Sam's World: February 2012

"If you don't read, you can't lead"

Books Read Recently

The Sixth Man - Andre Iguodala
The Baptist - Paul PG
The Myth of Capitalism - Jonathan Tepper
Range - David Epstein
India, a wounded civilization - V.S Naipaul
Bottle of Lies - Katherine Eban
Feeding a thousand souls - Vijaya Nagarjan
Deep Medicine - Eric Topol
The Girl in Room 105 - Chetan Bhagat
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes - Raoul McLaughlin
Skeleton Keys - Brian Switek
The Falcon of Sparta - Conn Iggulden
The Land of Elephant Kings - Paul Kosmin
Wave Rider - Ajit Balakrishnan
Adi Sankaracharya - Pavan Varma
The Breakthrough - Charles Graber
Gene Machine - Venky Ramakrishnan
Lost Connections - Johann Hari
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
A man called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
The Reckoning - John Grisham
The New Mind Readers - Russel Poldrack
Aurangazeb - Audrey Truschke
The Disordered Mind - Eric Kandel
War of the Wolf - Bernard Cornwell
Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas
The Dance of Shiva - Ananda Coomaraswamy
Squirm - Carl Hiaasen
Night over Water - Ken Follet
She has her Mother's laugh - Carl Zimmer
AIQ - Nick Polson
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
The book of Why - Judea Pearl
Assume the worst - Carl Hiaasen
Prediction Machines - Ajay Agarwal
Sick Puppy - Carl Hiaasen
Vindolanda - Adrian Goldsworthy
Scat - Carl Hiaasen
The Consciousness Instinct - Michael Gazzaniga
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
God on Vengeance - Giles Kristian
Double Whammy - Carl Hiaasen
Who we are, How we got here - David Reich
Native Tongue - Carl Hiaasen
Winter's Fire - Giles Kristian
Why I am a Hindu - Sashi Tharoor
Skink - Carl Hiaasen
Wings of the Srorm - Giles Kristian
Coromandel: A personal history of South India - Charles Allen
Modern Lovers - Emma Straub
Fire & Fury - Michael Wolfe
Stories of your life - Ted Chiang
Aided by Austen - Vaishnavi Nair
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
Razor Girl - Carl Hiaasen
Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Issacson
The Cuban Affair - Nelson DeMille
Why Buddhism is True - Robert Wright
Empire - Devi Yesodharan
An Elephant for Aristotle - Sprague de Camp
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the deep origin of Consciousnes
An Era of Darkness - Shashi Tharoor
The Great Derangement - Amitav Ghosh
After the Prophet - Lesley Hazelton
The Knowledge Illusion - Steven Siloman
Do HumanKind's best days lie ahead? - Munk Debates
The Magician's Elephant - Kate DiCamilo
Flora & Ulysses - Kate DiCamilo
Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent - P Lal
The Smile of Murugan - Kamil Zvelebil
Plutocrats - Chrystia Freeland
The Ocean of Churn - Sanjeev Sanyal
Thank you for being late - Thomas Friedman
Early Interactions between South and South east Asia - Pierre Yvis
Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
The Flame Bearer - Bernard Cornwell
The Past as the Present - Romila Thapar
The Archeology of South Asia - Robin Cunningham
The Whistler - John Grisham
Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
Witness to a Trial - John Grisham
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science - Eric Kandel
Origin and Spread of the Tamils - V.R.Ramachandra Dikshitar
A Kingdom's cost - J.R.Tomlin
The Keeper - John Lescroart
Early Kingdoms - Paul Munoz
Trap Line - Carl Hiassen
Venomous - Christie Wilcox
Nuggets from Coorg History - C.K.Bellliappa
Fires of Alexandria - Thomas Carpenter
When Breath becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Talk like Ted - Carmine Gallo
The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
The Witch of Napoli - Michael Schmicker
The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Theodore Boone: The Scandal - john Grisham
The Most Perfect Thing - Tim Birthed
The Lock and Key of Medicine - Lara Marks
Bird Sense - Tim Birkhead
Odysseus - V.M.Manfredi
Roman Mask - Thomas Brooke
Fetching Raymond - John Grisham
Partners - John Grisham
The Public Intellectual in India - Romila Thapar
The Crescent Spy - Michael Wall
The Evolution of Everything - Matt Ridley
The Industries of the Future - Alec Ross
Host - Robin Cook
I too have a dream - Verghese Kurien
History of South India - N.Shastri
The man who touched his own heart - Rob Dunn
The End of Memory - Jay Ingram
Phishing for Phools - George Akerlof
The Brain - David Eagleman
The Immoralist - Andre Gide
Ajaya - Book 2 (Rise of Kali) - Anand Neelakantan
Genomic Messages - George Annas
A New Human - Mike Morwood
The Flight of the Iguana - David Quammen
The Fly Trap - Fredrik Sjoberg
The Crest of the Peacock - George Gheverghese Joseph
Finding Zero - Amir Aczel
Why did the Chicken cross the World? - Andrew Lawler
Go set a watchman - Harper Lee
The Upright Thinkers - Leonard Mlodinov
Ancestors in our Genome - Eugene Harris
Aurora - Kim Stanley Robinson
The Walking Whales - Hans Thewissen
The Horse, the Wheel and Language - David Anthony
Radiant Angel - Nelson DeMille
The Fugitive - John Grisham
