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A Bend in the River - V. S. Naipaul


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Language: English
Publication date: May, 1979
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf

A House for Mr.Biswas- V.S.Naipaul


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1961
Genre(s): Contemporary fiction
Publisher:Andr Deutsch

A Journey- Tony Blair


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Language: English
Publication Date:1 September 2010
Genre(s):Memoir
Publisher: Random House

A Pair of Blue Eyes- Thomash Hardy


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Language:English
Publication Date:1873
Genre(s):Novel
Publisher: Tinsley Brothers

A Suitable Boy - Bikram Seth


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Language: English
Publication Date: May, 1993
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: HarperCollins (USA), Phoenix House (UK)

A Tale of Two Cities - CharlsDikens


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1859
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Chapman & Hall

Adventures of Sherlock Homes - Arther Canon Doel


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1892
Genre(s):Detective fiction short stories
Publisher: George Newnes

An Unknown Indian - Nirod C. Choudhary


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1951
Genre(s): autobiographical, non fiction
Publisher: McMillan, Jaico

Anand Math - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye


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Language:Bengali
Publication Date: 1882
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy


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Language: Russian
Publication Date: 1877
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: The Russian Messenger

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1850
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: Bradbury & Evans

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1726
Genre(s): Satire, fantasy
Publisher: Benjamin Motte

Time Machine- H.G. Wells


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1895
Genre(s): Science fiction novel
Publisher: William Heinemann

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Aranyak- BibhutiBhushanBandopadhyay
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Language:Bengali
Publication Date: May,1976
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Mitra&Ghosh Publishers Pvt. Ltd (Presently)

Coolie- MulkrajAnand
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Language: English
Publication Date: 1936
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Untouchable

Das Capital- Karl Marks


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Language: German
Publication Date: 1867, 1885, 1894
Genre(s): Economics, Political theory
Publisher: Verlag von Otto Meisner

Decamaren Bocachio
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Language: Italian
Publication Date: 1886
Genre(s): Medieval allegory
Publisher: Filippo and Bernardo Giunti

Devdas- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay


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Language: Bengali
Publication Date: 30 June 1917

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Genre(s): Novella
Publisher:GCS

Devi Chaudharani - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye


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Language: Bengali
Publication Date: 1884
Genre(s): Novel

Historica Herodotus
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Language: Ancient Greek
Publication Date: c. 440 BC
Genre(s): History
Publisher: Various

I Van Ho - Walter Scot


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1820
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publisher: A. Constable

Indian war and Independence - D. V. Savarkar


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Language: Marathi, English


Publication Date: 1909, 1949
Genre(s): History (Nationalist)
Publisher: SethaniKampani, Bombay

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Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace


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Language: English
Publication Date: February 1, 1996
Genre(s): Hysterical realism, Satire, Tragicomedy,
Postmodern, Science Fiction
Publisher: Little, Brown

Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai


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Language: English
Publication Date: 31 August 2006
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (US),
Hamish Hamilton (US)

Jungle Book- R. Kippling


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Publication Date: 1894


Language: English
Genre(s): Children's book
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers

Kidnapped Stevenson
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Language: English
Publication Date: 1886
Genre(s): Adventure novel, Historical novel
Publisher: Cassell and Company Ltd

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Midnight Children- Salman Rushdi


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Language: English
Publication Date:April 1981
Genre(s): Novel; Magic Realism; Historical Fiction
Publisher: Jonathan Cape

My Country My Life- Lal Krishna Advani


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Language: English
Publication Date: March 19, 2008
Genre(s): Autobiography
Publisher: Rupa& Co.

One Night @ the Call Centre- ChetanBhagat


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Language: English
Publication Date: October 2005
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: Rupa& Co.

Paradise Lost- John Milton


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1667
Genre(s): Epic poetry, Christian Mythology
Publisher: Samuel Simmons

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Prison Diary- Jay Prakash Narayan


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Language: English
Publication Date: 2002
Genre(s): Autobiographical, prison
Publisher: Macmillan

River of Smoke- AmitavGhosh


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Language: English
Publication Date: 18 June 2011
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Penguin Group

Shadow Line - Amitabh Ghosh


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1988
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: Ravi Dayal Publishers

Shape of Things To Come- H. G. Wells


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Language: English
Publication Date: September 1933
Genre(s): Future history
Publisher: Hutchinson (UK), Macmillan (USA)

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Talisman- Walter Scott


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Language: English
Publication Date: 22 June 1825
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publisher: Archibald Constable

The City of Joy- DhominicLapier


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Language: French
Publication Date: 1985
Pages: 544
Publisher: Arrow

The Discovery of India- JawaharLal Nehru


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1946
Pages: 584
Publisher: Oxford University Press

The God of Small Things- Arundhuti Roy


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1997
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: IndiaInk, India

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The Harry Potter Series-J. K. Rowling


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Language: English
Publication Date: 29 June 1997 21 July 2007
Genre(s): Fantasy, young-adult fiction, mystery,
thriller, Bildungsroman, coming of age, magical
realism
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),Arthur A.
Levine Books (US)

The Indian War of Independence- V. D. Savarkar


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Language: Marathi, English


Publication Date: 1909, 1949
Genre(s): History (Nationalist)
Publisher: SethaniKampani, Bombay (reprint, India)

The Inheritance of Loss- Kiran Desai


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Language: English
Publication Date: 31 August 2006
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (US),
Hamish Hamilton (US)

The Prince- Maciavaly


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Language: Italian and French


Publication Date: 1532
Genre(s): Non-fiction
Publisher: Antonio Bladod'Asola.

