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In My Library


ENGLISH - FICTION

1.        Hari Kunzru- The Impressionist -Jan 09
2.        Salman Rushdie – The Ground Beneath Her Feet
3.        Salman Rushdie – Luka And The Fire Of Life
4.        Salman Rushdie – Haroun And The Sea of Stories
5.        Margaret Atwood – The Blind Assassin
6.        Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale – 2018
7.        Alice Walker – Color Purple – Aug 2008
8.        Aravind Adiga – The Last Man In Tower
9.        Aatish Taseer – Noon
10.   Aatish Taseer – The Temple Goers
11.   Aatish Taseer – The Way Things Were
12.   Aatish Taseer – The Twice-Born
13.   Aatish Taseer – Stranger To History
14.   Paulo Coelho – Manual Of The Warrior Of Light
15.   Kamla Das & Suresh Kohli – Closure
16.   Ernest Hemmingway – The Old Man and The Sea
17.   AS Byatt – Possession
18.   Mahashweta Devi – Mother of 1084
19.   Mahashweta Devi – Rudali
20.   HM Naqvi – Home Boy
21.   Ruth Padel – Where The Serpent Lives
22.   RL Stevenson – Treasure Island
23.   RL Stevenson – Kidnapped
24.   Pat Barker – Ghost Road
25.   JMG le Clezio – Onishta
26.   Rabindranath Tagore – Gora
27.   Ian McEvan – Atonement – June 08
28.   Ian McEvan – Amsterdam
29.   Raja Rao – Kanthapura
30.   Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
31.   Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
32.   Kiran Nagarkar – Cuckold
33.   Kiran Nagarkar – Ravan & Eddie –July 08
34.   Kiran Nagarkar – Extras
35.   Kiran Nagarkar – Seven Sixes are Forty Three
36.   Kiran Nagarkar – Black Tulip
37.   Kiran Nagarkar – Jasoda
38.   Sherlock Holmes – The Hound of Baskervilles – 1998
39.   Ngugi wa Thiongo & Micere Githae Mugo – The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
40.   Chandrahas Choudhury – Arzee The Dwarf
41.   Paro Anand – Pure Sequence
42.   Milan Kundera – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
43.   Githa Hariharan – The Ghosts of Vasu Master
44.   Amish – The Immortals of Meluha
45.   Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
46.   Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
47.   Jane Austen – Emma
48.   Elif Shafak – The Flea Palace
49.   John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
50.   Anne Enright – The Gathering
51.   Benjamin Disraeli – Sybil
52.   Thomas Hardy – Far From The Madding Crowd
53.   Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
54.   Thomas Hardy – Tess Of The d’Urbervilles
55.   Thomas Hardy – Jude The Obscure
56.   Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind
57.   Jack London  – White Fang and The Call of The Wild
58.   Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
59.   George Orwell – Animal Farm
60.   George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-four
61.   Gao Xingjiang – One Man’s Bible
62.   Gao Xingjiang – Soul Mountain
63.   Peter Carey – Parrot and Olivier In America
64.   Orhan Pamuk – The Museum Of Innocence
65.   Robert Ludlum – The Parsifal Mosiac
66.   Robert Ludlum – The Prometheus Deception
67.   Robert Ludlum – The Road to Omaha
68.   Virginia Wolf  – Mrs Dalloway
69.   William Golding – The Lord Of Flies
70.   Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
71.   Vikram Seth – An Equal Music
72.   Charles Dickens – Hard Times
73.   Charles Dickens – A Tale Of Two Cities  
74.   Harish Singhal – Ashoka A Love Story
75.   Jerome K Jerome – Three Men In A Boat
76.   Maxim Gorky – Mother
77.   Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
78.   H Rider Haggard – She
79.   Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
80.   VS Naipaul – A House For Mr Biswas
81.   Zadie Smith – White Teeth
82.   Roddy Doyle – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
83.   Yann Martel – Life Of Pie
84.   Gunter Grass – The Tin Drum
85.   Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer  Huckleberry Finn
86.   Alan Hollinghurst –The Line Of Beauty
87.   Cervantes – Don Quixote
88.   Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea
89.   Doris Lessing – The Grass Is Singing
90.   Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook
91.   Robert Graves – I, Claudius
92.   Yashpal – This Is Not That Dawn Jhootha Sach
93.   Ben Okri – Famished Road
94.   Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
95.   Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace
96.   Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot
97.   Fyodor Dostovesky – Crime And Punishment
98.   A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
