Ah, reading is something I really enjoy, along with painting and photography. Last bench in classrooms was often my retreat during college days. Here's what I have been reading:
2012:
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
2010:
Best Of Lonely Planet Travel Writing by Tony Wheeler
It Happened in India - Kishore Biyani with Dipayan Baishya
The Great Indian Novel - Shashi Tharoor
Nine Lives - William Dalrymple
Trader, Guns & Money - Satyajit Das
Dork, The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Vargheese - Sidin Vadakut
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Portable Matisse with Introduction by Robert Hughes
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
2009:
Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thubron
Twilight in Delhi - Ahmed Ali
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Fiesta / The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Persepolis (I and II) - Marjane Satrapi
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
Stranger to History - Aatish Taseer
The Age of Kali - William Dalrymple
Istanbul: Memories and the City - Orhan Pamuk
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuscinski
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug
2008:
Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
From the Holy Mountain - William Dalrymple
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Delhi - Khushwant Singh
2007:
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
An Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke
The Kite Runner - Khalid Hosseini
City of Djinns - William Dalrymple
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Here is New York - E. B. White
The Man, the Image and the World - Henri Cartier Bresson
2006:
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Snapshots From Hell - Peter Robinson
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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2005:
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
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Business Maharajas - Gita Piramal
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The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
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The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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The Great Moghuls
2004:
Built to Last - James C. Collin and Jerry I. Porras
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole - Sue Townsend
Five-point Someone - Chetan Bhagat
Bringing Down the House - Ben Mezrich
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (re-read)
Prizes - Erich Segal
Collected Poems - Vikram Seth
2003:
Sam the Magic Genie - Brian Mayne
The Road to Makkah - Muhammad Asad
Why Men Don't Listen & Women Can't Read Maps - Allan and Barbara Pease
Atlas Shrugged (A is A) - Ayn Rand
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
The Inscrutable Americans - Anurag Mathur
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Salt and Sawdust - R.K. Narayan
Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman - Richard P. Feynman
Adrian Mole - The Capuccino years - Sue Townsend
2002:
Business the Bill Gates Way - Des Dearlove
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens - Sean Covey
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
And they Came to Baghdad - Agatha Christie
2001:
Love Story - Erich Segal
Who Moved My Cheese - Dr. Spencer Johnson
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Harry Potter - Chamber of Secrets - J.K.Rowling
Harry Potter - Goblet of Fire - J.K.Rowling
As the Crow Flies - Jeffery Archer