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Author Title Publisher

Benjamin franklin Autobiography

Herman hesse Siddhartha

JM Coetzee The lives of

animals
JM coetzee The war

Charles patterson Eternal treblinka

John krakauer Into thin air

Paul kalanithi When breath

becomes air

Carl Safina What animals think

Ernest Becker Denial of death

Carl safina Eye of the albatross

Lesley hazleton The first muslim

Stefan chbosky The perks of being

a wallflower

Herman hesse The steppenwolf

Carl sagan Cosmos

Dale Carnegie How to win friends

and influence
people

Lionel shriver We need to talk

about Kevin

Silk floss tree

Norman o brown Life against death

Sigmund Freud Interpretation of

dreams

David remnick The last days of the

soviet empire

Sigmund Freud An outline of

psychoanalysis

Sunil khilnani The idea of India

Where India goes

Basharat peer Curfewed night

John reed Ten days that

shook the world

Hussain haqqani Pakistan between

military and
mosque

Hussain haqqani Reimagining

Pakistan

Hussain haqqani India and pakistan:

is peace real this
time

The butcher of
amritsar

Charles dickens The tale of two

cities

Charles dickens Oliver Twist

Mark Tully India in slow

motion
Amritsar: Mrs
gandhi’s last battle

Non-stop India

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Ramachandra guha India after Gandhi

Ramachandra guha Gandhi before

India
Ramachandra guha Savaging the
civilised

Mk gandhi My experiments
with truth

Mk gandhi Hind swaraj

wt Singh Why I am an
atheist
Bhagat Singh The jail notebook

Arundhati Roy Capitalism: A

ghost story

Arundhati Roy The god of small

things

Arundhati Roy The doctor and the

saint

BR Ambedkar The buddha and his

Dhamma

BR Ambedkar Who were the

shudras

BR Ambedkar The essential OUP

writings of BR
Ambedkar

John krakauer Into the wild

Peter Tompkins Secret life of plants

Bertrand russel The history of

western philosophy

Milan kundera The unbearable

lightness of being

Rohinton mistry A fine balance

Rohinton mistry Tales from firozsha

bag

William Dalrymple The last Mughal

William Dalrymple City of djinns

William Dalrymple The anarchy

William Dalrymple White mughals

Eric hobsbawm The age of

extremes

Eric hobsbawm The age of

revolution

Eric hobsbawm The age of empires

Eric hobsbawm The age of capital

Albert camus The fall

JD salinger Catcher in the rye

Kurt Vonnegut slaughterhouse five

Irfan habib People’s history of

india—(The age of
iron and the
religious
revolution)
Irfan habib People’s history of
india- the Vedic
age)

Irfan habib People’s history of

india- Mauryan
india

Irfan habib People’s history of

india- Prehistory

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Irfan habib People’s history of
india- Post
Mauryan India

Irfan habib People’s history of

india- national
movement

Irfan habib People’s history of

india- Indian
economy under
early British rule

Irfan habib People’s history of

india- Indian
economy

Irfan habib Economic history

of india

Irfan habib The agrarian

system of Mughal
india

Irfan habib Indus civilisation

Irfan habib People’s history of

india: National
movement

Irfan habib Technology in

medieval india

Bipan chandra India’s struggle for

freedom

Ramesh singh Indian economy

Stephen J dubber Freakonomics

Alfred Lansing Endurance

Desmond morris the human zoo

Barack Obama A promised land

Ken kesey One flew over

cuckoo’s nest

Anne frank Dairy of a young

girl
Harper lee To kill a mocking
bird

Rajmohan gandhi Punjab: a history

from Aurangzeb to
Mountbatten

Rajmohan gandhi Ghaffar khan:

Nonviolent
badshah of the
pakhtoons
Rajmohan gandhi Understanding the
muslim mind

