The List of Books

Recently (and not so recently) Read

1. When She Was Good / Philip Roth
2. Neither Here, Nor There / Bill Bryson
3. No Full Stops in India / Mark Tully
4. Women in Love / D. H. Lawrence
5. Rag Darbari / Shrilal Shukla
6. Burmese Days / George Orwell
7. Notes From a Small Island / Bill Bryson
8. Makaan / Shrilal Shukla
9. The Hot Zone / Richard Preston
10. Angela's Ashes / Frank McCourt
11. Tis': A Memoir / Frank McCourt
12. City of Djinns : A Year of Delhi / William Dalrymple
13. Rag Darbari (English) / Shrilal Shukla (translated by Gillian Wright)
14. Der Besuch der Alten Dame (The Visit) / Friedrich Durrenmatt
15. aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to puzzle and delight / Martin Gardner
16. The Complete Yes Minister / Jonathan Lynn and Anthony Jay
17. Something Fresh / P. G. Wodehouse
18. Summer Lightning / P. G. Wodehouse
19. Adrian Mole: The Lost Years / Sue Townsend
20. maus / Art Spiegelman
21. Side Effects / Woody Allen
22. Heavy Weather / P. G. Wodehouse
23. maus II / Art Spiegelman
24. Made in America / Bill Bryson
25. Pigs Have Wings / P. G. Wodehouse
26. Borstal Boy / Brendan Behan
27. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit / P. G. Wodehouse
28. Right Ho, Jeeves / P.G. Wodehouse
29. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers / Paul Hoffman
30. Full Moon / P. G. Wodehouse
31. The Fellowship of the Ring / J. R. R. Tolkein
32. The Two Towers / J. R. R. Tolkein
33. Service with a Smile / P. G. Wodehouse
34. The Return of the King / J. R. R. Tolkein
35. Orlando / Virginia Woolfe
36. Silmarillion / J. R. R. Tolkien
37. The Hobbit / J. R. R. Tolkein
38. The Complete Ripping Yarns / Michael Palin and Terry Jones
39. The Luck of the Bodkins / P.G. Wodehouse
40. An Instance of the Fingerpost / Iain Pears
41. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams
42. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe/ Douglas Adams
43. Life, the Universe and Everything / Douglas Adams
44. The Counterlife / Philip Roth
45. So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish / Douglas Adams
46. Mostly Harmless / Douglas Adams
47. Baisween Sadi / Rahul Sankrityayan
48. Changing Places / David Lodge
49. Small World / David Lodge
50. Therapy / David Lodge
51. Nice Work / David Lodge
52. How Far Can You Go? / David Lodge
53. No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency / Alexander McAll Smith
54. Tears of the Giraffe / Alexander McAll Smith
55. Morality for Beautiful Girls / Alexander McAll Smith
56. Out of the Shelter / David Lodge
57. Paradise News / David Lodge
58. The Barber of Seville / Beaumarchais
59. The Marriage of Figaro / Beaumarchais
60. The Kalahari Typing School For Men / Alexander McAll Smith
61. Delhi: A Novel / Khushwant Singh
62. Uncle Dynamite / P. G. Wodehouse
63. Full Cupboard of Life / Alexander McAll Smith
64. The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time / Mark Haddon
65. The British Museum is Falling Down / David Lodge
66. Ginger, You're Barmy / David Lodge
67. Demon in the Freezer / Richard Preston
68. A Season with Verona / Tim Parks
69. Italian Neighbours / Tim Parks
70. Crusades / Terry Jones and Alan Ereira
71. The Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco
72. Life of Pi / Yann Martel
73. A Short History of Nearly Everything / Bill Bryson
74. I Henry IV / William Shakespeare
75. Malgudi Days / R. K. Narayan
76. Truth, Love and a Little Malice / Khushwant Singh
77. The Great Indian Novel / Shashi Tharoor
78. The Divine Comedy : Inferno / Dante Aligheri
79. A Short History of Byzantium / John Julius Norwich
80. In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great / Michael Wood
81. The Italians / Luigi Barzini
82. Brighton Rock / Graham Greene
83. The Black Book / Orhan Pamuk
84. Italian Education / Tim Parks
85. Popcorn / Ben Elton
86. Down Under / Bill Bryson
87. The Snack Thief / Andrea Camilleri
88. The Shape of Water / Andrea Camilleri
89. A Walk in the Woods / Bill Bryson
90. Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations / Alexander McCall Smith
91. Guns, Germs and Steel / Jared Diamond
92. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian / Marina Lewycka
93. A Suitable Boy / Vikram Seth
94. Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer
95. Soonee Ghati ka Sooraj / Shrilal Shukla
96. The Beckoning Silence / Joe Simpson
97. Annapurna / Maurice Herzog
98. The Pope's Children / David MacWilliams
99. The Nonexistent Knight / Italo Calvino
100. The Cloven Viscount / Italo Calvino
101. The Divine Comedy : Purgatory / Dante Aligheri
102. Should Have Got Off at Sydney Parade / Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
103. The Death of Marco Pantani / Matt Rendell
104. The Divine Comedy : Paradise / Dante Aligheri
105. Travels With My Aunt / Graham Greene
106. Penguins Stopped Play / Harry Thompson
107. This Champagne Mojito... / Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
108. Rough Ride / Paul Kimmage
109. The World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View / J K Galbraith
110. Catcher in the Rye / J. D. Salinger
111. The Third Chimpanzee / Jared Diamond
112. P.S. I Scored the Bridesmaids / Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
113. Rhino What You Did Last Summer/ Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
114. French Revolutions / Tim Moore
115. Going Solo / Roald Dahl
116. The Scent of the Night / Andrea Camilleri
117. Excursion to Tindari / Andrea Camilleri
118. The Shape of Water / Andrea Camilleri (re-read)
119. The Terracotta Dog / Andrea Camilleri
120. The Voice of the Violin / Andrea Camilleri
121. Jewel in the Crown / Paul Scott
122. French Revolutions
123. How I won the Yellow Jumper
124. Heartburn/ Nora Ephron
125. Deaf Sentence / David Lodge
126. The White Tiger / Arvind Adiga
127. Between the Assasinations / Arvind Adiga
128. A Damsel in Distress / P. G. Wodehouse
129. The Big Necessity / Rose George
130. I, Claudius / Robert Graves
131. Paper Moon / Andrea Camilleri
132. August Heat / Andrea Camilleri
133. Treasure Hunt / Andrea Camilleri
134. Flood of Fire / Amitav Ghosh
135. Sea of Poppies / Amitav Ghosh
136. The Glass Palace / Amitav Ghosh
137. The Other Side of the Line / Andrea Camilleri

