Compilation of all the books I have read

Edit/Note:Am keeping this list dynamic and updating it as time goes by.

As the Sunday morning Curfew begins, I thought I should make a list of all the books I read cover to cover.  I mean at least those I remember. 

English - Fiction

1. The Trojan War (Abridged version of Illiad)
2. Great Expectations (Abridged)
3. The Hound of Baskerville  
4. The Adventures of Huckleberyy Finn (Abridged)
5. Gulliver's Travel (Abridged)
6. Harry Potter and The philosopher's stone
7. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
8. Harry Potter and The Prizoner of Azkabhan
9. Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
10. Harry Potter and The Order of Phoenix
11. Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
12. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
13. Sphere 
14. The Andromeda Strain
15. Rage of Angels
16. The other side of the midnight
17. Memories of Midnight
18. The sky is falling
19. Tell me your dreams
20. The Doomsday Conspiracy
21. If Tomorrow comes
22. The Hammer of Eden
23. The Third Twin
24. The God Father
25. The Fountain Head
26. The White Tiger
27. Midnight's children
28. Swami and Friends
29. The Time Machine 
30. The Robe
31. The Little Prince
32. Love story
33. Jonathan Livngston Sea Gull
34. Who moved my cheese
35. Siddartha
36. The Old man and the Sea
37. Many Lives Many Masters
38. Living with the Himalyan Masters
39. The Prophet
40. Geetanjali
41. One Minute Wisdom
42. One Minute Nonsense
43. The Prayer of the Frog - I
44. The Prayer of the Frog - II
45. The Song of the Bird
46. The Post Office 
47. The Alchemist
48. Five Point Someone
49. One Night at the Call Center
50. Three Mistakes of my Life
51. The Bible (one of the abridged versions)
52. Angels and Demons
53. The Da Vinci Code
54. Code to Zero
55. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (audible) 
56. The Palace of Illusions (audible)

English - Fiction - Short Stories

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Collection)
2. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Collection)
3. An Astrologer's Day
4. Few short stories of Tagore (The Cabuliwallah, The Trust Property etc...) 
5. Few short stories of Chekov (The Bet, Swan Song etc...)
6. Few short stories of Tolstoy (God Sees the Truth but waits etc..)
7. Few short stories of Dostoevsky 
8. Few short stories from Chicken Soup for the Soul book series

English - Non-fiction

1. Wings of Fire
2. Go Kiss the World
3. Surely, You're joking Mr. Feynman
4. What do you care what other people think
5. Man The Unknown
6. Imagining India
7. The Difficulty of Being Good
8. Are You getting the Love you Want
9. A Brief History of Time
10. Stray Birds
11. The bed of Procrustes
12. Sapiens
13. The Story of My Experiments with Truth
14. India after Gandhi
15. Freedom at Midnight
16. India Grows at Night
17. Fooled by Randomness (Audible)
18. Hind Swaraj
19. Rich Dad Poor Dad
20. Inspite of the Gods
21. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
22. The Subtle Art of Not giving a F*ck
23. Tuesdays with Morrie
24. The Accidental Prime Minister
25. The Impact of Science on Society

 తెలుగు (Telugu)

1. మహాప్రస్థానం 
2. అమృతం కురిసిన రాత్రి 
3. బారిష్టర్ పార్వతీశం 
4. కన్యాశుల్కం (యధాతధము)
5. అపూర్వ చింతామణి కథ 
6.  వెన్నెల్లో ఆడపిల్ల 
7. మరణ మృదంగం 
8. మిథునం (చిన్న కధల సంకలనం)
9. రమణీయం 
10. రామ్ @ శృతి డాట్ కామ్ 
11. కొన్ని చలం కధలు 

Compilation of the best compliments

As the world seems to lock itself down in the wake of Corona, I thought of utilizing some of the extra time available time by cleaning up my room and if the trend continues will try my hand at cooking.

Meanwhile, I thought of writing something positive on my blog page after having filled it with a lot of rant in the last few years (my poetry page to seem to have got filled with too much rant) So, I will enumerate few of the best compliments I received in my Life which I remember.

1. During my school days, a dear friend and I used to compete heavily in our favourite subject - Mathematics. We used to finish proofs and problems ahead of classes and even the Tuition classes (which themselves are supposed to be ahead of school classes). My Tuition teacher used to be impressed with my questioning capabilities in school. I still remember one of the question I asked him regarding Earth's revolving around Sun much ahead of getting introduced to the words Centripetal and Centrifugal forces. He would often call my friend, 'Marie Curie' and me 'Aristotle'. A nice childhood memory. When I look back now, I have met so many people far more intelligent and far far more talented than me. The compliment is a hyperbole of an hyperbole, but it leaves a really really good taste when I think of it.

2. The bachelor's degree I obtained was an honours course. We had Maths, Physics and Chemistry and we were supposed to major in one of the subject from third year onwards. In my fourth semester, one of the Maths paper we had was advanced Real Analysis. The professor was quite impressed with my ability to write different kind of proofs. After evaluating the mid-semester exams, looking at my paper, he told me, "You fellow! You should never give up Maths!" And when I ended up taking physics and he came to know of it, he exclaimed in Telugu, " కొంప ముంచావు కదరా !" which meant that I made a disaster.

3. It was the second year of my first job. A team of almost 15-20 people were to travel to Noida to receive Knowledge Transfer for a bunch of projects our Team was taking over from a different company. Two of us accompanied our admin specialist couple of days ahead to ensure everything was set and others would not face any hurdles during the travel. That was the first time the admin colleague of mine interacted with me closely and he gave me a beautiful compliment.  It goes, "I am a person who ensures that everyone notices my presence but you are a person who makes everyone notice your absence."

4. Another dear friend of mine and I were in his car recently. May be a year ago. I had learnt so much about Life from him and was casually expressing that admiration to him. I told him that he was one of a kind among all the friends I have. He spontaneously responded, "There will be lot of people like me Sasi! It is people like you who are rare." This is one of the best compliments I have ever received in Life.

5. A colleague of mine exclaimed recently, " You are like Israel. You expose only your weakness but never expose your strengths." It was a really nice compliment.

There are a few other compliments which I have received which were very humbling at the point of time I received. But, I have chosen not to include them here intentionally.