Sambar’s birthday gift from around the world
For my birthday, Yuka secretly messaged many of our mutual friends around the world and asked them to recommend a book for me to read. Then came the real gift, an Kindle 5. For the first time in my life I am sharing my birthday gift with you all..
| Book lists from friends around the world | |||
| Title of book | Author | Recommended by | |
| 1 | 1927 | Bill Bryson | Bob (UK) |
| 2 | 7 habits of highly effective people | Stephen Covey | Giri (India) |
| 3 | A constellation of Vital Phenomena & other books by the same author | Anthony Marra | Karolina (Finland) |
| 4 | A history of India | Peter Robb | Hamid (Iran) |
| 5 | A Man Was Going Down the Road | Otar Chiladze | Tina (Georgia) |
| 6 | After the Crash | Michel Bussi | Bob (UK) |
| 7 | Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder | NassimNicholas Taleb | Baba &Prasanthi (India) |
| 8 | Atonement | Ian Mcewan | Catherina Signorelli (Italy) |
| 9 | Baltsar and Blimunda | Jose Saramago | Sergio (Portugal) |
| 10 | Braiding Sweet grass | Robin Wall Kimmerer | Hasmig (US) |
| 11 | Changing places | David Lodge | Alex (France) |
| 13 | Charlotte | David Fonkeinos | Yoshie (Japan) |
| 14 | Child of all nations and other stories by the same author | Pramoedya Ananta Toer | Fina (Australia) |
| 15 | Child of the moring | Poauline Gedge | Rossella & Lucio (Italy) |
| 16 | City of Joy | Dominique Lapierre | Roccella (Italy) |
| 17 | Come se io fossi | Andrea Caschetto | Valentina (Italy) |
| 18 | Confessions | Jaume Cabre | Esther (Spain) |
| 19 | Dead poets society | N.H. Kleinbaum | Shuya (Japan) |
| 20 | Decisive Moments in History | Stefan Zweig | Basak (Turkey) |
| 21 | Dodgers | Bill Beverley | Bob (UK) |
| 22 | Dove nasce l’arcobaleno | Andrea Caschetto | Valentina (Italy) |
| 23 | Dreamers | Snigdha Poonam | Pradeep (India) |
| 25 | Five Days at Memorial | Sheri Fink | Bob (UK) |
| 26 | Flow: The classic work on how to achieve happiness | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Baba &Prasanthi (India) and Vikram (India) |
| 27 | Fooled by randomness | NassimNicholas Taleb | Niveditha (US) |
| 28 | Genesis | Lelia Wanick Salgado & Sebastiano Salgado | Elton & Jorge (Brazil) |
| 29 | Ghettoside: Investigating a Murder | Jill Leovy | Bob (UK) |
| 30 | Gunpowder | Antonia Fraser | Bob (UK) |
| 31 | Guns, germs and steel | Jaredd Diamond | Utham (India) & Nick (Malaysia) |
| 32 | Half of a Yellow | Chimamda Nagozi Adichi | Richa (India) |
| 33 | Headlong | Michael Frayn | Sally (UK) |
| 34 | Hidden Bodies | Caroline Kepnes | Bob (UK) |
| 35 | Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Marcela (Austria) |
| 36 | Ice | Jacek Dukaj | Elizabeth (Poland) |
| 37 | In Praise Of Shadow | Jyunichiro Tanizaki | Yuri (Italy) |
| 38 | In Xanadu : A quest | William Dalrymple | Yuka (India) |
| 39 | India: From midnigh to the millennium | Shashi Tharoor | Giri (India) |
| 40 | Into thin air | Jon Krakauer | Harsha (India) and Bob (UK) |
| 41 | Jamila | Chingiz Aitmatov | Diana (Kyrgyzstan) |
| 43 | Journey to the End of the Night | Louis Ferdinand Celine | Lucie (France) |
| 44 | Kite runner | Khaled Hosseini | Swaroop (India), Khiloni (UK) & Mari (Japan) |
| 45 | Kolymsky Heights | Lionel Davidson | Bob (UK) |
| 46 | Lead to win | Harshit Bhavsar | Raj uncle (India) |
| 47 | Lie with Me | Sabine Durrant | Bob (UK) |
| 48 | Lo uccido | Giorgio Faletti | Simone (Italy) |
| 49 | Lonley Planet Tokyo | Rebecca Milner | Kanako (Japan) |
| 50 | Making Breakthrough Innovation happen: How 11 Indians pulled off the impossible | Porus Munshi | Vibha (India) |
| 51 | Manhunt: from 9/11 to Abbotabad | Peter Bergen | Bob (UK) |
| 52 | Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | Pam (Georgia) |
| 53 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Balazs (Hungary) |
| 54 | Memed, My Hawk | Yasar Kemal | Yasar (Turkey) |
| 55 | Millennium series | Steig Larsson | Shweta (US) |
| 56 | Mindset | Carol Dweck | Vikram (India) |
| 57 | Ministry utmost happniess | Arundhati Roy | Yuka (Japan) |
| 58 | Monkeys with Typewriters | Scarlett Thomas | Sally (UK) |
| 59 | My Cat Yugoslavia | Pajtim Statovci | Maaret (UK) |
| 60 | My name is red & other books by the same author | Orhan Pamuk | Dilek & Mustafa (Turkey) |
| 61 | No reservations: Around the world on an empty stomach | Anthony Bourdain | Jyothi (India) |
| 62 | Nougths & Crosses | Malorie Blackman | Cerys (UK) |