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The Satanic Verse- Salman Rushdi


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1988
Genre(s): Magic Realism, Novel
Publisher: Viking Press

The Sense of an Ending- Julian Barnes


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Language: English
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 150
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (UK), Knopf (US)

The Village By the Sea- Anita Desai


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1982
Genre(s): Realistic young-adult novel
Publisher: Heinemann

The White Tiger- AravindAdiga


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Language: English
Publication Date: April 22, 2008
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2008

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Two Leaves and a Bud- MulkrajAnand


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1937
Genre(s): Novel
Followed by:The Village

Two Lives - Vikram Seth


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Language: English
Publication Date: September 2008
Genre(s): Biography
Publisher: Little, Brown

Volga Se Ganga- Rahul Sankritayan


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Language: Hindi
Publication Date: 1944
Genre(s): Short Stories
Publisher: KitabMahal

War and Peace- Tolstoy


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Language: Russian, with some French


Publication Date: 1869
Genre(s): Historical, Romance, War novel, philosophical
Publisher: RusskiiVestnik

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Wings of Fire- DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam


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Pages: 180
Publication Date: 1999
Genre(s): Autobiography
Publisher: Universities Press

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1874
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Cornhill Magazine

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn


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Language: Russian
Publication Date: 1963
Genre(s): Literary fiction
Publisher: Signet Classic

The Moon and Six pense- Somerset Maughan


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Language:English
Publication Date: 1919
Genre(s): Biographical novel
Publisher: William Heinemann

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Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come- John Bunyan
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Language:English
Publication Date: 1678
Genre(s): Religious allegory
Pages: 191

Origin of species - charles Darwin


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Language: English
Genre(s): science, biology
Publication Date:24 November 1859
Publisher: John Murray

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon


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Language: English
Subject(s): history of the Roman Empire
Publication Date: 177689
Publisher: Strahan&Cadell, London

Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen


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Language:English
Publication Date:28 January 1813
Genre(s): Novel of manners
Publisher: T. Egerton, Whitehall

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Mein Kampf- Adolf Hitler


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Language: German
Genre(s): Autobiography, Political theory
Publication Date: July 18, 1925
Publisher: EherVerlag

Adventures of Tom Saweyer- Mark Twain


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Language: English
Genre(s): Bildungsroman, Picaresque, Satire, Folk,
Children's Novel
Publication Date: 1876
Publisher: American Publishing Company

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol


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Language:English
Publication Date: 26 November 1865
Genre(s): Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan

Animal Farm - George Orwell


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Language:English
Publication Date: 17 August 1945
Genre(s): Classics, satire, educational animation
Publisher: Secker and Warburg (London)

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Around the World in eighty days - Jules Verne


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Language:French
Publication Date: January 30, 1873
Genre(s): Adventure novel
Publisher: Pierre-Jules Hetzel

Ben Hur - Lewis Wallace


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Language: English
Publication Date: November 12, 1880
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas


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Language: French
Publication Date: 1844-1845
Genre(s): Historical novel
Original title: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky


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Language: Russian
Publication Date: 1866
Genre(s): Suspense, crime fiction
Publisher: The Russian Messenger (Series)

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Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde- Stevenson


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Language: English
Publication Date: 5 January 1886
Publisher:Longmans, Green & co.

Don Quixote - Cervantes


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Language: Old Spanish


Publication Date: 1605 (Part One), 1615 (Part Two)
Genre(s): Picaresco, satire, parody, farce
Publisher:Juan de la Cuesta

For whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway


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Language: English
Publication Date: 21 October 1940
Genre(s): War novel
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons

Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy


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Publication Date: 1906-1921
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher:Dover

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo


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Language: French
Publication Date: 14 January 1831
Genre(s): Romanticism

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Publisher:Gosselin

Invisible Man - H.G.Wells


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1897
Genre(s): Science fiction novel
Publisher:C. Arthur Pearson

Les Miserable - Victor Hugo


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Language: French
Publication Date: 1862
Genre(s): Epic Novel, Historical Fiction
Publisher:A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven& Cie.

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1837
Genre(s): Historical-Fiction, Social criticism
Publisher: Serial:Bentley's Miscellany
Book: Richard Bentley

Pickwick Papers- Charles Dickens


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1837
Genre(s): Fiction, Social criticism
Publisher:Chapman & Hall

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Plague - Albert Camus


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Language: French
Publication Date: 1937
Genre(s): Philosophical novel, Absurdist fiction
Publisher:LibrairieGallimard

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe


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Language: English
Publication Date: 25 April 1719
Genre(s): Historical Fiction
Publisher:W. Taylor

Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas


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Language: French
Publication Date: MarchJuly 1844
Genre(s): Historical novel
Followed by: Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de
Bragelonne

Treasure Island - R.L.Stevenson


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1883
Genre(s): Adventure, Young Adult Literature
Publisher: London: Cassell and Company
(Now part of Orion Publishing Group)

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Ulysses - James Joyce


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Language: English
Publication Date:2 February 1922
Genre(s): Modernist Novel
Publisher: Sylvia Beach

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Mrs. Harriet Stowe


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1883
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Publisher: National Era (as a serial) &
John P. Jewett and Company (in two volumes)

Nineteen Eighty-four- George Orwell


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Language: English
Publication Date: 8 June 1949
Genre(s): Dystopian, political fiction, social science fiction
Publisher: Secker and Warburg (London)

Bachelor of Arts - R.K.Narayan


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Publication Date: 1937


Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Nelson
Followed by: The English Teacher

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Age of Reason - Jean Paul Sartre


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Language: French
Publication Date: 1945
Genre(s): Novel
Publisher: Gallimard, Knopf, Vintage

The Castle- Franz Kalka


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Language: German
Publication Date: 1926
Genre(s): Philosophical, Dystopian novel
Publisher: Munich

The Clown - Heinrich Boll


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Language: German
Publication Date: June 1st 1994 by Penguin Classics
Pages: 272
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx


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Language:Originally German, subsequently into many others
Publication Date: 21 February 1848
Genre(s): History, sociology, philosophy

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Confessions - Jean Jacques Rousseau


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Language: French
Publication Date: 1782-1789
Genre(s): Autobiography

French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle


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Language: English
Publisher: Chapman & Hall, London
Publication Date: 1837

Glimpses of World History - Jawaharlal Nehru


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Genre(s): History
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 1192

