I recently read somewhere that as a writer always make list of your favorite books, words, places and things. I suck at making lists so I thought best way would be make a list page and keep updating as the number increase. Hope they interests you all too 🙂
Reading List
These are the fiction books I own and not the complete list of books I have read till date. The ones I own as e-books is a different list as I can’t make myself to read even now till it is hard cover so they are still my wishlist books. I have left out on the poetry books (which I will do someday when I re-read them). Also, books I read in school as courses or the ones I used to borrow in libraries (including the hostel night library). Being a political scientist, I think there is lot of non-fiction I have read but leaving out certain philosophers from the list is very unfair. Hence, I have made list of ones who influenced me a lot or whom I desire to read for personal interests and not professional compulsions. Hope you enjoy going through it:-
Read|Reading|Own|Wishlist
Fiction
*This list is not really in order of my favorites. Though the first one has been my favorite till date 😀
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- The Mill on the Floss, George Elliot
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolf
- A Tangled Web, Judith Michael ( I can so re-read this book)
- Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak (One of my favorite book and author )
- The Alchemist, Paul Coehlo
- Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
- Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Dr. Thorne, Anthony Throllepe
- Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
- Othello, Shakespeare
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
- Dario Fo, Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Home and the World, Tagore
- Illiad, Homer
- Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
- Lysistrata and other plays, Aristophanes
- Medea and Other Plays, Europhedes
- The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Ngugi Wa Thiongo
- The Mahabharata, Tr. C. Rajagopalachari
- Halfway House, Mohan Rakesh
- Ghasiram Kotwal, Vijay Tendulkar
- My Son’s Story, Nadime Gordimer
- The Dutchess of Malfi,John Webster
- The Rover, Aphra Behn
- Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare
- The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and tale, Geoffrey Webster
- The Rape of the Lock, Alexandra Pope
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- Look Back in Anger, John Osbourne
- The Loom of Time, Kalidasa
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- The Secret Garden, Frances Burnett ( This is my first book read with joy responsible for making me fall in love with literature)
- The Feluda Series( The house of death and Feluda’s last case), Satyajit Ray
- The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak
- The Flea Palace, Elif Shafak
- The Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky
- Swami and Friends, R.K. Narayan
- The Vendor of Sweets, R.K. Narayan
- Twenty thousand leaques under the sea
- Ladies Coupe, Anita Nair
- The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
- Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
- The complete works of Shakespeare
- Picnic Party, Enid Blyton
- The Urban Shots, Sneh Thakur
- The Sense of an ending. Julies Barnes
- Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, Mohammad Hanif
- The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
- The Zahir, Paul Coehlo
- Aleph, Paul Coehlo
- The Winner Stands Alone,Paul Coehlo
- The Snow, Orhan Pamuk ( My favorite of this writer…rest of his books are half red and somehow not my kind)
- The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk (Half read still)
- My name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
- Sea of Poppies,Amitav Ghosh
- River of Smoke, Amitav Ghosh
- Naive and the Sentimentalist novelist, Orhan Pamuk
- Gitanjali, Tagore
- Two Fates, Judy Balan
- MacFlecnoe, John Dryden
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Hard Times, Charles Dickens
- Honor, Elif Shafak
- The Prophet,Khalil Gibran ( This I read on and off when in the mood, still to finish)
E-Books
- Lolita, Valdimir Nabogov
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- Kafka on the Shore, Murakami
- Magaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
- Oliver Twist, Mark Twain
- David Copperfield, Mark Twain
- The Masnavi,Rumi
- P.S. I Love You, Cecila Aherm
- The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- Looking for Alaska, John Green
Philosophers (Red means I read a few not all)
- Jacques Derrida (I love his theory about the signifier and signified and he has been my favorite till date)
- Gayatri Spivak (The Subaltern Speak influenced me most)
- Gauri Vishwanathan
- Luce Irigaray ( ‘When the Goods Get Together’ from This Sex Which is Not One)
- Simone De Bivoure (The Second Sex)
- Marx Weber( The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism)
- Chomsky
- Jean Paul Satre ( I read some articles decades back)
- Nietsche, ( I read some of his years back)
- Freud ( Not really like his thought so he stays unread but want to read it)
- Michael Foucault (Truth and Power)
- Ronald Barthes (Mythology)
- Raymond Williams (‘Forms’ in Culture)
Wishlist
- Chokher Bali, Tagore
- Anne of Green gables series, L.M. Montgomery
Poets I Have Read ( These are ones whose books I own , otherwise lot of snippets I read online)
- Pablo Neruda (My favorite)
- Alfred Tennyson
- Robert Browning
- Christina Rossetti
- Philip Sidney
- Edmund Spenser
- John Donne
- Dereck Walcott
- Magaret Atwood
- Samuel Johnson
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Thomas Gray
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- P.C. Shelley
- John Keats
- W.B. Yeats (My Second Favorite)
- T.S. Eliot
- Iqbal
- Rumi
Wishlist
- Charles Bukowski ( Little I have read of him makes me his fan)
- Khalid Hosseini
- Khalil Gibran ( I own quite many of his works thanks to dad)
- Murakami
P.S. : Wishlist might be added more someday and updated as and when I find books with strong urge to read. Though most classics are on my wishlists and I open to suggestions 🙂
P.S.S. : Updated the list bit more. Since this list was made, purchased quite much of books too but will update it here when I finish reading them.
You’re soooo well read. Wow!
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Loveee 🙂 🙂 🙂
You have read a lot of books! 😀
Looking at your list,seems you must be having a big library.Wow.Surly i can ask for a review.
I think I have to start making notes from your list which books to read next! Thank you for putting this up!!
Regards,
-Naima