READING LIST 2014

Classes 6 - 8

Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

Everyone's favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at

Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When the freckled girl

realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try

to win them and consequently, the reader, over.

Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is

forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how

to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude.

Charlotte's Web - E.B. White This is the first children's book by the distinguished author E. B. White.

Stuart Little, the hero, is a mouse in the family of Frederick C. Little and is a

debonair little character with a shy, engaging manner and a somewhat

philosophical turn of mind. He is a great help around the house, and everybody

except Snowbell the cat likes him a great deal.

The Thief Lord – Cornelia Funke

Welcome to the magical underworld of Venice, Italy. Here, hidden canals and crumbling

rooftops shelter runaways and children with incredible secrets.... After escaping from their

cruel aunt and uncle, orphans Prosper and Bo meet a mysterious boy who calls himself the

"Thief Lord." Clever and charming, the Thief Lord leads a band of street children who enjoy

making mischief. But the Thief Lord also has a dark secret. And suddenly Proper and Bo find

themselves on a fantastical journey to a forgotten place. What they discover there will change

the course of their destiny.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of

Injun Joe, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in

which Twain spent his own youth.

Little Women –Louisa May Alcott

In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and

romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.

The Book of Guardians;The Bone of Stars – Giti Chandra In the colossal caldera of the Yellowstone National Park, a geyser blows in a startling eruption of

red, and young Akshat disappears. This is only the tiny, terrifying start to the primal battle, now

resurrected in full fury, between the two ancient foes, Elrai and the Edasich. As the frantic

search for Akshat ensues, his cousins, the child-guardians entrusted with olden secrets, come

together with a coven of witches to rescue their beloved Akshat-and indeed, the world-from

certain peril. But will their growing powers be enough against the merciless evil let loose by the

desperate and vicious Hyena-faced One? Will they be able to prevent a cataclysm of scorching lava

and pulverized rock from reaching Earth? Who will finally don the good Elrai's baldric and leash the

trail of death and destruction?

Ingo - Helen Dunmore

Sapphire's father mysteriously vanishes into the waves off the Cornwall coast where her

family has always lived. She misses him terribly, and she longs to hear his spellbinding tales

about the Mer, who live in the underwater kingdom of Ingo.

Lockwood & Co :The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying

epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up

to destroy the dangerous apparitions. When the dead come back to haunt the

living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .

War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is

sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front.

With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the

battles in France. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage

touches. Marley and Me - John Grogan

The heartwarming and unforgettable story of a family in the making and the

wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable

is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted

story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and

timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in

which he lives.

The Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black

It all started with a mysterious letter left at a tiny bookstore for authors

Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Its closing lines: "We just want people to know

about this. The stuff that has happened to us could happen to anyone." Little

could they imagine the remarkable adventure that awaited them as they

followed Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace and a strange old book into mystery ?

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a

security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of

Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does

is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds.

The End of the World; Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy

15-year-old Ryan is running away from home, looking for escape and adventure.

But unfortunately, sometimes people DO get what they wish for. Ryan hasn’t

gone far before he is set upon by a bunch of scary, nihilistic punk-sorcerers

who need him to set off a doomsday device that will destroy the planet and

everyone on it. Fun!

Lost and Found - Andrew Clements Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during

those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin

brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and

Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too.

One Dog and His Boy - Eva Ibbotson,

All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. "Never!" cries his mother. "Think of the mess, the

scratch-marks, the puddles on the floor." But on the morning of Hal's 10th birthday, the

unbelievable happens. He's allowed to choose a puppy at Easy Pets, a rent-a-pet agency (a

fact his parents keep from him). The moment he sees the odd-looking terrier, he knows he's

found a friend.

The Grand Plan to Fix Everything - Uma Krishnaswami

3Eleven-year old Dini loves movies—watching them, reading about them, trying to write her

own—especially those oh-so-fabulous Bollywood movies where you don’t need to know the

language to get what’s going on. But when her mother reveals some big news, it does not at all

jibe with the script Dini had in mind.

Numbers - Rachel Ward

Ever since she was child, Jem has kept a secret: Whenever she meets someone new, no matter

who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head. That number is a date:

the date they will die. Burdened with such awful awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Until she

meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. The two plan a trip to the city.

