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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
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