The year began in Ahmedabad eith me buying books in a small bookstore that sold second hand books. Two of those books were by Paulo Coelho.
1) The Pilgrimage - Paulo Coelho
2) Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
3) Think Straight - Darius Faroux
4) Cricket Biryani - P.R. Man Singh
5) Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told
6) Clouds - Chandrahas Choudhury
7) I Used to Know that Literature - G. Allan Jones and Sarah Jannsen
8) Conversations on Love - Natasha Lunn
9) Born to be Mild - David Armitage
10) Doctor on the Job - Richard Gordon
11) Koh-i-Noor - William Darlymple and Anita Anand
12) India Unbound - Gurcharan Das
13) Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
14) Mrs. Dolloway - Virginia Woolf
15) And a Voice to Sing With - Joan Baez
16) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre
17) 100 Great Events that Changed the World - Terry O' Brien
18) Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
19) Operation Polo - Prachi Garg
20) Legendotes of Hyderabad - Narendra Luther
21) The Deodis of Hyderabad - Rani Sharma
22) Beyound Barriers - Understanding Disability Etiquette - Gayathri Vatsyalya
23) But i am One of You - Samrat Choudhury
24) The Writing of One Novel -Irving Wallace
25) Goodbye Harold, Goodbye - Audrey Thomas
26) Conspiracy - Tony Phillips and Joan Elledge
27) Kashmir ki Kahani - Sumit Kumar
28) Fourteen Years with Boss - Ashoka Mitran
29) Susvarala Lakshmi MS Subbulakshmi - Pallavi
30) The Revenue Stamp - Amrita Pritam
31) Untold Charminar - Syeda Imam
32) The Heart Divided - Mumtaz Shah Nawaz
33) 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life - Karen Armstrong
34) Yashasvini - Indraganti Janaki Bala
35) We are All Made of Glue - - Marina Lewycka
36) A Guide to Architecture in Deccan - Omar Khalidi
37) Phantoms in the Brain - Dr. V.s. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakelee
38) Heart Lamp - Banu Mushtaq
39) The Anxious Generation - John Haidt
40) Focus - Daniel Goleman
41) Prince of Music - Lalitharam
42) Reflections on the Indian Stage by Leading Women - Mahesh Eklunchwar
43) The Greatest British Short Stories - Embassy Books
44) Kitne Ghazi Aaye - Lt Gen KJS Dhillon
45) Drawing the Line - Priya Kurien
46) 1975- The Year that Transformed Bollywood - Pratik Majumdar
47) How to Win Any Argument - Robert Mayer
48) Tomb of Sand - Geetanjali Shree
49) Raja Deen Dayal - Narendra Luther
50) Spiritual Anatomy - Daaji
51) 10 Minutes, 30 Seconds in this Strange World - Elifa Shafik
52) Uncle Fred in Springtime - PG Wodehouse
53) Khushwant Singh Joke Book
54) Beyond the Autobiography of a Yogi - Oswald Pereira
55) The Optimist's Telescope - Bina Ventakaraman
56) James - Percival Everett
57) 21 Days to Jump Start Your Intuition - Sonia Choquette
58) Tao of Physic - Fritjof Capra
59) The Diaries of Franz Kafka - Franz Kafka
60) Red Cherries on the Canara Coast - Jayanth Kodkani
61) Difficult Conversations - Douglas Stone
62) Tumhari Auquaat Kya Hai Piyush Mishra - Piyush Mishra
63) Personal Excellence - Ken Shelton
64) RAW Hitman 2 - Hussain Zaidi
65) The Harappa Files - Sarnath Banerjee
66) Police in Blunderland - Bibhuti Dash
67) Handbook and Guidelines for Curators - Chandrashekhar
68) Cultural History of Holkar - Dr. Ganesh Matkar
69) The Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
70) The Art of Batting - Jarrod Kimber
71) Hitting Against the Spin - Nathan Leoman and Ben Jones
Some great books about Hyderabad such as Legendotes by Narendra Luther, Untold Charminar by Syeda Imam, Deodis of Hyderabad by Rani Sharma, Cricket Biryani by PR Mansingh, Kohi Noor by William Dalrymple. A couple more cricket books - Red Cherries on the Canara Coast by Jayanth Kodkani, Hitting against the Spin, The Art of Batting.
Classics like Revenue Stamp by Amrita Pritam, Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, Mrs Dolloway by Virginia Would, The Tao of Physics by Fritz Capra, Uncle Fred in Springtime by PG Wodehouse, 'The Heart Divided' by Mumtaz Shah Nawaz etc.
Two Telugu books 'Susvarala Lakshmi MS Subbalakshmi' by Pallavi and 'Yashasvini' by Indraganti Janakibala. Loved them both. Just loved reading Telugu.
A couple of brilliant graphic novels 'Kashmir ki Kahani' by Sumit Kumar, 'The Harappan Files' by Sarnath Banerjee, 'Drawing the Line' by Priya Kurien.
Several non fiction books '12 Steps to a Compassionate Life' by Karen Armstrong, 'The Anxious Generation' by John Haidt, '1975- The year that changed Bollywood', ''The Writing of One Novel' by Irving Wallsce, 'And a Voice to Sing With' by Joan Baez, 'Difficult Conversations' by Douglas Stac.