Rajmohan gandhi Modern south

india: A history
from 17th century
to out times
Vikram Seth A suitable boy

Charles c. Mann 1491: new

revelations of the
americas before
Columbus

Francis

Dominique Freedom at
Lapierre midnight

Abul kalam azad India wins freedom

Jawaharlal Nehru Discovery of india

Yasmin khan The great partition

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VS Ramachandran Phantoms in the
brain

Jawaharlal Nehru Glimpses of world

history

Richard dawkins An appetite for

wonder

Richard dawkins The god delusion

Richard dawkins The selfish gene

Richard dawkins The blind

watchmaker

Richard dawkins The magic of

reality
Christopher God is not great
hitchens

Fyodor The idiot

doestoevsky

Fyodor The crime and

doestoevsky punishment

Leo tolstoy Anna karenina

Charles dickens The great

expectations

charles dickens Christmas carol

charles dickens David copper field

charles dickens Hard times

charles dickens Bleak house

charles dickens Pickwick papers

Steven pinker The blank state: the

modern detail of
human nature

Muragami Kafka on the shore

Kashmir: the
Vajpayee years

Shashi Tharoor An era of darkness:

the British empire
in india

Shashi Tharoor Why i am a hindu

Shashi Tharoor Inglorious empire

Shashi Tharoor The paradoxical

prime minister

Rahul pandita Out moon has

blood clots

Colton whitehead The underground

railroad

Randy Tausch The last lecture

Viktor Frankel Man’s search for

meaning

Case R. Sunstein Nudge: improving

decisions about
health, wealth and
happiness

Abhijeet banerjee Poor economics

Daron Acemoglu Why nations fail

Raghuram rajan Faultlines

VS Ramachandran The tell tale brain

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Yuval noah harari Sapiens: A brief
history of
humankind

Sanjaya baru The accidental

prime minister

Oliver sacks The man who

mistook his wife
for a hat

Ahmed ali Twilight in delhi

Vinod rai Not just an

accountant

Brian greene Fabric of cosmos

Bryson Bill A short history of

nearly everything

Ernest hemingway The Old man and

the sea

Francis Fukuyama Political order and

political decay

Einstein Relativity: the

Special and general
theory

Lawrence M. A universe from

Krauss nothing

Stephen hawking Brief answers to

the big questions

Stephen hawking A brief history of

time

Stephen hawking the theory of

everything

Daniel Kahneman Thinking fast and

slow

EF schumacher Small is beautiful

Premchand Godan (hindi)

George orwell Shooting an

elephant

George orwell 1984

George orwell Animal farm

Shrilal shukla Ragdarbari (hindi)

Kamleshwar Kitne pakistan

Jostein guarder Sophie’s world

Ernest junger Storm of steel

Margaret Mitchell Gone with the wind

Gurcharan Das Difficulty of being

good

Alexander The federalist

Hamilton, John Jay papers
and James Madison

Gurcharan Das India grows at

night
Aldous huxley Brave new world

Karl Marx and The communist

fredrich engles manifesto

John stuart mill On liberty

Plato Republic

Jerome K. Jerome Three men in a

boat
Jane Austin Pride and prejudice

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Joseph Heller catch-22

Charlotte Bronte Jane eyre

Louisa May alcott Little women

Salman Rushdie Midnight children

Herman Melville Moby dick

Mark twain the adventures of

Huckleberry finn

Aleksandr One day in the life

of Ivan denisovich
Solzhenitsyn
Louis carol Alice in
wonderland
Mary shelly Frankenstein

EM Forster A passage to india

Marcel proust In search of lost

time (Vol 1-6)

