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My favorites are

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Sheth
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
Living To Tell The Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marques
The Genesis Code - John Case
Genome - Matt Ridley

and many many more :|
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Not many books that i can read again, if at all i would read only some paragraphs....definately not cover to cover

So I would rather carry 2/3 new books as rcommended or by my favourite authors..i keep taking recommendation, like i will like to take some from this posting

1. Tao of Physics or Uncommen wisdom : Fritjof Capra
2. Any of the Dilbert books : Scot Adams
3. The Gita (translated in English)
4. Any of Ruskin Bond/R.K.Naryan (one that i have not read, I can read anything that these two write..will sure read "India I love" as recommended by Shimla, Thanks.. Shimla)
5. The discovery of India : J.L. Nehru

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Hey Ashish,

Good to know that you too are a fan of Ruskin Bond ! You MUST read his "Landour Days" and "Rain in the mountains", if you haven't done so already.
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Molvania travel guide, by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner & Rob Sitch.

This book is a spoof travel guide to a fictitious east European country called Molvania.

Is is so funny, it's not the kind of book you could read on a bus when your alone, it is almost impossible to stop yourself from laughing loudly.

I opened the book in the shop at page 108 and started reading, two pages later and they could have charged me 3 times the cover price, I would have still thought it was worth the money.

The funniest book I've ever read.

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The Outsider by Albert Camus
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Bhagavad Gita
Island by Aldous Huxley
The Tibetan Book of the Dead; in case I don’t make it off the Island
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1. The Magus - John Fowles
2. An Atlas
3. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
4. The Diceman - Luke Rhinehardt or Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (can't decide btwn the 2)
5. The fattest, most informative textbook i could find on historical/cognative linguistics
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Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh), for the black humour, and the disgusting, yet appealing characters.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey), my favourite film became my favourite book when I read this.

Cosa Nostra (John Dickie), a personal interest, I don't know why, but visited Sicily this year just to satisfy an obsession in the subject.

Fever Pitch (Nick Hornby), a book a lot of us could relate to about obsessions in our lives, in this case football, but valid in all walks of life.

A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson), because I just started reading it, and I want to finish it. Also, the title says it all.
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Shogun, Lonesome Dove, A Fine Balance, Pillars of the Earth, The Night Manager, Daughter of Fortune - just to name a few.

Currently reading Shantaram.
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So many favourites, and it so depends on how I feel at the time...

But one book always floats to the top of my list: most loved, favouritest ever, bestest book in the world:

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Wild Swans
The Little Prince
Third Class Ticket
Memoirs of a Geisha
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

My book: Chasing Rainbows in Chennai (Hacktreks, Vancouver)
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Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (re-read)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera (re-read)
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges (am reading it now, so must bring it)
The Windup Bird Chronicles - Hakuri Murakami
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Micheal Chabon
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as already mentioned:


the alchemist-paul coelho ("when you follow your heart the universe conspires with you") - I've read this 3x thus far; about due to read it again.

siddharta - herman hesse - i've read this twice and often will read passages from it.

not sure what else, but i like the celestine prophecy too, which i've read 2x.
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In no particular order

Trainspotting - For just the punch in the face it was to read this book in my own dialect and
Catch 22 - Again and again I lread this book and laugh out loud ...pure genius
Lord Of the Rings - The first book I read for pleasure ...Blew my mind
Number 9 Dream - Simply beautiful as is Ghost written ...David Mitchells first book
100 years Of Solitude - Magical inspiring incredible In fact anything by this Marquez
1984 - The only book to scare me. I was upset for days after I finished this book

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Then let us pray that come it may
(As come it will for a' that),
That Sense and Worth o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree an a' that.
For a' that, an a' that,
It's coming yet for a' that,
That man to man, the world, o'er
Shall brithers be for a' that.
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Well, since this is a message board about India...

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Originally Posted by cindyland Well, since this is a message board about India...
OK, OK; The God of Small Things.

...and no, I didn't read it in Kerala
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