BOOKS I HAVE READ IN 1997

1. R . K. Narayan - The Early Years (1906-1945) -  Susan Ram and N. Ram
2. The Shipping  News     -   E. Annie Proulx
3. Jump and  Other Stories  -   Nadine Gordimer
4. Eight  Little  Piggies    -    Stephen Jay Gould
5. The Legends of Khasak   -   O. V. Vijayan
6. The Infinity of Grace   -   O. V. Vijayan
7. The Inscrutable Americans  -  Anurag  Mathur
8. A  Himalayan Love Story   -   Namita  Gokhale
9. Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
10. The  Amul India  Story   -    Ruth  Heredia
11. Everybody Loves A Good Drought   - P Sainath
12. Hillaby's  World - Journeys Across Three Continents    -   John  Hillaby
13. The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
14. Long Walk to Freedom     -   Nelson Mandela
15. Strangers of the Mist :  Tales of War and Peace from India's North-East

- Sanjoy  Hazarika
16. Things  Fall   Apart   - Chinua Achebe
17. My Own Country  -  Abraham Verghese
18. The Primary Colors  -  Alexander Theroux
19. What is Mathematics ? - Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins
20. The Drunk Tantra  -  Ranga Rao
21. Best American Essays 1994 - Ed. Robert Atwan
22. The Waterworks  -  E. L. Doctrow
23. A Matter of Time -  Shashi Deshpande
24. Literacy & Empowerment  -  V. Athreya & Sheila Chunkath
25. Making the Mummies Dance  -  Thomas Hoving
26. The Little Prince   - Antoine Saint-Exupery
27. A Year in Provence  -  Peter Mayle
28. Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God   -  Jonah   Blank
29. Mirrorwork  -  50 years of Anglo-Indian Writing  -  Salman Rushdie/Elizabeth West (Eds.)
30. India  :  From Midnight to Millennium  -  Shashi  Tharoor
31. A Gentle Madness : Bibliophiles, bibliomanes and  the Eternal Passion for Books   - Nicholas Basbanes
32. Looking Through Glass - Mukul Kesavan
33. Essays on Contemporary India - Bipin Chandra

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