BOOKS

BOOKS THIS YEAR

Indian American Doctor wins Pulitzer prize Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has bagged a Pulitzer prize for his book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. Mukherjee won the prestigious prize in the general non-fiction category.

BOOKS BY CHETAN BHAGAT--- चेतन भगत (born 22 April 1974), is an author of Indian origin, popular columnist and an eminent speaker.

Chetan Bhagat is the author of four bestseller novels, Five Point Someone(3 idiots) (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008) & 2 States (2009). All four books have remained bestsellers since their release and two have inspired Bollywood films (including the popular film 3 Idiots). In 2008, The New York Times called Chetan ‘the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history.’^[1] Seen more as a youth icon than just an author^[2], this Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi/ IIM Ahmedabad graduate is making India read like never before. Time Magazine named him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.^[3]. Chetan also favoured the forming of a system similar to the Lokpal as early as January 2011 through his artcles.^[4]

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FREEDOM  By Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus & Giroux.      The author of “The Corrections” is back, not quite a decade later, with an even richer and deeper work — a vividly realized narrative set during the Bush years, when the creedal legacy of “personal liberties” assumed new and sometimes ominous proportions. Franzen captures this through the tribulations of a Midwestern family, the ­Berglunds, whose successes, failures and appetite for self-invention reflect the larger story of millennial America.

THE NEW YORKER STORIES  By Ann Beattie.Scribner,  As these 48 stories published in The New Yorker from 1974 through 2006 demonstrate, Beattie, even as she chronicled and satirized her post-1960s generation, also became its defining voice. She punctures her characters’ pretensions and jadedness with an economy and effortless dialogue that writers have been trying to emulate for three decades, though few, if any, have matched her seamless combination of biting wit and mordant humor, precise irony and consummate cool.

ROOM By Emma Donoghue.     --Donoghue has created one of the pure triumphs of recent fiction: an ebullient child narrator, held captive with his mother in an 11-by-11-foot room, through whom we encounter the blurry, often complicated space between closeness and autonomy. In a narrative at once delicate and vigorous — rich in psychological, sociological and political meaning — Donoghue reveals how joy and terror often dwell side by side.

SELECTED STORIES By William Trevor.--Gathering work from Trevor’s previous four collections, this volume shows why his deceptively spare fiction has haunted and moved readers for generations. Set mainly in Ireland and England, Trevor’s tales are eloquent even in their silences, documenting the way the present is consumed by the past, the way ancient patterns shape the future. Neither modernist nor antique, his stories are timeless.

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD By Jennifer Egan.Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95. --Time is the “goon squad” in this virtuosic rock ’n’ roll novel about a cynical record producer and the people who intersect his world. Ranging across some 40 years and inhabiting 13 different characters, each with his own story and perspective, Egan makes these disparate parts cohere into an artful whole, irradiated by a Proustian feel for loss, regret and the ravages of love.  

APOLLO’S ANGELS: A History of Ballet By Jennifer Homans.Random House, $35. --Here is the only truly definitive history of classical ballet. Spanning more than four centuries, from the French Renaissance to American and Soviet stages during the cold war, Homans shows how the art has been central to the social and cultural identity of nations. She meticulously reconstructs entire eras, describing the evolution of ballet technique while coaxing long-lost dances back to life. And she raises a crucial question: In the 21st century, can ballet survive?

CLEOPATRA: A LifeBy Stacy Schiff.Little, Brown & Company, $29.99.---With her signature blend of wit, intelligence and superb prose, Schiff strips away 2,000 years of prejudices and propaganda in her elegant reimagining of the Egyptian queen who, even in her own day, was mythologized and misrepresented.

THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A Biography of Cancer By Siddhartha Mukherjee.Scribner, $30. --Mukherjee’s magisterial “biography” of the most dreaded of modern afflictions. He excavates the deep history of the “war” on cancer, weaving haunting tales of his own clinical experience with sharp sketches of the sometimes heroic, sometimes misguided scientists who have preceded him in the fight.

FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, ­Grudges, Whines and AnecdotesBy Stephen Sondheim.Alfred A. Knopf, $39.95.

The theater’s pre-eminent living songwriter offers a master class in how to write a musical, covering some of the greatest shows, from “West Side Story”  to “Sweeney Todd.” Sondheim’s analysis of his and others’ lyrics is insightful and candid, and his anecdotes are telling and often very funny.

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson. Random House, Wilkerson, a former national correspondent for The Times, has written a masterly and engrossing account of the Great Migration, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South between 1915 and 1970. The book centers on the journeys of three black migrants, each representing a different decade and a different destination.

