Saturday, January 3, 2015

2014 - The Year in Books

The average dipped marginally. 50 books against 53 in 2013.But I reread many old classics and they made much more sense to me now. The list.

1) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
2) Captain Cool - The M.S. Dhoni Story - Gulu Ezekiel
3) Sachin, A hundred Hundreds - Krishnamurthy
4) The Secret of Leadership - Prakash Iyer
5) Sachin, Cricketer of the Century
6) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
7) The Elements of Style - Strunk and White
8) It rained all night - Buddhadeva Bose
9) Quiet days in Clichy - Henry Miller
10) The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
11) I Ching for Beginners - Mark McElroy
12) Leadership by the Book - Ken Blanchard
13) Idris - Anita Nair
14) Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
15) The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant
16) A Dirge for the Dammed - Vikas Patil
17) Sports Psychology, A Guide - Dr. Arnold LeUnes
18) Confessions of a Thug - Meadows Taylor
19) Dhirubhaiism - A.G.Krishnamurthy
20) The Power of Habit - Charles DuHigg
21) Art of Cricket - Don Bradman
22) Kiss that Frog - Brian Tracy
23) Eat that Frog - Brian Tracy
24) The Great Indian novel - Shashi Tharoor
25) The Americans - Chitra Viraraghavan
26) Drama Queen - Suchitra Krishnamurthy
27) Moon and Sixpence - Somerset Maugham
28) I will Survive - Sunil Roberts
29) Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar
30) The Covers are off - Rajan Bala
31) Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy
32) The Tao of Abundance - Lawrence G Boldt
33) I am Another You - Priya Kumar
34) Bombay Boys - Makarand Waingankar
35) The Vendor of Sweets - R.K. Narayan
36) At Wit's End - Erma Bombeck
37) Secret of Teams - Mark Miller
38) Whale Done - Ken Blanchard
39) God is a Gamer - Ravi Subramaniam
40) How to Worry Less About Money - John Armstrong
41) The Sceptical Patriot - Sidin Vadukut
42) I Have a Dream - Rashmi Bansal
43) All About Bacteria - Ravi Mantha
44) The Richest Man in Babylon - George S Clason
45) The Final Test, Exit Sachin Tendulkar - Dilip D'Souza
46) The Case of the Bonsai Manager - R. Gopalakrishnan
47) Half Girl Friend - Chetan Bhagat
48) If God was a Banker - Ravi Subramaniam
49) Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm - Norman Vincent Peale
50) Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
51) Confucius on Leadership - John Adair
52) The Outsider - Albert Camus

Some extraordinary books - "Annihilation of Caste" was an eye opener. "Confessions of  a Thug" is one of the most extraordinary books I have ever read. "The Dirge of the Dammed" was brilliant. "Tao of Abundance" changed my outlook to abundance and money. "The Richest Man in Babylon" was a great guide. "Whale Done" was an eye opener to personal relationships. Classics apart, "Ogilvy on Advertising" taught much about communication and advertising.

Three writer friends wrote fine books - "Idris" by Anita Nair, "The Americans" by Chitra Viraraghavan and "The Final Test" by Dilip D' Souza. More to come.

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