Sanjeev Sanyal The Incredible

history of India’s
geography

Sanjeev sanyal Land of seven

rivers

Khushwant singh Train to Pakistan

Khushwant singh A history of the

Sikhs

Patwant singh The Sikhs

Amarpal singh The first anglo

Sikh war

Madeline L’engle A wrinkle in time

Khushwant singh Captain Amarinder

SIngh: the People’s
maharaja

Roald Dahl James and the giant

peach

Roald dahl Matilda

Richard and mr. pooper’s

florence atwater penguins

Lois lowry The giver

Roald dahl The collected short

stories

Frances Hodgson The secret garden

burnett

Raymond briggs The snowman

William pene du The twenty one

balloons

Robert Louis Treasure island

stevenson

EB WHite Charlotte’s web

JR Tolkein The hobbit

Natalie babbit Tuck everlasting

Dr. Seuss Oh, the places you

will go

Jules verne Twenty thousand

leagues under the
sea

JK Rowling Harry Potter 1-7

CS lewis Chronicles of
Narnia

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Kate dicamillo Because of Winn
dixie

Katherine taberson Bridge to terabithia

Haroon khalid Walking with

Nanak
Satyajit ray The collected short
stories

Satyajit ray Our films, their

films
satyajit ray The complete
adventures of
feluda

Arvind Adiga The White tiger

Kiran Desai The inheritance of

loss

RK narayanan The guide

Amitabh Ghosh Sea of Poppies

Jhumpha Lahiri The namesake

Amish Tripathi The Secret of the

Nagas

RK narayanan Swami and friends

Gregory David Shantaram

Roberts

Crockett johnson Harold and the

purple crayon

L. Frank baum The wonderful

wizard of oz

Rohinton mistry Family matters

Homer Odyssey

William The hamlet

shakespeare

Vladimir nabokov Lolita

Fyodor The brothers

doestoevsky karamzov

Emily Bronte Withering heights

Homer The Iliad

Ralph ellison Invisible man

Franz kafka The trial

Johnathan Swift Gulliver’s travels

JM Barrie Peter Pan

Albert camus The stranger

Walt whitman Leaves of grass

Thomas mann Magic mountain

Robert Louis The strange case of

stevenson Dr. jekyll and Mr.
Hyde

Jane Austin Emma

Ernest hemingway For whom the bell

tolls

Franz kafka Complete stories of

Franz kafka

Jack London The call of the wild

Richard powers The overstay

Andrew Sean Greer Less

Anthony Doerr All the light we

cannot see

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Virginia woolf To the lighthouse

Cormac Mccarthy The road

John Steinbeck The grapes of

wrath
Chinua achebe Things fall apart

Jane smiley A thousand Acres

P. Sainath Everybody loves a

good draught

Viet thanh Nguyễn The sympathiser

Arthur l. Basham A wonder that was

india

Amartya Sen Argumentative

INdian

Donna Tartt The Goldfinch

Amartya Sen The idea of justice

Amartya Sen An uncertain glory

Richard Russo Empire falls

Caleb mcdaniel Sweet taste of

liberty

Rebecca makkai The great believers

The kite runner

Greg grandin The end of the

myth

James C. Scott The art of not being

governed

Saul friedlander The years of

extermination: the
nazi Germany and
the jews

Steve Coll Ghost wars Penguin

Anne Applebaum Gulag: A

HISTORY
Samantha power A Problem from
hellL America and
the age of genocide

Kota Neelima Widows of

vidarbha
jared diamonds Guns germs and
steel

Bert holldobler The ants

Neil Sheehan A bright shining lie

Richard rhodes The making of the

atomic bomb

David K. Shipler Arab and the jew:

wounded spirits in
a promised land

Studs terkel The Good war: an

oral history of
world war Two

Kama Maclean A revolutionary

history of Interwar
India

Carl sagan The dragons of

eden

Chaman lal Understanding

Bhagat singh

Erik H. Erickson Gandhi’s truth

Rene jules dubos So human an

animal

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Dale maharidge And their children
after them