99.   Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
100.                    Bhagwan Gidwani – The Sword Of Tipu Sultan
101.                    William Faulkner – The Sound And Fury
102.                    Shashi Tharor – The Great Indian Novel – Sept 10
103.                    UR Ananthamurthy – Bharathipura
104.                    Tarun Tejpal – The Valley of Masks
105.                    Michael Ondaatje  – The Cat’s Table
106.                    Hanif Mohammed – A Case Of Exploding Mangoes
107.                    The Blaft Anthology Of Tamil Pulp Fiction
108.                    Ashwin Sanghi – Chanakya’s Chants
109.                    Rahul Bhattacharya – The Sly Company Of People Who Care
110.                    Chuck Pamuk – Lullaby
111.                    Great Works Of Franz Kafka
112.                    Gabriel Garcia Marqez – Chronicle Of a Death Foretold – Jan 03
113.                    Gabriel Garcia Marqez – One Hundred Years Of Solitude
114.                    Gabriel Garcia Marqez – Love In Times Of Cholera
115.                    Upamanyu Chatterjee – English August
116.                    Shashi Deshpande – In The Country Of Deceit
117.                    Herman Melville – Moby Dick
118.                    Geroge Eliot – The Mill On The Floss
119.                    Homer – The Illiad
120.                    Amitav Ghosh – Sea Of Poppies
121.                    Amitav Ghosh – River Of Smoke
122.                    Amitav Ghosh – The Hungry Tide
123.                    Amitav Ghosh – The Shadow Lines
124.                    Bam Stroker – Dracula
125.                    Chitra Bannerjee Divakurani – The Palace Of Illusions
126.                    Chitra Bannerjee Divakurani – The Forest of Enchantments
127.                    JG Farrell – The Siege Of Krishnapur
128.                    Vikram Chandra – Red Earth Pouring Rain
129.                    Vikram Chandra – Sacred Games
130.                    John Steinbeck – The Grapes  Of Wrath
131.                    JD Salinger – The Catcher In the Rye
132.                    Ruskin Bond – A Flight Of Pigeons
133.                    EM Forster – A Passage To India
134.                    Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain
135.                    GV Desani – All About H. Hatter
136.                    John Grisham – Calico Joe
137.                    Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
138.                    Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea
139.                    Fabio Geda – In The Sea There Are Crocodiles
140.                    Mario Vargas Llosa – The Bad Girl
141.                    Mario Vargas Llosa – The Feast of the Goat
142.                    Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter
143.                    Albert Camus – The Outsider
144.                    Bana – Kadambari
145.                    Anna Swell – Black Beauty
146.                    JM Coetzee – Disgrace
147.                    DH Lawrence – Sons and Lovers
148.                    Elfriede Jenlinek – The Piano Teacher
149.                    Henry James – The Portrait Of a Lady
150.                    Fakir Mohan Senapati – Six Acres and A Third
151.                    Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains Of The Day
152.                    Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
153.                    Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
154.                    Flaubert – Madame Bovary
155.                    Haruki Murakami – Kafka on The Shore
156.                    Kamla Markandaya – Nectar In A Sieve
157.                    Rudyard Kipling – Kim
158.                    Jose Saramago – The Elephant’s Journey
159.                    Roberto Classo – Ka
160.                    Mulk Raj Anand – Private Life Of An Indian Prince
161.                    James Joyce – Ulysses
162.                    Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay – Pather Panchali
163.                    Toni Morrison – Home
164.                    Toni Morrison – Beloved
165.                    I Allan Sealy – The Trotter-Nama
166.                    John Irving – In One Person
167.                    Manu Joseph – Serious Men
168.                    Manu Joseph – Miss Laila Armed an Dangerous
169.                    Kiran Desai – Inheritance of Loss
170.                    Taslima Nasreen – Lajja
171.                    Julian Barnes – The Sense Of An Ending
172.                    Post Office – Charles Bukowski
173.                    Amitava Kumar – Lovers



