Books

An attempt to keep track of what I’m reading. If I get motivated to update things on Shelfari or Goodreads or something I’ll probably take this down, but until then…

Meanwhile, if anybody wants to buy me something, here is my wishlist on flipkart 🙂 . Here’s Amazon.

Currently Reading:

1. Smiley’s People – John le Carre
2. Casanova’s Homecoming – Arthur Schnitzler

List of Books I’ve read recently, incomplete, newest first:

1. The Great Stagnation – Tyler Cowen
2. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
3. Economics or Ethics? – George J Stigler, the Tanner Lectures on Human Values
4. The Meaning of It All – Richard Feynman
5. The Gun Seller – Hugh Laurie
6. The Honourable Schoolboy – John le Carre
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carre
8. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John le Carre
9. A Passion in the Desert – Honore de Balzac
10. The Hunger Games trilogy – Suzanne Collins
11. The Dispossessed – Ursula K Le Guin
12. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson
14. Inheritance – Christopher Paolini
15. Brisingr – Christopher Paolini
16. The Passage – Justin Cronin
17. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
18. Neuromancer – William Gibson
19. Watership Down- Richard Adams
20. 44 Scotland Street – Alexander McCall Smith
21. Pirate Latitudes – Michael Crichton
22. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
23. Beasts in my Belfry – Gerald Durrell
24. Tall Tales – Tom Holt (Omnibus, Expecting Someone Taller+Ye Gods!)
25. Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction
26. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction – A.C. Grayling
27. Logicomix- Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
28. The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid- Bill Bryson
29. The Eyre Affair- Jasper Fforde
30. Storm Front (Book 1 of the Dresden Files)- Jum Butcher
31. The Golden Age trilogy – John C. Wright (The Golden Oecumune)
32. Anita Blake Book 1: Guilty Pleasures – Laurell K. Hamilton-
33. Anita Blake Book 2: The Laughing Corpse
34. Anita Blake Book 3: Circus of the Damned
35. Anita Blake Book 4: The Lunatic Cafe
36. Anita Blake Book 5: Bloody Bones
37. Anita Blake Book 6: The Killing Dance
38. Anita Blake Book 7: Burnt Offerings
39. Anita Blake Book 8: Blue Moon
40. Anita Blake Book 9: Obsidian Butterfly
41. Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
42. The 4-Hour Body – Tim Ferriss (incomplete, but only because there’s lots of reference material that I don’t need)
43. How To Be Good – Nick Hornby
44. Full Dark, No Stars – Stephen King
45. The Truth – Terry Pratchett
46. The Theory of Everything – Stephen Hawking
47. Percy Jackson and The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan
48. Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteingart
49. Changing Places- David Lodge
50. Turbulence- Samit Basu
51. The City and The City– China Mieville
52. Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Time Book 13)- Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
53. Superfreakonomics- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
54. The Golden Gate- Vikram Seth
55. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (re-read)- Mark Twain
56. The Life and Times of Michael K– J.M. Coetzee
57. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest–Stieg Larsson
58. The Girl who Played With Fire-Stieg Larsson
59. The Graveyard Book-Neil Gaiman
60. A Deepness in the Sky-Vernor Vinge
61. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell-Susannah Clarke
62. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-Stieg Larsson
63. The first 40 books of the Animorphs series-K.A. Applegate
64. First 20 odd books of Discworld (all of Guards, Death, Witches, some of Wizards) – Terry Pratchett
65. The first 12 Wheel of Time books – Robert Jordan
66. It Was on Fire when I Lay Down On It– Robert Fulghum
67. Memories of My Melancholy Whores– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
68. The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell
69. Outliers- Malcolm Gladwell
70. Delta of Venus, Anais Nin

1. The Golden Gate- Vikram Seth
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (re-read)- Mark Twain