghostwritten Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman November 2007 Winston Groom - Forrest Gump John le Carré - The Mission Song October 2007 Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ramachandra Guha - India after Gandhi September 2007 Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Supremacy August 2007 Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions July 2007 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death Irène Némirovsky - Suite française J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner June 2007 Michio Kaku - Visions John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale Maile Meloy - A Family Daughter Richard Russo - Straight Man Mira Kamdar - Planet India May 2007 Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong Gerald Durrell - The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories Haruki Murakami - After the Quake April 2007 V. S. Naipaul - An Area of Darkness John Grisham - The Partner Irvine Welsh - Porno Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things Dick Francis - For Kicks March 2007 Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Zoe Heller - What Was She Thinking? MASH - Richard Hooker J. D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood Toni Morrison - Beloved February 2007 Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveler's Wife Zadie Smith - On Beauty Michael Crichton - Next Nick Hornby - How to Be Good January 2007 V. S. Naipaul - Among the Believers Nick Hornby - About A Boy Orhan Pamuk - Istanbul: Memories and the City Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club September 2006 Åsne Seierstad - The Bookseller of Kabul Vikram Seth - A Suitable Boy August 2006 Pico Iyer - Sun After Dark John Monaghan & Peter Just - Social & Cultural Anthropology Michael Crichton - A Case of Need John Irving - Until I Find You July 2006 Philip K. Dick - Time Out of Joint Suketu Mehta - Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Isaac Asimov - Foundation & Earth Isaac Asimov - Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation Isaac Asimov - Foundation & Empire June 2006 Salman Rushdie - Fury Isaac Asimov - Foundation Hanif Kureishi - Midnight All Day Åsne Seierstad - With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics May 2006 Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans Frank Miller - Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty April 2006 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled George R. R. Martin - A Clash of Kings Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen March 2006 Erich Segal - Prizes Leon Uris - Exodus January 2006 Alex Haley - Roots Jeffrey Archer - First Impression George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones Michael Crichton - The Lost World December 2005 Mario Puzo - The Last Don Harlan Coben - Darkest Fear Gerald Durrell - The Bafut Beagles Agatha Christie - Five Little Pigs November 2005 Sidney Sheldon - Master of the Game Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills Murray Walker - Unless I'm Very Much Mistaken: An Autobiography Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind John le Carré - The Constant Gardener Anonymous – Primary Colors Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let You Go Nicci French – Land of the Living October 2005 Robert Jordan - Knife of Dreams John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany Nick Hornby – High Fidelity Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express September 2005 Robert Harris – Pompeii July 2005 Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince June 2005 Jean Sasson - Princess Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins - It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life April 2005 Robert Jordan - New Spring Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose Steve Matchett - The Mechanic’s Tale: Life in the Pit-Lanes of Formula One Christopher Paolini - Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) March 2005 P. G. Wodehouse - A Damsel in Distress Chetan Bhagat - Five Point Someone February 2005 Anurag Mathur - The Inscrutable Americans George Orwell - 1984 Arun Shourie - Governance And The Sclerosis That Has Set In Manuel Castells - The Power of Identity Simon Singh - The Code Book January 2005 John Grisham - The Last Juror P. G. Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit Jeffrey Archer - Sons of Fortune Michael Crichton - State of Fear December 2004 Dan Brown - Angels & Demons November 2004 Sidney Sheldon - Are You Afraid of The Dark? Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced P. G. Wodehouse - Laughing Gas John Mortimer - Rumpole’s Last Case John Mortimer - Rumpole and the Golden Thread John Mortimer - Rumpole for the Defence Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of The Day July 2004 Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace June 2004 P. G. Wodehouse - Uncle Dynamite John Irving - The World According to Garp P. G. Wodehouse - Hot Water May 2004 Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake J. D. Salinger - Nine Stories Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin Arthur Hailey - Hotel April 2004 Alistair MacLean - Puppet on a Chain Alistair MacLean - Force 10 from Navarone Mario Puzo - Omerta March 2004 Vikram Seth - An Equal Music Frederick Forsyth - The Veteran Richard P. Feynman - Six Easy Pieces H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds February 2004 Irving Wallace - The Man Alistair MacLean - The Way To Dusty Death Robert M. Pirsig - Lila : An Enquiry into Morals January 2004 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera December 2003 D. B. C. Pierre - Vernon God Little Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl : The Arctic Incident Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath November 2003 John Grisham - The Partner October 2003 Alvin Toffler - Future Shock John Grisham - The King of Torts September 2003 Roald Dahl - Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected Roald Dahl - Someone Like You Roald Dahl - Switch Bitch Roald Dahl - Over To You Roald Dahl - Kiss, Kiss Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The Autumn of the Patriarch Salman Rushdie - Fury Milan Kundera - Identity Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay - The Yes Prime Minister Series Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay - The Yes Minister Series August 2003 Robert Jordan - Lord of Chaos (Wheel of Time Book Six) Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven (Wheel of Time Book Five) P. G. Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie Robert Jordan - The Shadow Rises (Wheel of Time Book Four) Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn (Wheel of Time Book Three) Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time Book Two) July 2003 Robert Jordan - To The Blight (Eye Of The World Part Two) Robert Jordan - From The Two Rivers (Eye Of The World Part One) John Irving - The Cider House Rules Rohinton Mistry - Such A Long Journey Fareed Zakaria - The Future of Freedom : Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix May 2003 John le Carre - The Tailor of Panama Jeffrey Archer - Sons of Fortune Shashi Tharoor - The Great Indian Novel April 2003 Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting March 2003 Debby Bull - Blue Jelly Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist February 2003 Alexander Frater - Chasing The Monsoon Joseph Heller - Catch 22 J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban January 2003 Alistair MacLean - The Guns of Navarone FF8282 - A Prison Diary Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Erich Segal - The Class George Orwell - Animal Farm Isaac Asimov - Foundation Erich Segal - Doctors Erich Segal - Acts of Faith W. Daniel Hillis - The Pattern on The Stone December 2002 Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent Graham Greene - A Sort Of Life Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains Of The Day Michael Crichton - Prey Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude November 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers October 2002 J. R. R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-time Of The Soul Robert Jordan - Winter’s Heart (Wheel of Time Book Nine) F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby September 2002 Arthur Hailey - Airport Arthur Hailey - Hotel Arthur Hailey - In High Places Arthur Hailey - The Evening News August 2002 Arthur Hailey - The Moneychangers Arthur Hailey - Wheels Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead July 2002 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment George Orwell - 1984 Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird June 2002 Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’ Diary Irving Wallace - The Haj Irving Wallace - The Man J D Salinger - Franny and Zooey J D Salinger - Nine Stories May 2002 J D Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye Jeffrey Archer - A Matter of Honour Jeffrey Archer - A Quiver Full of Arrows Jeffrey Archer - A Twist in the Tale Jeffrey Archer - First Among Equals Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel April 2002 Jeffrey Archer - Shall We Tell the President? (Kennedy and Kane versions) Jeffrey Archer - The Prodigal Daughter Jeffrey Archer - To Cut a Long Story Short Joseph Heller - Catch 22 March 2002 Jostein Gaardner - Sophie’s World Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind Mario Puzo - The Godfather February 2002 Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time Book One) Robert M Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children Sidney Sheldon - The Sky is Falling January 2002 Winston Groom - Forrest Gump Winston Groom - Gump and Co. |