The Godfather - Mario Puzo


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Language: English
Genre(s): Crime novel
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Publication Date:10 March,1969

Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novella
Publication Date:1952
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

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The Other Side of Midnight - Sindye Sheldon


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Language: English
Genre(s): Thriller
Publication Date: 1973
Publisher: William Morrow

Sons and Lovers - D.H.Lawrence


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Language: English
Genre(s): Autobiographical novel
Publication Date: 1913
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd

Valley of Dolls - Jacqueline Susann


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Language: English
Genre(s): Romantic novel
Publication Date: 1966
Publisher: Bernard Geis Associates

Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith


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Genre(s): Economics
Publication Date: 1776
Publisher: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain


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Language: English
Genre(s): Satirical novel
Publication Date: 1884 UK & Canada

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Publisher: Chatto & Windus / Charles L. Webster And Company

Advice and Consent- Allen Drury


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Language: English
Genre(s): Political novel
Publication Date: July 11,1959
Publisher: Doubleday

Agony and the Ecstasy- Irving Stone


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Language: English
Genre(s): Biographical, Historical novel
Publication Date: 1961
Publisher: Doubleday

Airport- Arthur Hailey


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Genre(s): Disaster
Publication Date: 1968
Pages: 440
Publisher: Doubleday

All the King's Men- Robert Penn Warren


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Language: English
Genre(s): Political fiction
Publication Date: 1946
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company

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An American Tragedy- Theodore Dreiser


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Language: English
Genre(s): Crime
Publication Date: 1925
Publisher: Boni & Liveright

An Autobiography- Jawaharlal Nehru


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Genre(s): Autobiography
Publication Date: 1936
Pages: 672
Publisher: The Bodley Head

And Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll


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Language: English
Genre(s): Children's fiction
Publication Date: 1871
Publisher: Macmillan

Antic Hay- Aldous Huxley


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1923
Publisher: Chatto & Windus

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Ape and Essence- Aldous Huxley


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Language: English
Genre(s): Science fiction, satire
Publication Date: 1948 August
Publisher: Harper & Brothers

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian- Nirad C. Chaudhuri


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Language: English
Genre(s): autobiographical, non fiction
Publication Date: 1951
Publisher: McMillan,Jaico

Absalom, Absalom- William Faulkner


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Language: English
Genre(s): Southern Gothic
Publication Date: 1936
Publisher: Random House

Adam Bede- George Eliot


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Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1859
Publisher: John Blackwood

Alexander Quartet- Lawrence Durrel


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1962
Publisher: Faber & Faber (UK) & Dutton (US)

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque


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Language: German
Genre(s): War novel
Publication Date: 29 January 1929
Publisher: Propylen Verlag

All the President's Men- Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1974
Pages: 349
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Ancient Evenings- Norman Mailer


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Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1983
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

And Quiet Flows the Don - Mikhali Sholokhov


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Language: Russian
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1928 and 1940 (in serial) & 1934
(this volume in book form)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (Eng. trans. USA)

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Answer to History- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi


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Language: French
Genre(s): Autobiography
Publication Date: 1980
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub

Arrow in the Blue- Arthur Koestler


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Genre(s): Autobiography
Publication Date: 1952
Pages: 307
Publisher: HarperCollins and Hamish Hamilton

Arrowsmith- Sinclair Lewis


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1931
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company

Aspects of the Novel- E.M. Forster


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1927
Pages: 224
Publisher: Edward Arnold

August 1914 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn


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Language: Russian
Genre(s): Historical novel

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Publication Date: 1971, 1984


Publisher: YMCA Press

Babbit- Sinclair Lewis


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Language: English
Genre(s): Satire
Publication Date: 1922
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co.

Beloved- Toni Morrison


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Genre(s): Postmodern literature


Publication Date: September 1987
Pages: 324
Publisher: Alfred Knopf

Between Hope and History- Bill Clinton


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Language: English
Publication Date: September 1, 1996
Pages: 178
Publisher: Random House

Black Tulip- Alexander Dumas


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Language: Translated from French


Genre(s): Historical, Romantic
Publication Date: French 1850
Publisher: Baudry, Paris 1850

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Bloodline- Sidney Sheldon


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Language: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Novel
Publication Date: French 1977
Publisher: William Morrow

Bone People- Keri Hulme


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Language: English
Genre(s): Mystery novel
Publication Date: February 1984
Publisher: Spiral Press

Bridges of Madison Country- R.J. Waller


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 192
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.

Bill the Conqueror- P.G. Wodehouse


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 14 November 1924
Publisher: Methuen

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Black Sheep- Honore de Balzac


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Language: French
Genre(s): Fiction
Publication Date: 1842
Publisher: Furne

Bleak House- Charles Dickens


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel, Social criticism
Publication Date: 1853
Publisher: Bradbury & Evans

Brif History of Time- Stephen Hawking


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Popular science
Publication Date: 1988
Publisher: Bantam Dell Publishing Group

Brothers Karamazhov- Fyodor Dostoevski


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Language: Russian
Genre(s): suspense, philosophical
Publication Date: November 1880
Publisher: The Russian Messenger

Cancer Ward- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


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Language: Russian
Genre(s): Semi Autobiographical novel
Publication Date: 1967, 1968 in the U.S.

