Sunday, December 31, 2017

The Year in Books - 2017

80 books!
It is the most books I ever read in one year in my life so a pat on the back for that. I also tried to be conscious about the ones I chose to read. The top 10 would be - Zen, The Beginner's Mind, The Inner Game of Tennis, The Sentimental Spy, Are You Experienced, Open, Autobiography of a Yogi, Sons and Lovers, The Heart of a Woman, The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared and Heat and Dust. Stanley Kramer's biography by Daniel Spoto was a lesson in how to write one. Two books that left an impact - How I Raised Myself from Success to Failure and Dying to Be Me. Suresh, Sagar (gifted me close to 30 books this year), Vinod (selected ones, all lovely), Jayant and Suhita, Ramesh, Rajesh (all the sports and business books I get to read in Bangalore), Gauri Dange, Mythily, Shobha and Anjali who shares all the books she likes with me by keeping them on my table after she reads.

1. Deer Hunter - EM Corder
2. Hotel - Arthur Hailey
3. The Last lecture - Randy Pausch
4. You'll See it When you Believe It - Wayne Dwyer
5. The Art of Creative Thinking - Rud Jenkins
6. Cal - Bernard MacLaughly
7. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
8. The Wild Boys - William Burrrough
9. Trimalchio's Feast - Petroniuis
10. The Saga of Guunlag-Serpent Tongue - Viking Epic
11. A Hippo Banquet - Mary Kingsley
12. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance - Louis V Gerstner
13. The Unquiet Ones - Osman Samiuddin
14. Thank and Grow Rich - Pam Grout
15.Sadgurus' Bestowal - Ratnakar Nargundkar
16. How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success - Frank Bettgar
17. Inner Engineering - Sadhguru
18. Jason and Medea - Appollonius of Rhodes
19. The Sentimental Spy- Krishna Shastri Devulapally
20. Something Happened on the Way to heaven - Sudha Murthy
21.Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
22. The Wisdom of Gibran - Joseph Sheldon
23. Working with EMotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
24. A Noble Queen - Meadows Taylor
25. Ghachar Ghochar - Vivek Shanbhag
26. Mehboob, India's Melville - Bunny Reuben
27. Khullam Khulla - Meena Iyer
28. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre - VN Dutta and S. Settar
29. Physiotherapy, a New Mode of rejuvenation - Dr. Jyotsna Nangad
30. The 100 Year old Man Who Climbed Our of the Window and Disappeared - Jona Johansson
31. Open - Andre Agassi
32. Ace Against Odds - Sania Mirza
33. AB - AB de Villiers
34. Scaling Up Excellence - Robert Sutton, Huggy Rao
35. Playing to Win - Saina Nehwal
36. My Life - Brett Lee
37. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
38. 7 Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra
39. Top Driver - Naresh Raghavan
40. Madras on My Mind - Chitra Raghavan
41. The Pleasure Principle - Sampath
42. An Area of Darkness - V.S. Naipaul
43. Anusual - Anu Agarwal
44. Three Dog Night - Gauri Dange
45. Lady Chatterly's Lover - DH Lawrence
46. The Adventures of Stoob - Samit Basu
47. The Butcher of Amritsar - Nigel Collett
48. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
49. Are You Experienced - William Sutcliffe
50. Lie Dow WIth the Lions - Ken Follett
51 Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
52. Selected Stories - Nikolay Gogol
53.Ravelstein - Saul Bellows
54. A House at Pooh Corner - A A Milne
55. Autobiography of a Yogi - Yogananda
56. Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy
57. The Royal Bengal Mystery - Satyajit Ray
58. Escape from Java and Other Tales of Danger - Ruskin Bond
59. Gotama the Buddha - Vipassana
60. The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
61. Stanley Kramer - Donald Spoto
62. Trust Me Not - Ankita Verma Dutta
63. Zen Mind, The Beginner's Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
64. Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
65. The Heart of a Woman - Maya Angelou
66. The Inner Game of Tennis - Tim Gallwey
67. Project Management - Prasanna Kumar
68.Wings of Fire - APJ Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari
69. Right Ho Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
70. Magic Drum and Other Stories - Sudha Murthy
71. Awaken the Giant Within - Anthony Robbins
72. Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
73. Magic of the Lost Temple - Sudha Murthy
74. Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
75. I Take This Woman - Rajinder Singh Bedi (Translated by Khushwant Singh)
76. A Faceless Evening - Gangadhar Gadgil (Translated by Keerti Ramachandra)
77. Six Machine - Chris Gayle
78. Beneath the Surface - Michael Phelps
79. Voices in the City - Anita Desai
80.  Dying to be Me - Anita Moorjani

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