A Well Ordered thing - Michael Gordin
Jellyfish have eyes - Joram Piatigorsky
Immoderate Greatness - William Ophuls
Missing Microbes - Martin Blaser
Mind of the Raven - Bernd Heinrich
Redeployment - Phil Klay
The Portland Vase - Robin Brooks
The Martian: A Novel - Andy Weir
Native Tongue - Carl Hiaasen
Rare: The High-Stakes Race by Keith Veronese
The Meaning of Human Existence - E.O.Wilson
The Making of Fort Kochi - E.P.Unny
Genghis Khan - Jack Weatherford
The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
Adultery - Paulo Coelho
House of Wisdom - Jim Al-Khalili
A Primate's Memoir - Robert Sapolsky
Pagan Lord - Bernard Cornwell
Spillover - David Quammen
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
The Patient will see you now - Eric Topol
Desert God - Wilbur Smith
The Evolution and History of Human Populations in South India - Michael D Petraglia
Parasite Rex - Carl Zimmer
Tongwan City - Gao Jianqun
All the Light that We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
How we learn - Benedict Carey
The Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmerman
The Pregnant King - Devdutt Patnaik
The Compatibility Gene - Daniel Davis
Rookie Smarts - Liz Wiseman
Gray Mountain - John Grisham
Ajaya - Anand Neelakantan
Married but Available - Abhijit Bhaduri
Resource Revolution - Stefan Heck
Sports Gene - David Epstein
The Age of Wrath - Abraham Eraly
Yuganta - Iravati Karve
Shikandi- Devadutt Patnaik
Thinking in Numbers - Daniel Tammet
Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist - Orhan Parmuk
Life out of Sequence - Hallam Stevens
Sports Gene - David Epstein
A Troublesome Inheritance -Nicholas Wade
The Land of the Seven Rivers - Sanjeev Sanyal
The Sceptical Patriot - Sidin Vadakut
Mila 18 - Leon Uris
The fault in our stars - John Green
Wars of the Roses - Conn Iggulden
The Perfect theory - Pedro Ferreira
Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
Homing Instinct - Bernd Heinrich
Denial - Ajit Varki
Neptune - Craig Symonds
Cell - Robin Cook
How About Never - Bob Mankoff
Gem in the Lotus - Abraham Eraly
The Billionaire's Apprentice - Anita Raghavan
Neanderthal Man - Svante Paabo
Comets! - David Eicher
Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris
The Wolf at Wall Street - Jordan Belfort
The Future of the Mind - Michio Kaku
Life at the Speed of Light - Craig Venter
Sycamore Row - John Grisham
Paleofanatasy -Marlene Zuk
The Quest - Nelson DeMille
Tears of the Cheetah - Stephen O'brien
Tomorrow's World - Clint Laurent
Balance - Glen Hubbard
Nano - Robin Cook
Bankerupt - Ravi Subramanian
The Cuckoo's Calling - J.K.Rowling
Frankenstein's Cat - Emily Anthes
The Bankster - Ravi Subramaniam
An Epidemic of Absence - Moises Velasquez
The Risk of Infidelity Index- Christopher Moore
Chemistry for Beginners (Fiction) - Anthony Strong
How we do it: The Evolution and future of Sexual reproduction
The Philadelphia Chromosome - Jessica Wapner
Odd Couples - Daphne Fairbairn
The Chemistry between us - Larry Young
Anatomies - Hugh Williams
The Odyssey - Home, Fagles
The Activist - John Grisham
Red Market - Scott Carney
How to create a mind - Ray Kurzweil
Ginkgo: The tree that time forgot - Peter Crane
Bend, not break - Ping Fu
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
Pandora's Lunchbox - Melanie Warner
Argo - Antonio Mendez
Team of Rivals - Doris Goodwin
The Universe Within - Neil Shubin
Kerala History and its Makers - A.Sreedhara Menon
The Last Crusade - Nigel Cliff
Nudge - Richar Thaler
The Spark of Life - Ashcroft Frances
Rendezvous - Nelson DeMille
Antifragile - Nicholas Taleb
The Racketeer - John Grisham
The Panther - Nelson DeMile
1356 - Bernard Cornwell
The illicit happiness of other people- Manu Joseph
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
Pax Indica - Shashi Tharoor
The Violinist's thumb - Sam Kean
Death Benefits - Nelson DeMille
What a Plant knows - Daniel Chamovitz
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Keep the Change - Nirupama Subramanian
Masters of the Planet - Ian Tattersall
Breasts - Florence Williams
Ruler of the World - Alex Rutherford
Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu
The Tainted Throne - Alex Rutherford
The Swinger - Michael Bamberger
DNA USA - Bryan Sykes
The Book Case - Nelson DeMille
The Accused - John Grisham
Subliminal - Leonard Mlodinow
Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L.James
The Age of insight - Eric Kandel
Social Conquest of Earth - E.O.Wilson
Calico Joe - John Grisham
Chomp - Carl Hiaasen
Asoka - Charles Allen
Homo Evolutis - Steve Gullans
A Universe from Nothing - Lawrence Krauss
Out of our Minds - Ken Robinson
Abundance - Peter Diamandis
The End of Illness - David Agus
In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
Death Benefit - Robin Cook
The Creative Destruction of Medicine - Eric Topol
Octopus - Jennifer Mather
Conqueror - Conn Iggulden
Death of Kings - Bernard Cornwell
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
Eagle - Jack Hight
Getting Smart - Tom Vander Ark
Fear Index - Robert Harris
The incredible banker - Ravi Subramaniam
The God Species - Mark Lynas
