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I am in a mood of buying Penguin Classics. Please suggest me some good books. Today I bought Anna Karenina and War & Peace. I have read them long ago & they are just great works. I have also read Fyodor’s Karamzov Brothers and Crime Punishment, Tolstoy’s Resurrrection & liked them too. Can anyone suggest me some good classics based on my likings ?

These books were mentioned at the back of W & P :
A dead man’s memoir by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Idiot by fyodor dostoevsky
The house of the dead by fyodor dostoevsky
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
A hero of our time by Mikhail Lermontov
Fathers & sons by Ivan Turgenev
The shooting party by Anton Chekhov
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

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Reading Oatmeal Book 2. Never ceases to get a chuckle out of me !

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Durbar by Tavleen Singh

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Currently re reading tom clancy. Shall be borrowing the Oath of the Vayuputras from @Neo-N when he gets his hands on it :face_with_tongue:

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reading chanakya’s chant!! ashwin sanghi

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Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

The horror redefined minus all supernatural fluff.

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No asimov, irvine welsh or iain banks in that chart.

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hows that book.?
I read his Rozabal Line - which I had mixed feeling. Story was okay, but overall book was too discrete. Chapters weren’t continous - lotsa concentration required to grasp the story which depicts over 2000 years. After that someone suggested me Chanakya’s Chant and I bought it. But still pending.

btw, currently reading The Prodigal Daughters - Jeffrey Archer.

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World War Z. Fiction written in a journalistic style with each chapter defining a part of the complete event.

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rozabal had an intriguing plot but he couldnt capitalize it and chanakya’s chant is similar to the first book,the style is similar to his rozabal line, linking modern events to those that occurred two millennia ago.have completed half the book and its a good read if u like chanakya and his thought process.Would only be comment on the book after completing it but one thing is sure uptill now this book has everything that needs in a Bollywood potboiler.

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Reading Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin these days

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This is not exactly a book, but I would suggest you guys to read about John McAfee, the founder of the anti-virus company: John McAfee’s Last Stand | Threat Level | Wired.com

And it’s just a snippet, when I was finished with this article, I was like, f*ck Steve, we have John here.

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Just finished reading these:

  1. The girl with the dragon tattoo - Stieg Larsson
  2. The girl who played with fire - Stieg Larsson
  3. The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest - Stieg Larsson
  4. The moving fingers - Agatha Christie
  5. 11 minutes - Paulo Coelho

Currently reading - Shutter Island

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Issac Asimov - Foundation series.

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Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell.

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IMO it’s a really wonderful book. I don’t read much non-fiction & it was a book I read after a lot of fiction books & I really liked it. If you liked Outliers, then you could also try The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle.

Please do suggest some more books like these, if you know :slight_smile:

and here is one nice infographic for Gladwell’s 10K rule :

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I have watched Life Of Pi & enjoyed it to the fullest. Now I bought audiobook of the same to listen while walking in morning.

Btw anyone here listens to audiobooks ? Can anyone suggest me some good audiobooks which I can listen in my morning walk ? Thank you :slight_smile:

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Finished shutter island.
Now started with Prince of Ayodhya = Ramayana series by Ashok Banker