| 63 | One | Sarah Crossan | Cerys (UK) |
| 64 | One Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Lucie (France) |
| 65 | Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson | Pavlos (Greece) |
| 66 | Prometheus Rising | Robert Anton Wilson | Pavlos (Greece) |
| 67 | Rapt : Attention and the focused life | Winifred Gallagher | Baba &Prasanthi (India) |
| 68 | Return to a King: The Battle for Afghanistan | William Dalrymple | Bob (UK) |
| 69 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | Oriaol & Ester (Spain) , Mandeep & Mantreep (India) , Niveditha (US) and Pradeep (India) |
| 70 | Saviors of God | Nikos Kazantzakis | Stathis & Catorina (Greece) |
| 71 | Screw it, Let’s do it | Richard Branson | Nick (Japan) |
| 72 | See Me | Nicholas Sparks | Rikhama (Uzbekistan) |
| 73 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | Cira (Italy) |
| 74 | Snow | Orhan Pamuk | Vardanush (Armenia) |
| 75 | Spartacus and The Gadfly | Aram Khachaturian Dmitri Shostak | Sanjar (Kyrgyzstan) |
| 76 | The 48 laws of power | Robert Greene | Hector (Japan) |
| 77 | The alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Nicha (Thailand), Giri (India) and Mari (Japan) |
| 78 | The Argumentative India | Amartya Sen | Pradeep (India) |
| 79 | The Brothers of Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Pradeep (India) |
| 80 | The colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | Anu & James (UK) |
| 81 | The Diary of a domestic diva | Shilpa Shetty | Khiloni (UK) |
| 82 | The down under | Bill bryson | Sohni (Australia) |
| 83 | The Dry | Jane Harper | Bob (UK) |
| 84 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | Ezgi (Turkey) |
| 85 | The Forty Rules of Love | Elif Safak | Hasmig (US) and Yuka (Japan) |
| 86 | The Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng | Joanna (UK) |
| 87 | The Girls on the Trian | Paula Hawkins | Bob (UK) |
| 88 | The great Derangement :climate change and unthinkable | Amitav Gosh | Yuka (Japan) |
| 89 | The Gustav Sonata | Rose Tremain | Sally (UK) |
| 90 | The horse Whisper | The horse whisperer | Roccella (Italy) |
| 91 | The last mile | David Baldacci | Vicky (US) |
| 92 | The Life without limits | Nick Vujicic | Giri (India) |
| 93 | The man who united the states | Simon Winchester | Bob (UK) |
| 94 | The narrow road to Oku | Matsuo Basho | Yuko (Japan) |
| 95 | The Old Axolotl | Jacek Dukaj | Elizabeth (Poland) |
| 96 | The People’s History of the United States | Howard Zinn | Madlene (Armenia) |
| 97 | The Power Of Habit | Charles Duhigg | Lau (Malaysia) |
| 98 | The Queen’s AgenFrancis Walsinghamt: | John Cooper | Bob (UK) |
| 99 | The reader who had no title | Robin Sharma | Raj uncle (India) |
| 100 | The Reign of God: a Gospel Story | Issey Fujishima | Fina (Australia) |
| 101 | The Return of a King: The Battle for Afganistan | William Dalrymple | Bob (UK) |
| 102 | The Ricky Gervis Guide to…. (Audio) | Ricky Gervis, Stephen Merchant & Karl Pilkington | Nick (Japan) |
| 103 | The Roanoke Girls | Amy Engel | Bob (UK) |
| 104 | The second is Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Kimmerer | Hasmig (US) |
| 105 | The Silk Roads : A new history of the world | Peter Frankopan | Mandeep & Mantreep (India) |
| 106 | The sleepwalkers | Arthur Koestler | Anu & James (UK) |
| 107 | The Spy who came in from the Co-op | David Burke | Bob (UK) |
| 108 | The stationmastar & other books by the same author | Jiro Asada | Minako (India) |
| 109 | The Surgeon of Crowthorne | Simon Winchester | Bob (UK) |
| 110 | The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair | Joel Dicker | Bob (UK) |
| 111 | The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story | Brian Swimme | Taron Lizagub (US) |
| 112 | The Widow | Fiona Barton | Bob (UK) |
| 113 | The Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | Leo (Italy) |
| 114 | To Kill a mockingbird | Harper Lee | Seyma (Turkey) and Cerys (UK) |
| 115 | Travelogue Peruviana Pavitra Kaniveyalli | Nemichandra | DrMangala (India) |
| 116 | Truth | Peter Temple | Bob (UK) |
| 117 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | Eiji (Japan) |
| 118 | Who gets what and why | Alvin E. Roth | Sunil (India) |
| 119 | Wonders | R J Palacio | Cerys (UK) |
| 120 | You don’t need a godfather | Elango R | Raj uncle (India) |
| 121 | Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | Leo (Italy) |