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Animal Farm: Centennial Edition

Animal Farm: Centennial Edition - Nice read.

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini One of the best books written with a backdrop of Afghanistan

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré Started reading the series for the first time. Immensely readable and enjoyed a lot.

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird - One of the best books I ever read

Hangman's Holiday (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries - Dorothy L. Sayers Includes stories from Monty Egg and Lord Peter Wimsey. Couple of stories were really good others were, sorry to say, ordinary.

Lord Peter Views the Body (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series)

Lord Peter Views the Body - Dorothy L. Sayers Few of the stories are good but not one of her best works..

Strong Poison

Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers The fifth book from the Lord Peter Wimsey series. It's fabulous with all the details about Arsenic.

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism - Matt Mason Wonderful insightful book about Hip hop culture, Remix and Open source amongst other things and Piracy in each of the industries. I liked it. The Outro part of the book where analogy with Prisoner's Dilemma is made is the best part of the book.

Innocent Blood

Innocent Blood - P.D. James One of the best of P D James books. Though I was hoping more mysteries to get unravelled at the end but nevertheless it is a good read.

Heart of Darkness (Green Integer Books)

Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary - Joseph Conrad Difficult read but is a classic nevertheless.

Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #6)

Death of an Expert Witness - P.D. James Another one of her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries and I thoroughly enjoyed it reading till end.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini The story is about 2 Afghani girl's lives in the backdrop of years of political and social turbulence in Afghanistan from the times of Soviets to Mujahideen to Taliban. Heart touching story about their trebulations and endurance.

The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh Series #5)

The Black Tower - P.D. James P D James has come up with an engrossing murder mystery plot in this book. Toynton Grange and its occupants' characters has been beautifully written. Even though I felt that the end could have been better but being a big fan of her work I can ignore that!

Rebecca (Virago Modern Classics)

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier, Sally Beauman Beautifully written. The description of English suburb is like elegant prose and element of suspense throughout the novel is pretty good. Unputdownable, to say the least!!

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein Much of the content is repetitive if one has read other behavioral economics books. But the authors' takes on Marriage (Privatizing), Savings, Green taxes, etc were new and thought-provoking

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye - Good read!