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Books

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.