| Title | Author | Genre | Gift | Loaned | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Album | |||||
| Michael Schumacher | D'Alessio, Paolo | Album | X | *7* crowns, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, *2004* - he won one more after this book was finished. He deserves more than a Laureus. Give him the job and you can trust him to do it come what may. | |
| Fiction | |||||
| Da Vinci Code, The | Brown, Dan | Fiction | so popular that I didn't want to read it. | ||
|
Doomsday Conspiracy The Stars Shine Down, The |
Sheldon, Sidney | Fiction | the last few pages are on acid paper and have just evaporated before I managed to read them. These are for the waste paper bin. | ||
| Firm, The | Grisham, John | Fiction | awesome, one word would suffice. | ||
| Mutation | Cook, Robin | Fiction | |||
| My Family and Other Animals | Durrell, Gerald | Fiction | X | from Pradosh | |
| On Wings of Eagles | Follett, Ken | Fiction | reccommended by a friend | ||
| Running Man, The | Bachman], Stephen King [Richard | Fiction | |||
| Ruthless.Com | Greenberg, Martin | Fiction | personally, I rate this as crap | ||
| Scorpiio Illusion, The | Ludlum, Robert | Fiction | |||
| Seizure | Cook, Robin | Fiction | |||
| Tokyo | Hayder, Mo | Fiction | am always inquisitive about new authors<br/> | ||
| Historical Fiction | |||||
| Alexander | Manfredi, Valerio Masimo | Historical Fiction | X | ||
| Alexander | Manfredi, Valerio Masimo | Historical Fiction | X | ||
| Alexander | Manfredi, Valerio Masimo | Historical Fiction | X | ||
| Caesar's Women | McCullough, Colleen | Historical Fiction | One of the best books on Roman Politics ever written. No one else can dream of coming close. | ||
| First Man in Rome, The | McCullough, Colleen | Historical Fiction | X | The best piece of literature on Rome I've ever read. Thanks to Sunita for introducing it to me, though that version of "Fortune's favorites" never made it to my reading list. | |
| Fortune's Favorites | McCullough, Colleen | Historical Fiction | |||
| Grass Crown, The | McCullough, Colleen | Historical Fiction | |||
| Illiad, The | Homer | Historical Fiction | Definitely abridged, or is it? | ||
| October Horse, The | McCullough, Colleen | Historical Fiction | I bought this back after losing track of whom I had loaned this to or misplaced it. This is one book, that teaches you more than Roman politics. | ||
| Odyssey | Homer | Historical Fiction | abridged again! | ||
| Prince of Ayodhya | Banker, Ashok K | Historical Fiction | X | ||
| Republic | Plato | Historical Fiction | |||
| Siege of Mithila | Banker, Ashok K | Historical Fiction | X | ||
| Management | |||||
| 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Covey, Stephen R | Management | X | ||
| 8th Habit, The | Covey, Stephen R | Management | X | ||
| Arthashastra, The | Kautilya | Management | X | ||
| Bad Boy Ballmer | Maxwell, Frederic Alan | Management | X | ||
| Built to Last | Porras, James C Collins & Jerry I | Management | |||
| Entrepreneurship | Holt, David H | Management | X | The most inspiring book I have read in this category. there are many who disagree with this point. | |
| First Thiings First | Merril, A Roger Merril With Rebecca R | Management | X | ||
| Fortune At the Bottom of the Pyramid, The | Prahlad, C K | Management | X | ||
| Guide to Investing | Lechter), Robert T Kiyosaki (with Sharon L | Management | I couldn't get past the first few pages, being guilty of splurging myself. | ||
| I Sing the Body Electronic | Moody, Fred | Management | X | One of the strangest titles for a management book. It teaches how to turn arround a a fiasco, work with a team of misfits and handle budget overruns. This is what all software companies face and dread. | |
| Managing the Professional Service Firm | Maister, David H. | Management | X | X | |
| Microsoft Secrets | Cusamano, Michael A | Management | I got this book originally from Rajiv of Innvo and found it intuitive. He almost lived by the process management techniques described in this book. I found Microsoft's use of a single document for all project related information a refined method. This book has comments from Barry Boehm and is a must read for Software Quality Management people. | ||