FAMOUS INDIAN BOOKS AND AUTHORS

Writer/Author	Books
1. Pt. Vishnu Sharma	Panchatanra
2. Vishakhadatta	Mudra Rakshas
3. Raskhan	Prem Vatika
4. Panini	Ashtadhyayi
5. Shudrak	Mrichhakatikam
6. Kalidasa	Raghuvansham, Kumarsambhavam, Meghdootam, Abhugyanshakuntalam
7. Vigyaneshwar	Mitakshara
8. Mallanāga Vātsyāyana	Kama Sutra
9. Jeemootwahan	Daybhag
10. Kalhana	Rajtarangini
11. Plini	Natural History
12. Kautilya	Arthashastra
13. Dandi	Avanti Sundari, Dashkumaracharitam
14. Ved Vyas	Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharata
15. Ashwaghosh	Buddha Charitam
16. Jayadev	Geet Govind
17. Bana Bhatt	Kadambari
18.Bhavabhuti	Malti Madhav
19. Amar Singh	Amar Singh
20. Bhartihari	Niti-Shatak, Shringar Shatak, Vairagya Shatak
21. Firdausi	Shahnama
22. Abul Fazal	Ain-i-Akbari, Akabarnama
23. Surdas	Sahityalahri, Sursagar
24. Kabirdas	Bijak, Ramayani, Sabar
25. Gulbadan Beghum	Humanyunama
26. Al-Beruni	Kitab-ul-Hind
27. Malik Mohammed Jayasi	Padmavat
28. Mulk Raj Anand	Coolie, Confession of a lover, Two leaves and a bud
29. Nirad C. Chaudhury	Hinduism, Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, A Passage to England, Culture in the Vanity Bag, Continent of Crime
30Rabindra Nath Tagore	Chitrangada, Gitanjali, Gora, Chandalika, Visarjana, Hungry Stones
31. Kuldip Nayyar	The Judgment, Distant Neighbours; India, The Critical Years; In Jail, Indai after Nehru, Between the Lines
32. Sumitranandan Pant	Jyotsana, Yugwani, Chidambara
33. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh	Life Divine Essays on Gita
34. Swami Shivanand	Divine Life
35. Amrita Pritam	Death of a City , Kagaz te Canvas, Forty nine Days
36. Munsi PremChand	Godan, Gaban, Karmabhumi, Rangbhumi
37. Khushwant Singh	Indira Gandhi Returns, Indira Gandhi; Badhate Kadam, The Company of woman
38. B.M Kaul	Untold Story, Confronation with Pakistan
39. Vijay Tendulkar	Sakharam Binder
40 R.K. Narayanan	The Darkroom, Malgudi Days, Guide, My Days, Swami and Friends
41. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan	Indian Philosophy
42. Sarojini Naidu	Golden Threshold, Broken wings
43. Suryaknt Tripathi Nirala	Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Jusi ki kali
44. Yashpal	Jhootha Sach
45. Jai Shankar Prasad	Kamayani, Aansoo, Skandagupa, Ajatshatru
46. Kazi Nazrul Islam	Agni Veena
47.Mainthilisharm Gupt	Bharat Bharati
48. Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Kurukshera, Urvashi
49. Mrs. Indira Ghandhi	Eternal India
50. S.H. Vatsyayan’Agyeya’	Kitni Nawon Mein Kitenee Bar, Aangan Ke paar, Dwar, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, Nadi Ke Dweep
51.Mahadevi Verma	Yama, Niharika, Neeraja
52. Amrit Lal Nagar	Amrit Aur Vish
53. Nayantara Sehgal	A Voice of Freedom
54. V.S. Naipal	Area of Darkness, A House for Mr.Biswas A Million Multinies Now, A Bend in the River
55. Devkinandan Khatri	Chandrakanta Santati
56. Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay	Devdas, Charitraheen, Shrikant, Parineeta
57. Vrindavanal  Verma	Jhansi Ki Rani
58. Jainendra Kumar	Sunita, Tyagpatra
59. Bhagwati Charan Verma	Chitralekha
60. Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’	Maila Aanchal, Mare Gaye Gulfam
61. Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’	Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai
62. Bhartendu Harischandra	Bharat Durdasha, Satya Harischandra

 

