"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Although Lenin did not say it in the context we are interested in, but it aptly captures the predicament of book lovers. When they are not reading, there is a feeling of nothingness. When they are, they travel many journeys through time and space thereby, living a lot of stories.
I intend to create this thread to pull some unique and great recommendations across different genres. Let's grow this thread together with some great recommendations, reviews and intellectually stimulating discussions.
Sorry I am bit late to this.
But read a few books after mains this year.
Indiraby Katherine Frank - Pretty decent read. Overall was quite fair. My only issue was that after Indira Gandhi's rise to power there was not much insight into why she took certain decisions etc.
Half Lionby Vinay Sitapati - A very good biography of PV Narasimha Rao. It's sort of a page flipper, and was pretty fair to the subject
Jugalbandiby Vinay Sitapati (again) - This talks about rise of the BJP before 2014 (starts from 1920's) through the prism of the relationship between Advani and Vajpyee (and hence the name Jugalbandi). It's a very good book and Sitapati might be the next star author.
Army and the Nationby Steven Wilkinson - It delves into the reasons for different paths taken by the Armies of India and Pakistan. It also explores the coup proofing strategies used by the Congress government and ethnic make up of the Indian Army pre independence as well as post. It's a very good book but I felt a bit repetitive but good nonetheless.
Some of my all time authors books etc - PG Wodehouse, I also love lawyer thrillers John Grisham and Jeffrey Archer.
In History I love the book Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. It's a mammoth but an amazing book which gives a complete history of Nazi Germany.
The books I want to read in the near future are - Postwar by Tony Judt (about the history of Europe post 1945) and Biography of Stalin by Stephen Kotkin (the latter is huuuugeee. It's a 3 volume series of which 2 have been released which are around 1000 pages each).
Thanks for all the suggestions here.
chamomile,
Friends,
Just collating all the suggestion of this thread in this single post. This was my go to place for recommendations in last few months. Have benefited a lot from all your suggestions, and request you to keep updating here whenever you complete a good book. I am doing this for my own convenience (and hopefully for other's as well), so that it is easy to pick and choose our next read :) Happy Reading !
PS: Sorry to spam you all. Tagging helped me in segregating the list properly, and maintaining the flow of the suggestions.
PPS: Please feel free in keeping this thread active :)
-TR
@BarackYomama'ssuggestions
3. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
@Silentobserver suggested
4. HAMID co-authored by Hamid Ansari and Geeta Mohan
5.The Hype Machine by Sinan Aral
6.Land of the Seven Rivers by Sanjeev Sanyal
And- Rakesh Maria's autobiography LET ME SAY IT NOW, THE MOSSAD, LES MISERABLES
@whatonly's suggested
7. Roses in December by Justice MC Chagla
8. Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
9. PG Wodehouse
10. Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
And- George Orwell's 1984, Amy Poehler's Yes Please
@Sadhika's recommendation
12. Khaled Hosseini's all three novels- 'The Kite Runner', 'A thousand splendid suns' and 'And the mountains echoed'
13. Premchand's 'Nirmala' and 'Gaban'
14. Savarkar- echoes from a forgotten past' by Vikram Sampath
15. Karma Yoga- Swami Vivekananda (and The other books in the series are Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga)
And- Manu Joseph's 'Serious Men'
The illicit happiness of other people
@Porus's suggestion
16. God of Small Things
17. Interpreter of Maladies
18. Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand' by K Vijay Kumar
19. Hemant Karkare: A Daughter's Memoir' by Jui Karkare Navare
20. Bullet for Bullet' by Julio Ribeiro
@BurtMacklin_FBI's suggestion
21. Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: the story of success
22. Krish Ashok's Masala lab: the science of Indian cooking
23. Ismat Chughtai's Lifting the Veil
24. A Life in Diplomacy by Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
25. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty by William Dalrymple
26. The Anarchy: The East India Company.
27. A Song of Ice and Fire series
28. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
29. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
30. Those Days by Sunil Gangopadhyay
31. Jawaharlal Nehru Ji's Discovery of India
32. Collected works of TS Eliot
33. Rainer Maria Rilke
34. Khalil Gibran
35. Pablo Neruda
36. WB Yeats
37. Sylvia Plath
38. Emily Dickinson
39. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
40. Jaishankar Prasad
41. Rupi Kaur Instagrammy poetry
42. Brandon Sanderson
43. The Hobbit by Tolkien
44. Martian by Andy Weir
45. William Ernest Henley’s Invictus
What a massive effort @12432TrivendrumRajdhani
You truly are a gem among humans :)) I hope each book you pick up gives you boundless joy!
