The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New , Jeremy J. Siegel


A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing , Burton G. Malkiel


Issac Newton, Gale E. Christianson


Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny , Stanley Wolpert


Kushiel's Dart , Jacqueline Carey


Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair and Lasting Contract, Katherine E. Stoner and Shae Irving


Financial Statements: A Step-By-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports, Thomas R. Ittleson


The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill , James C. Humes
Mostly wit and no wisdom. Its irritating that Churchill can be so eloquent when it comes to defending the freedoms of the English people against tyranny of any sort, and ignore what was then going on in India. I must mention that the compiler of this book has served under three republican presidents, and the one that he found to be the greatest is..... Nixon! 'nuff said.

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found , Suketu Mehta
What an irresistable title! However, I doubt that the city that Mr. Mehta had lost is the same as the one that he found. There's too much of gangsters, rioters and night-bars than of ordinary folks...

The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie
This isn't Midnight's Children, but there were a couple of places where I burst out laughing. I may have been more entertained (or more insulted) if I know more of Islam.

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail , Calyton M. Christensen
I finally get _some_ sense of what "business" is about. My usual grouch still remains -- while it is easy to identify _after the fact_ what changed, how the change affected a business and if the decisions taken were the correct or wrong ones, how do we do so while things are changing? This book does a good job of the former, and tries to address the latter, but I'm not convinced.

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World , A. J. Jacobs
I don't know what is the biggest waste of time: a person reading the entire Britannica, writing a book about reading the entire Britannica or me reading a book about another person writing a book about reading the entire Britannica. Well, atleast he's funny....

An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth , M. K. Gandhi


The Davis Dynasty: 50 Years of Successful Investing on Wall Street , John Rothchild
More biographical than about investment strategies, but a nice read.

Thud, Terry Pratchett
Okay, so I normally wouldn't put this up as a separate entry, but this book has a lot going on. The author may have had North Ireland and Catholics v. Protestants in mind while writing about conflicts, but -- and this is the depressing part -- the same mindset applies to the middle east as well as in India. Will we never learn?

I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe
Hah! I almost didn't pick up this book, since I found the characters in A Man in Full and The Bonfire of the Vanities to be idiotic in the extreme. However, after reading this book, I realize that Wolfe was being satirical all this freaking time! Shows how slow I can be on the uptake....