Friday, April 01, 2011

Books I own, but have not read.....

Not a very impressive way of reviving my blog, I must admit. But at the same time, cataloguing the books I own has been such an enjoyable activity that I couldn't resist this!


I've always thought myself to be a very avid reader (in fact, I still think that) but I just realized that I'm just as avid a book collector. I just cannot enter a bookstore and leave without having loosened my purse strings just that little bit. This has made me very wary of being in the vicinity of one off late considering that my financial status post doing up my home has sadly dwindled. S and me often dream of that day when we both can just enter Crossword or Landmark or and pick up books we want to without even thinking of their prices. Sigh.......


Anyway, coming back to the matter I am writing this post for, my finished catalog tells me that I own at least 93 books which I have not yet read!!! 93!! Can you beat that? Am not very happy about it but at least now I have a defined "to read" list.


Yes, you got that right - if you have managed to read this post till this point, you are going to be subjected to going through the list of 93 books that Sachin owns but has not yet read. So here goes:


The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams, Douglas


The Eleventh Commandment by Archer, Jeffrey


Paths of Glory by Archer, Jeffrey


The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunits by Ashley, Mike


The Mammoth Book of Fantasy by Ashley, Mike


Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Bach, Richard


Split Second by Baldacci, David


The Slayer of Kamsa by Banker, Ashok


The Japanese Wife by Basu, Kunal


The 3 Mistakes of my Life by Bhagat, Chetan


If I am Assassinated by Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali


The Best of Ruskin Bond by Bond, Ruskin


Carpet Sahib by Booth, Martin


Mirror Image by Brown, Sandra


Command the Morning by Buck, Pearl S.


The Power of Creative Intelligence by Buzan, Tony


How to Mind Map by Buzan, Tony


Witness for the Prosecution & Selected Plays by Christie, Agatha


The Mirror crack'd from Side to Side by Christie, Agatha


Partners in Crime by Christie, Agatha


I'll Be Seeing You by Clark, Mary Higgins


No Place Like Home by Clark, Mary Higgins


The Darkest Fear by Cohen, Harlan


The Second Jim Corbett Omnibus by Corbett, Jim


Postmortem by Cornwell, Patricia


Cause of Death by Cornwell, Patricia


Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed by Cornwell, Patricia


Gorky Park + Nightwing by Cruz, Martin Smith


The Best of Roald Dahl by Dahl, Roald


The Snow Leopard Adventure by Dalal, Deepak


Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles


Other Challenger Stories by Doyle, Arthur Conan


The Maracott Deep by Doyle, Arthur Conan


Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George


Banker by Francis, Dick


The Diary of a Young Girl by Frank, Anne


The Case of the Careless Kitten by Gardner, Erle Stanley


Blink by Gladwell, Malcolm


Lord of the Flies by Golding, William


Stone of Tears by Goodkind, Terry


Blood of the Fold by Goodkind, Terry


Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by Gray, John


Classic Mystery Stories by Greene


Shyam (in Marathi) by Guruji, Sane


A Spot of Bother by Haddon, Mark


King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, H. Rider


Airport by Hailey, Arthur


A Second Chance at Eden by Hamilton, Peter F.


Hannibal by Harris, Thomas


Catch 22 by Heller, Joseph


The Dash to Khartoum by Henry, G A


Most Wanted - The First Line Up by Hitchcock, Alfred


It by King, Stephen


Duma Key by King, Stephen


Indian Stories by Kipling, Rudyard


Oh Shit Not Again by Kokate, Mandar


The Prophecy by Kuzneski, Chris


The Arraignment by Martini, Steve


The Best Short Stories by Maupassant, Guy de


Twilight by Meyer, Stephanie


Caribbean by Michener, James


Hawaii by Michener, James


Lore & Legends of Kerala by Narayanan, T C


An Outline of American History by Olson, Prof. Keith W.


Jaya, an illustrated reading of the Mahabharata by Pattanaik, Devadutta


The Complete Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Poe, Edgar Allan


Fools Die by Puzo, Mario


The New Army by Ranjan, Rajiva


Shriman Yogi (in Marathi) by Ranjit Desai


The Complete Adventures of Feluda by Ray, Satyajit


Midnight's Children by Rushdie, Salman


A Situation in New Delhi by Sahgal, Nayantara


Hauntings by Samanta, Suchitra


The Rozabal Line by Sanghi, Ashwin


The Last Song of Dusk by Sanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant


Shivaji and his Times by Sarkar, Jadunath


FIELD by Sathe, Rajiv & Shenoy, Vinayak


Airport 77 by Scheff, Michael & Spector, David


The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William


Gold Mine + Monsoon by Smith, Wilbur


The Amulet of Samarkand by Stroud, Jonathon


Golem's Eye by Stroud, Jonathon


Ptolemy's Gate by Stroud, Jonathon


ET Traveller - 101 best holidays this season by Timesgroup


Unfinished Tales by Tolkien, JRR


Sigurd & Gudrun by Tolkien, JRR


Great Sea Stories by Various Authors


Great Short Stories by Various Authors


The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules


Conversations with God - Book 1 by Walsch, Neale Donald


Conversations with God - Book 2 by Walsch, Neale Donald


Pappillon by Charriere, Henri


Yes, before anybody tells me, I do know that this is a completely assorted set of tomes and there is no real reason I've not read them. Enough said - hopefully next time I'll be able to post a few reviews of some of the better ones amongst these. I am back! :)


P.S. Just so you know, currently am reading "Unfinished Tales" by JRR Tolkien....

4 comments:

Shruthi said...

I like the list - the books are like those I have read/would like to read. With so many books unread, you better complain about not being able to go buy books at a store :)

Looking fwd to the reviews!

Winnie Da Poo said...

Books you should read:

Split Second by Baldacci (might as well get the other books in the series - this is by far the best that Baldacci has written: Hour Game, Simple Genius, First Family)

Bartimaeus series - I think you'll enjoy the humor in the books a lot - I know I did

NOT WORTH IT:
Twilight? really? It's just not worth the effort...

Boring:
Eleventh Commandment - Archer
Diary of a young girl - Frank

The rest, haven't read them...though there is a fair bit of overlap between our lists..Let me know if you're done with Unfinished Tales...It took me 3 months to get through Silmarillion, so going to wait on this one :D

Welcome back! Finally I have something to read online :D

Soulmate said...

wow... Thats quite a list.. Even I have a lot of unread books, considering that I am a slow reader, but you surely beat with the count- 93.. Keep adding to the list (not unread though).. :-)

LAK said...

Unfinished Tales is appropriate, for someone with such a long list of unread books! The list is a good mix---happy reading! The mirror crack'd from side to side is a favourite of mine---