TO GET:

Life A Users Manual by Georges Perec (perhaps the greatest 20th century novel)
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers (captures Oxford high-table small-talk wonderfully)
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears (also Oxford but in the 1660s)
Death of a Salesperson by Robert Barnard (who is at his best in short stories like these)
The Haj by Leon Uris (great to read on a trip to Israel)
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk (in-depth characters plus a whole philosophy)
On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee (applied biochemistry in the kitchen)
Food by Waverley Root (his magnum opus, a wonderful history of everything delicious)
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (the Great California Novel, entirely in 14-line sonnets)
The Age of Faith by Will Durant (volume 4 of his series covers the years 325--1300)
Efronia by Stina Katchadourian (diaries and letters of a remarkable Armenian woman)
The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel (biographies of Ramanujan and Hardy)
Hackers by Steven Levy (incredibly well written tale of our times)
The Abominable Man by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (one of their brilliantly Swedish detective novels)
AdamSmith—Wealth of Nations
Aldous Huxley--Point Counter Point and Brave New World
Revenue Stamp: An Autobiography by Amrita Pritam
Marriage and Morals -- by Bertrand Russell Russell
DOKTOR ZHIVAGO by Boris (Leonidovich) Pasternak
Inside India Today by Dilip Hiro
Lady Chatterley's Lover -- by D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers (Signet Classics (Paperback)) -- by D.H. Lawrence
GERMINAL by Emile Zola
The Rainbow (Modern Library Classics) -- by D.H. Lawrence, Keith Cushman (Introduction)
Women in Love (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by D. H. Lawrence
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Trans. Edward Fitzgerald Omar Khayyam
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1-3: Volumes 1, 2, 3 -- by Edward Gibbon
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Pygmalion and Major Barbara (Bantam Classics) by George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman (Penguin Classics) by George Bernard Shaw, et al
Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot, Rosemary Ashton
The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot, A. S. Byatt
Silas Marner (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Prison Diary by Jayaprakash Narayan, Amritlal B. Shah
An autobiography; Glimpses of world history; The discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
The Age of Reason: A Novel (Vintage International) by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
KAMALA DAS’S MY STORY
Das Kapital, New Edition by Karl Marx
Mother India by Katherine Mayo
Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
"Roses in December" Mr. M C Chagla
My Own Boswell by HIDAYATULLAH
The Men Who Killed Gandhi by Malgonkar, Manohar
Nelson Rolihlahla MANDELA:. The Struggle Is My Life
She Stoops to Conquer (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oliver Goldsmith
The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde
My Music My Life by Ravi Shankar
Piloo Mody--- Zulfi, My Friend
Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao
Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Complete Adventures of Feluda Volume 1 by Satyajit Ray
Our Films Their Films by Satyajit Ray
Sri Aurobindo's the life divine
Sunny days: An autobiography by Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century by Alvin Toffler
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
Inscrutable American-----Amitav ghosh
UNCOMMON WISDOM by Fritjof Capra
The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by Desmond Morris
Man watching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior by Desmond Morris
The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body by Desmond Morris
A Suitable Boy: Novel, A by Vikram Seth
A Wounded Civilization: VS Naipaul
An Area of Darkness : VS Naipaul
If I am Assassinated by ZA Bhutto