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Soulless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel, Gail Carriger

The chick flick equivalent of a book? I won't be reading any more of the adventures of Ms. Tarabotti.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig

I had read this book nearly 20 years back, and hadn't understood it much. Not that I've understood it now, but definitely more than the last time around. It will be interesting to read it again in 20 years time :)

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Its amazing how this dude has hit on the exact same philosophical notes as the vedas did. This book is not for everyone.

Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History Of Everybody For The Last 13,000 Years, Jared Diamond

I don't give out awards, but this is easily the best book I've read this year -- maybe in the last 10 years!

Turbulence, Samit Basu

A nice, original book, though not as funny as the discworld books. The story gets a bit sidetracked towards the end.

Haroun And The Sea Of Stories, Salman Rushdie

Re-reading an old favorite. Yes, I know I wasn't going to read any more Rushdie, but this one is actually cute!

When the Penny Drops: Learning What's Not Taught, R. Gopalakrishnana

I didn't really "connect" with this book, though it is insightful. Methinks I need another read.

The War of Art, Steven Pressfield

A fantastic little book, with major insights into the muse and resistance.

The Code of the Woosters, P. G. Wodehouse

After all these years, there are still passages that make me laugh out loud, and ofcourse, the writing and the characters are sublime.

Psmith in the City,
Psmith, Journalist and
Leave it to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse

The last is by far the best (which was disappointing, I was hoping for something like it from the first two).

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character,
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character and
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman

The Immortals of Meluha, Amish

I will not be reading the rest of this trilogy. 'nuff said.

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

I was a bit underwhelmed -- maybe I should have read it when I was a teenager?

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Ramachandra Guha

Fantastic book, and should be made compulsory reading for so-called pudits and talking heads. This is what history should be, not the crap we study in school.

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, Kazuo Ishiguro

In Xanadu: A Quest, William Dalrymple

I had big hopes when I picked up this book, but unfortunately the author is too negative about almost all places he visits. One wonders why he's travelling if all he sees are the worst sides of the places he ends up in.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin

Etudes, Aseem Kaul

This is possibly the best book of short stories I've ever read. It gets tedious towards the end, but thats likely because I read the entire thing in one shot. And no, I did not have Chopin playing in the background....

The Millennium Trilogy:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
The Girl Who Played with Fire and
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, Stieg Larsson

The first one is great, but its all downhill from there. There are entire subplots that didn't need to be there in the last one... but having said that, if there were more in this series I'd likely have read 'em.

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