These are some of my best reads so far…

• 1984 (George Orwell)
• A House for Mr. Biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
• A Long Way Down (Nick Hornby)
• A Map of the World (Jane Hamilton)
• A Painted House (John Grisham)
• Airport (Arthur Hailey)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
• All The President’s Men (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)
• And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
• As the Crow Flies (Jeffrey Archer)
• Between the Lines (Kuldip Nayar)
• Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
• Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
• Chasing the Rainbow (Manoj Das)
• City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre)
• Closing Time (Joseph Heller)
• Code Name God (Mani Bhaumik)
• Code to Zero (Ken Follett)
• Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater (Sasthi Brata)
• Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
• Dances with Wolves (Michael Blake)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
• Fever (Robin Cook)
• Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
• Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner)
• Freedom at Midnight (Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins)
• God’s Debris (Scott Adams)
• God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
• Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
• Gora (R. N. Tagore)
• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
• Heat and Dust (Ruth Praver Jhabwala)
• Honour Among Thieves (Jeffrey Archer)
• I Know this much is True (Wally Lamb)
• Indecision (Benjamin Kunkel)
• Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
• Love Story (Erich Segal)
• Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
• Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
• My Experiments with Truth (Mahatma Gandhi)
• Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
• Ordinary People (Judith Guest)
• Overload (Arthur Hailey)
• Prey (Michael Crichton)
• Shantaram (Gregory Roberts)
• The 25th Hour (David Benioff)
• The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
• The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
• The Class (Erich Segal)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time (Mark Haddon)
• The Fist of God (Frederick Forsyth)
• The Foxhole (Ivan Southall)
• The Godfather (Mario Puzo)
• The Guide (R. K. Narayan)
• The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
• The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
• The Inscrutable Americans (Anurag Mathur)
• The Insider (P. V. Narasimha Rao)
• The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)
• The Judgement (Kuldip Nayar)
• The Long Reverie of Partha Sarma (C. Sriram)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
• The Partner (John Grisham)
• The Reluctant Guru (R. K. Narayan)
• The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
• The Tragedy of Punjab (Khushwant Singh and Kuldip Nayar)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• Train to Pakistan (Khuswant Singh)
• Trespass (Fletcher Knebel)
• Truth, Love and a Little Malice (Khushwant Singh)
• Untorn Tickets (Paul Burke)
• Untouchable (Mulk Raj Anand)
• Vanished (Fletcher Knebel)
• Wings of Fire (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)

And here’s a list of some of the plays read so far.

• My Heart’s in the Highlands (William Saroyan)
• The Refund (Fritz Karinthy)
• An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley)
• The Pillars of Society (Henrik Ibsen)
• A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
• The Unexpected (Ella Edkin)