I Need Your Help…..
I am on a reading marathon right now and have finished a few novels this month including a couple of Graphic Novels(Maus and Persepolis). A few P.G. Wodehouse, Kahlil Gibran, Oscar Wilde and am starting Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
Yesterday I bought 3 more; A Short History of Almost Everything by Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry’s The Ode Less Travelled and collector’s set of The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Books are, I feel the best medium of entertainment. I have read a lot of classic stuff but still a lot remains to be read. I am making a list of must reads and want you guys to add your suggestions and/or recommendations to the list
My personal favourites are:
- A Tale of 2 Cities
- The Three Musketeers
- Mayor of Caster-bridge
- Catch-22
- My Family and other animals.
- 20 Years later
- 10 years after
- Man in the Iron Mask
- Count of Monte Cristo
- The Jungle Book
- Great Expectations
- Treasure Island
- Ivanhoe
- Moby Dick
- 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Animal Farm
- The Godfather
- War of the Worlds
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Invisible Man
- Essays of Voltaire
- Works of Descartes
- Homer’s Iliad and Odysseus
- Mahabharata
- Divine Comedy
- ……..etc (It is a very long list)
My cousin has recommended I Claudius and Claudius the God.
Please add to the list……….
History of the sikhs by khushwant singh ( two volumes)- A very good compilation. I loved reading them even though I knew parts of it but still always nice to know and re-read it
I am currently reading-
Empire of The Sikhs: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
by Patwant Singh and Jyoti M Rai- A well- written book again
Hmmmmm…..Thanks. Will add them to the must read lists. Though I know a lot about both the topics because I studied in a Sikh School and you know my Mom is a Sikh and Father Punjabi. But will be interesting to read about the history of our culture again.
My house in school was Maharaja Ranjit Singh….he is definitely a great historic figure. His general Banda Singh Bahadur was also a brave chap……hey can you lend me the books…I will return them in good condition.
Do you have any suggestions for a good read in Punjabi script?