An attempt to record my love for books… (Goodreads came later). The list is by no means exhaustive. I’ll keep on adding from memory. And of course, I’ll add whatever I read in the future. Just to follow a protocol, I’ll add the new ones on the top, and the ones that I remember having read at the bottom.
- The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
- Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition – Saadat Hasan Manto
- Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- The Book of Tea – Kakuzo Okakura
- Sita: Warrior of Mithila – Amish Tripathi
- The Palace of Illusions – Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Scion of Ikshvaku – Amish Tripathi
- Love – Toni Morrison
- If on a winter’s night a traveller – Italo Calvino
- A Thousand Spendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
- Living History – Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
- Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales – Margaret Atwood
- Bossypants – Tina Fey
- After River – Donna Milner
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- The Old Nurse’s Story – Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
- The Six Wives Of Henry VIII – Alison Weir
- Scheherazade – Haruki Murukami
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri
- Yesterday – Haruki Murukami
- The Invisible Man – H. G. Wells
- Brokeback Mountain – Annie Proulx
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette? – Maria Semple
- The Girl On The Train – Paula Hawkins
- The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The Year I Met You – Cecelia Ahern
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- The School – Donald Barthelme
- The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
- Flora – Gail Godwin
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- The Looking Glass – Anton Chekhov
- Boys And Girls – Alice Munro
- The Story Of An Hour – Kate Chopin
- Reunion – John Cheever
- Real Food – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Hills Like White Elephants – Ernest Hemingway
- Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother – Amy Chua
- Breast Stories – Mahasweta Devi (Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak)
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Female Man – Joanna Russ
- The Invention Of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
- A Teaspoon Of Earth And Sea – Dina Nayeri
- The Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult
- The Story Of X – Lois Gould
- Remember Me? – Sophie Kinsella
- Eleven – Sandra Cisneros
- Pygmalion – John Updike
- Happy Endings – Margaret Atwood
- The Lottery – Shirley Jackson
- Allegiant – Veronica Roth
- Insurgent – Veronica Roth
- The Cuckoo’s Calling -Robert Galbraith
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Three Women – Rabindranath Tagore (Translated by Arunava Sinha)
- A Restless Wind – Shahrukh Husain
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly – Sun-mi Hwang (Translated by Kim Chi-Young)
- A Room Of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams Bianco
- Interpreter Of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Rabindranath Tagore Collected Stories – Rabindranath Tagore
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Let It Snow – John Green, Muareen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding – Agatha Christie
- I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai (with Christina Lamb)
- Tales Of Beedle The Bard – J. K. Rowling
- Anthem – Ayn Rand
- The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings) – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings) – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings) – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
- Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
- The Tainted Throne (Empire of the Moghul) – Alex Rutherford
- Ruler of the World (Empire of the Moghul) – Alex Rutherford
- Brothers at War (Empire of the Moghul) – Alex Rutherford
- Raiders from the North (Empire of the Moghul) – Alex Rutherford
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- Devdas – Saratchandra (Translated by Sreejata Guha)
- Parineeta (A Married Woman) – Saratchandra (Translated by Malobika Chatterjee)
- Biraj Bou – Saratchandra (Translated by Malobika Chatterjee)
- Love Story – Erich Segal
- Where Rainbows End (Love, Rosie) – Cecelia Ahern
- Wife 22 – Melanie Gideon
- The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
- Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
- Lilavati’s daughters: The Women Scientists of India – Edited by Rohini Godbole
- Chokher Bali – Rabindranath Tagore (translated by Radha Chakravarty)
- Mockingjay – Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
- The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
- The Spellman Files – Lisa Lutz
- Inferno – Dan Brown
- Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Black Milk – Elif Shafak
- The Missing Rose – Serdar Ozkan
- The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga
- Last Man in Tower – Aravind Adiga
- The Distant Hours – Kate Morton
- The Zahir – Paulo Coelho
