2016 Reading List

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This is time to share and books are the best gifts to give.  I thought I will share what I have read so far. I would love if you can share some good books you have read which I can read in the  holiday break.

 Legend:
(*)  - I like the book
(!*) - Book recommended by a friend which I like

  1.  "Monkey and Monk" - Anthony C. Yu
  2.  "Shambhala - The sacred path to Warrior" - Chogyam Trungpa
  3.  "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" By Matsuo Baso (*)
  4.  "When Breath Becomes Air" - Paul Kalanithi (*)
  5.  "The Righteous Mind" - Jonathan Haidt (*)
  6.  "One hundred years of solitude" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  7.  "The Difficulty of Being Good" - Gurucharan Das (*)
  8.  "How to live on 24 Hours a Day" - Arnold Bennett
  9.  "Meditations"  - Marcus Arurelius
  10.  "Stories from Tagore" - Rabindranath Tagore
  11.  "Stray Birds - Tagore (*)
  12.  "Catfish and Mandala" - Andrew Pham (!*)
  13.  "If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir" - Om Swami (*)
  14.  "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" - Patrick Henry
  15.  "Sadhana: the realization of life" - Tagore
  16.  "My Reminiscences" - Rabindranath Tagore 
  17.  "Lipika" - Rabindranath Tagore (!*)
  18.  "Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind" - Yuval Harari (*)
  19.  "The Evolution of God - Robert Wright (*)
  20.  "Looking for God - AW Schade (*)
  21.  "Seven Brief Lesson on Physics - Carlo Rovelli  
  22.  "In my Own Words"  -  Dalai Lama
  23.  "Rethinking Immortality - Robert Lanza
  24.  "The universe in a single Atom - Dalai Lama
  25.  "Over the Edge of the World" - Laurence Berg
    Books currently reading (I  switch around 3-4 books)
    1.  "Dear Life Stores" - Alice Murano
    2.  "How to be Alone: Essays" - Jonathan Franzen
    3.  "God without Religion: ..." Sankara Saranam
    4.  "The Social Animal .. " - David Brooks

    Happy Reading!

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