Books I Have Read
Here are some books that I have read (in no particular order), my favourite quotes from them and so on.
Till sometime around 2019, I never wrote anything on books while reading. But then, till that time, I've lost a lot of books to people who I, very generously (with a lot of trust), lent my books. Now, I write all my thoughts in the empty spaces- and books have become so personal that I can never dare to lend it to anybody.
Will also be featuring some books that I am about to read and am very excited about.
You'll see a plethora of books from a variety of genres (obviously excluding the ones which can only be used as study materials, but then I doubt whether I can make that distinction). Might as well treat it like a book recommendation page.
Putting the books out here on the blog will also work as a accountability thing wherein I have promised myself to read at least 2 books a month which I want to raise to 4 by the end of year.
In the words of Paul Kalanithi, "Books have become my closest confidants, finely ground lenses providing new views of the world."
Book Name | Author | Country |
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The Book Theif | Markus Zusak | Australia |
The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Brazil |
Winner Stands Alone | Paulo Coelho | Brazil |
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think | Brianna Wiest | Canada |
Translating Odisha | Paul St-Pierre | Canada |
Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | China |
Great Works of Franz Kafka | Franz Kafka | Czechoslovakia |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera | Czechoslovakia |
Handbook of Inaesthetics | Alain Badiou | France |
In Praise of Love | Alain Badiou and Nicolas Truong
| France |
Create Dangerously | Albert Camus | France |
The Stranger | Albert Camus | France |
A Woman's Story | Annie Ernaux | France |
I Fell in Love with Hope: A Novel | Lancali | France |
Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | Ghana |
Independent People | Halldór Laxness | Iceland |
Bhagavad-Gītā as it is | A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | India |
The Argumentative Indian | Amartya Sen | India |
Dharma: Decoding the Epics for a Meaningful Life | Amish Tripathi | India |
Ajaya: Duryodhana's Mahabharata - Collector's Edition | Anand Neelakantan | India |
The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | India |
Meraki | Ashma Pandya | India |
Why I am an Atheist | Bhagat Singh | India |
The Bhagavad Gita for Millennials | Bibek Debroy | India |
The Holy Vedas | Bibek Debroy | India |
The Valmiki Ramayana (Pt: 1-3) | Bibek Debroy | India |
Faith: 40 Insights Into Hinduism | Devdutt Pattanaik | India |
My Gita | Devdutt Pattanaik | India |
Everyday Āyurveda | Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya | India |
Kalidasa and Sanskrit Tradition of Odisha | Dr. Prafulla Kumar Mishra | India |
The Bhagavadgita | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | India |
The Principal Upanisads | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | India |
Kama the Riddle of Desire | Gurcharan Das | India |
The Difficulty of Being Good | Gurcharan Das | India |
Commentaries on Living | Jiddu Krishnamurti | India |
Education and the Significance of Life | Jiddu Krishnamurti | India |
Freedom from the Known | Jiddu Krishnamurti | India |
What Are You Doing With Your Life? | Jiddu Krishnamurti | India |
Fourth World | Kailash Mishra | India |
Hindu Rites And Rituals Origins And Meanings | Lt Cdr K.V. Singh | India |
The Big Book of Odia Literature | Manu Dash | India |
The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan | Namita Devidayal | India |
Breaking All Boundaries | Osho | India |
Intelligence: The Creative Response to Now | Osho | India |
Joy: The Happiness tha Comes from Within | Osho | India |
The 10 Gunas (Mindsets) | P. R. Mukund | India |
Chilika | Radhanath Ray | India |
Sanskrit Non-Translatables | Rajiv Malhotra & Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji | India |
The Ṛgveda: In its Historical Setting | Ramendra Nath Nandi | India |
Rain in the Mountains | Ruskin Bond | India |
Roads to Mussoorie | Ruskin Bond | India |
The Night Train at Deoli and other stories | Ruskin Bond | India |
The Upanishads | Swami Paramananda | India |
Padmamali | Umesh Chandra Sarkar | India |
The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies | Vasant Lad | India |
Autobiography of a Yogi | Yogananda | India |
Zakir Hussain: A Life in Music | Zakir Hussain & Nasreen Munni Kabir | India |
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance | Antonio Tabucchi | Italy |
Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | Japan |
Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Japan |
The Prophet | Gibran Khalil Gibran | Lebanon |
Sophie's World (Sofies verden) | Jostein Gaarder | Norway |
The Book of Disquiet | Fernando Pessoa | Portugal |
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Roman Empire |
Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Roman Empire |
The Seagull | Anton Chekhov | Russia |
Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russia |
Notes from Underground | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russia |
The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russia |
White Nights | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russia |
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life | Francesc Miralles & Hector Garcia | Spain |
A Man Called Ove | Fredrik Backman | Sweden |
The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Shafak | Turkey |
Essential Rumi | Rumi | Turkey |
Little Book of Life | Rumi | Turkey |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | UK |
Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | UK |
1984 | George Orwell | UK |
Essays | George Orwell | UK |
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less | Greg McKeown | UK |
Death | Julian Barnes | UK |
The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | UK |
Plain Tales from the Hills | Rudyard Kipling | UK |
A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | UK |
The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking | UK |
Language | Xiaolu Guo | UK |
Steal Like an Artist | Austin Kleon | USA |
A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | USA |
The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | USA |
The Craft of Research | G. G. Colomb, J. M. Williams, W. C. Booth | USA |
The Song of Ice and Fire | George R. R. Martin | USA |
Gone Girl | Gillian Schieber Flynn | USA |
The Seven Mysteries of Life | Guy Murchie | USA |
A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | USA |
Lust for Life | Irving Stone | USA |
Drinking | John William Cheever | USA |
Don't Believe Everything You Think | Joseph Nguyen | USA |
The Artist's Way | Julia Cameron | USA |
A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | USA |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | USA |
Inspired: Understanding Creativity | Matt Richtel | USA |
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | USA |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom | USA |
The Stranger in the Lifeboat | Mitch Albom | USA |
Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | USA |
How To Read A Book | Mortimer Jerome Adler | USA |
When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | USA |
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence | Rebecca F. Kuang | USA |
The Daily Stoic | Ryan Holiday | USA |
Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | USA |