List of recommended novels

Here is list of some recommended novel both fiction and non-fiction : For verbal section in entrance exam.
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    Non-Fiction:

    1) Banker ToThe Poor - Mohammed Yunus

    2) The NakedApe - Desmond Morris

    3) City OfDjinns - William Dalrymple

    4) Outliers - Malcom Gladwell

    5) The VirtueOf Selfishness - Ayn Rand

    6) Capitalism:TheUnknown ideal - Ayn Rand

    7) Politics and The English Language - GeorgeOrwell

    8) An Area Of Darkness - V.S. Naipaul

    9) India: A Wounded Civilization - V.S.Naipaul

   10) India: AMillion Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul

   11) The StoryOf Philosophy - Will Durant

   12) The JaguarSmile - Salman Rushdie

   13) More SaltThan Pepper - Karan Thapar

   14) TheArgumentative Indian - Amartya Sen

   15) The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking

   16) Traders,Guns& Money - Satyajit Das

   17) O Jerusalem- Larry Colins and Dominique Lappiere

   18) The MonkWho Sold His Ferrari - Robin Sharma

   19) Heart OverMatter - Virender Kapoor

   20) The Art OfSeduction - Robert Greene

   21) The WorldIs Flat - Thomas L Friedman

   22) An AlgebraOf Infinite Justice - Arundhati Roy

   23) IgnitedMinds - A.P.J Abdul Kalam

  24) The Wings OfFire - A.P.J Abdul Kalam

  25) Happiness AtWork - Srikumar S.Rao

  26) AnAutobiography - Lee Iaococca

  27) The Tao OfPhysics - Frijitof Capra




Fiction:

28) The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

29) 1984 - George Orwell

30) Love In The Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

31) To kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

32) We Were The Mulvanyes - Joyce Carol Oates

33) The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor

34) Riots - Shashi Tharoor

35) The Enchantress Of Florence - Salman Rushdie

36) Shame - Salman Rushdie

37) Shalimar The Clown - Salman Rushdie

38) Midnight’s children - Salman Rushdie

39) Haroun And The Sea Of Stories - Salman Rushdie

40) The Odyssey - Homer

41) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Saligner

42) The Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

43) The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

44) The White Tiger - Arvind Adiga

45) Games At Twilight - Anita Desai

46) The Inheritance Of Loss - Kiran Desai

47) The Circle Of Reason - Amitav Ghosh

48) Sea Of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh

49) The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh

50) The Winner Stands Alone - Paulo Coelho

51) The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

52) Train To Pakistan - Khushwant Singh 

53) Psmith In The City - P.G Wodehouse

54) Right Ho,Jeeves - P.G Wodehouse

55) The Afghan - Fredrick Forsyth

56) Angels & Demons - Dan Brown

57) Digital Fortress - Dan Brown

58) Deception Point - Dan Brown

59) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

60) The Incredible Banker - Ravi Subramanian

61) Two States - Chetan Bhagat

62) Revolution 2020 - Chetan Bhagat

63) Life Is What You Make It - Preeti Shenoy

64) The Godfather - Mario Puzo

65) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

66) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

67) The Turn Of The Screw - Henry James

68) The Aspern Papers – Henry James

69) Daisy Miller - Henry James

70) The Beast In the Jungle - Henry James


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  1. Anonymous14 October 2013 at 06:41

    post some o books you have please... i need that badly

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