READING LIST 2019:

2019 WishList:

As always, this year, I desire perusing a healthy combination of all types of genre. Psychological thrillers, fantasy, political memoirs, biographies and autobiographies of writers, artists, sportsmen and others; poetry, classical literature etc.

Finished Reading:

1. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
2. On Love and Sex: Selected Writings by Khushwant Singh
3. Half a Rupee Stories by Gulzar
4. Our Dark Secret: A Modern Cuckold Memoir by Derrin Hart
5. Manush Thakle Bhuto Thake (Collection of Ghost Stories, Bengali) by Sirshendu M.
6. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Eye-Popping Oddities (Annual Book 12)
7. The Treasury of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Clifton Fadiman (Editor)
8. Beyond Apu – 20 Favourite Film Roles of Soumitra Chatterjee by Amitava Nag
9. Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy by Sadhguru
10. Goyenda Kalketu Samagra (Collection of 12 Detective Stories) by Rupak Saha
11. Panchasti Sera Rahasya Golpo (Collection of 50 Mystery Stories) by Arup Das
12. The Naughty Proposal! by Shanaya Taneja
13. Shrastha Lekhakder Goyenda Galpo (Best Detective Stories) by Multiple Authors
14. Adiyogi: The Source of Yoga by Sadhguru
15. Panchishti Natun Bhoot (25 New Ghosts), Edited by Shirshendu Mukherjee
16. Eyewitness to World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs From History’s Greatest Conflict by Neil Kagan, Stephen Hyslop
17. Seductive Affair by Rishabh Puri
18. The Deliberate Sinner by Bhaavna Arora
19. The Tata Saga: Timeless Stories From India’s Largest Business Group by Penguin Books India
20. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
21. Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners by Hamalian & Vope
22. The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond by Ruskin Bond
23. Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas by Ruskin Bond
24. Captain Young’s Ghost: Ghostly Tales from the Indian Hills by Ruskin Bond
25. Ruskin Bond A Mussoorie Mystery by Ruskin Bond
26. Landour Bazaar by Ruskin Bond
27. The Sins of the Father by Jeffrey Archer
28. The Stalker by Sandeep Sharma
29. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
30. Catch Me? No You Can’t! by Amit Nangia
31. The Perfect Murder by Peter James
32. Private Paris: (Private 11) by James Patterson
33. Beast by Krishna Udaysankar
34. Tutankhamun: The Last Secret by Christian Jacq
35. The Holy Assassin by Luis Miguel Rocha
36. Happily Murdered by Rasleen Syal
37. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Study Guide by Sybex
38. Ramses – Lady of Abu Simbel by Christian Jacq
39. Living Hell by Vivaan Shah
40. Sniper’s Eye by Mainak Dhar
41. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
42. Wise Guy by Guy Kawasaki
43. The Great Secret: Mysteries of Osiris by Christian Jacq
44. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov
45. Ikigai by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
46. Machine Learning Yearning by Andrew Ng
47. Python Artificial Intelligence Projects for Beginners: Get up and running with Artificial Intelligence using 8 smart and exciting AI applications by Dr. Joshua Eckroth
48. Bhagavad Gita As It Is By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – READING
49. Bibhuti Galpo Samagra, Volume – 1 (Bengali) by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay – READING

To read:

1. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer
2. Machine Learning with Python by Tutorials Point
3. Deep Learning with Azure: Building and Deploying Artificial Intelligence Solutions on the Microsoft AI Platform by Mathew Salvaris, Danielle Dean & Wee Hyong Tok
4. Deep Learning with Applications Using Python: Chatbots and Face, Object, and Speech Recognition With TensorFlow and Keras by Navin Kumar Manaswi
5. Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell
6. ITIL V3 Foundation Exam – The Study Guide by Van Harem Publishing
7. TOGAF 9 Foundation Study Guide (TOGAF Series) by The Open Group
8. Ramses – The Son of the Light by Christian Jacq
9. Shadow of the Sphinx by Christian Jacq
10. Bibhuti Galpo Samagra, Volume – 2 (Bengali) by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
11. Panchti Shrestha Upanyas (Bengali) by Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay
12. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
13. Executive Power by Vince Flynn
14. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Miller Hemingway
15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Miller Hemingway
16. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Miller Hemingway
17. Men Without Women by Ernest Miller Hemingway
18. Winner Takes Nothing by Ernest Miller Hemingway
19. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Miller Hemingway
20. Flying High by Tony Fernandes
21. Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
22. Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks by Alok Kejriwal
23. Losing My Virginity by Sir Richard Branson
24. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
25. The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
26. An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
27. A Suitable Girl by Vikram Seth
28. Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
29. A House for Mr Biswas by Sir V. S. Naipaul
30. In a Free State by Sir V. S. Naipaul
31. A Bend in the River by Sir V. S. Naipaul
32. India Trilogy by Sir V. S. Naipaul
33. Letters From a Father to His Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru
34. The Constant Gardener by John Le Carr
35. Why I Am A Hindu by Dr. Shashi Tharoor
36. The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Divakaruni
37. The Story Of My Assassins by Tarun J Tejpal
38. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
39. A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition by Salman Rashid
40. Psycho: A Novel by Robert Bloch
41. India’s Biggest Cover Up by Anuj Dhar
42. The Moon’s a Balloon by David Niven
43. Pankaj – Bengal’s Forgotten Cricket Legend by Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Bhattacharya, Pranab Roy
44. If The Dead Rise Not: A Bernie Gunther Novel by Philip Kerr
45. Being Freddie: My Story so Far : My Story So Far by Andrew Flintoff
46. The Red – Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk, Ekin Oklap
47. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
48. The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
49. Remains Of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
50. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
51. Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
52. Nudge by Richard Thaler
53. Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
54. The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
55. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
56. Alan Turing: The Enigma – The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges
57. 3 Strange Tales by Glenn Anderson & Ryunosuke Akutagawa
58. Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
59. Devotion Of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
60. Malice by Keigo Higashino
61. Controversially Yours By Shoiab Akhtar & Anshu Dogra
62. No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully
63. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
64. Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff
65. Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff
66. Unhurried Tales by Ruskin Bond
67. The Buddha by Mukunda Rao
68. Every Time It Rains by Nikita Singh
69. Empire by Devi Yesodharan
70. Dangerous Minds by Hussain Zaidi, Brijesh Singh
71. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
72. The Bridge On The River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
73. The Guide by R. K. Narayan
74. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
75. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
76. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
77. Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
78. Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
79. The Collector’s Wife by Mitra Phukan
80. Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sehgal
81. The Glassblower’s Breath by Sunetra Gupta
82. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Sir Nirad C. Chaudhuri
83. Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
84. Silence Of The Lambs (25th Anniversary Edition) by Thomas Harris
85. How to Have A Good Day by Caroline Webb
86. A History of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch
87. Pursuit of Honour by Vince Flynn
88. Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer
89. Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci
90. Last Man Standing by David Baldacci
91. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
92. Honour Among Thieves by Jeffrey Archer