DRAMA


1.        Girish Karnad – Tuglaq
2.        Dylan Thomas – Under The Milk Wood
3.        TS Eliot – The Family Reunion
4.        Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlow
5.        Ibsen – A Doll’s House
6.        Bernard Shaw – Saint Joan
7.        Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion
8.        Shakespeare – Macbeth
9.        Shakespeare – The Tempest
10.   Shakespeare – Julius Ceasar
11.   Shakespeare – As You Like It
12.   Michael Mangan – Shakespearen Comedies
13.   Charles & Mary Lamb – Sixteen Tales From Shakespeare
14.   Sophocles – Oedipus
15.   Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
16.   Albert Camus – Caligula & Three Other Plays
17.   Samuel Beckett – Waiting For Godot
18.   Sadat Hassan Manto – Toba Tek Singh
19.   TS Eliot – Murder in The Cathedral
20.   John Osborne – Look Back In Anger
21.   Alexander Pope – The Rape Of The Lock
22.   Chekov – Plays
23.   Allardyce Nicole – British Drama



SHORT STORIES


1.        Stories From East & West-Ed. R.S. Gupta – Class 10
2.        1967- The Best American Short Stories – ed Martha Foley & David Burnett
3.        Twelve Contemporary Short Stories
4.        Hungry Stones and Other Stories – Rabindranth Tagore
5.        Premchand Selected Short Stories 2 – Trans Anupa Lal
6.        Selected Short Stories – Compl. D.E.W. Shaw
7.        Bridging Connection Anthology of Sri Lankan Short Stories – Ed Rajiva Wijesinha
8.        A Treasury Of Short Stories – A.E.T. Barrow
9.        Mahashweta – Devi Bitter Soil
10.   Jhumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies  
11.   Lepcha Folklore and folksongs
12.   Rana Nayar – Tales Of Tomorrow
13.   Kamla Das – The Kept Woman and Other Stories
14.   KA Abbas – An Evening In Lucknow
15.   Saadat Hassan Manto
   


POETRY


1.        Clossus – Sylvia Plath
2.        Aristotle on The Art of Poetry – Ingram Bywaters
3.        Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali
4.        John Milton – Paradise Lost 1& 2
5.        Homer – The Odyssey
6.        GL Sharma – Glimpses of English Poetry
7.        AG Xavier – An Introduction To Poetry
8.        KL Vermani – Harvest Of Harmony
9.        Sarojini Naidu An introduction to life, work and Poetry – V.S. Naravane
10.   Selected Poems Of TS Eliot - Manju Jain
11.   HN Kashyap – A Pageant Of Poems
12.   William Blake – The Tyger
13.   Dante  – Inferno
14.   Palgrave’s Golden Treasury
15.   WB Yeats – Selected Poetry
16.   Pablo Neruda – Isla Negra
17.   Emily Dickinson
18.   Dom Moreas
19.   Edgar Allan Poe  – Collected Works


