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Priya
from Pune |

The HP series, Interview with a Vampire, Silence of the Lambs, Atlas Shrugged, Life of Pi, A Thousand Splendid Suns, the Fountainhead, Godfather,Train to Pakistan, Angels and Demons, The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time, most of John Grisham's and Stephen King's - and I'm currently reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, which will probably end up as my most favourite book! 

Vanathi
from Chennai |

hey The Fountainhead is good too :) ! If you like Ayn Rand's work, you will love 'We the Living'.

Priya
from Pune |

Actually, I have read we The Living, it's good too!!

Sakhi Shah
from Vadodara |

Priya, have you read Twilight? How did you feel it compared to Interview with a Vampire? 

Priya
from Pune |

Yea, I read Twilight before I read Interview With a Vampire, and I thought it was okay! But I hadn't read much vampire-related fantasy fiction till then. 

After reading books like Interview with a Vampire and the other Vampire Chronicles and Dracula and Salem's Lot, I have to say, Twilight is very, very amateur! It's okay only as long as you don't compare it to any of these books, and God forbid, Harry Potter!!!Laughing

Shinjini Mehrotra
from Gurgaon |

Here are a few of my favories, in no particular order of preference:

Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling

What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt

Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

All of Paulo Coleho's books (except The Winner Stands Alone)

You can check out other books on my blog too - http://peddlerofdreams.wordpress.com/reading-list/ - that's a list of the books I've read/am reading with links to ones I've reviewed (very few!)

Anik Ghosh
from Bhubaneswar |

Why "except The Winner Stands Alone"? Didn't you like it?

Shinjini Mehrotra
from Gurgaon |

No Anik, I didn't. I found the dialogues used by the charectors too artificial; I couldn't connect to them at all.

Ashish Tickoo
from Mumbai |

Sicilian-Mario Puzo

Timeline,Sphere-Michael Crichton(even Congo!Fantastic reads,though his last two novels Next and Pirate Latitudes didn't match upto his earlier work)

Love In the Times of Cholera-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Shantaram-Gregory David Roberts

Last Mughal-William Dalrymple

Salems' Lot-Stephen King

Tipping Point-Malcolm Gladwell

Priya
from Pune |

If you liked Tipping Point, you should read Blink Smile Both are really good

Ashish Tickoo
from Mumbai |

And I am surprised no one mentioned the 'Lord of the Rings' series!

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

I did mention LOTR series as my fav

Sakhi Shah
from Vadodara |

I'm a fantasy lover but LOTR just doesn't appeal to me much somehow... :) 

Mag[m]
from Delhi |

mine was Love Life and a Beer can

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

seriously you could not get any other book to write about? You really like it that much?

Mag[m]
from Delhi |

at least it is better than the philosophical craps..... truth in its own way and i can feel maself in that

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

cant really argue with that! but did u really like no other book better than that... so much so that u wrote only one book and that too that one... please understand that I am not commenting here... just trying to understand why? because I myself did not hate it but didnt particularly like it either... found it to be too hindi film types

Mag[m]
from Delhi |

i liked others too but are already mentioned by others..... and ya its a bit filmy.... and as u him , i know him personally too..... he has a drean so he wrote , not professionally but very much better....

well leave that.... cant say anything

Deepak
from India |

by default he knws all!!!!

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

I am not really a Book-ie!! But here is what I have read...Started off reading the "The Jian by Eric Van Lustbader" based on a chinese village, left it half read in 2002. Still unfinished.Then came the HP series that got me hoooked!! Really, started reading books after the Harry Potter.Aft that, classics like Robin Hood, Around the world in 80 days, DaVinci Code,

The Digital Fortress,

Angels and demons,

Deception Point

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Addy same pinch.. didnt understand it well)

Zahir

The Alchemist

2 States

P.S. I love you,

Chicken Soup - Series

Fish! - series

The Firm,

... there is a list more, alas i could recollect all this till now..

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

ahh... finally someone else mentions The Firm as well... I really liked that one a lot... probbly cuz it was my first one in that genre... but enjoyable nonetheless, even when i read it now!

Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

Yeah @Aashish, thanks to the lib at my hostel i could grab my hands on this one...

Deepak
from India |

@Hemal: lots of yaar.....  i havnt read a single one in them !!! Tongue out

Jayanthy G
from Chennai |

A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini is the best so far..

Funny Side up by Ruskin bond!! :D Coolest!! :D

2 states.

Any Sidney Sheldon book

Famous Five and Nancy Drew, best of best books!!! :)

HP series

The Twilight Saga

Amanda Quick's books.

Nora Roberts books.

Iris Johansen's books..

Currently reading Wuthering Heights...

Deepak
from India |

OMG.... hell a lot yaar!!!!

Jayanthy G
from Chennai |

OMG! I forgot to mention P.S. I Love you! I dint like the movie much! The book was awesome!! :D

Mayank Sharma
from New Delhi |

Anthem , The virtues of selfishness , The Fountainhead and Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand. 

The 'gamechangers' by "fake IPL Player"

Dan Brown novels

Dork - Sidin Vadukut

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RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

my list is endless. A book maniac ,used to cross busy road in kolkata engrossed in reading book in one hand, 198o's. and still alive.

number one on my list is the Ashtavakra's Mahageeta.

then comes " Tao,teh ,king". by Lao tzu.

I love R.K.Lakshman kartoons too.

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

A very unique taste in books you have. I have not seen anyone else post these books... but have you read anything from the recent times? I would also be interested in that!

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

I am crossing the age of 47 now, and have seen my taste changing from enid blyton, when I was 13yrs,hardy boys, ,alfred hitchckok,etc. later, munshi premchand, harold robbins,irving wallace, sydney sheldon, p.g.wodehouse, arthur hailey,were all savoured.

'pappillon' by Henri charrier moved me. kane and able, gone with the wind,also. 

Then I got married  

"confusions of taoist on wallstreet' recently read and immensely liked it.

Anik Ghosh
from Bhubaneswar |

I love Hardy boys, and The Three Investigators... Laughing 

I first started reading with these books (and Feluda too, anyone read them?)

Priya
from Pune |

Even I loved the Three Investigators, and Enid Blyton of course! Papillon is such a good book, specially because it is a true story! :)

R Saraswathan
from Bangalore |

My Favourite Author is GK Chesterton and Peter F Drucker

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

I ve read feluda's case. superb.

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

correction: it's" confessions of a taoist on wall street."

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

the god father by mariopuzo,

dracula,

Deepak
from India |

dracula??? scary Sirji.... Surprised

Karthik P
from Bangalore |

I have read nearly 500 novels till now... Books which I liked the most are

1)Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling

2)Bourne series by Robert Ludlum

3)The Alchemist and 11 minutes by Paulo Coelho

4)The Digital Fortress,Da Vinci Code and Angel&Demons by Dan Brown

5)Some titles by James Hadley Chase 

6)Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs

7)Gor series by John Norman

Vaishali Adwant
from Hyderabad |

i like

ukranian folk tales

Many lives Many masters-Brian Weiss

Autobiographies

Business,management books

Fairy tales-swan princess is my favoutite

books by scott peck

books on graphology and esoteric world history/science

Classic literature-leo tolsoy,emile bronte

The moonstone-wilke collins

Fountainhead-ayn rand

Bram stoker's Dracula

Books on fashion,astrology,metaphysical and transcadental science

Shitmydadsays.com-justin \m/

Along came a spider-James patterson

Angels and Demons-Dan Brown

Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy-Douglas Adams

etc etc...

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

man! Thats some list of books :D

Vaishali Adwant
from Hyderabad |

@Karthik i like caspak series of Edgar Rice burroughs

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

@ Deepak , those were my prime days of 1980's.

Aashish Sood
from Delhi |

Dont keep on making yourself sound archaic!!!

Karthik P
from Bangalore |

@Vaishali Oh I see.. I didn't read that!!

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

the last place god made by jack higgins