MY FAVOURITES
FICTION / LITERATURE /ABSTRUSE READING :-
1 -
- Who moved my cheese
- The Monk who sold his Ferrari
- Any book by Agatha Christie
- Any book by Sidney Sheldon
- Any book by Chetan Bhagat
- Animal Farm (George Orwell) ( Must Must Read)
- The Twilight Series (Stephanie Meyer)
2-
- Any book by Jeffery Archer
- Any book by John Grisham (King of the torts, The Rainmaker etc.) (Legal Fiction)
- Any book by Arthur Hailey (Airport, Hotel) (Service Sector Fiction)
- The White Tiger ( Arvind Adiga)
- The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
- 1984 (George Orwell)
- Foundation (Isac Asimov) (Astronomy Fiction)
- Any book by Robert Ludlum
- Any book by Robin Cook (Medical Fiction)
3 -
- Any book by Amitav Ghosh (The Hungry Tide, The Calcutta Chromosome, The sea of poppies)
- Any book by Jhumpa Lahiri (The namesake, Interpreter of Maladies)
- Any book by Frederick Forsyth ( the Icon, The Afghan etc.)
- The God of small things (Arundhati Roy)
- ‘The Great Expectations’ or ‘ A tale of two cities’– Charles Dickens.
- Stories by O.Henry.
- ‘A book of English Essays’ – (Penguin classics).
- ‘Black Beauty’ – Anna Sewell.
4 -
- Any book by Salman Rushdie (Midnight Children, The Enchantress of Florence, Shalimar the clown)
- Any book by Orhan Pamuk (Snow, my name is red, Museum of Innocence etc.)
- Any book by Franz Kafka (The trial, Metamorphosis etc.)
- ‘The secret pilgrim’ – Joseph Heller.
- ‘Beloved’ – Toni Morrison .
- ‘By the sea’ – Abdulrazak Gurnah.
- ‘The eighth commandment’- Lawrence Sanders.
- ‘The romantic Manifesto’ or ‘The virtue of selfishness’ or ‘Capitalism : The Unknown ideal’ or ‘The Fountainhead’ or ‘Atlas Shrugged’ by Ayn Rand.
- ‘The dialogues of Plato’- (Batnam books) .
- ‘The Third Wave’ or ‘Future Shock’ or ‘Powershift’ – Alvin Toffler.
- All books by Paulo Coelho; especially ‘The Alchemist’.
BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT BOOKS :-
- Who says Elephants can’t Dance : Louis Gerstner
- Who moved my Cheese : Dr. Spencer Johnson
- Make sure you read every week – the case studies of Business World.
- The seven habits of highly effective people : Stephen R Covey
- How to win friends & influence people : Dale Carnegie
- Think & Grow Rich : Napolean Hill (Must read)
- Winning : Jack Welch
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
- Built to Last : Jim Collins
- Influence: The psychology of persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- The Wal-Mart effect : Charles Fishman
- Losing my Virginity : Richard Branson
- The Culting of Brands: Douglas Atkin
- Emotional Design ; Donald A Norman
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing : Al Ries, Jack Trout
- ‘I am right , You are Wrong’- Edward de Bono.
- ‘The GOAL’ – Eliyahu and Goldratt Cox ( A must read).
- ‘The 80/20 Principle’ – Richard Koch.
- ‘Small is beautiful’- EF Schumacher
- ‘Maverick’- Ricardo semler.
- ‘Pepsi to apple’- John Sculley.
- ‘Hit and Run’- Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters.
- ‘Emotional Intelligence’- Daniel Goleman.
BOOKS ON LEADERSHIP :-
- The Starfish & the Spider – Brafman & Breckstrom
- Built to Last – Jim Collins
- Leading Change – John Kotter
- The Leadership Dojo – Richard Srozzi
- The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- Outsmart – Jim Champy
- Love is the killer App – Tim Sanders
- The One minute Manager – Kenneth Blanchard
- True North – Bill George
- First, Break all the Rules – Buckingham & Coffman
- The Compassionate Samurai – Brian Klemmer
- ‘A Better India, a Better World’ – Narayan Murthy
- Leadership Wisdom – Robin Sharma
SCIENCE AND BIOLOGY :-
- ‘Genius’- James Gleick
- ‘E=mc2 ’- David Thomson
- ‘Genetic engineering’ – Mae –wan ho
- ‘Germs – the ultimate weapon’- Judith miller.
- ‘Men – from stone age to clone age’- John Madeley.
- 1) ‘The human zoo’ and 2) ‘The naked ape’ – Desmond Morris.
- 1) ‘The tao of physics’ and 2) ‘The turning point’ or 3) ‘The web of life’ – Fritz o’ Capra.
- ‘A Brief History of Time’ – Stephen Hawking.
HISTORY :-
- Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder ( A must read History + Philosophy book)
- ‘Taliban’- Ahmed Rashid .
- ‘Long walk to Freedom’- Nelson Mandela.
- ‘The autobiography of an unknown Indian’- Nirad C. Chaudhary.
- ‘Discovery of India’ – Nehru(chacha).
- ‘Europe since Napoleon’- David Thomson.
- ‘Burma – The curse of independence’- Shelby Tucker .
- ‘Memories of Madness: Stories of 1947’ – Penguin publishers.
- ‘India’s struggle for independence’- Bipan Chandra.
ECONOMICS :-
- Freakonomics – Levitt & Dubner
- ‘The black economy in India’- Arun Kumar .
- ‘The price of onions’ – Ashok V. Desai.
- ‘Hungry for trade’ – John Madeley.(Penguin).
- ‘The Elephant The Tiger and The Cellphone’ – Shashi Tharoor
MOTIVATION:-
- Bhagwat Geeta
- The Power of Intention – Dr.Wayne Dyer
- My decision to Live – Nader Elguindi
- Stop Whining, Start Living – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
- The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
- The Power of Positive Thinking – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
- The Monk who sold his Ferrari , Lead without a Title – Robin Sharma
- Awaken the Giant within – Athony Robbins
- The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
- The power of your subconscious mind – Joseph Murphy
- Life without limits – Nick Vujicic
BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY :-
- Biography of Swami Vivekananda
- Story of my experiments with truth – Mahatma Gandhi
- Autobiography of a Yogi – Parmahansa Yogananda
- ‘Hitler’ – Ian Kershaw.
- ‘Iacocca’ – Lee Iacoca.
- ‘Business legends’ – Gita Piramal.
- ‘The diary of a young girl’ – Anne Frank
- ‘The Flight of Ambition’ – Apoorve Dubey
- ‘Every Second Counts’ – Lance Armstrong
- ‘A Beautiful Mind’ – Sylvia Nasar (based on life of John Nash)
PHILOSOPHYAND/ OR PSYCHOLOGY AND/OR SOCIOLOGY :-
- ‘An unquiet mind’ – Kay Redfield.
- ‘Creativity’- Mihaly Csikszentmihaly.
- ‘Them’- Jon Ronson.
- ‘Emotional Alchemy’- Tara Bennet.
- ‘Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance’.
- Alchemist
- Think and grow rich
- His call to the nature
- Doctors
- The conquest of happiness
- Unlimited power
- The fifth Discipline
- See u at the top
- Who moved my chesse
- One minute manager