           NON-FICTION

1.        The Discovery Of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
2.        Companion to Literature In English – Ed. Ian Ousby
3.        Outlaw India’s Bandit Queen and Me – Roy Moxham
4.        The Art and Science of Editing – Anup Taneja
5.        A Brief History Of Time – Stephen Hawking
6.        Literary Terms – Beckson, Ganz
7.        Who Moved My Cheese – Dr Spencer John
8.        Fontana Dictionary Of Modern Thought – Ed. Bullock Trombley
9.        Indian Writing In English – K.R. Srinivas Iyengar
10.   Under My Skin – Doris Lessing-July 08
11.   Literary Criticism – Wimsatt & Brooks
12.   Aristotle’s Theory Of Poetry and Fine Arts – Butcher
13.   Fountain Of Bliss – Shiva
14.   The Dicing and The Sequel to Dicing – ed & transl. J.A.B. Van Buitenen
15.   A Glossary Of Literary Terms – M.H. Abrams
16.   Aristotle Poetics A literary Supplement – S. Senguptta
17.   Foucault For Beginners – Lydia Alix Fillingham
18.   Sartre For Beginners – Donald Palmer
19.   Freud Fr Beginners –Richard Osborne
20.   Sassure for Beginners – W. Terrence Gordon
21.   Lacan For Beginners – Phillip Hill
22.   Fanon For Beginners – Deborah Wurick
23.   Gestalt For Beginners – Sergio Sinay
24.   Garcia Lorca For Beginners – Luis Martinez Cuitino
25.   Postmordenism for Beginners by Jim Powell
26.   A Handbook Of Critical Approaches 4-
27.   Apology for Heroism – Mulk Raj Anand
28.   Beginning Theory – Peter Barry
29.   A Course In Phonetics and Spoken English – Sethi & Dhamija
30.   An Introduction to Linguistcs – Syal & Jindal
31.   Tragedy Serious drama in relation to Aristotle Poetics – F.L. Lucas
32.   Contemporary Literary Theory – N. Krishnaswamy
33.   The Dance Of Shiva Fourteen Indian Essays Ananda Coomaraswamy
34.   A History Of Literary Criticism – Harry Blamires
35.   Contemporary English Literature – Mark Longaker
36.   Contemporary Literary Theory – Jeremy Hawthorne
37.   Cultural Criticism – Arthur Asa Berger
38.   IGNU notes on American Novel
39.   Discovering The Vedas – Frits Staal
40.   The Hindus an alternative History – Wendy Doniger
41.   The Laws of Manu – transl. Wendy Donager
42.   My Story – Kamla Das
43.   Indian Poetics – E.N. Sreekantaiyya
44.   Pundits From Pakistan – Rahul Bhattacharya
45.   Key To Greek Classics – Mary Allen Snodgrass
46.   History of American Literature – Tilak
47.   A Social History Of England – Johri
48.   India’s Political Economy – Franknel
49.   The Development Of English Novel – Wilbur L. Cross
50.   Practical Criticism
51.   Textbook of English Phonetics – Balasubramaniam
52.   Mahabharata – R.K. Narayanan
53.   India A Wounded Civilisation – V.S. Naipaul
54.   Cambridge Pronunciation Dictionary
55.   Freedom At Midnight – Dominique & Larry
56.   It Was Five Past Midnight – Dominique & Javier
57.   India After Gandhi – Ramchandra Guha
58.   Mastani – Kusum Chopra
59.   Sign & Symbols
60.   Sexual/ Textual Politics – Toril Moi
61.   Classical Dictionary – William Smith    
62.   Unmanageable Revolutions  –  Margaret Ward
63.   In Search Of Sita – Malashri & Namita
64.   Introduction To Indian Constitution – Basu
65.   A Portrait Of The Artist as a Young Man – Joyce
66.   The Mahabharata 1 – Bibek Debroy
67.   An Outline History Of English Literature – Hudson
68.   The Argumentative Indian – Amartya Sen
69.   My Experiments with Truth – M.K. Gandhi
70.   A Compendious History Of English Literature – R.D. Trivedi
71.   Post-Coloniality Reading Literature – Meenakshi Shivram
72.   Welcome To The Urban Revolution – Jeb Brugmann
73.   Kama Sutra – Maxim Jakubowski
74.   Small Acts Of Resistance – Crashaw & Jackson
75.   The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
76.   The Elements of Style – Strunk & White
77.   Ways Of Seeing – John Berger
78.   Ideology & Identity – Pradeep K Chibber &Rahul Verma


             HINDI

1.       Katha Sarovar – Ed Prabhakar Dwivedi
2.       Tamas – Bhisham Sahni
3.       Shoknach – R Chetan kranri
4.       Pratinidhi Kavitayen – Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
5.       Godan – Premchand
6.       Rag Darbari – Shrilal Shukla
7.       Mri Priya Kahaniyan – Agyey
8.       Nadi Ke Dweep – Agyey
9.       Meri Priya Kahaniyan – Nirmal Verma
10.   Meri Priye Kahaniyan – Kamleshwar
11.   Ek Sadak Sattavan Galiyan - Kamleshwar
12.   Jhansi Ki Rani – Mahashweta Devi
13.   Ashaad Ka Ek Din – Mohan Rakesh
14.   Neem Ka Ped – Rahi Masoom Raza
15.   Chitralekha – Bhagvati Charan Verma
16.   Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu – Achaya Chatursen
17.   Goli – Acharya Chatursen
18.   Na Aane Wala Kal – Mohan Rakesh
19.   Bhoole Bisre Chitre – Bhagwati Charan Verma
20.   Aksharon Ke Saaye – Amrita Pritam
21.   Kumbhipak – Nagarjun 
22. Biksu


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