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Eleven Minutes – Paulo Coelho
- Coming of Age – Valerie Mendes
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Help – Kathryn Stockett
- To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- The Story of Anne Frank – Mirjam Pressler
- Stolen – Lucy Christopher
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Ignited Minds – Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Cry of the Giraffe – Judie Oron
- The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy – I) – Amish Tripathi
- The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy – II) – Amish Tripathi
- The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy – III) – Amish Tripathi
- The Sins of the Father – Jeffrey Archer
- Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
- For One More Day – Mitch Albom
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- Who Moved My Cheese – Dr. Spencer Johnson
- The Midwife’s Apprentice – Karen Cushman
- The Confession – John Grisham
- Skipping Christmas – John Grisham
- Hard Times – Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Switched (Trylle trilogy I)- Amanda Hocking
- Torn (Trylle trilogy II) – Amanda Hocking
- Five Point Someone – Chetan Bhagat
- One Night at the Call Centre – Chetan Bhagat
- Three Mistakes of My Life – Chetan Bhagat
- 2 States – Chetan Bhagat
- Revolution 2020 – Chetan Bhagat
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
- Deception Point – Dan Brown
- Digital Fortress – Dan Brown
- The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- The Prisoner of Zenda – Anthony Hope
- The Book of Tomorrow – Cecelia Ahern
- The Time Of my Life – Cecelia Ahern
- A Place called here – Cecelia Ahern
- Thanks for the Memories – Cecelia Ahern
- The Gift – Cecelia Ahern
- If You Could See Me Now – Cecelia Ahern
- One Hundred Names – Cecelia Ahern
- The Star of Kazan – Eva Ibbotson
- The Morning Gift – Eva Ibbotson
- The Secret Countess – Eva Ibbotson
- A Company of Swans – Eva Ibbotson
- A Song for Summer – Eva Ibbotson
- The Midnight Palace – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Daddy Longlegs – Jean Webster
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
- Happy –
- The Best Short Stories – Guy de Maupassant
- Anne of Green Gables – Lucy Montgomery
- Anne of Avonlea – Lucy Montgomery
- Anne of the Island – Lucy Montgomery
- Anne of Windy Poplars – Lucy Montgomery
- Anne’s House of Dreams – Lucy Montgomery
- Anne of Ingleside – Lucy Montgomery
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix – J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J. K. Rowling
- Twilight – Stephanie Meyer
- New Moon – Stephanie Meyer
- Eclipse – Stephanie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn – Stephanie Meyer
- Cards on the Table – Agatha Christie
- The Secret of Chimneys – Agatha Christie
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – Agatha Christie
- Crooked House – Agatha Christie
- Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case – Agatha Christie
- Death comes as the End – Agatha Christie
- Murder is Easy – Agatha Christie
- Why didn’t they ask Evans? – Agatha Christie
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
- Hickory Dickory Dock – Agatha Christie
- Cat among the Pigeons – Agatha Christie
- 4.50 from Paddington – Agatha Christie
- A Murder is Announced – Agatha Christie
- The Body in the Library – Agatha Christie
- 13 Problems – Agatha Christie
- The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side – Agatha Christie
- A pocket full of Rye – Agatha Christie
- Nemesis – Agatha Christie
- A Damsel in Distress – P. G. Wodehouse
- Piccadilly Jim – P. G. Wodehouse
- The Girl in Blue – P. G. Wodehouse
- Iggie’s House – Judy Blume
- Blubber – Judy Blume
- Then Again, Maybe I won’t – Judy Blume
- Deenie – Judy Blume
- Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret – Judy Blume
- Just As Long As We Are Together – Judy Blume
- Here’s to you, Rachel Robinson
- It’s Not The End of the World – Judy Blume
- Tiger Eyes – Judy Blume
- Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself – Judy Blume
- Forever – Judy Blume
- How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories – Sudha Murthy
- A Girl Named Indie – Kavita Daswani
- The Deadly Experiments of Dr. Eeek – R. L. Stine
- Snapshots – Shobhaa De
- Second Thoughts – Shobhaa De
- Girls in Tears – Jacqueline Wilson
- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Kimberly Kirberger
- Chicken Soup for the Cat and Dog Lover’s Soul – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Marty Becker, D. V. M. And Carol Kline
- Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Raksha Bharadia
- Chicken Soup for the Sister’s Soul 2 – Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Aubery and kelly Mitchell Zimmerman
