Tuesday, December 27, 2016

2016 - A Year in Books

49 books. Down from 53 last year.

1) Gung Ho - Ken Blanchard
2) High Five - Ken Blanchard
3) Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
4) Mrs. Funny Bones - Twinkle Khanna
5) The Atheist's Mask - Honores de Balzac
6) The Gate of Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling
7) The Fall of Icarus - Ovid
8) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
9) Sindbad the Sailor
10) Serious Men - Manu Joseph
11) Everyone Loves a Good Drought - P. Sainath
12) Tell tale heart - Edgar Allen Poe
13) A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces
14) Women and Men in My Life - Khushwant Singh
15) How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing - Michel de Montagne
16) Tao of Motivation - Max Landsberg
17) Tomorrow- Joseph Conrad
18) The Game Changers - Kiran Kumar
19) The Great Winglebury Duel - Charles Dickens
20) Plato - A Graphic Novel
21) Pyre- Perumal Murugan
22) Dhammapada
23) Kim - Rudyard Kipling
24) 100 Simple Secrets of Happy Families - David Niven
25) Eye of the Needle - Ken Follett
26) Chain of Custody - Anita Nair
27) Emma - Jane Austen
28) From Man to Maneater  Sumanth
29) The Decision Book - Mikhael Kogerus
30) Hindutva or Hind Swaraj - U.R. Anantamurthy
31) My Father Balaiah - Y.B. Satyanarayana
32) I Never Danced at the Whitehouse - Art Buchwald
33) Good to Great - Jim Collins
34) The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee - Jai Arjun Singh
35) Matilda - Roald Dahl
36) An Exile - Madison James
37) Story - Robert McKee
38) One Part Woman - Perumal Murugan
39) Work Rules - Laszlo Block
40) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhyss
41) Driven - Virat Kohli
42) The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley
43) Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith
44) Adultery - Paulo Coelho
45) Chicken Soup for the Soul - Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen
46) Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler
47) Humour in Cricket - Capt. Manohar Sharma
48) So, You Think You're Clever - John Farndon
49) Jest in Time - Ajit Ninan, Jug Suraiya, Neelabh Banerjee

Story' and 'Good to Great' were exceptional reads. 'My Father Balaiah', 'Pyre', 'Everyone Loves a Good Drought', 'Work Rules' stood out. Classics like 'Wide Sargasso Sea', 'Tom Sawyer', 'Kim', 'Emma' were good to read. Knocked off 'Mein Kampf', 'Malcolm X' off the must-read list. 'The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee' and 'Driven' were two interesting stories of interesting people. Two books by debut writers - 'The Game Changers' and 'From Man to Maneater' by Kiran and Sumanth were interesting.


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