READING LIST 2010
Classes 11-12

General Fiction

  1. Valhalla Rising                                                         Clive Cussler
  2. Sahara                                                                       Clive Cussler
  3. Texas                                                                          James Michner
  4. The Innocent Man                                                             John Grisham
  5. The Broker                                                               John Grisham
  6. Skin and other stories                                           Roald Dahl
  7. The Jeeves omnibus                                              P.G.Wodehouse
  8. The Glass Palace                                                     Amitav Ghosh
  9. The Kite Runner                                                      Khalid Hossaini
  10. The Island Of Dr.Morreau                                   H.G.Wells
  11. The Namesake                                                        Jhumpa Lahiri
  12. The Unaccustomed Earth                                    Jhumpa Lahiri
  13. The World Is What It Is                                         Patrick French
  14. The Quest                                                                 Wilbur Smith
  15. The Shining                                                              Stephen King
  16. The Thorn Birds                                                      Collen Mccollogyl
  17. Farewell waltz                                                         Milan Kundra
  18. A Thousand Splendid Suns                                  Khalid Hossaini
  19. Lord Of The Rings                                                   J.R.R.Tolkien
  20. Not Without My Daughter                                  Betty Mahmoody
  21. Memoirs Of A Geisha                                            Arthur Golden
  22. Freedom Writers Diary                                        Erin Gruwell
  23. Detective                                                                  Arthur Hailey
  24. James Bond                                                              Ian Fleming 
  25. Marley And Me                                                       John Grogan
  26. The Inheritance of Loss                                        Kiran Desai
  27. The Godfather                                                        Mario Puzo
  28. The Sicilian                                                               Mario Puzo                         
  29. The Prestige                                                             Christopher Priest
  30. Shantaram                                                               Gregory David Roberts
  31. The Guns of Navarone                                          Alistair Maclean
  32. The White Tiger                                                      Aravind Adiga        
  33. Protect and Defend                                               Richard North
  34. Books by Ken Folliet, Tom Clancy, Chetan Bhagat, Fradrick Forsyth. Robert Ludlum, Isaac Assimov, Ayn Rand and Upamanyu Chatterjee.     

                 
Non fiction

  1. The Emperor Series                                               Conn Iggulden
  2. The Last Mughal                                                     William Dalrymple
  3. City of Djinns                                                           William Dalyrmple
  4. Shiksha                                                                      Amit Kaushik
  5. A Boy Beyond Reach                                             Cheri Florence
  6. It’s Not About The Bike                                         Lance Armstrong
  7. My Experiments With Truth                                Mahatma Gandhi
  8. The Great India Wall                                             Shashi Tharoor
  9. The God Of Small Things                                      Arundhati Roy
  10. A Brief History Of Time                                         Stephen Hawking
  11. Freedom in Exile                                                      The Dalai Lama

Fantasy Fiction

  1. The Harry Potter Series                                        J.K.Rowling
  2. The Lord Of The Rings                                           J.R.R.Toliken
  3. Foundation                                                              Isaac Assimov
  4. The Pillars Of The Earth                                        Kevin Follett
  5. The Last Legion                                                       V.Masimo Manfrendi
  6. Inheritance Trilogy                                                Christopher Paolini
  7. The Children Of Men                                             P.D.James 
  8. The Game World Trilogy                                      Samit  Basu

Other

  1. I And Thou                                                               Martin Buber
  2. 1984                                                                          George Orwell
  3. Wolf Totem                                                              Jinag Rong
  4. The Secret                                                                Rhonda Byrnes

Short Stories