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Dave Krunal’s 100 Books To Read While You’re Alive

Fiction I’ve Read So Far (click on the name to read my notes)

  1. The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  3. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  4. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  5. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  6. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  7. A Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
  8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  9. Tuesdays With Moorie by Mitch Albom
  10. That Thou Art (તત્વમસિ) by Dhruv Bhatt
  11. The Company of Woman by Khushwant Singh

World Fiction (Yet To Read)

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. 1984 by George Orwell
  3. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
  5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  6. Siddhartha by Hermann Karl Hesse
  7. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  8. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  9. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  10. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  11. The Castle by Franz Kafka
  12. Amerika by Franz Kafka
  13. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
  14. The Fall by Albert Camus
  15. The Plague by Albert Camus
  16. The Fall by Albert Camus
  17. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
  19. Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
  20. Aesop’s Fables by Aesop*
  21. Branve New World by Aldous Huxley
  22. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  23. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  24. Catch-22 By Joseph Heller
  25. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
  26. The Code of the Woosters by P.G.Wodehouse
  27. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  28. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
  29. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  30. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantese Saavedra
  32. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  33. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  34. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm*
  35. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  36. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams*
  37. Holes by Louis Sachar
  38. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison*
  39. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry*
  40. Lolita by Vlaimir Nabokov
  41. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie*
  42. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  43. A Passage to India by E.M.Forster*
  44. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster**
  45. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón*
  46. The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
  47. The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
  48. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  49. Treasure Island by Robert Lous Stevenson**
  50. Ulysses by James Joyce*
  51. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  52. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  53. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  54. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum**
  55. A Wrinle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

 

Indian Fiction (Yet To Read)

  1. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy *
  2. The Ministry of Utmost Happines by Arundhati Roy *
  3. A House for Mr.Biswas by V.S.Naipaul
  4. English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee*
  5. Bhagavad Gita – A Hindu Scripture
  6. Satyarth Prakash by Dayanand Saraswati
  7. The Upanishada – Vedic Texts
  8. Ghachar Gochar by Vivek Sanbhag
  9. Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
  10. Malgudi Days by R.K.Narayan
  11. The Nameshake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  12. Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
  13. The Complete Adventure of Feluda Vol 1
  14. The Complete Adventure of Feluda Vol 2
  15. Manto: Selected Short Stories
  16. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry*
  17. Curfewed Night by Basharat Peer
  18. Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese*
  19. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni*

 

Non-Fiction (Yet To Read)

  1. A Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  4. As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

 

 

 

 

 

 

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