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Famous Books & Authors

Publisher: Dial Press (US) & Bodley Head (UK)

Catch - 22- Joseph Heller


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Language: English
Genre(s): Black humor, absurdist fiction, satire, war
fiction, historical fiction
Publication Date: 11 November 1961
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Centennial- James Michener


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Language: English
Genre(s): Fiction
Publication Date: 1974
Publisher: Random House

Children of Gabelawi- Naquib Mahfouz


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Language: Arabic
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1959 (translation 13 April 1981)
Pages: 355

Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: July 16, 1951
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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Chemmeen- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai


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Language: Malayalam
Genre(s): Romance, Drama
Publication Date: 1956
Publisher: National Book Stall, D. C. Books

Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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Publication Date: 1981
Publisher: La Oveja Negra

Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess


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Language: English
Genre(s): Science-fiction, Novella, Satire,
Dystopian fiction
Publication Date: 1962
Publisher: William Heinemann (UK)

Creation- Gore Vidal


Facts about book

Language: Malayalam
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1 January 1981
Publisher: Random House

Cry, My Beloved Country- Alan Patan


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: December 1948

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Publisher: Scribners (USA) & Jonathan Cape (UK)

Christmas Tales- Charles Dickens


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novella
Publication Date: 19 December 1843
Publisher: Chapman & Hall

Colonel Sun- Kingsley Amis


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Language: English
Genre(s): Spy fiction
Publication Date: 28 March 1968
Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Common Sense- Thomas Paine


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Language: English
Publication Date: January 10, 1776
Pages: 48

Cranford- Mrs. Gaskell


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Language: English
Genre(s): Victorian literature
Publication Date: 1851 (serial), 1853 (complete)
Publisher: Household Words

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Cricket on the Hearth- Charles Dickens


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novella
Publication Date: 19 December 1843
Publisher: Chapman & Hall

Crossing the Threshold of Hope- Pope John Paul II


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Language: Originally Italian


Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 229
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Damsel in Distress- P.G. Wodehouse


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1919
Publisher: George H. Doran (US) Herbert Jenkins (UK)

Dangerous Summer- Emest Hemingway


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Language: English
Genre(s): Nonfiction
Publication Date: June 1985
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Daniel Deronda- Geroge Eliot


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1876

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Dean's December- Saul Bellow


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1982

Death in Venice- Thomas Mann


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Language: German
Genre(s): Novella
Publication Date: 1912
Publisher: S. Fischer Verlag

Debacle- Emile Zola


Facts about book

Language: French
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1892
Publisher: Charpentier (book form)

Durgesh Nandini- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee


Facts about book
Language: Bengali
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1865

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Dangling Man- Saul Bellow


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1944
Publisher: Vanguard Press

Darkness at Noon- Arthur Koestler


Facts about book

Language: German
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1940
Publisher: Macmillan

Day of the Jackal- Frederick Forsyth


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Spy, Thriller, Historical novel
Publication Date: 7 June 1971
Publisher: Hutchinson

Death on the Nile- Agatha Christie


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Crime novel
Publication Date: November 1,1937
Publisher: Collins Crime Club

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Desperate Remedies- Thomas Hardy


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1871
Publisher: Tinsley Brothers

Dialogue with Death- Arthur Koestler


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Language: English
Genre(s): Autobiography
Publication Date: 1942 (US)
Publisher: Macmillan

Diplomacy- Henry Kissinger


Facts about book

Language: English
Publication Date: 1994
Pages: 912
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Double Tongue- William Golding


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Language: English
Genre(s): Psychological/Historical novel
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Faber & Faber

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Dram of Fair to Middling Women- Samuel Beckett


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Language: English
Publication Date: 1993 (written in 1932)
Pages: 241
Publisher: Black Cat

Emma- Jane Austen


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: December 1815
Publisher: John Murray

English August- Upamanyu Chatterjee


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Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: January, 1988
Publisher: Penguin Books

Erewhon- Samuel Butler


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Language: English
Genre(s): Satire
Publication Date: 1872

Eugenie Grandet- Honore de Balzac


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Language: French
Publication Date: January, 1883

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Executioner's Song- Norman Mailer


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1979
Publisher: Little, Brown

Eyeless in Gaza- Aldous Huxley


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1936
Publisher: Chatto & Windus

Famished Road- Ben Okri


Facts about book

Language: English
Publication Date: 14 March 1991
Pages: 519
Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Far Pavilions- M.M. Kaye


Facts about book

Language: English
Publication Date: September 1978
Pages: 1000
Publisher: Viking Press

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Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: September 1929
Publisher: Scribner

Fire Next Time- James Baldwin


Facts about book

Language: Emglish
Genre(s): Essays
Publication Date: 1963
Publisher: Dial Press

Fifth Column- Ernest Hemingway


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Short story collection
Publication Date: 1938
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

First Circle- Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Facts about book

Language: Russian
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial (Eng. edition)

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From Hero to Eternity- James Jones


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): War nobel
Publication Date: 1951
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Frozen Assets- P.G. Wodehouse


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Romantic comedy
Publication Date: July 14, 1964
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Final Passage- Caryl Phillips


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: London, 1985
Publisher: Faber and Faber

Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart

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Flounder- Gunder Grass


Facts about book

Language: German
Publication Date: August 1977
Pages: 693
Publisher: Luchterhand

Full Moon- P.G. Wodehouse


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Comedy novel
Publication Date: May 22, 1947
Publisher: Doubleday

Ghosts in the Machine- Arthur Koestler


Facts about book

Genre(s): Philosophy, psychiatry


Publication Date: 1967
Pages: 381
Publisher: Hutchinson (UK) Macmillan (US)

Girl in Blue- P.G. Wodehouse


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Romance
Publication Date: October 29, 1970
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins

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Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel, Romance
Publication Date: June 30, 1936
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers

Goodbye, Mr Chips- James Hilton


Facts about book
Genre(s): Psychological fiction
Publication Date: June 1934 (USA) October 1934 (UK)
Publisher: Little, Brown (USA) Hodder & Stoughton (UK)

Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1939
Publisher: The Viking Press-James Lloyd

Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: April 10, 1925
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

44

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Guide for the Perplexed- E.F. Schumacher


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Genre(s): Non-fiction
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 160
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Gulag Archipelago- Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Facts about book
Language: French, originally Russian
Publication Date: 1973
Publisher: ditions du Seuil

Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Satire, fantasy
Publication Date: 1726
Publisher: Benjamin Motte

Gambler- Fyodor Dostoevsky


Facts about book

Language: Russian
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1867
Publisher: ditions du Seuil

Go Down Moses- William Faulkner


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1942
Publisher: Random House (US)

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Gold Bat- P.G. Wodehouse


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 13 September1904
Publisher: Adam & Charles Black

