My 2014 WishList

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1) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

2)The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen

3)Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges,

4)What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

5)And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

6)The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

7)The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor

8)English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee, Akhil Sharma

9)Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

10)Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

11)David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

12)Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer

13)Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer

14)Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

15)Yuganta: The End of an Epoch by Irawati Karve





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