My goal is to read 40 books this year (goosebumps!) from this point onwards, ie, excluding the books I’ve already read. I will keep updating the list as I go on
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Cosmos – Carl Sagan
- Father Sergius – Leo Tolstoy
- Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinback
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
- The Circle of Reason – Amitav Ghosh
- The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
- Chronicles of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- Landour Days – Ruskin Bond
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Silmarillion – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Life and Times of Michael K. – J. M. Coetzee
- Inheritance – Christopher Paolini
Related articles
- Book of a lifetime: The Brothers Karamazovby, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (independent.co.uk)
- The Hobbit as Tolkien Saw It (wired.com)
- BBC Book List (nottobetrustedwithknives.com)



A great goal! You’ll have to set another for 2012.
Am working on it yet