Good Earth- Pearl S.Buck


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical fiction
Publication Date: March 2, 1931
Publisher: John Day

Handful of Dust- Evelyn Waugh


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1934
Publisher: Chapman and Hall (UK)

Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Frame story, Novella
Publication Date: February 1899
Publisher: Blackwood's Magazine

46

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Heat and Dust- Ruth Prawer Jhabwala


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 30 October 1975
Publisher: John Murray UK, Harper and Row US

Happy Death- Albert Camus


Facts about book

Language: French
Genre(s): Existentialist, Absurdist
Publication Date: 1971
Publisher: French: Gallimard English: Knopf

Heavem Has No Favourites- Eric Maria Remarque


Facts about book

Language: German
Publication Date: 1961
Pages: 302
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World

Imperial Woman- Pearl S. Buck


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1956
Publisher: John Day

In Evil Hour- Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Facts about book

Language: Spanish
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1962
Publisher: Premio Literario Esso (Spain)

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In the Bluest Eye- Toni Morrison


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1970
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Idiot- Fyodor Dostoevsky


Facts about book
Language: Russian language
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1869

Inside the Third Reich- Albert Spencer


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Autobiography History
Publication Date: 1970, 1995 & 2003
Publisher: Orion Books

Jaguar Smile- Salman Rushdie


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Travel writing
Publication Date: 30 Jan 1987
Publisher: Picador

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Gothic fiction, social criticism, bildungsroman
Publication Date: 16 October 1847

48

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Publisher: Smith, Elder, and Company

Jazz- Toni Morrison


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1992
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Joke- Milan Kundra


Facts about book

Language: Czech
Genre(s): satirical novel
Publication Date: 1992
Publisher: eskoslovensk spisovatel
(Czech) Coward- McCann (US)

Kapal Kundala- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee


Facts about book
Language: Bengali
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1866

Killer Angels- Michael Shaara


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1974
Publisher: McKey

49

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Kenilworth- Sir Walter Scott


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 8 January 1821
Publisher: Constable and Co.

Kim- Rudyard Kipling


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Spy & Picaresque novel
Publication Date: October 1901
Publisher: McClure's Magazine (in serial)
& Macmillan & Co (single volume)

Kipps- H.G.Wells
Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1905
Publisher: Macmillan

Lady Chatterly's Lover- D.H.Lawrence


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Romance
Publication Date: 1928
Publisher: Tipografia Giuntina

Last Burden- Upamanyu, Chatterjee


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel

50

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Publication Date: 17 November 1994


Publisher: Penguin Books

Last Orders- Graham Swift


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 26 January 1996
Publisher: Picador

Latter from Peking- Peral S. Buck


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1957
Publisher: John Day Company

Like Water for Chocolate- Laura Esquivel


Facts about book

Language: Spanish
Genre(s): Romance
Pages: 256
Publisher: Doubleday, 1992 (Mexico)
Perfection Learning,1995 (U.S).

Mansfield Park- Jane Austen


Facts about book
Language: English
Publication Date: July 1814
Publisher: Thomas Egerton

51

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Moor's Last Sigh- Salman Rushdie


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Random House

Mrs. De Winter- Susah Hill


Facts about book

Language: English
Publication Date: 04 Oct 1993
Pages: 384
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson

Murder on the Orient Express- Agatha Christie


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Crime novel
Publication Date: January 4, 1934
Publisher: Collins Crime Club

Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: December 1817
Publisher: John Murray

52

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Nicholas Nickelby- Charles Dickens


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1839
Publisher: Chapman & Hall

Nursery Alice- Lewis Carroll


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Fantasy novel
Publication Date: 1890
Publisher: Macmillan

Odessa File- Frederick Forsyth


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Triller novel
Publication Date: 1972

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Facts about book

Language: Spanish
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1967
Publisher: Harper & Row (US) Jonathan Cape (UK),

Of Human Bondage- W. Somerset Maugham


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel

53

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Publication Date: 1915


Publisher: George H. Doran Company

Old Curiosity Shop- Charles Dickens


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Fiction Social criticism
Publication Date: 1840
Publisher: Chapman & Hall London

Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha- Reddy Doyle


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1993
Publisher: Secker and Warburg

Power and Glory- Graham Greene


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1940
Pages: 216

Prince- Machiavelli
Facts about book

Language: Italian and French


Genre(s): Non-fiction
Publication Date: 1532
Publisher: Antonio Blado d'Asola

54

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Pygmation- G.B. Shaw


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): romantic comedy, social criticism
Publication Date: 1912

Painter of Signs- R.K. Narayan


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1976
Publisher: Viking Press (US) Heinemann (UK)

Quarantene- Jim Crass


Facts about book

Ragtime- E.L. Doctorow


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1975
Publisher: Random House

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1997
Publisher: Penguin Putnam

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Razor's Edge- Somerset Maugham


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1944
Publisher: Doubleday

Rabbit, Run- John Updike


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: November 12, 1960
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Rage of Angels- Sydney Sheldon


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Thriller novel
Publication Date: 1980
Publisher: William Morrow

Santa Evita- Tomas Eloymartinez


Facts about book

Language: Spanish
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 398
Publisher: Seix Barral

Sands of Time- Sidney Sheldon


Facts about book
Language: English

56

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Genre(s): adventure romance


Publication Date: 1988
Publisher: William Morrow

Scarlet Pimpernel- Baroness Orczy


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Adventure, Historical novel
Publication Date: 1905
Publisher: Hutchinson

Tarzan of the Apes- Edgar Rice Burroughs


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Adventure, novel
Publication Date: 1914
Publisher: A. C. McClurg

The Calcutta Chromosome- Amitav Ghosh


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Thriller, Speculative fiction novel
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Picador

The Commitments- Roddy Doyle


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Fiction, Comedy
Publication Date: 1987
Publisher: King Farouk (Dublin)

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Tess of D'Urbervilles- Thomas Hardy


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Tragedy
Publication Date: 1891
Pages: 592

Tar Baby- Toni Morrison


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: March 12, 1981
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

The Age of Extremes- Eric Holsbawm


Facts about book

Language: English
Subject(s): History
Publication Date: 1994
Publisher: Michael Joseph (UK) Vintage Books (U.S.).

