Kugan Kumar

BOULEVARD says

Re: Books, by Indian Authors and on India, you must read before you die.

Thank you, so much for your participation . As discussed earlier , we have a consolidated list of 78 books. I appreciate if you add few more names…. if not now… latter as you read them and feel every one should read it.

Again , Thank you so much…..great effort from every one….

1. R. K. Narayan’s Swami and Friend
2. Gurucharan Das' India Unbound
3. Amartya Sen's The Argumentative Indian
4. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
5. Rohinton Mistry – Family Matters
6. Nair, Anita – Ladies Coupé
7. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – The Household
8. William Randall – Indian Summer
9. City of Joy---Dominique Lapierre
10. Midnight's Children---Salman Rushdie
11. A Passage to India---E.M.Forste
12. The Last Mughal----William Dalrympl
13. Such A Long Journey---Rohinton Mistry
14. God of small things / Arundhati Roy
15. Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
16. PRITHVIRAJ RASO by Chand Bardai
17. The Riot by Shashi Tharoor
18. Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
19. My Presidential Years by R.Venkataraman
20. The English Teacher and The Guide by R.K. Narayan
21. Amrita-Imroze: A Love Story by Uma Trilok
22. Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
23. Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banarjee Divakarun
24. Shashi deshpande - The Long Silence / A Matter of Time
25. Anita Nair's Mistress
26. Train to Pakisthan by Khushwant Singh
27. Read Maximum City by Sukhetu Mehta
28. The Palace of Illusion by Chitra Banerjee
29. The Temple Dancer by John Speed
30. The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
31. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
32. SHANTARAM by Gregory David Roberts
33. THE DEATH OF VISHNU by Manil Suri
34. THE AGE OF SHIVA by Manil Suri
35. CHARITRAHEEN - By Sharatchandra
36. Arvind Adiga's white tiger
37. VS Naipaul's Indian trilogy
38. English, August - Upamanyu Chatterjee
39. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
40. Man-eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
41. The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
42. Falling off the map - Pico Iyer
43. Short stories by Premchand (Hindi Version)
44. "Twilight in Delhi," Ahmed Ali
45. "City of Djinns," William Dalrymple
46. William Dalrymple,The last Mugha
47. The Hungry Tide and The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
48. The Toss of a Lemon - Padma Ramachandran
49. A Breath of Fresh Air - Amulya Malladi
50. The Hindi Bindi Club - Monica Pradhan
51. Untouchable and Coolie Mulk Raj Anand
52. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
53. "Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant by Vaikom Mohammed Basheer
54. Wives and Others by Manik Bandopadhyay
55. A Tiger for Malgudi by RK Narayan
56. Bound Together by Nayan Chanda
57. Trotternama by Irwin Allan Sealy
58. Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari
59. Ramayana by C. Rajagopalachari
60. Martanda Varma by C.V. Raman Pillai
61. The Miguel Street by V.S. Naipaul
62. Vikramaditya's Throne by Poile Sengupta
63. Dialogue with Death by Eknath Eswaran
64. G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr
65. "Delhi" and "I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale." Khushwant Singh
66. Monica Ali – Bricklane
67. Tourism - Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal
68. The Vendor of Sweets - RK Narayan
69. Yann Martel's Life of Pi
70. A Suitable Boy' / An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
71. The Music Room by Nakita Devidayal
72. The Blue Bedspread- Raj Kamal Jha
73. Sacred Games-Vikram Chandra
74. Animals People-Indra Sinha
75. Clear Light Of Day by Anita Desai
76. The satanic verses- Salman Rushdie
77. Shalimar the clown-Salman Rushdie
78. The Moor's last sigh-Salman Rushdie

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Marjon says

hi,

well, I'm happy to hear that. How do you find the book?
i'm planning on reading The White Tiger soon. (when I can find the time or when my teacher will answer me if I can read it for my booklist..)

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Dear Member,
Thank you very much for joining our group " Indian Writing and Indian Literature".
I request you to join our discussion posts and
share your knowledge with us.
Your opinions ,suggestions and even
criticism to improve the group would be highly appreciated.

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Welcome to 1001 books. You can keep track of the books you have read from the book, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, join in the discussions on the books we are reading for the month (BOTM) or you can debate the merits of the list as some enjoy doing. We hope you will want to join in the choosing of BOTM and the discussions. The current books are pinned to the top for that month. There are older discussions that can be found by searching discussions. If there is any way the group administrator can help further feel free to ask one of us. If you don’t own the book the list can be found at the top in the group description or at http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm?content_id=22845. A downloadable list of the second edition is available at http://johnandsheena.co.uk/books/?

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