Books which I have come across

These are a few of the authors and their books which I have read and I feel deserve mention. They are organized roughly in descending order of reading pleasure though the list is not strictly accurate since I have cut across about a million different genres of writing. To put it as a physicist would, the preference order is exact plus or minus about 3.
  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude is by far the most fascinating book I have read. It is of course possible that the only reason I understand and like this book as much as I do is the fact that I had to write a report on it as part of a course on Modern Fiction I did. I am however inclined to the view that this is truly an amazing book and I have yet to come across anything which can match this book for its sheer brilliance. Marquez's other books such as Love in the Time of Cholera, I feel fail to live up to One Hundred Years of Solitude. His short stories though are again works of brilliance. My personal favourite is Strange Pilgrims.
  2. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut : Another absolutely amazing book which I think everyone should be made to read. I have also put up a review of Slaughterhouse 5. Much as I would have liked to have written this I regret to say that I haven't. Its been written by that most naturalized of maddus Purungaswamy Dubbarao (aka Purnish Dave). The report sums up more or less exactly what I feel about the book apart from the fact that its an amazingly good read.
  3. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  4. The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  5. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  7. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
  8. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
  9. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  10. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  11. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  14. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
  16. Lord of The Rings by J.R.R.Tollkien
  17. Neuromancer by William Gibson
  18. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  19. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  20. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  21. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  22. Paddy Clarke...ha ha ha by Roddy Doyle
  23. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  24. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammett
  25. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  26. 1984 by George Orwell
  27. My Century by Gunter Grass
  28. The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
  29. Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat by Bill Waterson
  30. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  31. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  32. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  33. The Spy who Came in From The Cold by John Le Carre
  34. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  35. All About H. Haterr by G.V. Desani
  36. Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
  37. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  38. The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
  39. The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
  40. The Fist of God by Frederick Forsythe
  41. The Eagle has Landed by Jack Higgins
  42. Floodgate by Alistair Mac Lean
  43. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  44. The Complete Yes Minister by Jonathan Lynn & Antony Jay
  45. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  46. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  47. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
  48. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  49. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  50. Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man by Joseph Heller