Saturday, December 31, 2016

2016 - A Year in Books

49. Down from 53. But there were some tomes 'Mein Kampf', 'An Autobiography of Malcolm X', 'Emma', 'Story', 'Good to Great', 'A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces'.
Some of the books before going to the 'read shelf' from the 'to read shelf'.
Here's the list.

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

'Story', 'Good to Great' were exceptional. It was great reading the classics like 'Emma', 'Kim', Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Mein Kampf', 'An Exile'. Sainath's 'Everyone Loves a Good Drought' is a must read just as 'My Father Balaiah' is. 'Work Rules was an interesting read.
Looking forward to some nice ones in 2017. I have my eyes set on a few books authors.

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