Reading

I read all kinds of books. Most of these are the ones that people refer and a few of them that I stumble across when I am casually browsing through the collections of a book store. Though I do not have specific tastes, I seem to enjoy semi fiction, commonwealth literature, Indian authors, humour and biographies / autobiographies. Reality, an element of surprise and/or shock, similies and metaphors are what appeal a lot to me.

Feel free to borrow any of these books if you are interested in reading them. The following is a partial list (in no particular order, but more or less reverse-chronological order) of books in my bookshelf.

• Bruce Chatwin - The Viceroy of Ouidah.
• Bruce Chatwin - Utz.
• Bruce Chatwin - The Songlines.
• Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia.
• Ruskin Bond - Collected Fiction.
• The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.
• Butter Chicken in Ludhiana - Pankaj Mishra.
• Chasing the Monsoon - Alexander Frater.
• Sun after Dark. Flights into the Foreign - Pico Iyer.
• The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux.
• The Jaguar Smile. A Nicaraguan Journey - Salman Rushdie.
• Memories of Malgudi (Collection) - R K Narayan.
• The Magic of Malgudi (Collection) - R K Narayan.
• Katha, Prize Stories Volume 9 - Edited by Geeta Dharmarajan and Nandita Aggarwal
• English, August: An Indian story - Upamanyu Chatterjee.
• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.
• Five Point Someone - Chetan Bhagat.
• The Inscrutable Americans - Anurag Mathur.
• The Collected Short Stories of Kushwant Singh
• A Tiger for Malgudi - R K Narayan.
• The Bachelor of Arts - R K Narayan.
• The Art of War - Sun Tzu (Edited by James Clavell).
• Animal Farm, a Fairy Story - George Orwell.
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• Train to Pakistan - Kushwant Singh.
• Mammaries of a Welfare State - Upamanyu Chatterjee.
• The Ice Candy Man - Bapsi Sidhwa.
• Doctors - Erich Segal.
• Straight From the Gut - Jack Welch.
• A Beautiful Mind (Biography of Prof. John Nash) - Silvia Nassar.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig.
• The Dilbert principle - Scott Adams.
• The company of women - Kushwant Singh.

Please let me know if you don't like my copying a few portions of the text from any of these books that you hold copyright on. I shall remove the same immediately. The intention here is to introduce the book to others so that they can read the full text.