Books by Indian Authors

Following are some of the books by Indian Authors

Book Name		Author
A bend in the river		V.S. Naipal
A brush with life		Satish Gujral
A House of Mr. Biswar		V.S. Naipal
A Million Mutinies Now		V.S. Naipal
A Passage to England		Nirad C.Chodhury
A Prisoner's Scrapbook		L.K. Advani
A River Sutra		Gita Mehra
A sense of time		H.S.Vatsyayan
A strange and subline address		Amit Chaudhary
A suitable boy		Vikram Seth
A village by the sea		Anita Desai
A voice for freedom		Nayantara Sehgal
Aansoo		Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Afternoon Raag		Amit Chaudhari
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind		Deepak Chopra
Agni Veena		Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ain-i-Akbari		Abul Fazal
Amar Kosh		Amar Singh
An autobiography		Jawaharlal Nehru
An Equal Music		Vikram Seth
An Idealist View of life		Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Amrit Aur Vish		Amrit Lal Nagar
Anamika		Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Anandmath		Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Areas of Darkness		V.S. Naipal
Arthashastra		Lautilya
Ashtadhyayi		Panini
Autobiography of an Unknown India		Nirad C. Choudhury
Bandicoot Run		Manohar Malgonkar
Beginning of the Beginning		Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh
Between the Lines		Kuldip Nayyar
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self		Sisirkumar Ghose
Bhagvad Gita		Ved Vyas
Bharat Bharati		Maithilisharan Gupt
Bharat Durdasha		Bhartendu Harischandra
Border and Boundaries: women in India's Partition		Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Bharat Bharati		Maithili Saran Gupt
Breaking the Silence		Anees Jung
Bride and the Sahib and the other stories		Khushwant Singh
Broken Wings		Sarojini Naidu
Bubble, The		Mulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam		Ashwaghosh
By God's Decree		Kapil Dev
Chandalika		Rabindra Nath Tagore
Chandrakanta Santati		Devkinandan Khatri
Chemmen: Thakazhi		Sivasankara Pillai
Chitra		Rabindranath Tagore
Chitralekha		Bhagwati Charan Verma
Chitrangada		Rabindra Nath Tagore
Circle of Reason		Amitav Ghosh
Clear Light of Day		Anita Desai
Confessions of a Lower		Mulk Raj Anand
Confrontation with Pakistan		B. M. Kaul
Conquest of Self		Mahatma Ghandhi
Continent of Crime		Nirad C Chaudhary
Coolie		Mulk Raj Anand
Court Dancer		Rabindranath Tagore
Culture in the Vanity Bag		Nirad C Chaudhury
Days of My Years		H.P. Nanda
Daybhag		Jeemootwahan
Death of a City		Amrita Pritam
Devdas		Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Discovery of India		Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums		Manohar Malgonkar
Distint Neighbours: India		Kuldip Nayar
Divine Life		Swami Shivananda
Durgesh Nandini		Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change		Chandra Shekhar
Eight Lives		Rajmohan Gandhi
English August		Upamanyu Chatterjee
Essays on Gita		Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Eternal Himalayas		Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Eternal India		Mrs Indira Gandhi
Faces of Everest		Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Foreign Policy of India		I.K. Gujral
Forty Nine Days		Amrita Pritam
From Rajpath to Lokpath		Vijaya Raje Scindia
Gaban		Munsi Premchand
Ganadevata		Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gardener		Rabindra Nath Tagore
Geet Govind		Jayadev
Ghasiram Kotwal		Vijay Tendulkar
Gitanjali		Rabindranath Tagore
Gita Rahasya		Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Glimpses of World History		Jawaharlal Nehru
Godan		Prem Chand
Golden Threshold		Sarojini Naidu
Gora		Rabindra Nath Tagore
Guide		R.K. Narayanan
Harsha Charita		Bana Bhatta
Harvest		Manjula Padmanabhan
Heir Apparent		Dr. Karan Singh
Himalayan Blunder		Brigadier J.P. Dalvi
Hind Swaraj		M.K. Gandhi
Hindu View of Life		Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Hinduism		Nirad C. Choudhury
History of India		Romila Thapar
Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard		Kiran Desai
Humanyunama		Gulbadan Beghum
Hungary Stones		Rabindranath Tagore
I follow the Mahatma		K.M. Munshi
Idols		Sunil Gavaskar
India After Nehru		Kuldip Nayyar
India Divided		Rajendra Prasad
India Unbound		Gurcharan Das
India of Our Dreams		M.V. Kamath
India Wins Freedom		Abdul Kalam Azad
India's Priceless Heritage		N.A. Palkhivala
Indian Philosophy		Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Indira Ghandi Returns		Khushwant Singh
Indira Gandhi: Badhate Kadam		Khushwant Singh
Inscrutable Americans		Anurag Mathur
