A Collection of Books

The following is a list of books one has had the privilege of reading over the years

1	A Brief History of Time	Stephen W. Hawking
2	Black Holes and Baby Universes	Stephen W. Hawking
3	Dreams of a Final Theory	Steven Weinberg
4	The First Three Minutes	Steven Weinberg
5	Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science	John Gribbin & Michael White
6	The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Biography of Srinivas Ramanujan	Robert Kanigel
7	Genius: A Biography of Richard Feynman	James Gleick
8	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
9	Cosmic Coincidences	John Gribbin and Martin Rees
10	Chaos – The Making of a New Science	James Gleick
11	Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman	Richard Feynman
12	Cosmos	Carl Sagan
13	Broca’s Brain	Carl Sagan
14	Dragons of Eden	Carl Sagan
15	Beyond the Last Blue Mountain: A Biography of J. R. D. Tata	R. M. Lala
16	Joy of Achievement – Conversations with J. R. D. Tata	R. M. Lala
17	The End of history and the Last Man	Francis Fukuyama
18	With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln
19	How We Die	Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland
20	The Razor’s Edge	Somerset Maugham
21	Silicon Samurai	Tom Forrester
22	Father, Son and Co. – My Life at IBM and Beyond	Thomas Watson Jr.
23	A Life in Our Times	John Kenneth Galbraith
24	John Kenneth Galbraith – His Life, His Politics and His Economics	Richard Parker
25	Why Me?	Sammy Davis, Jr.
26	Woody Allen – Complete Prose	Woody Allen
27	Imaginary Homelands	Salman Rushdie
28	Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie
29	Preparing for the Twenty-First Century	Paul Kennedy
30	The Golden Gate	Vikram Seth
31	From Heaven Lake – Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet	Vikram Seth
32	An Equal Music	Vikram Seth
33	Forward the Foundation	Issac Asimov
34	Nancy Reagan	Kitty Kelly
35	The Day of the Jackal	Frederic Forsyth
36	The Fist of God	Frederic Forsyth
37	Five Patients	Michael Crichton
38	Travels	Michael Crichton
39	The Andromeda Strain	Michael Crichton
40	Creatures of the Kingdom	James Michener
41	Space	James Michener
42	Beloved	Toni Morrison
43	Contact	Carl Sagan
44	The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand
45	The Evening News	Arthur Hailey
46	Airport	Arthur Hailey
47	Ageless Body, Timeless Mind	Deepak Chopra
48	Catch – 22	Joseph Heller
49	The Fifth Horseman	Dominique Lapierre
50	Imperial Earth	Arthur C. Clarke
51	The Last Take – Marilyn Monroe
52	Maze	Larry Collins
53	Latecomers	Anita Brookner
54	Jimmy	Jane Renouf
55	Issac Asimov’s New Guide to Science	Issac Asimov
56	Hospital	Arthur Hailey
57	Body and Soul	Frank Conroy
58	Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison
59	Profiles of the Future	Arthur C. Clarke
60	Kane and Abel	Jeffrey Archer
61	Our Game	John Le Carre
62	The Secret Pilgrim	John Le Carre
63	The Russia House	John Le Carre
64	Smiley’s People	John Le Carre
65	The Night Manager	John Le Carre
66	Foundation and Earth	Issac Asimov
67	Sisters	Robert Littell
68	1984: SPRING – A Choice of Futures	Arthur C. Clarke
69	The Bridge Across Forever	Richard Bach
70	Illusions	Richard Bach
71	Love Story	Erich Segal
72	Oliver’s Story	Erich Segal
73	The Edible Woman	Margaret Atwood
74	Jasmine	Bharati Mukherjee
75	Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76	India: A Million Mutinies Now	V. S. Naipaul
77	An Agent in Place	Robert Littell
78	The Theory of Evolution	John Maynard Smith
79	Talking Straight	Lee Iacocca
80	An Autobiography	Lee Iacocca
81	The Hunt for Red October	Tom Clancy
82	Red Storm Rising	Tom Clancy
83	OP-CENTER	Tom Clancy
84	The Naïve and Sentimental Lover	John Le Carre
85	Shall We Tell the President	Jeffrey Archer
86	Icon	Frederic Forsyth
87	The Terminal Man	Michael Crichton
88	Rising Sun	Michael Crichton
89	Sphere	Michael Crichton
90	Airframe	Michael Crichton
91	Dragon Seed	Pearl S. Buck
92	The New Science Journalists
93	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
94	The Rainbow	D. H. Lawrence
95	Brain	Robin Cook
96	Coma	Robin Cook
97	Blindsight	Robin Cook
98	The Year of the Intern	Robin Cook
99	Invasion	Robin Cook
100	The Fourth K	Mario Puzo
101	Godfather	Mario Puzo
102	Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare
103	A Passage to India	E. M. Forster
104	Diana: Her True Story	Andrew Morton
105	Discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
106	An Autobiography	Jawaharlal Nehru
107	Glimpses of World History	Jawaharlal Nehru
108	Probabilities of the Quantum World
109	Penguin History of the World	J. M. Roberts
110	Freedom at Midnight	Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Recent books accessed from the American Center Library in New Delhi
111	The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
112	The New Empire: A Collection of Essays (1992 – 2000)	Gore Vidal
113	A Life in the Cosmos: A Biography of Carl Sagan	William Poundstone
114	A Man on the Moon	Andrew Chaikin
115	The Portable Malcolm Cowley	Malcolm Cowley
116	My Fellow Americans: A Collection of Speeches by US Presidents
117	An Unfinished Life – A Biography of JFK	Robert Dalek
118	Robert Frost – A Life	Jay Parini
119	Ogden Nash	Collected Poems
120	The year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
121	Over Here – The First World War and American Society	David M. Kennedy
122	Alan Shrugged – Alan Greenspan, the World’s Most Powerful Banker	Jerome Tucille
123	The Crosswinds of Freedom	James MacGregor Burns
124	Dutch – A Memoir of Ronald Reagan	Edmund Morris
125	Some Sort of Epic Grandeur – The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald	Matthew J. Bruccoli
126	BILL CLINTON: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY – Great Expectations	Nigel Hamilton
127	FAULKNER: A BIOGRAPHY	Joseph Blotner
128	NOBEL PRIZE WOMEN IN SCIENCE	Sharon Bertsch McGrayne