My taste for books

This list should tell you about my (evolving) taste for books,

1990 -- 1995 (at school -- Std. IV -- VIII, Chennai (then, Madras), India)
The Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask -- Alexandre Dumas
Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens
Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens
David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens
The Merchant of Venice -- William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew -- William Shakespeare
Macbeth -- William Shakespeare
Hamlet -- William Shakespeare
Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe
The Coral Island -- R M Ballantyne
Around the World in Eighty Days -- Jules Verne
A Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Jules Verne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame -- Victor Hugo
The Invisible Man -- H G Wells
Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott
Cakes and Ale -- Somerset Maugham

1995 -- 1999 (at school -- Std. IX -- XII, Ahmedabad, India)
Several chapters from A Glimpse of World History -- Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru
Several chapters from An Autobiography -- Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru
Hospital -- Arthur Hailey
The Final Diagnosis -- Arthur Hailey
Hotel -- Arthur Hailey
Bloodline -- Sydney Sheldon
The Day of the Jackal -- Frederick Forsyth
The Importance of Being Earnest -- Oscar Wilde
The Last Leaf -- O' Henry
Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
From Black Holes to Baby Universes -- Stephen Hawking

1999 -- 2003 (at NIT Calicut, India)
God of Small Things -- Arundhati Roy
Interpreter of Maladies -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Train to Pakistan -- Kushwant Singh
Freedom at Midnight -- Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Selected stories from The Malgudi Days -- R K Narayan
The Negotiator -- Frederick Forsyth
Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
Parineeta -- Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
The Sign of Four -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of Baskervilles -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Selected Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Selected other Short Stories -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Helen of Troy -- Margaret George
The Alchemist -- Paulo Coelho

2003 -- 2006 (at i-Flex -- Bangalore, Warsaw, London)
The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins
Selected stories of Hercule Poirot -- Agatha Cristie
The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde
The Village by the Sea -- Anita Desai
We, the People -- Nani Palkhivala
Five Minutes Past Midnight in Bhopal -- Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro
Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch -- Arindam Chaudhuri
Namesake -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Manual of Self Unfoldment -- Swami Chinmayananda

2007 -- 2012 (at IMSc Chennai, NUS Singapore)
A Beautiful Mind -- Sylvia Nasar
Tea Culture of Japan -- Sadako Ohki, Takeshi Watanabe
Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea for East to West -- Beatrice Hohenegger
Five Point Someone -- Chetan Bhagat
The Guide -- R K Narayan
Mistress -- Anita Nair
A Search in Secret India -- Paul Brunton
A House for Mr. Biswas -- V S Naipaul
A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth
A Brief History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
A Pair of Blue Eyes -- Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA -- Brenda Maddox
Coma -- Robin Cook
The India portion of 'Take Me With You' -- Brad Newsham

2012 -- 2018 (at UQ Queensland, Australia)
Parts of 'India: What can it teach us?' -- Max Müller (1823 -- 1900)
The Code of the Woosters -- P G Wodehouse
Service with a Smile -- P G Wodehouse
The Moonstone -- Wiklie Collins
A Tiger for Malgudi -- R K Narayan
Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen
The Lost World -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Two on a Tower -- Thomas Hardy
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer -- Sidhhartha Mukherjee
Baumgartner's Bombay -- Anita Desai
The Importance of Being Earnest; An Ideal Husband -- Oscar Wilde
The Sign of Four -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Emma -- Jane Austen
The Phantom of the Opera -- Gaston Leroux
The Hanover Square Affair - Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries -- Ashley Gardner
Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
A Brief History of Time -- Steven Hawking

2018 -- 2019 (at Maxwell Plus, Australia)
The Salamander -- Shrikant Murthy
Grunt -- Mary Roach
The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love -- Per J Andersson
The Girl on the Train -- Paula Hawkins
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- Stieg Larsson
The Burden of Lies -- Richard Beasley

2020 -- 2021 (at QIMR, Xing)
The Scholar -- Dervla McTiernan
Rich Dad Poor Dad -- Robert Kiyosaki
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup -- John Carreyrou
The Richest Man in Babylon -- George S Clason
The $100 Startup -- Chris Guillebeau
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -- Rebecca Skloot
Clean Cut -- Lynda La Plante
Atomic Habits -- James Clear