My Book List

Apparently BBC came out with a list of 100 books that they term as 'must-have-reads' and they reckon that the average person has read just 6 out of them. Well, dont know about that but their list of books left much to be desired in my opinion. So here is my list of 49 books that I have thoroughly enjoyed over time and recommended at some point of time. How many of these have you read?

1. Sister of my heart - Chitra Bannerjee
2. Secret Daughter - Shilpi Somaya Gowda
3. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
4. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
7. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
13. Comedies by Shakespeare
14. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
15. Emma -Jane Austen
16. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
17. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
18. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
19. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
20. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
21. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
23. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
24. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
25. Mallory Towers Collection - Enid Blyton
26. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
27. Jeffrey Archer - Paths of Glory
28. John Grisham's courtroom dramas
29. City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
30. Nine Lives - William Dalrymple
31. Two States- Chetan Bhagat
32. Inscrutable Americans - Anurag Mathur
33. Mayada - Jean Sasson
34. Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
35. Not without my daughter -Betty Mahmoody
36. One Amazing Thing - Chitra Bannerjee
37. Seven Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer
38. Q&A - Vikas Swarup
39. Love Story - Eric Segal
40. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
41. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
42. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
43. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
44. Flora Rheta Schreiber - Sybil
45. Right Ho, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
46. Papillon - Henri Charriere
47. Curfewed Night - Basharat Peer
48. PS I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
49. Tuesdays with Morrie -Mitch Albom