Books I Love

 “Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.”- J.R.R.Tolkien

I have tried to understand what makes me love a book. Is it the writing? The story? The characters? The themes? Or a combination of some or all of them? I truly don't know. Maybe one day the combination that hits my mental and emotional sweet-spot will reveal itself to me. But, for now, all I can recognize is the warm, heady feeling that surrounds me as I dive and lose myself into words that craft exquisite worlds. These books generate that feeling in me...

Fiction:

1. 4321 - Paul Auster
2. Animal Farm - George Orwell
3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
4. Aunts Aren't Gentlemen - P.G.Wodehouse 
5. Brinkley Manor / Right Ho Jeeves - P.G.Wodehouse
6. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
7. Cutting For Stone - Abraham Verghese  
8. Flatland - Edwin A. Abott
9. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
10. Galahad at Blandings - P.G.Wodehouse
11. Grimm's Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm 
12. Haroun and The Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie 
13. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
14. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
15. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
16. Life of Pi - Yenn Martel  
17. Making Faces - Amy Harmon
18. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
19. Pigs Have Wings - P.G.Wodehouse
20. Ponniyin Selvan - Kalki Krishnamurthy
21. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
22. Room - Emma Donoghue
23. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 
24. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse 
25. Tess of the D'ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
26. Thank You Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
27. The Adventures of the Wishing Chair / The Wishing Chair Again / More Wishing Chair Stories - Enid Blyton
28. The Age of Shiva - Manil Suri
29. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G.Wodehouse
31. The Enchanted Wood / The Magic Faraway Tree / The Folk of the Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton 
32. The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
33. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy 
34. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
35. The Good Earth - Pearl Buck
36. The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald
37. The Hidden Flower - Pearl Buck
38. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
39. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
40. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
41. The Secret Garden - Frances Hogdson Burnett
42. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd  

Non-Fiction:

1. Design Meets Disability - Graham Pullin
2. Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl 
3. Play Therapy - Virginia Axline
4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan
5. Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
6. The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar 
7. The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
8. The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
9. Unveiling India - Anees Jung