Books to Read

I'm really liking this 10 books game on Facebook! I'm learning about so many new books and also realizing that I have a looong way to go in terms of literature. My reading has been quite narrow so far: limited to the most famous classics and contemporary best-sellers. I still haven't read Ayn Rand or explored any different kind of writing. Of course, I have always believed that it is quality and not quantity that matters; I never want to read a book just so that I can say I have read it! I'll read only what I really feel like reading and no MBA admission interview is going to change that :D

Here are some books that I plan to read, compiled from lists of my Facebook friends:

• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• The Mother - Maxim Gorky
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
• The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald
• Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
• Heidi - Johanna Spyri
• Blandings series - P.G. Wodehouse
• A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
• Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
• Haruki Murakami
• Orhan Pamuk
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Metamorphosis - Frank Kafka
• Mrityunjay

That's all I can find for now! I'm sure there were more and I'm not able to remember who posted them :(

It was interesting to see how many people mentioned one of Khaled Hosseini's books. Considering he has written only 3-4, he should be proud of himself for making such an impact. Also, it was nice to see almost all readers giving due credit to Enid Blyton! I had thought people might feel she's too chindi to be mentioned. She has certainly made most of our childhoods though she has her share of critics (infact, even I have noticed she is a bit of a racist). But we can't ignore all the good she's done us!

Now, good luck to me with this list!