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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
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
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