BZRK - Michael Grant Set in the near future, BZRK is the story of a war for control of the human mind. Charles and

Benjamin Armstrong, conjoined twins and owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation,

have a goal: to turn the world into their vision of utopia. No wars, no conflict, no hunger. And

no free will. Opposing them is a guerrilla group of teens, code name BZRK, who are fighting to

protect the right to be messed up, to be human. This is no ordinary war, though. Weapons are

deployed on the nano-level. The battleground is the human brain.

Solo: A James Bond Novel - William Boyd

It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond is summoned to

headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is

being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the

established regime. Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start of a feverish mission to discover

the forces behind this brutal war—and he soon realizes the situation is far from

straightforward. Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause of the violence in Zanzarim,

revealing a twisting conspiracy that extends further than he ever imagine.

The Time Machine – H G Wells So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey

800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s

successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science

fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his

brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our

darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a

slowly dying Earth.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is

plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-

of-work actor.

The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkein

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the

ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit

down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

Some other books suggested for Classes 6, 7 and 8.

Classics

Jerome K Jerome Three Men in a Boat

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland

Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book

Jean Webster Daddy Long Legs

Oliver Wilde Happy Prince & Other Stories

Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

James Fennimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

H G Wells The Time Machine

Anna Sewell Black Beauty

Fiction

Sue Townsend Queen and I

Rick Riordan Kane Chronicles

Richard Ward The Drowning

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Garth Nix The Keys to the Kingdom Series

M Bawden Carrie’s War

Joshua Mowll The Guild Trilogy

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Anthony Horowitz Night Rise

Devdutt Patnaik Sita ; An Illustrated Retelling of Ramayana

Gulzar Bosky’s Panchantra

Deepa Agarwal Chanakya : The Master of Statecraft

Oscar Wilde The Selfish Giant

L Frank Baum Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Eoin Colfer Supernaturalist

Brian Jacques Red Wall Series

Alfred Hitchcock The Three Investigators

Jostein Gaarder Sophie’s World

Dianne Wynn Jones A Tale of Time City

Charlie Higson Young Born series

Captain W.E. Johns Biggles

Satyajit Ray Feluda Series

Samit Basu The Simoqin Prophecies and Manticore’s Secret

F H Burnett

A Little Princess

Eoin Colfer Half Moon Investigations

Sudha Murthy House of Cards

Caroline Lawrence The Roman Mysteries

Angie Sage Magyk

Eva Ibbotson Star of Kazan

Joanne Harris Five Quarters of the Orange

P.G.Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie

Bapsi Sidhwa Cracking India

Carl Hiaasen Hoot

J.R.R.Tolkien The Hobbit

Aprilynne Pike Wings

Alyson Noel Radiance

Judy Blume Tiger Eyes

Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices

James Dashner The Maze Runner

Katherine Paterson Bridge to Terabithia

Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Lois Lowry The Giver

Ian Serraillier The Silver Sword

John Boyne The Boy in Striped Pyjamas Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Non Fiction

The Race of My Life Milkha Singh

A Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela

Will Durant The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

Alex Ferguson Alex Ferguson Autobiography

Lucy & Stephen Hawking George and the Big Bang

APJ Abdul Kalam My Journey

Helen Keller The Story of My Life

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Autobiography

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READING LIST 2014

Classes 9 – 12

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen One of the most popular novels of all time--that features splendidly civilized sparring

between the proud Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet as they play out their

spirited courtship in a series of eighteenth-century drawing-room intrigues.

The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand

When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand''s daringly original literary vision and

her groundbreaking philosophy, objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and

acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle

against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who

struggles to defeat him.

Inferno – Dan Brown In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code,Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol,

Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller,

Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a

harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary

masterpieces . . .

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes

the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an

orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends’ apartments and on the city streets. He

becomes entranced by the one thing that reminds him of his mother, a small, mysteriously

captivating painting

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand

goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve

local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: A wealthy man

has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been

discovered.

The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri

Two brothers bound by tragedy; a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past; a country

torn by revolution. A powerful new novel--set in both India and America--that explores the

price of idealism and a love that can last long past death.Growing up in Calcutta, born

just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often

mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of

them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan--charismatic and impulsive--finds himself drawn to the

Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty: he will give

everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his

brother's political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet,

coastal corner of America.

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of

love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face

difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.

And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini, bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has

written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how

the choices we make resonate through generations.

The Racketeer - John Grisham

Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them,

and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this

country only four active federal judges have been murdered.

