Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2019 in Books

82 Books. Some mere booklets. As with the movies I have been lax in my choice and I am not too impressed with the list. The numbers must now be sacrificed for quality reading.

In fiction glad I went to the classics - Oscar Wilde, Daddy Long Legs, Cyrano de Bergerac, Goat Days, Cry, My Beloved Country, Nation' of fools, Parineeta, Thakazhi Pillai were wonderful to read.

In non-fiction I was impacted by - Deep Work, Pitch Anything, Ikigai, Decisive, Mindset (reread), The Difference, Stories@Work, Gary Douglas's books on money.

Appupen's graphic novels are mindblowing.

On my shelf are the following that I want to read this year - I am that The Story of Philosophy, Atlas Shrugged, the Malevolent Republic, An Equal Music, The Audacity of Hope, The Little Drummer Girl,  David and Goliath (Gladwell), A Short History of the World (Wells), River of Smoke, Gas Wars.

1) Dave Barry is Not Making This Up - Dave Barry
2) 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell
3) Cyrano de Bergerac -Edmund Rostund
4) Chanakya's 7 Secrets of Leadership - Radhakrishna Pillai
5) My Way - J Antony
6) Shooting Water - Devyani Salzman
7) Cry, My Beloved Country - Alan Paton
8) Hungry Stone and Other Stories - Tagore
9) Wind/ Pin Ball - Murakami
10) Fault in our stars - John Greene
11) I am a survivor - Vijayanand Reddy
12) Baat Nikelgi to - Sathya Saran
13) Notes of a dream - AR Rahman
14) Short Stories by Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde
15) Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
16) Lady Windermere's fan - Oscar Wilde
17) An Unshakeable Mind - Rhyoho Okawa
18) You can have your cheese and eat it too - William Cottringer
19) Money is the not the problem, you are - Gary Douglas and Dan Heer
20) 5 plays for children - Vijay Tendulkar
21) World in Harmony - Dalai Lama
22) Snake and Lotus - Appupen
23) Chanakya in the classroom - Radhakrishna Pillai
24) What's good about falling - Prajwal Hegde
25) Aspyrus -Appupen
26) Nation of fools - Balraj Khanna
27) Rashtraman - Appupen
28) Eating wasps -Anita Nair
29) Goat Days - Benyamin
30) No more NRI - Ranjani
31) Negative space - Ranjani
32) Early Indians - Tony Joseph
33) Spirit of Lagaan - Satyajit Bhatkal
34) The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
35) Daddy Long Legs - Jean Brewster
36) Sophie's World
37) The Thongs also rises - Jennifer K. Leo
38) Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus
39) Parineeta - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
40) How to become more money - Gary Douglas
41) Out of my comfort zone - Steve Waugh
42) Best of Thakazhi Pillai - KM George
43) Bindi Babes - Narinder Dhami
44) Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharpe
45) Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T Kyosaki
46) Vanity Bagh - Anees Saleem
47) Just look up - Sadhana Ramchander
48) Advanced how to love money - Gary Douglas
49) Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
50) Life story of Ramkrishna Paramahamsa - Ramachandra Dutta
51) The Difference - Subir Chowdhury
52) Decisive - Chip and Dan Heath
53) Zen and the art of making a living - Lawrence G Boldt
54) Building Believable Characters - Mark McCutcheon
55) Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
56) Imperfect - Sanjay Manjrekar
57) Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff
58) Deep Work - Cal Newport
59) 20000 leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne
60) Hyderabad Jersey Tales - Mani
61) Faster than Lightning - Usain Bolt
62) Barefoot Coach - Paddy Upton
63) Stillness is the key - Ryan Halliday
64) Stories@ Work - Indranil Chakraborthy
65) Ikigai - Hector Garcia and Frances Morales
66) Mana Akkineni - Sanjay Kishore
67) Mindset - Carol Dweck
69) Chase your dreams - Sachin Tendulkar
70) Of Closure and New Beginnings - Saniya
72) Dreams of my father - Barack Obama
73) The Time Machine - HG Wells
74) Daddy's Boy - Shandana Minhas
75) The 5 am Club - Robin Sharma
76) The Winning Way - Anita and Harsha Bhogle
77) Management Tips - HBR
78) Vedanta 24x7 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati
79) Problem is you, Solution is you - Swami Dayananda Saraswati
80) Angoor - Sathya Saran
81) Popcorn - Ben Elton
82) Open my eyes, Open my soul - Yolanda King and Elodia Tate



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