(Auto) biographies
Dreams from my Father – Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
Half Lion (P.V. Narasimha Rao) – Vinay Sitapaty
Beyond the Last Blue Mountain (JRD Tata) – R.M. Lala
Patel: A Life – Rajmohan Gandhi
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
History
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin – Manu S. Pillai
The Ground on Which We Stand – Lillian W. Kay
Philosophy
The Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln
The Courtier – Baldassare Castiglione
Pensées Philosophiques – Denis Diderot
Popular Science
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay Gibson
The Brain that Changes Itself – Norman Doidge
Note: I’m not compiling a Fiction Recommendations list this time, since much of the fiction I read was in other languages: Odia, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, and French, in descending order of volume. The few English fiction books that I did read were experimental choices and sadly none were worth recommending.
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Minakhi Misra 