Favourites

Updated 9 months ago
50 Books
siddharthagolu

This is a broad list of all the books I've loved over the years. Not necessarily my current favourites, but books I've enjoyed reading over different stages of my life.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Chup: Breaking the Silence About India's Women Deepa Narayan	5	1 read
#2	How to Listen to and Understand Great Music Robert Greenberg	4.67	9 reads
#3	Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace	4.26	304 reads
#4	Shame Salman Rushdie	3.7	15 reads
#5	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.09	538 reads
#6	A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.24	588 reads
#7	The Fountainhead Ayn Rand	3.49	304 reads
#8	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery Agatha Christie	4.23	594 reads
#9	India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy Ramachandra Guha	4.61	21 reads
#10	Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson	4.22	731 reads
#11	The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle	4.56	231 reads
#12	The Last Lecture Randy Pausch	4.11	154 reads
#13	Animal Farm George Orwell Boris Grabnar (Translator) Celâl Üster (Translator) Celâl Üstüner (Translator)	4.04	4,103 reads
#14	The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.06	1,467 reads
#15	Losing My Virginity: 1950-1993 Richard Branson	4.19	44 reads
#16	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	4.32	1,554 reads
#17	Lolita Vladimir Nabokov	3.91	1,023 reads
#18	1984 George Orwell	4.21	5,245 reads
#19	Estudio en escarlata Arthur Conan Doyle	4.53	39 reads
#20	Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4.25	1,137 reads
#21	The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde	4.06	1,760 reads
#22	All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr	4.2	927 reads
#23	War and Peace Leo Tolstoy	4.07	371 reads
#24	Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4	639 reads
#25	Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl	4.23	895 reads
#26	The wave in the mind Ursula K. Le Guin	4.11	12 reads
#27	The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	4.39	3,245 reads
#28	Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman	4.1	661 reads
#29	The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright	4.43	56 reads
#30	Zen Pencils Gavin Aung Than	3.93	7 reads
#31	Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker	4.33	442 reads
#32	The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien	4.56	1,338 reads
#33	The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus Justin O'Brien (Translator)	4.14	282 reads
#34	Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky Serge Shishkoff (Translator) Robert Teditorr Durgy	4.07	322 reads
#35	East of Eden John Steinbeck	4.47	627 reads
#36	Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Michael J. Sandel	4.37	42 reads
#37	Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sapolsky	4.29	75 reads
#38	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King	4.31	666 reads
#39	Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru	4.5	2 reads
#40	Einstein's Dreams Alan Lightman	3.96	98 reads
#41	Stoner John Williams	4.42	440 reads
#42	The Life of Greece Will Durant	4.33	9 reads
#43	Azadi Arundhati Roy	4.17	8 reads
#44	Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Allie Brosh	4.23	362 reads
#45	Persepolis, Vol. 1 Marjane Satrapi Mihaela Dobrescu (Translator)	4.38	298 reads
#46	Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition B.R. Ambedkar	4.8	5 reads
#47	What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.85	380 reads
#48	Anxious People Fredrik Backman Neil Smith (Translator)	4.25	691 reads
#49	The conquest of happiness Bertrand Russell	4.09	29 reads
#50	Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie	4.02	180 reads