Ugly Duckling- H.C. Anderson


Facts about book

Language: Danish
Genre(s): Literary fairy tale
Publication Date: 1844
Publisher: C.A. Reitzel

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Uncle Tom's Cabin- Mrs. Hariet Stowe


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: March 20, 1852
Publisher: National Era (as a serial) & John P. Jewett
and Company (in two volumes)

Unconsoled- Kazuo Ishiguro


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1995
Publisher: Faber and Faber

Victim- Saul Bellow


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1947
Publisher: Vanguard Press

Victory- Joseph Conrad


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): psychological novel
Publication Date: 1915
Publisher: Methuen (UK) Doubleday Page & Co (US)

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Virginians- William Thackeray


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Historical novel
Publication Date: 1857-59
Publisher: Bradbury and Evans

Village- Mulk Raj Anand


Facts about book
Language: English
Genre(s): Novel
Publication Date: 1939

War of the Worlds- H.G. Wells


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Science fiction novel
Publication Date: 1898
Publisher: William Heinemann

Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte


Facts about book

Language: English
Genre(s): Gothic novel
Publication Date: December 1847
Publisher: Thomas Cautley Newby

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World According to Garp- John Irving


Facts about book

Language: English
Pages: 609
Publication Date: December 1978
Publisher: E. P. Dutton

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A Gift of Monotheists - Ram Mohan Roy
A Nation is Making - Surendra Nath Bandhopadhye
A Minister and his Responsibilities - Morarji Bhai Desai
A Revenue Stamp (autobiography) - Amrita Pritam
A Strange and Sublime Address - Amit Choudhary
Aparajito - Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
A week with Gandhi -L. Fischer
All the Prime Minister's Men - Janardan Thakur
Allahabad Prasasti - Harisen
Amitabh- the Making of the Superstar - Susmita Das Gupta
Amukta Malyad - Krishna Deva Raya
Aparajito - Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay
Apple Cart- G. B. Shaw
Arogyaniketan -Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Astyadhaye -Panini
Bakul Katha - Ashapurna Devi
Ban Palashir Padabali - Ramapada Chowdhury
Bandit Queen - Mala Sen
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Bela Obela Kalbela - Jibanananda Das
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Blind Beauty - Boris Pasternak
Buddhacharit - Asha Ghosh
Captive Lady - Michel Madhusudan Dutta
Causes of the Indian Mutiny - Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan
Charitraheen - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Chidambara - S. N. Panth
Circle of the Region - Amitabha Ghosh
City of Job Charnak - Nisith Ranjan Roy
Commedy Errors - Shekhspear
Conversations with Myself - Nelson Mandela
Crisis of India - Ronal Segal
Death of President - W. Marchent
Desert Village - Oliver Goldsmith
Development as Freedom - Amartya Sen
Devine Comedi - Dante
Divine Life - Sivanand
Economic History of India - Ramesh Chandra Dutta
End and Means - Huxlay
Faust - Goethe
Ferary Queen - Edmond Spensar
Freedom at Midnight - Lapierre & Collins
Friend Not Master - Ayub Khan
Ganadebata - Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Gathering Strom - Churchil
Ghulam Giri - Jyotiba Phule
Global Crisis Recession and Uneven Recovery - Y.B. Reddy
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Gurdbaho - Bakpatiraj
Hero of Nymph - Aurobindo Ghosh
Hind Swaraj - M. K. Gandhi
Hindu View of Life - S. Radhakrishnan
I follow the Mahatma - K. M. Munshi
Ignited Minds - Unleashing the power within India - DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
In an Antique Land - Amitabh Ghosh
India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium - DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
India for A Billion Reasons - Amit Dasgupta
India Wins Freedom - Abdul Kalam Azad
Indian Epigraphy - D. C. Sircar
Indian Village - S.C. Dube
Indica - Megasthenis
Jalsaghar - Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
Jhara Palak - Jibanananda Das
Jinnah- India, Partition, Independence - Jaswant Singh
Kanterbary Tells - Geofray Chosar
Kubla Khan - Coleridge
Lalit Bihar - Ashwa Ghosh
Life Devine - Aurobindo Ghosh
Mahabhashya - Patanjali
Man and Superman - G. B. Shaw
Mitakshara - Vijnaneswara
Modernization of Indian Tradition -Yogendra Singh
Mother - Maxim Gorkay
Mother India - Katharin Mayo
Murder in Cathedral - Elliot

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My Experiments With Truth - M.K. Gandhi