| No Logo | Klein, Naomi | Management | X | I half thought of reading a hippie book on Dilbert and Dogbert, but this one turned out to be the best reads. If you are a brand manager, or ever will be, please read this book. | |
| Peak Performance | Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts, Ed Weymes | Management | lots of case studies, must teach me something. I always fall short of my backlog of reading. This must be because I work. I'll have them digested now. | ||
| Power of Impossible Thinking, The | Gunther, Jerry Wind and Colin Crook With Robert | Management | X | Looks really interesting to me. | |
| Principle Centered Leadership | Covey, Stephen R | Management | X | ||
| Retailing Management | Weitz, Levy & | Management | X | ||
| Sam Walton | Huey, Sam Walton With John | Management | X | Each man is made of muscle and sweat and hard work. Walton is no exception, he just made them work together in magic. | |
| Strategic Brand Management | Keller, Kevil Lane | Management | |||
| Who Says Elephants Can't Dance | Gerstner, Jr, Louis V | Management | X | ||
| Maps | |||||
| Bangalore | Miscellaneous | Maps | |||
| Delhi | Miscellaneous | Maps | |||
| Karnataka | Miscellaneous | Maps | X | ||
| Road Atlas | Miscellaneous | Maps | X | ||
| Markets | |||||
| Indian Media Business, The | Kohli, Vanita | Markets | An almost comprehensive description of the Indian media industry, it's present lack of profitability and overseas performances. The failure of the paperback. Essentially a collection of the articles she used to write for "Businessworld". But it was a bold move to have the first book out on this, someone should follow with stronger information. | ||
| Popular Science | |||||
| Chaos | Gleick, James | Popular Science | |||
| Demon-Haunted World, The | Sagan, Carl | Popular Science | X | Anyone aspiring to be a scientist ought to read this book. The thin line between mysticism and science, between magic, tricks and method is exploited too often on weak human minds. This one book makes us stronger and to understand science, method and scientific method | |
| Emperor's New Mind, The | Penrose, Roger | Popular Science | X | Shyam has a copy of this book, hardbound, but I like owning my own. | |
| Emperor's New Mind, The | Penrose, Roger | Popular Science | X | ||
| Fingerprints of the Gods | Hancock, Graham | Popular Science | A whiff of hancock's insanity, albeit readable for the facts and the unscientific approach in connecting them. Pardon him Prof.Sagan, he knows not what he does. | ||
| Holy Blood, Holy Grail | Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln | Popular Science | X | was loaned out to Ramana on his train journey whilst visiting chennai - did not seem to like it. | |
| Hyperspace | Kaku, Michio | Popular Science | A little too cryptic at the start, it is the ending that reveals all. | ||
| Selfish Gene, The | Dawkins, Richard | Popular Science | Personally, a bit, disappointing, Stephen Baxter should've joined together to write the world's most tragic epoch, that of life. | ||
| Sign and the Seal, The | Hancock, Graham | Popular Science | This one is more factual and less of stringed theories, a la Da Vinci code materializing with no ends whatsoever | ||
| Tomorrow's People | Greenfield, Susan | Popular Science | |||
| Science Fiction | |||||
| Andromeda Strain, The | Crichton, Michael | Science Fiction | |||
| Mysterious Island, The | Verne, Jules | Science Fiction | know nothing of this book except that Capt.Nemo makes an appearence, gotta read it laddie. | ||
| State of Fear | Crichton, Michael | Science Fiction | |||
| Software Engineering | |||||
| Applying UML and Patterns | Larman, Craig | Software Engineering | |||
| Art of Computer Programming, The | Knuth, Donald | Software Engineering | |||
| Art of Computer Programming, The | Knuth, Donald | Software Engineering | |||
| Art of Computer Programming, The | Knuth, Donald | Software Engineering | |||
| CMMI | Shrum, Mary Beth Chrissis With Mike Konrad With Sandy | Software Engineering | X | ||
| Introduction to Algorithms | Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson, Ronald L Rivest, Clifford Stein | Software Engineering | |||
| Quality Software Project Management | Robert T Futrell, Donald F Shafer, Lindia I Shafer | Software Engineering | |||