- The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Secret Room – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Missing Necklace – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Hidden House – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Invisible Thief – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Vanished Prince – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Strange Bundle – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of Holly lane – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Tally – Ho cottage – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Missing Man – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Strange Messages – Enid Blyton
- The Mystery of the Banshee Towers – Enid Blyton
- Five on a Treasure Island – Enid Blyton
- Five Go Adventuring Again – Enid Blyton
- Five Run Away Together – Enid Blyton
- Five Go to Smuggler’s Top – Enid Blyton
- Five Go Off in a Caravan – Enid Blyton
- Five on Kirrin Island Again – Enid Blyton
- Five Go Off to Camp – Enid Blyton
- Five Get Into Trouble – Enid Blyton
- Five Fall Into Adventure – Enid Blyton
- Five on a Hike Together – Enid Blyton
- Five Have a Wonderful Time – Enid Blyton
- Five Go Down to the Sea – Enid Blyton
- Five Go to Mystery Moor – Enid Blyton
- Five Have Plenty of Fun – Enid Blyton
- Five on a Secret Trail – Enid Blyton
- Five Go to Billycock Hill – Enid Blyton
- Five Get into a Fix – Enid Blyton
- Five on Finniston Farm – Enid Blyton
- Five Go to Demon’s Rocks – Enid Blyton
- Five Have a Mystery to Solve – Enid Blyton
- Five Are Together Again – Enid Blyton
- The Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Secret Seven Adventure – Enid Blyton
- Well Done Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Secret Seven on the Trail – Enid Blyton
- Go Ahead Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Good Work Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Secret Seven Win Through – Enid Blyton
- Three Cheers Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Secret Seven Mystery – Enid Blyton
- Puzzle for the Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Secret Seven Fireworks – Enid Blyton
- Good Old Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Shock for the Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Look Out Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- Fun for the Secret Seven – Enid Blyton
- First Term at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton
- Second Form at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton
- Third Year at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton
- Upper Fourth at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton
- In the Fifth at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton
- Last Term at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton
- The Twins at St Clare’s – Enid Blyton
- The O’Sullivan Twins – Enid Blyton
- Summer Term at St Clare’s – Enid Blyton
- Second Form at St Clare’s – Enid Blyton
- The Third Form at St. Clare’s – Pamela Cox
- Kitty at St. Clare’s – Pamela Cox
- Claudine at St Clare’s – Enid Blyton
- Fifth Formers of St Clare’s – Enid Blyton
- The Sixth Form at St. Clare’s – Pamela Cox
- The Truth about Stacey – Ann M. Martin
- The Ghost at Dawn’s House – Ann M. Martin
- Dawn and the School Spirit War – Ann M. Martin
- Dawn and the Older Boy – Ann M. Martin
- Kristy’s Secret Admirer – Ann M. Martin
- Poor Mallory! – Ann M. Martin
- Jessi and the Dance School Phantom – Ann. M. Martin
- Kristy and the Baby Parade – Ann M. Martin
- Jessi and the Awful Secret – Ann M. Martin
- Dawn’s Family Feud – Ann M. Martin
- Get Well Soon, Mallory! – Ann M. Martin
- Kristy and the Copycat – Ann M. Martin
- Babysitters’ Winter Vacation – Ann M. Martin
- Babysitters’ Island Adventure – Ann M. Martin
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
- Matilda – Roald Dahl
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
- Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella
- The Witches – Roahl Dahl
- The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
- Pookie – Ivy Wallace
- Charlotte’s Web – E. B. White
Obsessed with books? Have a recommendation? Want to discuss a book from the above list? Feel free to leave a comment!
My god the list of your books its unbelievable how do you… 230 I mean how ?
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🙂 I’ve just had a long time with books.
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Shantaram takes the top rank in my list too. But it’s amazing that you have maintained a list .:)
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It’s not a rank-wise list, Archita. It’s just the one that I read most recently. However, I did enjoy it! 🙂
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You have read these many books? :O
I don’t even know there are so many books out there 😛
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It took me 14 scrolls of my mouse’s scrolling aid to hover the complete list.
Leaving me bewildered !!! Is this possible ?? 😛
(no offences, I really believe you can)
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Yup! Very possible, but I started 10 years earlier! 🙂
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Akshita!! sooooo many books 🙂 actually it was quite evident from your cupboard collection 😛
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Hehehe! 🙂
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