Friends,
Just collating all the suggestion of this thread in this single post. This was my go to place for recommendations in last few months. Have benefited a lot from all your suggestions, and request you to keep updating here whenever you complete a good book. I am doing this for my own convenience (and hopefully for other's as well), so that it is easy to pick and choose our next read :) Happy Reading !
PS: Sorry to spam you all. Tagging helped me in segregating the list properly, and maintaining the flow of the suggestions.
PPS: Please feel free in keeping this thread active :)
-TR
@BarackYomama'ssuggestions
3. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
@Silentobserver suggested
4. HAMID co-authored by Hamid Ansari and Geeta Mohan
5.The Hype Machine by Sinan Aral
6.Land of the Seven Rivers by Sanjeev Sanyal
And- Rakesh Maria's autobiography LET ME SAY IT NOW, THE MOSSAD, LES MISERABLES
@whatonly's suggested
7. Roses in December by Justice MC Chagla
8. Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
9. PG Wodehouse
10. Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
And- George Orwell's 1984, Amy Poehler's Yes Please
@Sadhika's recommendation
12. Khaled Hosseini's all three novels- 'The Kite Runner', 'A thousand splendid suns' and 'And the mountains echoed'
13. Premchand's 'Nirmala' and 'Gaban'
14. Savarkar- echoes from a forgotten past' by Vikram Sampath
15. Karma Yoga- Swami Vivekananda (and The other books in the series are Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Jnana Yoga)
And- Manu Joseph's 'Serious Men'
The illicit happiness of other people
@Porus's suggestion
16. God of Small Things
17. Interpreter of Maladies
18. Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand' by K Vijay Kumar
19. Hemant Karkare: A Daughter's Memoir' by Jui Karkare Navare
20. Bullet for Bullet' by Julio Ribeiro
@BurtMacklin_FBI's suggestion
21. Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: the story of success
22. Krish Ashok's Masala lab: the science of Indian cooking
23. Ismat Chughtai's Lifting the Veil
24. A Life in Diplomacy by Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
25. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty by William Dalrymple
26. The Anarchy: The East India Company.
27. A Song of Ice and Fire series
28. A Time to Kill by John Grisham
29. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
30. Those Days by Sunil Gangopadhyay
31. Jawaharlal Nehru Ji's Discovery of India
32. Collected works of TS Eliot
33. Rainer Maria Rilke
34. Khalil Gibran
35. Pablo Neruda
36. WB Yeats
37. Sylvia Plath
38. Emily Dickinson
39. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
40. Jaishankar Prasad
41. Rupi Kaur Instagrammy poetry
42. Brandon Sanderson
43. The Hobbit by Tolkien
44. Martian by Andy Weir
45. William Ernest Henley’s Invictus
46. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘A Psalm of Life’47. Bukowski: Go All the Way48. John Greenleaf Whittaker: Don't Quit49. Faiz- 'Mujhse Pehli Si Mohabbat' & 'Hum Dekhenge'50. Mistborn series, the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson51. To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee52. the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri53. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams54. Surely, you're joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman55. Rainn Wilson's autobiography The Bassoon King56. Sum - forty tales from the afterlife57. Dreams from my father- Obama58. Quiet by Susan Cain59. Deep Work by Cal Newport60. The sense of style by Steven Pinker61. Thin slices of anxiety62. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch63. When death comes by Mary Oliver64. Alan Ryan’s On Politics65. Read Guy Delisle’s Jerusalem, Burma Chronicles and Pyongyang66. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis67. Nehru’s Glimpses of World History68 Maus69. Bryan Stevenson's- Just Mercy70. Bob Dylan- Desolation Row, Tambourine Man, Seven Curses71. Steve Coll- Cia related stuff72. Podcast- Bro History (Urged specially for episode titled War Industry)73.AS Dulat's book on Kashmir74. Kaoboys by BN Raman75. Ron Chernow's biographies76. David McCullough's writing- on Wright Brothers specially.77. Operation X by Sandeep Unnithan and Captain Samant78. Indira by Katherine Frank79. Half Lion by Vinay Sitapati80. Jugalbandi by Vinay Sitapati81. Army and the Nation by Steven Wilkinson82. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer83. Postwar by Tony Judt84. Biography of Stalin by Stephen KotkinWow, quite a list I believe.
Thanks@12432TrivendrumRajdhani & all☺
The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera, excellent philosophical fiction.
East of Eden by Steinbeck if you are okay with slow books.
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, read it a third, will read the rest after pre, it is great so far.
More in the list- Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov all russian.
O Henry and Saki for light reading.
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