Currently Reading

1. Day of the Scorpion / Paul Scott
2. Trick or Treatment / Simon Singh and Ezard Ernst
3. Collapse / Jared Diamond
4. The Heretic's Feast / Colin Spencer
5. Folktales From India / A K Ramanujan
6. Malgudi Landscapes / R K Narayan
7. Iliad / Homer
8. Srikant / Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyaya
9. The Tragedy of Tragedies or The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great / Henry Fielding
10. Akbar / Rahul Sankrityayan
11. Godel, Escher, Bach / Douglas R. Hofstadter
12. City of Quartz / Mike Davis
13. Tales of Conjure and the Color Line / Charles Chesnutt
14. Manto ki Kahaniyan / Saadat Hasan Manto
15. Mozart: A Life / Maynard Solomon
16. My Oedipus Complex and other Stories / Frank O'Connor
17. Freedom at Midnight / Dominique LaPierre and Larry Collins
18. Selected Plays / Oscar Wilde

Plan to Read

1. Towers of Silence / Paul Scott
2. Division of Spoils / Paul Scott
3. The Great Crash, 1929 / J. K. Galbraith
4. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters / Julian Barnes
5. Un aller simple / Didier Van Cauwelaert
6. Red Earth and Pouring Rain / Vikram Chandra
7. Love and Longing in Bombay / Vikram Chandra
8. L'Amant / Marguerite Duras
9. The French Lieutenant's Woman / John Fowles
10. The Tin Drum / Gunter Grass
11. Catch-22 / Joseph Heller
12. Dubliners / James Joyce
13. Ulysses / James Joyce
14. Looking Through Glass / Mukul Kesavan
15. The Idea of India / Sunil Khilnani
16. Buddha of Suburbia / Hanif Kureshi
17. The Rainbow / D. H. Lawrence
18. Quiz Craze / Thomas de Long
19. The Butcher Boy / Patrick McCabe
20. The Kings of England / Geofferey Monmouth
21. *The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
22. *Satanic Verses / Salman Rushdie
23. *The Moor's Last Sigh / Salman Rushdie.
24. An Equal Music / Vikram Seth
25. *The Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
26. Nine Hours to Rama / Stanley Wolpert
27. Life A Users Manual/ Georges Perec
28. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold / John le Carre