A Fort of Nine Towers - Qais Akbar Omar

The surprising, stunning book that took the publishing world by storm: a coming-of-age

memoir of unimaginable perils and unexpected joys, steeped in the rhythms of folk tales

and poetry, that is as unforgettable as it is rare--a treasure for readers.

Emma – Jane Austen

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life

and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than

interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good

friend. Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet

Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never

expected.

1984 – George Orwell

Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while

the year 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is timelier than ever. 1984 presents

a startling and haunting vision of the world, so powerful that it is completely convincing

from start to finish.

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor

Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the

lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and

Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed

through their love for Lucie Manette.

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy’s classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in

world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent

heroine, the unhappily married Anna Karenina, and her tragic affair with

dashing Count Vronsky.

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

This love story is set in the 1920s - a period of jazz and decadence. Jay Gatsby, a

poor army officer, falls for Daisy who marries a rich man while Jay is overseas.

After the war, Jay becomes a multi-millionaire focusing on making money,

throwing parties and enticing Daisy to return to his life

Oleander Girl - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Orphaned at birth, seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy is the scion of a distinguished Kolkata

family and has enjoyed a privileged, sheltered childhood with her adoring grandparents.

But she is troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents’ death and clings fiercely to

her only inheritance from them: the unfinished love note she found hidden in her

mother’s book of poetry. Korobi dreams of one day finding a love as powerful as her

parents’, and it seems her wish has come true when she meets the charming Rajat, the

only son of a high-profile business family.

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky - Heidi W. Durrow

This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black

G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American

grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where

her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way.

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their

demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak,

audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the

world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we

want as our legacy

A God in Every Stone - Kamila Shamsie

July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an

ancient land, surrounded by figs and cypresses. Soon she will discover the Temple of

Zeus, the call of adventure, and the ecstasy of love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-

year old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British

Indian army.

Mother - Maxim Gorky

1907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist,

playwright and essayist, who was a founder of social realism. Although known principally

as a writer, he was closely associated with the tumultuous revolutionary period of his own

country. The Mother, one of his best-known works, is the story of the radicalization of an

uneducated woman that was later taken as a model for the Socialist Realist novel, and

his autobiographical masterpiece Childhood.

Idris : Keeper of the Light - Anita Nair

A powerful historical novel from a well-loved and celebrated author.The year is 1659.

Idris, a Somalian trader, is in Kerala to attend the Mamangam festivities. By a strange

twist of fate, he meets his nine-year-old son whose existence he had been unaware of. In

an attempt to keep his son close to him, he embarks with him on a voyage that ends in

the diamond mines of Golco

Cell - Robin Cook

The New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a

top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession

on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for

doctors everywhere.

The Tournament - Matthew Reilly

The year is 1546.Europe lives in fear of the powerful Islamic empire to the East. Under its

charismatic Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, it is an empire on the rise. It has defeated

Christian fleets. It has conquered Christian cities.Then the Sultan sends out an invitation to

every king in Europe: send forth your champion to compete in a tournament unlike any

other.

Train To Pakistan – Khushwant Singh

It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel,

where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. Then one

day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train

loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the

horrors of the civil war. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged

into the abyss of religious hate. It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose

love endured and transcends the ravages of war.

The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has

never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a

gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support

Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez

The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the

history of the family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the

tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the

family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of

Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

Be Careful What You Wish For – Jeffrey Archer

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton

and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has

been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?

Be Careful What You Wish For showcases the master storyteller’s talent as never before –

when the Clifton and Barrington families march forward into the sixties, in this epic tale of

love, revenge, ambition and betrayal

Some other books suggested for class 9 , 10 ,11 and 12.

