Lists of influential books

Non Fiction

1. An Ancestor's Tale - Richard Dawkins
2. The Mind of God - Paul Davies
3. How the Mind works -Stephen Pinker
4. A Brief History of Time - Bill Bryson
5. The Corporation that Ruled the World
6. Ideas : A History
7. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
8. Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade
9. White Mughals/From the Holy Mountain/The Age of Kali /Nine Lives- Willam Darlymple
10. Curry (history of) - Lizzy Colinwood
11. A War of the World - Niall Fergusson
12. Critical Mass - Philip Ball
13. The Keys of Egypt (story of the Rosetta stone)
14. In Cold Blood -Truman Capote
15. Wild Swans
16. Myth=Mithya
17. The Man eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
18. Roots - Alex Haley
19. The rise and fall of the third reich - Willam S Shirer
20. Man's quest for meaning - Victor Frankl
21. Confessions of a Thug - Philip Meadows Taylor
22. The Knife Man - Wendy Moore
23. The Discovery of India/Glimpses of World History - J L Nehru
24. Indian Mutiny, French Revolution - Christopher Hibbert
25. The first three minutes - Steven Wienburg
26. Freakonomics, The Tipping Point
27. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David Landes
28. The Origin of Wealth
29. The Code Book/Fermant's last theorem - Simon Singh
30. The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Allison Wier
31. Elizabeth - Allison Wier
32. Portrait of a People - Sudhir Kakar
33. Yakuza - David Kaplan
34. A Brief History of Medicine - Paul Stathern, A History of Money - Niall Fergusson
35. The Black Swan - Nissim Tayeb
36. The Human Instinct - Roger Winston
37. India after Gandhi - Ramchandra Guha
38. Peoplewatching - Desmond Morris
39. Liar's Poker/Flashboys - Michael Lewis
40. Phantoms in the Brain - VS Ramachandran
41. Bringing down the house - Ben Meriz
42. Lost world of Hindustani Music - Kumar Prasad Mukherjee
43. Genome - Matt Ridley
44. Mahabharata - Kamala Subramanian
45. The Looming Towers - The road to 9/11
46. A natural history of Innovation - Steve Johnson
47. The Great Game - Peter Hopkirk
48. Kipling Sahib - Charles Allen
49. Justice - By Michael Sandel
50. The Crusades - A concise History (Thomas Madden)
51. Following Fish - Sumanth Subramanian
52. Aurangzeb - A short history (Jadunath Sarkar)
53. Endurance - Shakleton's Incredible Voyage (Alfred Lansing)
54. On the Trail of the lost river (Michael Danino)
55. On the corner of a foreign field (Ramachandra Guha)
56. Genghis Khan - And the making of the modern world
57. The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
58. The Righteous Mind -- Jonathan Haidt
59. India - A sacred geography - Diana Eck
60. Beautiful Thing - Sonia Falerio
61. Them - Ron Jonson
62. The Opium War - Julia Lovell
63. Philosophy for Life - Jules Evans
64. Hiding the Elephant - Jim Steinmeyer
65. Cows, Pigs and Witches - Marvin Harris
66. The philosopher at the end of the Universe - Mark Rowland
67. Thinking fast and slow - David Kanheman
68. Into thin air - Jon Kaukauer
69. Curfewed Night/A Free Man
70. Battle Cry of Freedom  - US Civil War - James McPherson
71. The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
72. Jack the Ripper - Philip Sugden
73. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Pollack
74. The Antidote - Oliver Burkeman
75. Devil in the white city
76. Beyond the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
77. Partisans and Patriots - Ramachandra Guha
78. Asoka - Charles Allen
79. After the Prophet - Lesley Hazelton
80. The Age of Wrath - Abraham Early
81. The Skeptical Patriot - Sidin V 
82. Empires of the Indus - Alice Albion
83. The world without us
84. Rubicon - Tom Holland
85. Persian Fire - Tom Holland
86. Brahmins and Bungalows - Kavita Watsa
87. River Dog - Mark Shand
88. Bol Bam - Shradha
89. Jaya - A retelling of the Mahabharat
90. Emperors of the Peacock Throne - Abraham Eraly
91. The Unspeakable -the killing of JFK
92. Unbroken - Laura H
93. Ancient Rome - Simon Baker 
94. The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
95. India Discovered - John Keay
96. Serial Killers - Peter Vronsky
97. The art of thinking clearly  - Rolf Dobelli
98. The Last King of India - Rosie Llewlyn 
99. God's Terrorists -Charless Allen 
100. The birth of the pill
101. The story of earth -the first 4.5 billion years - Robert Hazen
102. Cosmos - Carl Sagan
103. The Fall of the Ottoman Empire - Eugene Rogan
104. Ka - Robert Calasso
105. Nurture shock - Po Bronson
106. Midnight in the garden of good and evil - John Brenda
107. The tiger - John Valliant 
108. Tuesdays with moorie- mitch ablom
109. The lost city of Z
110. Into Africa 
111. Being Mortal Atul Gawande

