Books I Simply like..



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Classics
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Health
The New Evolution Diet by Art De Vany      
Literature
Shakespeare Most Popular works like Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, et. al.
Mathematics
(Mis) behaviour of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot 
Vedic Mathematics by Jagadguru       
Philosophy
All books by Nassim N Taleb (Antifragility/TBS/FBR/BoP)       
Prophet and Complete works by Kahlil Gibran         
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho         
History of western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Letters from a Stoic -  Penguin Classics      
Walden by Henry David Thoreau        
Sidhartha by Herman Hesse     
Meditations by Marcus A.
Straw Dogs by John Gray
Pop Science
Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, Tipping Point & Blink)  
Long Tail by Chris Anderson     
The age of unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Human Zoo by Desmond Morris
Psychology
Think fast, think slow by Daniel Kahneman   
Predictably irrational by Dan Ariely   
Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer       
Nudge by Richard Thaler
Bounded Rationality : Adaptive Toolbox by Gerd Gigerenzer  
    
Science
Evolution - Graphic Guide
Chaos by James Gleik     
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin  
Two's company, three's complex by Neil F Johnson          
Self-Help
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer   
Mean Genes by Terry Burnham and Jay Pehlan
Technology
What would Google do ? by Jeff Jarvis        
Autobiography
The Diary of an Young Girl by Anne Frank    
Economics
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson       
Undercover Economist by Tim Hafford        
Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres 
Freakonomics by Steven d. levitt and Stephen j. dubner  
Poetry
Incidental Muses by N S Murty
Great Short Poems edited by Paul Negri      
Poem Collection by Kabir (Penguin Classics)
Poem Collection by Rumi (Penguin Classics)
Art
Beauty by Umberto Eco  
Fiction
Diary of an unreasonable man by Madhav Mathur    
Tell me your dreams by Sidney Sheldon        
2 States by Chetan Bhagat      
God Father by Mario Puzo        
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 
Fight Club by Chuck P.
Graphic Novel
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Evolution: The Graphic Guide
Plato and Platypus walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
Joke book Collection by Kushwant Singh
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NOTES for further reading:
1. http://www.gutenberg.org/ (Best Online Digital Library)
2. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Amazon book reviews)
3. Best 100 books (here)
4. Books by people in Edge.org (here)
5. NYT Book Review (here)
6. The Hindu Book Review (here)
7. Outlook Book Review (here)
8. Upcoming Blog Posts (Bestsellers, but better not read/ Books I wanna read before I die)
9. N S Murty Blog