Sunday, 9 February 2014

Wishlists 2014

The List of books for each contributor is published below :

Anjana
 
1. Rise and fall of the Third Reich – William L. Shirer
2. And Quiet Flows the Don - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
3. Everybody loves a good drought – P.Sainath
4. Motorcycle Diaries – Che Guevara
5. Something like an Autobiography – Akira Kurosawa
6. Catcher in the rye – J.D.Salinger
7. White Mughals – William Dalrymple
8. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
9. Caesar’s women/ The grass crown – Colleen McCullough
10. Three men in a boat – Jerome K. Jerome
11.  A Terry Pratchet/Neil Gaiman/ Arthur C. Clarke novel/Graphic novel

Nameeta 

1. Inferno by Dan Brown
2. Steve Jobs: The exclusive biography
3. The Rozabel Line by Ashwin Sanghi
4. The devotion of suspect X by Keigo Higashino
5. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
6. The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie



Bhavna

1. Far from the madding crowd- Thomas Hardy
2. Emperor of maladies - Siddarth Mukherjee
3. Phantoms in the brain - V. Ramachandran
4. Roots-Alex Haley
5. One of P.G Wodehouse's novels (Something Fresh)
6. Animal Farm- George Orwell
7. White Mughals - William Dalrymple
8. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
9. Tuesdays with Morrie- Mitch Albom
10. Mahabharatha - Kamala Subramaniam
11. Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru

Nandhini

1. Kite Runner - Khaled hosseini
2. Mahabharatha - R.K.Narayan
3. Something fresh - P.G. Wodehouse
4. Girl with the dragon tattoo - Stieg Larsson
5. The Financial expert - R. K.Narayan
6. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen



Divya

1. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
2. My life in France by Julia Child
3. Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
5. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
6. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
7. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
8. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
9. My last supper by Melanie Dunea

Nithya

1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Maus I and II (Graphic Novel) by Art Spiegelman
4. Welcome to Lovecraft (Locke & Key Vol I) by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
5. The Pregnant King by Devdutt Patnaik
6. Dune by Frank Herbert
7. Ender's game by Orson Scott Card
8. The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
9. Mort by Terry Pratchett

Elizabeth

1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
2. Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith
3. In Xanadu - Willian Dalrymple
4. Three men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome

5. Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
6. A Tale for the Time being - Ruth Ozeki
7. Magician - Raymond E Feist
8. The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
9. R A Lafferty - Short Stories vol 1
10. Epileptic - David B (Graphic Novel)

3 comments:

  1. Approximately 60 books totally in our wishlists! 'twas quite a challenge to select 10 from them...

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    1. Yes.. it truly was a challenge to make the final list completely representative of the wide variety which was shared for this blog.
      And coming up with a system to cater to every possible scenario was a toughie indeed.

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    2. :P I remember closing the eyes and chanting magic words and then pick up a lot hoping to make a good match... :D

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