Reading List (Adapted from Ravi Bhoraskar's blog)

  • *Catch 22, Joseph Heller
  • Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • Crime and Punishment, Dostyovesky
  • *The Castle, Kafka
  • Odyssey, Homer
  • True History of the Kelly Gangs, Peter Carey
  • The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
  • Atonement, Ian Mcewan
  • Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
  • Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
  • Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
  • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
  • The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
  • Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Jazz, Toni Morrison
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker
  • Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  • The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
  • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
  • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
  • The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
  • House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
  • Kanthapura, Raja Rao
  • The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
  • The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
  • The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
  • A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
  • My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk
  • Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
  • The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
  • The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
  • A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes
  • Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
  • The Return of Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Palestine, Joe Sacco
  • Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich
  • The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Piya Behrupiya, Amitosh Nagpal (play; translation of Twelfth Night)
  • Tughlaq, Girish Karnad (play)
  • Nagamandala, Girish Karnad (play)
  • Hayavadana, Girish Karnad (play)
  • The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh (non-fiction)
  • Ghashiram Kotwal, Vijay Tendulkar (play)
  • The Sun’s 7th Horse, Dharamvir Bharati
  • * - In progress