Fiction

Amitav Ghosh The Glass Palace

Michael Crichton Congo

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children

F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise

Erich Maria

Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

William Goldman The Princess Bride

Kurt Vonnegut Cat’s Cradle

Dan Brown Da Vinci Code Series

Lauren Oliver Delirium Series

Stieg Larsson The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo

Rick Yancey The Fifth Wave

Kiera Cass The Selection Series

Ally Condie Matched Series

Rebecca Donovan Barely Breathing Series

Agatha Christie Murder in Mesopotamia

Brad Thor The Lions of Lucerne

Jodi Picoult My Sister’s Keeper

Elif Shafak Honour

Joseph Heller Catch-22

Yann Martel The Life of Pi

Alice Walker The Colour Purple

Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar

Saadat Hasan Manto Stars From Another Sky

RK Narayan The Guide

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Crime & Punishment

Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd

M Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

D H Lawrence Sons and Lovers

Jack Higgins For Eagles Have Flown

Isabel Allende The House of Spirits

Frank McCourt Angela’s Ashes

Harlan Coben Tell No One

Pearl S Buck Good Earth

Jeffery Deaver The Bone Collector

Sydney Sheldon If Tomorrow Comes

Alex Haley Roots

Isaac Asimov Foundation

J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns

Pavan K. Varma When Loss is Gain

Pavan K. Varma Being Indian

Frank Herbert Dune

Robert Jordan Wheel of Time Series

Brandon Sanderson Mistborn

Veronica Roth Divergent Series

Chitra Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions

Amish Tripathi The Shiva Trilogy

Ashwin Sanghi Chanakya's Chant

Ravi Subramaniam Bankrupt

Arthur C. Clarke Childhood’s End

Maria V Snyder Inside Out

Kelley Armstrong The Summoning

Nicholas Sparks The Notebook

Sally Gardner The Silver Blade

Mitch Albom Tuedays with Morrie

C. J. Sansom Dissolution

Frederick Forsyth The Kill List

Amitav Ghosh Shadow Lines

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

J.M. Coetzee Disgrace

Thomas Keanally Schindler’s List

Orson Scott Card Enders Game Series

Jodi Picoult Between the Lines

Brandon Sanderson Steelheart

Ransom Riggs Ms. Peregrins Home for peculiar Children

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments Series

Cassandra Clare The Infernal Devices Trilogy

Holly Black Curse Worker Trilogy

J R R Tolkien The Lord of the Rings

Marrissa Meyer The Lunar Chronicles

Stephen King The Green Mile

Isabel Allende The House of Spirits

Dan Brown Digital Fortress

John Grisham Theodore Boon

John Grisham The Partner

Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Prince of Mist

Amanda Lindhout A House in the Sky

Amy Chua Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner

Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist

John Green Let It Snow

Amy Chua Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of Baskervilles

Harper Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird

J D Salinger The Catcher in the Rye

Paro Anand No Girls at My Sons Funeral

Anne Frank The Diary of A Young Girl

George Orwell Animal Farm

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men

Amitav Ghosh The Shadow Lines

Non – Fiction

Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen An Uncertain Glory

Stephen Hawking My Brief History ; A Memoir

Bipin Chandra India’s Struggle for Independence

Rama Chandra Guha Gandhi Before India

Adolf Hitler Mein Kampf

Rana Das Gupta Capital : A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

APJ Abdul Kalam My Journey ; Transforming dreams Into Reality

Alex Ferguson A Memoir

Yuvraj Singh The Test of My Life

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AMitma saMxaop maalatI jaaoSaI

Aaid – Ajaaid ica~a maudgala

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samakalaIna ihndI khainayaa^ saM. narond` maaohna

iga`ma baMQaAaoM kI khainayaa^ (Baaga 1) hir kRYNa dovasaro

isataraoM sao Aagao klpnaa caavalaa

maana saraovar - 8 Pa`omacaMd saaih%ya

gajamau@ta kI tlaaSa [ra sa@saOnaa

JaraoKo BaIYma saahnaI

naOitk khainayaaM saI vaI TI p`kaSana

tpisvayaaoM kI khainayaa^ rajabahadur isaMh

baccaaoM ko EaoYz hasya ekaMkI Pa`kaSa manau

baccaaoM ko raocak naaTk Da.igairrajaSarNa Aga`vaala

na[- khainayaa^ saI vaI TI p`kaSana

hjaar- hjaar baa^haoM vaalaI naagaaja-una

AaQao AQaUro (naaTk) maaohna rakoSa

Sart cand` kI EaoYz khainayaa^ Sart cand`

P`aitidna (vyaMgarcanaa) Sard jaaoSaI

taSa ko p<aaMo ka Sahr raja kmala caaOQarI

SaoKr ek jaIvanaI A&oya

klama tlavaar AaOr %yaaga P`aoma caMd

@yaa BaUlaU^ @yaa yaad krU^ hirvaMSa raya baccana

jaIvana kI Aapa QaapI maoM hirvaMSa raya baccana