Reading List -- 2004 to Present

(Updated frequently.)

Fiction


Rickshaw (Lao She)

A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
An Equal Music (Vikram Seth)
Two Lives (Vikram Seth)

The Hero's Walk (Anita Rau Badami)
Tamarind Woman (Anita Rau Badami)

Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Unaccustomed Earth, (Jhumpa Lahiri)

A Singular Hostage (Thalassa Ali)
A Beggar at the Gate (Thalassa Ali)

Bombay Time (Thrity Umrigar)
If Today Be Sweet (Thrity Umrigar)
A Breath of Fresh Air (Amulya Malladi)
The Sound of Language (Amulya Malladi)
The Rice Mother (Rani Manicka)
The Great Indian Novel (Shashi Tharoor)
Flash House (Aimee Liu)
Brick Lane (Monica Ali)
The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran Desai)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
The Yacoubian Building (Alaa Al Aswany)
Palace of Desire (Naguib Mahfouz)

The Siege of Krishnapur (J.G. Farrell)
Zemindar (Valerie Fitzgerald)
The Far Pavilions (M.M. Kaye)

The Winter Queen (Boris Akunin)
Murder on the Leviathan (Boris Akunin)
The Turkish Gambit (Boris Akunin)
The Death of Achilles (Boris Akunin)
Special Assignments (Boris Akunin)
Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog (Boris Akunin)
Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel (Boris Akunin)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
The White Russian (Tom Bradby)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Translated by Richard Pevar and Larissa Volokhonsky)
Stories (Anton Chekhov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)

Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
The Little Book (Selden Edwards)
Paris Tales (Short Stories of French Authors Translated by Helen Constantine)

Flashman Series by George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman
Royal Flash
Flashman in the Great Game
Flash for Freedom

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (5 Volume Set) (Alexander McCall Smith)
Blue Shoes and Happiness (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (Alexander McCall Smith)
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Miracle At Speedy Motors (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries
The Sunday Philosophy Club (Alexander McCall Smith)
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Right Attitude To Rain (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Careful Use of Compliments (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (Alexander McCall Smith)

Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainments
Portuguese Irregular Verbs (Alexander McCall Smith)
The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (Alexander McCall Smith)
At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances (Alexander McCall Smith)

44 Scotland Street Series
Expresso Tales (Alexander McCall Smith)

La's Orchestra Saves The World (Alexander McCall Smith)

Short Story Collections
The Girl Who Married a Lion (Alexander McCall Smith)

The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)

The Soloist (Mark Salzman)
The Impressionist (Hari Kunzru)

The Kite Runner (Kahled Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)

Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)

Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
World Without End (Ken Follett)

Dark Angels (Karleen Koen)

The Terra Cotta Dog (Andrea Camilleri)
The Reflecting Sky (S.J. Rozan)
The Thai Amulet (Lyn Hamilton)

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The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
Lie Down With Lions (Ken Follett)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
All He Ever Wanted (Anita Shreeve)
Open House (Elizabeth Berg)
The Law of Similars (Chris Bohjalian)
The Rule of Four (Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason)
The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
Skipping Christmas (John Grisham)
Still Life With Woodpecker (Tom Robbins)
High Maintenance (Jennifer Belle)
The Rake (Mary Jo Putney)
The Preacher's Wife (Cheryl St. John)
True Grit (Charles Portis)

Poetry

Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)

Biographies

George Washington (Joseph Ellis)
Founding Brothers (Joseph Ellis)
George Washington (James Thomas Flexner)

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (Richard Feynman)

Dreams From My Father (Barak Obama)
The Audacity Of Hope (Barak Obama)

Two Lives (Vikram Seth)

P.S. I Love You (Cecelia Ahern)

Sandy Koufax (Jane Leavy)
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle (Jane Leavy)
Ted Williams (Leigh Montville)
Duke Snider (Duke Snider)

Nonfiction/Other

Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
Stones into Schools (Greg Mortenson)

Are Men Necessary (Maureen Dowd)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
Freakonomics (Steven Levitt)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Lynn Truss)
Three Weeks With My Brother (Nicholas Sparks)
From Heaven Lake (Vikram Seth)
Notes from a Small Island (Bill Bryson)
A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
Made in America (Bill Bryson)
The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger)
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong (Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow)
A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light (Bryce Corbett)
An Italian Affair (Laura Fraser)
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca (Tahir Shah)
Heaven Is For Real (Todd Burpo)