Daniel yergin The prize: the epic

quest for oil,
money and power

Manto Selected short

stories

Sadat hasan Manto Bitter fruit: the

very best of Sadat
Hasan Manto

Amrita pritam The revenue stamp

Amrita pritam Rasidi ticket

Amrita pritam Pinjar

Elizabeth Colbert The sixth

extinction: An
unnatural history
Amrita pritam In times of love
and longing

Joby Warrick Black Flags: rise of

ISIS

Hisham matar The return: father

sons and the land in
between

William finnegan Barbarian days

Puran singh The book of the ten

masters

Dan fagin Toms River

Adam johnson The orphan

master’s son

Khushwant singh Punjab, Punjabis

and punjabiyat

Fredrik logevall Embers of war

Manning marable Malcolm x

Liaquat ahamed Lords of finance

Cornelius The first tycoons

Vanderbilt

David E. Hoffman The dead hand

Olaf Caroe The Pathans

Jon meacham American lion

Douglas A. Slavery by another

Blackmon name

Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s guide

to the galaxy

LATER
ADDTIONS
Aditi Gupta Menstrupedia

Kyla Plaxton The little women’s

guide to personal
power

Marcus aurelius Meditation

Swami Vivekanand Meditations and its

methods

Osho Fear

Osho Learning to silence

the mind

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Osho Krishna: the man
and his philosophy

Osho The mustard seed

Terry Pratchett Guards Guards

Terry Pratchett The color of magic

Terry Pratchett Reaper Man

Terry Pratchett Hogfather

Terry Pratchett Interesting Times

Terry Pratchett Men at arms

Terry Pratchett The fifth elephant

Terry Pratchett The thief of time

Terry Pratchett Night watch

Terry Pratchett A hat fall of sky

Terry Pratchett Making money

Terry Pratchett Going postal

Terry Pratchett Monstrous

Regiment

Terry Pratchett The last hero

Terry Pratchett Mort

Terry Pratchett The amazing

Maurice and his
educated rodents

Paulo coelho Alchemist

Paulo coelho Veronica decides to

die

Paulo coelho And on the seventh

Day

Paulo coelho Warrior of the light

Paulo coelho The Pilgrimage

Khalid husseini A thousand

splendid sons

Mark twain Adventures of

huckleberry Finn

CS lewis The lion, the witch

and the wardrobe

HG Wells The time machine

Step

Richard feynman Surely you are

joking Mr.
feynman
Walter lewis For the love of
physics

Carlo Rovelli The reality is not

what it seems

Bertrand russel Why i am not a

christian

Masa Nobu One straw

Fukuoka revolution

Masa Nobu The natural way of

Fukuoka farming

Masa Nobu Sowing seeds in

Fukuoka the desert

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Bill Mollison and Permaculture 1
David Holmgren

Albert howard An Agricultural

Testament

Yuval noah harari Homo deux

Yuval noah harari Lessons for the

21st century

Jairam Ramesh Intertwined Lives:

PN Haskar and
Indira Gandhi

Alex Von The Indian summer

Tunzelmann

RK narayanan The Malgudi days

Rudyard Kipling The jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling Kim

Ruskin bond Looking for the

rainbow

Ruskin bond Angry river

Ruskin bond A flight of pigeons

Ruskin bond The room on the

roof

Ruskin bond The blue umbrella

Ruskin bond Roads to

Mussoorie

Ruskin bond How to be a writer

Francois Bernier Travels in the

mogul empire

Jean baptiste Travels in india

Tavernier

Antol von Lieven Pakistan: a hard

country

Babur Baburnama Penguin Classics

Urvashi Butalia The other side of

silence

Raynor Winn The salt path

Raynor Winn The wild silence: A

memoir

Stephen Alter Amritsar to Lahore

Ishtiaq ahmed Punjab bloodied,

partitioned and
cleansed

APJ Abdul kalam Wings of fire

Jyoti M. Rai and Empire of the

Patwant SIngh Sikhs: the life and
times of Maharaja
Ranjit Singh

Faqir Syed The real ranjit

Waheeduddin Singh

VS naipaul A house for Mr.

