- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
- A wonderful book, and, to paraphrase Buffet, I hit the genetic lottery by being born in
India instead of Afghanistan!
- Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, Translation by Walter Starkie
- A great read. Charmingly told, wonderfully described and beautifully colored. I'm most
amused at the circular reasoning the good knight uses when convenient. This could easily
apply to all religious arguments as well!
- The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
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- Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
- I was too depressed after reading this book to read anything more for a long, long time. I hope this never, ever comes to pass....
- The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
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- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- I loved this book, but keep getting the feeling I'd read most of this before. I especially liked their discourse on the difference between cause and effect, something that I (and I'm sure a lot of other people) are guilty of mixing up.
- The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
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- Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra
- The wait was worth it!
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
- A must-read for vegetarians, vegans, carnivores and the rest of us. Provides almost too much food for thought (pun not intended).
- The Joy of Digital Photographyk, Jeff Wignall
- The Photographer's Guide to Exposure, Jack Neubart
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- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isacson
- Lovely book about a great man. I wonder why it took me so many years in America to get to this, but I'm glad I did.
- Londonstani, Gautam Malkani
- A bit of a disappointment. There are, roughly, three sections, each of which has a "sixth sense" kind of ending. The first one was done very well, but the others were let downs. I didn't have a problem with the language, possibly due to having known a desi-brit a long time back, but the rest of the book didn't match up to expectations.
- The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Homer A. Jack
- A bit of a disservice to Gandhi's thoughts, I think -- these words do not seem wise since they aren't in context. And I'm not sure about the wit either ...
- Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times , Amitav Ghosh
- I've read a few of these pieces in other collections -- multiple times. But the essays in this book that are fascinating enough, especially his observations on downtrodden majorities around the world.