Fiction

1. Kafka on the Shore/Norwegian wood - Haruki Murakami
2. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
3. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
4. 1984/Animal Farm - George Orwell
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. 100 Years of Solitude / Chronicle of a murder - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. Beloved - Toni Morrison
8. English August - Upamanyu Chatterjee
9. Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
10. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
12. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
13. Run Rabbit Run - John Updike
14. Filth - Irvin Welsh
15. The remians of the day/When we were orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
16. It was 5 past midnight in Bhopal, Freedom at Midnight, City of Joy - All books of Dominique Lappiere/Larry Collins
17. Mila 18, Exodus, Trinity, The Haj - Leon Uris
18. All books of Arthur Hailey, Robin Cook, Michael Chrichton, Jeffery Archer, Issac Asimov, Dan Brown
19. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
20. I, Claudius - Robert Graves
21. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Thorn Birds, Gone with the Wind - Romance
22. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
23. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
24. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
25. Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
26. A House for Mr. Biswas - VS Naipaul
27. Ratime - E L Doctrow
28. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
29. The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
30. The world according to Garp -John Irving
31. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
32. One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey
33. Posession - A S Byatt
34. All Quiet on the Western front - Eric Remaraque
35. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
36. The God of small things - Arundhuti Roy
37. Short stories : O Henry, Somerset Maughm, Anton Chekhov, Guy De Mupassant, Saki, Ruskin Bond, Roald Dahl
38. Tom Sharpe, Ben Elton - Hilarious comedy
39. Shogun - James Clavell
40. Things fall apart - Chinua Achebe
41. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
42. Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
43. The Calcutta Chromosome/The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
44. The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
45. Even Cowgirls get the Blues - Tom Robbins
46. Dr. Zhivago - Boris Patersnak
47. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
48. The Outsider/The Plague - Albert Camus
49. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
50. Jeeves Series - P G Woodehouse
51. Ramayana series of Ashok Banker
52. Sherlock Holmes - Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle
53. Feluda series - Satyajit Ray
54. Harry Potter Series
55. The Ramayana Series - By Ashok Banker
56. Hindi books - Gunahon ka devta, Raag Darbari, Munshi Premchand short stories, Bhishma Sahni, Amrita Preetam
57. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
58. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
59. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
60. The Millennium Series : Stieg Larsson (3 books)
61. The Ring / The Spiral : Koji Suzuki
62. The Shadow of the Wind
63. Sidetracked - Henning Mankel
64. The Wandering Falcon - Jamil Ahmad
65. Picture Imperfect - Byomkesh Bakshi
66. Ender's Game
67. The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
68. The Grasshopper's Run (Siddharth Sarma) /No Guns at my Son's funeral (Paro Anand)
69. Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
70. The Fault in our stars
71. Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
72. Sabriel
73. The Wildings - Nilanjana Roy - Good one
74. The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashimo
75. The Black Echo/The Poet - Michael Connelly
76. Killing Floor - Lee Child
77. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn - good one
78. The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey - very good
79. The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

Hindi Books to Read

• Kitne Paakistaan – Kamaleshwar
• Dharamputra – Acharya Chatursen
• Chitarlekhaa – Bhagawati Charan Verma
• Giddh, Surya – Vijay Tendulkar

Books that I would want to re-read

Unfortunately though I love history, none of it I guess is somethig I want to re-read.

Thinking fast and slow - David Kanheman

The Ancestor's tale - Richard Dawkins

The Happiness Hypothesis - Johnathan Haidt 

Justice - Michel Sandel

A Brief History of Time - Bill Bryson

Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade

The first three minutes - Steven Wienburg

The Code Book - Simon Singh

Portrait of a People - Sudhir Kakar

The Black Swan - Nissim Tayeb

Philosophy for Life - Jules Evans/ Antidote - Oliver Burkman

The story of earth -the first 4.5 billion years - Robert Hazen

Being Mortal - Atul Gawande 

Great Authors of a given genre

• Tom Holland - Ancient Rome
• Charles Allen - The Raj
• Eugene Rogan - The Arabs
• Peter Hopkrik - The great game
• Toni Morrison - Black America
• Allison Wier - The Tudors
• James Clavell - Japan and China