Biswas

Sarbpreet singh The camel

merchant of
philadelphia

richard dawkins Outgrowing God

Ibn warraq Why i am not a

muslim

Natwar Singh The magnificent

maharaja

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Jack weather ford Genghis Khan and
the making of the
modern world

The guns of august Barbara W.

Tuchman

Peter frankopan The silk roads

Thomas asbridge The crusades

Dee brown Bury my heart at

wounded knee

William L. Shirer The rise and fall of

the third reich

Helena Norberg- Ancient futures:

Hodge Learning from
Ladakh

Heinrich Harper Seven years in tibet

Dalai Lama Freedom in exile

douglas Adams The restaurant at

the end of the
universe

Douglas Adams Life the universe

and everything

Douglas Adams So long and thanks

for all the fish

douglas Adams Mostly harmless

douglas Adams The salmon of

doubt

Tihchnhat hanh The miracle of

mindfulness

BKS iyenger Light on yoga

Frank herbert Dune

Andy weir The martian

Nicolai bachman The path of the

yoga sutras

Joe Haldeman The forever war

Robert heinlein Stranger in a

strange land

Larry Gonick and The cartoon guide

Dave wessner to biology

Larry Gonick The cartoon guide

to genetics

Larry Gonick the cartoon guide to

algebra

Larry Gonick The cartoon history

of the universe

Larry Gonick The cartoon history

of the modern
world

Larry Gonick The cartoon guide

to chemistry

Larry Gonick Cartoon guide to

the environment

Peter Wohlleben The hidden life of

trees

Jared diamonds The third

chimpanzee

Stephen brusatte The rise and fall of

dinosaurs

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Adam silvera They both die at
the end

Isabella tree Wilding: the return

of nature to a
British farm

Tehmina Durrani My feudal lord

Neil degrees Tyson Astrophysics for

people in a hurry

Helen macdonald Vesper flights

Mitch albom Tuesdays with

morrie

Thor hanson Seeds

Robert macfarlane The wild places

carl Safina Becoming wild

Jerry cone Why evolution is

tree

Gerald durrell My family and

other animals

Amy stewart The drunken

botanist

Isabel Wilkerson Caste: the origins

of our discontent

Brit bennet The vanishing half

Mark Manson The subtle art of

not giving a fuck

Steven koonin Unsettled

David J. Leiberman Never be lied to

again

Sussane foitzik Empire of ants

Tony hiss A history of the

human brain

Jeff hawkins A thousand brains

John Holt How children learn

Tim marshall Prisoners of

geography

Stephen R. Covey The seven habits of

highly effective
people

Tom Burgis The looting

machine: warlord,
oligarch and
corporation,
smugglers and theft
of Africa’s wealth

jared diamonds Collapse

Kim Macquarie The last days of the

incas

Arthur conan doyle The adventures of

Sherlock Holmes

John key China: A history

Avi loeb Extraterrestrial: the

first signs of life
beyond earth

Brian greene Until the end of

time

Brian greene The hidden reality

Brian greene The elegant

universe

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James gladstone Journey around the
sun:

Robert m. Hazen The story of earth:

the first 4.5 billion
years from stardust
to living planet

Katherine boo Beyond the

beautiful forevers

Naomi chomsky Who rules the

world
richard dawkins The greatest show
on earth

Rupi kaur Milk and honey

Adam m. Grant Think again

Agatha christie And then there

were none

Sylvia plath The bell jar

Nathaniel hawthorn The Scarlett letter

Alan Moore Watchmen

Alan moore V for vendetta

Robin Sharma The monk who

sold his Ferrari

w. Bruce Cameron A dog’s purpose

Emmanuel Mbolela Refugee: a memoir

Imbolo mbue How beautiful we

were

Daniel Quinn Ishmael

Walter Rodney How Europe

underdeveloped
Africa

Brian greene Light falls: space,

time and an
obsession of
Einstein

Brian greene Icarus at the edge

of time

Lucie cook The truth about

animals

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