My Indian Years - Lord Hardinge II
My Journey - DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Neel Darpan - Dinbandhu Mitra
Netaji Dead or Alive - Samar Guha
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy - A. B. Vajpayee
New India - Annie Besant
Padma Nadir Majhi - Manik Bandopadhyay
Pakhtoon - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Palli Samaj - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Parineeta - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Pather Panchali - Bibhuti BHushan Bandopadhaye
Poverty & Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji
Pratham Pratisruti - Ashapurna Devi
Precepts of Jesus - Ram Mohan Roy
Principles of Sociology - Herbert Spencer
Problems of the East - Lord Curzon
Putul Nacher Itikatha - Manik Bandopadhyay
Races and Cultures of India - D.N. Majumdar
Rajtarangini - Kalhan
Rashmirathi - Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Saket Mathili - Saran Gupta
Satyarth Prakash - Swami Dayanand
Shadow of Ladakh - B. Bhattacharia
Sitaram - Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye
Social Structure of Values - Radha Kamal Mukherjee
Straight from the Heart - Kapil Dev
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice - Arundhati Roy
The Bandit Queen - Mala Sen
The Indian Struggle - Subash Chandra Bose
The Judgement - Kuldip Nayar
The Masque of Africa - V. S. Naipaul
The Miracle of Democracy: India's Amazing Journey - Mr. T. S. Krishnamurthy
The Nadars of Tamil Nadu - D.N. Dhanagre
The Nehrus; Motilal and Jawaharlal - B. R. Nanda
The Rediscovery of India - Meghnad Desai
The Science of Bharat Natyam - Saroja Vaidyanathan
The Silent Cry - Kenjaburo Ue
The Spirit of Islam - Syyed Amir Ali
Theory of Relativity - Alexander Doma
Three Marketiars - Einstein
To all fighters of freedom, Why Socialism? - J. P. Narayan
Truth, Love and A Little Malice - Khushwant Singh
Unhappy India - L. Roy
Urbashi - R. D. Dinkar
Utopia - Thomas Moor
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Avigyan Sakuntalam - Kalidas
Ain-i-Akbari - Abul Fazal
Akbar-Nama - Abul Fazal
Shakuntala - Kalidas
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Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare
Arms and the Man - G.B. Shaw
Baburnama - Babur
Bhagwat Gita - Ved Vyas
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Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
Chitra - R.N. Tagore
Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Geet Govind -Jaya Dev
Gora - R.N. Tagore
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Harsha Charit - Bana Bhatt
Hungry Stones - R.N. Tagore
Illiad - Homer
Kadambari - Bana Bhatt
King Lear - Shakespeare
Kumar Sambhav - Kalidas
Mahabharata - Vyas
Meghdut - Kalidas
Odyssey - Homer
Othello - Shakespeare
Panchatantra - Vishnu Sharma
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Ramayana - Valmiki
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Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
Sunny Days - Sunil Gavaskar
Arabian Nights - Sir Richard Burton
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A Week with Gandhi - Louis Fisher
A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassaut
Asian Drama - Gunnar Myrdal
The Bubble - Mulk Raj Anand
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The Court Dancer - Rabindra Nath Tagore
Death of a City - Amrita Pritam
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Hungry Stones - Rabindra Nath Tagore
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Big Fisherman - Lloyd C. Douglas
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Canterbury Tales - G. Chaucer
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City of Saints - Sir Richard Burton
Confessions - J.J. Rousseau
Comus - John Milton
Confrontation with Pakistan - Gen. B.M. Kaul
Conquest of Self - Mahatma Gandhi
Court Dancer - Rabindranath Tagore
Crescent Moon - Rabindranath Tagore
Crisis in India - Ronald Segal
Critical Mass - William E. Burrows
Crown of Wild Olive - John Ruskin
Cuckold - Kiran Nagar Kar
Dancing with the Devil - Rod Barker
Dark Debts - Karen Hall
Dark Side of Camelot - Seymour Hersh
Daughter of the East - Benazir Bhutto
Day in Shadow - Nayantara Sehgal
Days of Grace - Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad

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Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther


Death of a Patriot - R.E. Harrington
Death - The Supreme Friend - Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi - D.R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
Deserted Village - Oliver Goldsmith
Detective -Arthur Hailey
Diana - The Story So Far -Julia Donelli
Diana versus Charles - James Whitaker
Dilemma of Our Time - Harold Joseph Laski
Distant Drums - Manohar Malgonkar
Doll's House - lbsen
Double Teeth - U.B. Sinclair
Dark Room - R.K. Narayan
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Diana - The True Story - Andrew Morton
Dr. Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Dolly - The Birth of a Clone - Jina Kolata
Drogon's Seed - Pearl S. Buck
East West - Salman Rushdie
Economic Planning of India - Ashok Mehta
Edwina and Nehru - Catherine Clement
Eight Lives - Rajmohan Gandhi
End of an Era - C.S. Pandit
Eassay on Life - Samuel Butler
Estate - Issac Bashevis Singer
Ethics - Aristotle
Expanding Universe - Arthur Stanley Eddington

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Facts are Facts - Khan Abdul Wali Khan


Family Moskat - Issac Bashevis Singer
Farewell to the Trumpets - James Morris
Fasana - i Azad - Ratan Nath Sarkar
Fairie Queene - Edmund Spencer
Fall of a Sparrow - Salim Ali
Family Reunion - T.S. Eliot
Faraway Music - Svetlana Allilueva
Farewell to a Ghost - Manoj Das
Final Days -Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Flames from the Ashes - P.D. Tandon
Follywood Flashback - Bunny Reuben
For the President's Eyes Only - Christopher Andrew
Fortynine Days - Amrita Pritam
Fraternity - John Forsyte
Freedom Behind Bars - Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah
French leave - P.G. Wodehouse
From Raj to Rajiv - Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani
Friends and Foes - Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Future of NPT - Savita Pande
Ganadevata - Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gardener - Rabindra Nath Tagore
Ghasiram Kotwal - Vijay Tendulkar
Fifth Horseman - Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Fire under the Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner - Palden Gyatso
Flags in the Dust - William Faulkner
Franklin's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Free Man's Worship - Bertrand Russell

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Freedom from Fear - Aung San Suu Kyi


Friend - Samuel Tayelor Coleridge
Friends, Not Masters - Ayub Khan
Gandhi and Stalin - Louis Fisher
Garrick Year - Margaret Drabble
Gita Rahasya - Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gladiators - Arthur Koestler
Goa - Asif Currimbhoy
Godan - Munshi Prem Chand
Golden Threshold - Sarojini Naidu
Great Challenge - Louis Fischer
Great Tragedy - Z.A. Bhutto
Grub Street - Henry Fielding
Gurusagaram - O.V. Vijayan
Girl on the Boat - P.G. Wodehouse
Glimpses of Indian Ocean -Z.A. Quasim
Gone Away - Dom Moraes
Harsha Charita - Bana Bhatt
Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
Hero of Our Times - Richard Hough
Hamsters - C.P. Snow
Harvest - Majula Padmanabhan
I am not an Island - K.A Abbas
I follow the Mahatma - K.M. Munshi
I Muse; Therefore I am - V.N. Narayanan
Idols - Sunil Gavaskar
In Retrospect - The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam - Robert S. McNamara
In the Shadow of Pines - Mandeep Rai