Interpreter of Maladies		Jhumpa Lahiri
It's Always Possible		Kiran Bedi
Jai Somnath		K.M. Munshi
Jayadev		Geet Govind
Jhansi Ki Rani		Vrindavanlal Verma
Kadambari		Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanwas		Amrita Pritam
Kamasutra		S.H. Vatsyayan
Kanthapura		Raja Rao
Kapala Kundala		Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Karmabhumi		Munsi Premchand
Kashmir: A Tale of Shame		Hari Jaisingh
Kashmr: A Tragedy of Errors Kayar		Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Kitab-ul-Hind		Al-Beruni
Kitni Nawon Kitni Bar		S.H. Vatsyayan
Kulliyat		Ghalib
Kumar Sambhava		Kalidas
Kurukshetra		Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Last Burden		Upamanyu Chatterjee
Life Divine		Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Lipika		Rabindranath Tagore
Lost Child		Mulk Raj Anand
Mahabharta		Ved Vyas
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apolstles		Ved Mehta
Malgudi Days		R.K. Narayanan
Malti Madhav		Bhavabhuti
Meghdootam		Kalidasa
Mitakshara		Vigyaneshwar
Mrichhakatikam		Shudrak
My Days		R.K. Narayanan
My India		S. Nihal Singh
My Life and Times		V.V. Giri
My Music, My Life		Pt. Ravi Shankar
My Presidental Years		R. Venkatraman
My Truth		Indira Gandhi
Mudra Rakshas		Vishakhadatta
Natural History		Plini
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy		A.B. Vajpayee
Nisheeth		Uma Shankar Joshi
Operation Bluestar: The True Story		Lt. Gen K.S. Brar
Our Films, Their Films		Satyajit Ray
Padmavat		Malik Mohammed Jayasi
Painter of Signs		R.K. Narayan
Panchatantra		Vishnu Sharma
Parineeta		Sharat Chandra Chatterji
Past Forward		G.R. Narayanan
Pather Panchali		Bibhuti Bhushan
Plain Speaking		N. Chandrababu Naidu
Portrait of India		Ved Mehta
Post Office		Rabindranath Tagore
Prem Pachisi		Munsi Prem Chand
Prem Vatika		Raskhan
Rajatarangini		Kalhana
Ram Charita Manas		Tulsidas
Ramayana		Maharishi Valmiki
Raghuvamsa		Kalidas
Ranghbhommi		Munsi Premchand
Ratnavali		Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the River)		Gulzar
Red Earth and Pouring Rain		Vikram Chandra
Ritu Samhara		Kalidas
Saket		Maithili Sharan Gupta
Satya Karischandra		Bhartendu Harischandra
Sakharam Binder		Vijay Tendulkar
Secular Agenda		Arun Shourie
Seven Summers		Mulk Raj Anand
Shadow from Ladakh		Bhabani Bhattacharya
Shahnama		Firdausi
Shrikant		Sharat Chandra Chatterji
Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India		Gita Mehta
Social Change in Modern India		M.N. Srinivas
Sultry Days		Shobha De
Sunny Days		Sunil Gavaskar
Sursagar		Kabirdas
Swami and Friends		R.K. Narayanan
The Bride's Book of Beauty		Mulk Raj Anand
The Cat and Shakespeare		Raja Rao
The Company of Women		Khushwant Singh
The Critical Years: In Jail		Kuldip Nayyar
The Dark Room		R.K. Narayanan
The Degeneration of India		T.N. Seshan
The Glass Palace		Amitav Ghosh
The God of Small Things		Arundhati Roy
The Golden Gate		Vikram Seth
The Judgement		Kuldip Nayyar
The Men Who Killed Gandhi		Manohar Malgonkar
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success		Deepak Chopra
The Songs of India		Sarojini Naidu
The Story of My Experiments with Truth		Mahatma Gandhi
The Strange and Subline Address		Amit Chaudhuri
The Sword and the Sickle		Mulk Raj Anand
The vendor of Sweets		R.K. Narayanan
The way of the Wizard		Deepak Chopra
Train to Pakistan		Khushwant Singh
Two Leaves and a Bud		Mulk Raj Anand
Untold Story		B. M. Kaul
Urvashi		Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Visarjana		Rabindra Nath Tagore
Waiting for the Mahatma		R.K. Narayanan
Wake up India		Annie Besant
We, Indians		Khushwant Singh
Wreck, The		Rabindranath Tagore
Yama		Mahadevi Verma
Yashodhara		Maithili Sharan Gupt
Years of Pilgrimage		Dr. Raja Ramana
Mac Beth--------------------Shakespeare Odyssey---------------------Homer Illiod------------------------Homer Rubayyat-------------------Omar Khayyam Shakuntalam----------------Kalidasa Jungle Book-----------------Rudyard Kipling Count of Monte Cristo-------Alexander Dumas War and Peace--------------Leo Tolstoy Communist Manifesto-------Karl Marx Call of the wild-----------------Jack London A Tale of Two Cities-----------Charles Dickens Robinson Crusoe-----------Daniel Defoe Adventures of Tom Sawyer---Mark Twain Gulliver's Travels----------Jonathan Swift Freedom at Midnight-------Larry Collins&Dominic Lappierre Train to Pakistan----------Khushavant Singh God of Small things---------Arundhati Roy Old man and the sea-------Ernest Hemingway Main kamph---------------Adolf Hitler Discovery of India---------Jawaharlal Nehru