The Litigators - John Grisham
Boomerang - Michael Lewis
Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolfe
Revolution 2020 - Chetan Bhagat
War of the World views: Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow
That used to be us - Thomas Freidman
The Opium War - Julia Lovell
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
The new players in Life Sciences Innovation - Tomascz M
Endgame - John Mauldin
Inside Jokes:Using humor to reverse-engineer the mind - M.Hurley
The last song of Savio de Souza - Binoo John
Saving Sea Turtles - James Spotilla
Last man in Tower - Aravind Adiga
Star Island - Carl Hiasen
Free Radicals - Michael Brooks
Cause and Effect: Understanding Chernobyl - Marianne B
Adapt:Why success always starts with failure - Tim Hartford
EpiGenetics - Richard Francis
Stalingrad - Antony Beevor
The Mystery of Metamorphosis- Frank Ryan
Wetware:A computer in every living cell - Dennis Bray
Theodore Boone:The Abduction - John Grisham
Food Rules - Michael Pollan
Great Soul - Joseph Lelyveld
Incognito: The secret lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
Science is Culture - Adam Bly and Julian Dufort
The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
Chanakya's Chant - Ashwin Sanghi
Physics of the Future - Michio Kaku
Some Girls: My life in a Harem - Jillian Lauren
Here on Earth - Tim Flannery
A Planet of Viruses - Carl Zimmer
Those in Peril - Wilbur Smith
Panic Virus - Seth Mnookin
Anthill - E.O.Wilson
Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
The Indian Clerk: A Novel - David Leavitt
Predictable Magic - Deepa Prahalad & Ravi Sawhney
Your Brain and Business - Srinivasan Pillay
Here is looking at Euclid - Alex Bellos
Death by Prescription - Ray D Strand
On the Spartacus Road - Peter Stothard
Fermat's Last Theorem - Simon Singh
Euclid's Window - Leonard Mlodinow
The Music of the Primes - Marcus Du Satoy
Nonsense on Stilts - Massimo Pigliucci
The Upside of Irrationality - Dan Ariely
Serious Men - Manu Joseph
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
Mind's Eye - Oliver Sacks
The Tell-Tale Brain - VS Ramachandran
The Emissary - Aniruddha Bahal
Almost Single - Advaita Kala
Raiders from the North - Alex Rutherford
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Barlett
The Emperor of all Maladies - Siddartha Mukherjee
The Fort - Bernard Cornwell
The 10,000 year Explosion - Gregory Cochran
Designer Genes - Steven Potter
Why Sex is Fun? - Jared Diamond
Empire of Silver - Conn Igguulden
The Smart Swarm - Peter Miller
The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
The Confession - John Grisham
The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
Just Six Numbers: Deep forces that shape the Universe - Martin Rees
To test or not to test:A guide to genetic screening - Doris Zallen
The $1000 Genome - Kevin Davies
Adam's Curse - Bryan Sykes
Fall of Giants - Ken Follet
Our Final Hour - Martin Rees
The Lazarus Project - Aleksander Hemon
The Seven Daughters of Eve - Brian Sykes
Nanotechnology Demystified - Linda Williams
Flooded Earth - Peter Ward
80 Questions to understand India - Murad Ali Baig
Piece of Cake - Swati Kaushal
Before the Dawn - Nicholas Wade
Deep Ancestry - Spencer Wells
Intervention - Robin Cook
Out of thin air - Peter Ward
Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
Delhi Noir - Hirsh Sawhney
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
Lion - Nelson DeMille
Solar - Ian Mcewan
Theodore Boone - John Grisham
Mapping the Deep - Robert Kunzig
Life Ascending - Nick Lane
The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Quantum Enigma: Physics enters consciousness -Bruce Rosenblum
Poseidon's Steed - Helen Scales
Inside the Human Genome - John C Avise
My friend Sancho - Amit Varma
Nathaniel's Nutmeg - Giles Milton
The Unfolding of Language - Guy Deutscher
Japanese Wife - Kunal Basu
Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
No one would listen - Harry Markopolos
The Last Dickens - Mathew Pearl
Radical Evolution - Joel Garreau
Whole Earth Discipline - Stewart Brand
How to build a Dinosaur - Jack Horner
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
Decision Tree - Thomas Goetz
Conspirata - Robert Harris
Passionate Declarations - Howard Zinn
Language of Life - Francis Collins
Climbing Mount Improbable - Richard Dawkins
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Arrack in the afternoon - George Menachery
Great Santini - Pat Conroy
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Devil in Pinstripes - Ravi Subramaniam
The Invention of Air - Steven Johnson
Open - Andre Agassi
Ford County - John Grisham
The Double Life of Ramalinga Raju - Kingshuk Nag
Emperors of the Peacock Throne - Abraham Eraly
The Strangest Man - Graham Farmelo
Loot - Sharon Waxman
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Divakurni
Too Big to Fail - Andrew Sorkin
The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell
2 states - Chetan Bhagat
Physics for future presidents - Richard Muller
SuperFreakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Scientific Edge - Jayant V Narlikar

