BOOK LIST | P-1
LEVEL-1
☐ Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
☐ Books by Enid Blyton (Secret Seven & Famous Five
Series)
☐ The Hardy Boys series : Franklin W Dickxon
☐ Malgudi Days : RK Narayan
☐ Wonder : RJ Palacio
☐ Tales of Panchatantra
☐ Geronimo Stilton books
☐ Short stories by D.H. Lawrence
☐ Any book by Agatha Christie
☐ Any book by Sidney Sheldon
☐ Mahabharata : Amar Chitra Katha
☐ Short Stories by O Henry
☐ A children’s history of India : Subhadra Sen Gupta
☐ Animal Farm : George Orwell
☐ A Man Called Ove : Fredrick Backman
☐ The Fault in Our Stars : John Green
LEVEL-2
☐ Any book by Jeffery Archer
☐ Any book by John Grisham (King of the torts, The
Rainmaker etc.) (Legal Fiction)
☐ Any book by Arthur Hailey (Airport, Hotel) (Service
Sector Fiction)
☐ The White Tiger : Arvind Adiga
☐ Any book by Amish Tripathi
☐ The Godfather : Mario Puzo
☐ 1984 : George Orwell
☐ Foundation : Isac Asimov (Astronomy Fiction)
☐ Any book by Robert Ludlum
☐ Any book by Robin Cook (Medical Fiction)
☐ 40 Rules of Love (and other works of Eli Shafak)
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LEVEL-3
☐ Any book by Amitav Ghosh (The Hungry Tide, The
Calcutta Chromosome, The sea of poppies)
☐ Any book by Jhumpa Lahiri (The namesake, Interpreter
of Maladies)
☐ Any book by Khaled Hosseini
☐ Any book by Frederick Forsyth (The Icon, The Afghan)
☐ The God of small things : Arundhati Roy
☐ ‘The Great Expectations’ or ‘A tale of two cities’:
Charles Dickens
☐ Stories by O. Henry
☐ ‘A book of English Essays’ : Penguin classics
☐ ‘Black Beauty’ : Anna Sewell
☐ The Book Thief : Markus Zusak
☐ Bride and Prejudice : Jane Austen
LEVEL-4
☐ Any book by Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore,
Norwegian Wood, Men Without Women)
☐ Any book by Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel prize for literature,
2017) (The Remains of the Day, Nocturnes)
☐ Any book by Salman Rushdie (Midnight Children, The
Enchantress of Florence, Shalimar the clown)
☐ Any book by Orhan Pamuk (Snow, my name is red,
Museum of Innocence etc.)
☐ Any book by Franz Kafka (The trial, Metamorphosis)
☐ ‘The secret pilgrim’ : Joseph Heller
☐ ‘Beloved’ : Toni Morrison
☐ ‘By the sea’ : Abdulrazak Gurnah
☐ ‘The eighth commandment’ : Lawrence Sanders
☐ ‘The romantic Manifesto’ or ‘The virtue of selfishness’
or ‘Capitalism: The Unknown ideal’ or ‘The
Fountainhead’ or ‘Atlas Shrugged’ by Ayn Rand
☐ ‘The dialogues of Plato’ : Batnam Books
☐ The Third Wave/Future Shock/Powershift:Alvin Toffler
☐ All books by Paulo Coelho; especially ‘The Alchemist’
☐ All books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the Times
of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude etc.)

BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT
☐ Who says Elephants can’t Dance : Louis Gerstner
☐ Who moved my Cheese : Dr. Spencer Johnson
☐ Make sure you read every week — The case studies of
Business World
☐ The Age of Reason : Thomas Paine
☐ The seven habits of highly effective people : Stephen
R Covey
☐ How to win friends & influence people : Dale Carnegie
☐ Winning : Jack Welch
☐ The Art of War by Sun Tzu
☐ Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
☐ Built to Last : Jim Collins
☐ Influence : The psychology of persuasion by Robert
Cialdini
☐ The Wal-Mart effect : Charles Fishman
☐ Losing my Virginity : Richard Branson
☐ The Culting of Brands : Douglas Atkin
☐ Emotional Design : Donald A Norman
☐ The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing : Al Ries, Jack
Trout
☐ ‘I am right , You are Wrong’ : Edward de Bono
☐ ‘The GOAL’ : Eliyahu and Goldratt Cox (A must read)
☐ ‘The 80/20 Principle’ : Richard Koch
☐ ‘Small is beautiful’ : EF Schumacher
☐ ‘Maverick’ : Ricardo Semler
☐ ‘Pepsi to apple’ : John Sculley
☐ ‘Hit and Run’ : Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters
☐ ‘Emotional Intelligence’ : Daniel Goleman
OCCULT
☐ The greatness of Saturn : Robert. E. Svoboda
☐ Chariots of God : Erich Von Daniken
☐ The prophecies of Nostradmus : Erika Cheetham
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FINANCE AND INVESTING
☐ Berkshire Hathaway letters to Shareholders : Warren
Buffett (& Essays by Warren Buffett)
☐ Rich Dad Poor Dad, How to retire young & retire Rich :
Robert Kiyosaki
☐ The Intelligent Investor : Benjamin Graham
☐ Think and Grow Rich : Napoleon Hill
☐ A Random Walk Down Wall Street : Burton G. Malkiel
☐ Poor Charlie’s Almanack : Charlie Munger
☐ Fooled by Randomness : Nassim Taleb
☐ The Dhandho Investor : Mohnish Pabrai
☐ The Internet of Money : Andreas M. Antonopoulos
LEADERSHIP
☐ The Starfish & the Spider : Brafman & Breckstrom
☐ Built to Last : Jim Collins
☐ Leading Change : John Kotter
☐ The Leadership Dojo : Richard Srozzi
☐ The Tipping Point : Malcolm Gladwell
☐ Outsmart : Jim Champy
☐ Love is the killer App : Tim Sanders
☐ The One minute Manager : Kenneth Blanchard
☐ True North : Bill George
☐ First, Break all the Rules : Buckingham & Coffman
☐ The Compassionate Samurai : Brian Klemmer
☐ ‘A Better India, a Better World’ : Narayan Murthy
ECONOMICS
☐ Thinking Fast and Slow : Daniel Kahneman
☐ Freakonomics : Levitt & Dubner
☐ The Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
☐ ‘The black economy in India’ : Arun Kumar
☐ ‘The price of onions’ : Ashok V. Desai
☐ ‘Hungry for trade’ : John Madeley.(Penguin)
☐ ‘The Elephant The Tiger and The Cellphone’ : Shashi
Tharoor