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India - Facing the Twenty - First Century - Barbara Crossette


India - A Wounded Civilisation - V.S. Naipaul
India - From Midnight to the Millennium - Shashi Tharoor
India of Our Dreams - M.V. Kamath
Indian Home Rule - M.K. Gandhi
If I am Assassinated - Z.A. Bhutto
In Light of India - Octavio Paz
India - From Curzon to Nehru and After - Durga Dass
India We Left - Hymphry Trevelyan
Jai Somnath - K.M. Munshi
Jean Christopher - Romain Rolland
Jobs for Millions - V.V. Giri
Junglee Girl - Ginu Kamani
Jawaharlal Nehru - A Communicator & Democratic Leader - A.K. Damodran
Jesus Rediscovered - Malcolm Muggeridge
Jhoota Sach - Yashpal
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Kamadhenu - Kubernath Ray
Kagaz Te Kanwas - Amrita Pritam
Kaleidoscope of India - Tomoji Muto
Kanthapura - Raja Rao
Kashmir - Behind the Vale - M.J. Akbar
Kashmir - The Wounded Valley - Ajit Bhattacharjee
Kamasutra - Vatsyayan
Kamayani - Jai Shankar Pandit
Kali Aandhi - Kamleshwar
Kanyadaan - Vijay Tendulkar
Kashmir - A Tale of Shame - Hari Jaisingh

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Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy - Gen. Arjun Ray


Kayakalp - Munshi Prem Chand
Keepers of the Keys - Milan Kundera
Kiratarjuniya - Bharavi
King Lear - Shakespeare
Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar - S.H. Vatsyayan
Kore Kagaz - Amrita Pritam
Kulliyat - Ghalib
Kayar - Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
King of Dark Chamber -Rabindra Nath Tagore
Lal Bahadur Shastri - C.P. Srivastava
Last Phase - Pyare Lal
Law, Lawyers & Judges - H.R. Bhardwaj
Lead Kindly Light - Cardinal Newman
Life and Death of Mr. Badman - John Bunyan
Magic Fishbone - Charles Dickens
Man eaters of Kumaon - Jim Corbett
Man for All Seasons -Robert Bolt
Mandarin - Simon de Beauvoir
Many Worlds - K.P.S. Menon
Mati Matal - Gopinath Mohanty
Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Million Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul
Miser - Moliere
Modern Painters - John Ruskin
Moonlight Sonata - L. Beethoven
Much Ado about Nothing - Shakespeare
Naku Thanthi - D.R. Bendre

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Night Manager - John le Carre


Naked Came the Stranger - Penelope Ashe
Nelson Mandela: A Biography - Martin Meredith
Never At Home - Dom Moraes
Nile Basin - Sir Richard Burton
Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Omeros - Derek Walcott
One World and India - Arnold Toynbee
Othello - Shakespeare
Panchtantra - Vishnu Sharma
Pavilion of Women - Pearl S. Buck
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Personal Adventure - Theodore H. White
Politics - Aristotle
Power That Be - David Halberstan
Prem Pachisi - Prem Chand
Princess in Love - Ann Pasternak
Quest for Conscience - Madhu Dandavate
R Documents - Irving Wallace
Rajtarangini - Kalhana
Ramayana - Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit)
Rangbhoomi - Prem Chand
Rain King - Saul Bellow
Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
Rape of Bangladesh - Anthony Mascarenhas
Red Star over China - Edgar Snow
Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
Sakharam Binder - Vijay Tendulkar

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Satyartha Prakash - Swami Dayanand


Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims - Rafiq Zakaria
Smaler's Planet - Saul Bellow
Sceptred Flute - Sarojini Naidu
Scholar Extraordinary - Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Second World War - Winston Churchill
Sense of Time - S.H. Vatsyayan
Seven Lamps of Architecture - John Ruskin
Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
Tales from Shakespeare - Charles Lamb
Scenes from a Writer's Life - Ruskin Bond
School for Scandal - R.B. Sheridan
Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin
Seven summers - Mulk Raj Anand
Tamas - Bhisham Sahni
Temple Tiger - Jim Corbett
The Beach Tree - Pearl S. Buck
The Congress Splits - R.P. Rao
The Cardinal - Henry Morton Robinson
The Diplomatic Bag - John Ure
Universe around Us - James Jeans
Until Darkness - Parvin Ghaffari
Upturned Soil - Mikhail Sholokov
Uttar Ramcharita - Bhava Bhuti
Unto This Last - John Ruskin
Venisamhara - Narayana Bhatt
Video Nights in Kathmandu - Pico Lyer
Vendor of Sweets - R.K. Narayan

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Very Old Bones - William Kennedy


Vikram and the Vampire - Sir Richard Burton
Vinay Patrika - Tulsidas
Voice of Conscience - V.V. Giri
Voice of the Voiceless - Rutsh Harring
Virangana - Maithili Sharan Gupta
Vish Vriksha - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
War Minus the Shooting - Mike Marquesee
Way of the World - William Congreve
We, the People - N.A. Palkhivala
Westward Ho - Charles Kingsley
Waiting for Go dot - Samuel Becket
Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan
Walls of Glass - K.A. Abbas
War and No Peace over Kashmir - Maroof Raza
War of Indian Independence -Vir Savarkar
We, Indians - Khushwant Singh
Where the Grass is Greener - David M. Smith
While England Sleeps - David Leavitt
White House Years - Henry Kissinger
Without Fear or Favour - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Wonder That Was India - A.L. Basham
World within Words - Stephen Spender
Widening Divide - Rafiq Zakaria
Witness to History - Prem Bhatia
Women and Men in My Life -Khushwant Singh
Wreck - Rabindra Nath Tagore
Yama - Mahadevi Verma

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Yayati - V.S. Khandekar


Year of the Vulture - Amita Malik
Yesterday and Today - K.P.S. Menon
Yashodhara -Maithili Sharan Gupta
Years of Pilgrimage - Dr.Raja Ramanna
Zool: The Final Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan - Rafi Raza

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