The Miniaturist - Kunal Basu

Nation - Terry Pratchett

Greatest show on Earth - Richard Dawkins

Amen: Autobiography of a nun - Sister Jesme

A Good Indian Wife - Anne Cherian
Case for God - Karen Armstrong
Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
Winner stands alone - Paulo Coelho
The Elephant, the Tiger & the Cell phone - Shashi Tharoor
A case of exploding mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
Business stripped bare - Richard Branson
Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
Bankruptcy to Billions - How the Indian Railways transformed
Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
Rough & Tumble - Mark Bavaro
Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
A wasted death - Rajmohan Pillai
The Hindus - Wendy Doniger
Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga
Tree of Smoke - Dennis Johnson
Right of Thirst - Frank Huyler
Assegai - Wilbur Smith
The Ten most beautiful experiments - George Johnson
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
Decoding the Heavens - Jo Marchant
Brida - Paulo Coelho
Big Switch: Rewiring the world - Nicholas Carr
Confessions of an Alien Hunter - Seth Shosthak
Sons of Babur - Salman Khurshid
Human - Michael Gazzaniga
Gandhi & Churchill - Arthur Herman
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Paradise - Khushwant Singh
Indian Renaissance - Sanjay Sanwal
White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
When Gaints Fall - Michael Panzner
Return of Depression Economics - P Krugman
Age of Siva - Manil Suril
The Serpent's Tale - Ariana Franklin
The Associate - John Grisham
Agincourt - Bernard Cornwell
The Unthinkable - Amanda Ripley
Outliers - Malcom Gladwell
The Story of Writing - Andrew Robinson
Testimony - Anita Shreve
GateHouse - Nelson DeMille
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Foreign Body - Robin Cook
Hot Flat and Crowded
The Post-American World
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the Human Body
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Omnivore's Dilemma
Physics of the Impossible.
Blood Matters.
Rani (of Jhansi).
Blink.
God Delusion.

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