Sudha Shastri Recommends: Reading List

• Catch 22, Joseph Heller
• Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Crime and Punishment, Dostyovesky
• The Castle, Kafka
• Odyssey, Homer
• True History of the Kelly Gangs, Peter Carey
• The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
• Atonement, Ian Mcewan
• Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
• Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
• Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
• The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
• Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Jazz, Toni Morrison
• The Color Purple, Alice Walker
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
• Kanthapura, Raja Rao
• The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
• The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• My Name Is Red, Orhan Pamuk
• Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
• Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
• The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
• The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
• A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes
• Farewell My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
• The Return of Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis
• Palestine, Joe Sacco
• Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich
• The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Piya Behrupiya, Amitosh Nagpal (play; translation of Twelfth Night)
• Tughlaq, Girish Karnad (play)
• Nagamandala, Girish Karnad (play)
• Hayavadana, Girish Karnad (play)
• The Great Derangement, Amitav Ghosh (non-fiction)
• Ghashiram Kotwal, Vijay Tendulkar (play)
• The Sun’s 7th Horse, Dharamvir Bharati