SCIENCE & BIOLOGY
☐ ‘Genius’ : James Gleick
☐ ‘E=mc2 ’ : David Bodanis
☐ ‘Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman’ : Richard
Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physics)
☐ ‘Genetic engineering’ : Mae—wan ho
☐ ‘Germs — the ultimate weapon’ : Judith miller
☐ ‘Men — from stone age to clone age’ : John Madeley
☐ The Origin of Species : Charles Darwin
☐ The System of the World : Isaac Newton
☐ All works of Jane Goodall
☐ ‘The human zoo’ & ‘The naked ape’ : Desmond Morris
☐ ‘The tao of physics’, ‘The turning point’ & ‘The web of
life’ : Fritz o’ Capra
☐ ‘A Brief History of Time’ : Stephen Hawking
☐ Homo Sapiens: A Brief History of Manking & Homo
Deus
☐ Homo Sapiens: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval
Noah Harrari
SPIRITUALITY
☐ Autobiography of a Yogi : Parmahansa Yogananda Ji
☐ Other works of Paramhansa Yogananda Ji (Man’s
Eternal Quest, The Divine Romance)
☐ Adiyogi : The Source of Yoga, Inner Engineering by
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev (Highly recommended)
☐ Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
☐ All books by Swami Vivekananda
☐ Peace is Every Step by Thich Naht Hanh
☐ Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
☐ Synchro Destiny by Deepak Chopra
☐ The Journey Home by Radhanath Swami
☐ The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi
☐ A Gradual Awakening by Stephen Levine
☐ Many Lives Many Masters : Brian Wess
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HISTORY
☐ Sophie’s World : Jostein Gaarder (A must read History
+ Philosophy book)
☐ ‘Taliban’ : Ahmed Rashid
☐ ‘Long walk to Freedom’ : Nelson Mandela
☐ ‘The autobiography of an unknown Indian’ : Nirad C.
Chaudhary
☐ ‘Discovery of India’ : Nehru (Chacha)
☐ ‘Europe since Napoleon’ : David Thomson
☐ ‘Burma — The curse of independence’ : Shelby Tucker
☐ ‘Memories of Madness: Stories of 1947’ : Penguin
Publishers
☐ ‘India’s struggle for independence’ : Bipan Chandra
☐ Books by William Dalrymple
MOTIVATION
☐ Bhagwat Geeta – Any Commentary (S. Radhakrishnan,
Vinoba Bhave)
☐ Wings of Fire : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
☐ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k : Mark Manson
☐ The Power of Intention : Dr. Wayne Dyer
☐ My decision to Live : Nader Elguindi
☐ Stop Whining, Start Living : Dr. Laura Schlessinger
☐ The Last Lecture : Randy Pausch
☐ The Power of Positive Thinking : Dr.Norman Vincent
Peale
☐ The Monk who sold his Ferrari , Lead without a Title :
Robin Sharma
☐ Awaken the Giant within : Athony Robbins
☐ The Power of Now : Eckhart Tolle
☐ The Power of Habit : Charles Duhigg
☐ See You at the top : Zig Ziglar
☐ Who Moved my Cheese : Spencer Johnson
☐ One Minute Manager : Ken Blanchard & Spencer
Johnson

BIOGRAPHY AND
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
☐ My Experiments with Truth : M. K. Gandhi
☐ Open : Andre Agassi
☐ Steve Jobs : Walter Isaacson
☐ ‘Hitler’ : Ian Kershaw
☐ ‘Iacocca’ : Lee Iacoca
☐ ‘Business legends’ : Gita Piramal
☐ ‘The diary of a young girl’ : Anne Frank
☐ ‘The Flight of Ambition’ : Apoorve Dubey
☐ ‘Every Second Counts’ : Lance Armstrong
☐ ‘A Beautiful Mind’ : Sylvia Nasar (based on life of John
Nash)
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PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND
SOCIOLOGY
☐ ‘An unquiet mind’ : Kay Redfield
☐ ‘Creativity’ : Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
☐ ‘Them’ : Jon Ronson
☐ ‘Emotional Alchemy’ : Tara Bennet
☐ Being Mortal : Atul Gawande
☐ ‘Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance’
☐ Doctors : Eric Sehgal
☐ The conquest of happiness : Bertrand Russell
☐ Unlimited power : Tony Robbins
☐ The fifth Discipline : Peter Senge