My students keep asking me to suggest them few books to read. The only thing I do at that particular point of time is to keep quiet, for I don't really know what their tastes are. If insisted, in order to escape I would ask them to read some Telugu or Kannada poems, stories, novels etc. I know they wont be convinced with that not-so-serious suggestion. On one occasion, my inguinity was suspected and I felt I should retaliate. I went on listing some of the finest books of the world that every book lover ought to read. See, if my list is of some use to you too. Do suggest if I missed out any.- The Ramayana - Valmiki
- The Mahabharata - Ved Vyas
- Abhignana Shakuntalam - Kalidas
- Aesope's Fables - Aesope
- The poetics - Aristotle
- The Bible - Various authors
- Alice' s adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The canterbury tales - Chaucer
- Don Quixote - Cerventes
- Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
- Tale of two cities - Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward Fitzerald
- The Diary of a young girl - Anne Frank
- Mother - Maxim Gorkey
- The return of the native - Thomas Hardy
- The Iliad - Homer
- The Odyssey - Homer
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- The Alchemist - Ben Johnson
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
- The outsider - Albert Camus
- Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The jungle books - Rudyard Kipling
- Sons and lovers - D. H. Lawrence
- Paradise Lost/ Paradise Regained - John Milton
- Gone with the wind - Margeret Mitchell
- Utopia - Thomas Moore
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Republic - Plato
- All is well that ends well - Shakespeare
- As you like it - Shakespeare
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
- Julius Caesar - Shakespeare
- King Lear - Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet -Shakespeare
- Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw
- Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
- War and peace - Tolstoy
- The adventures of Tom sawyer - Mark Twain
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
- Arabian night's entertainement - Unknown
- Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne
- The Aeneid - Virgil
- Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
- The time machine - H. G. Wells
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
- To kill a mocking bird - Harper Lee
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo
- Things fall apart - Chinua Ache
Thats all I remember for now... Do let me know if you have read something worthwhile.
i have just read sherlock's and alchemist...2 bad.
ReplyDeletesir u can even suggest for sydney sheldon's.