Ramayanam - Krishna Dharma or Kamala Subramaniam
Mahabharatham - Krishna Dharma or Kamala Subramaniam
Srimath Bhagavatham - Kamala Subramaniam
A search in secret India - Paul Brunton
Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahamsa Yogananda
Living with the Himalayan Masters - Swami Rama
Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
@TrueIndology's history research on social media (Not a book)
Hind Swaraj - Gandhi
Four arguments for the elimination of television - Jerry Mander
Panchatantra - Amar Chitra Katha
1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell
Good books:
Sankara Digvijaya - Vidyaranya
Georg Feuerstein's "The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice"
Ponniyin Selvan series - Kalki (in Tamizh or a translation)
Early Sidney Sheldon books
Amar Chitra Katha series
Asterix series
Tintin series
Game of Thrones (until book 3)
Sherlock Holmes series
A Darkening Age - Catherine Nixey
The upside of irrationality & The honest truth about dishonesty - Dan Ariely
How to fail at everything & still win big - Scott Adams
Lectures on the Ramayana - Srinivasa Shastri
The Martian - Andy Weir
Science fiction stories collection - Frederick Brown
Beauty, Power and Grace: The Book of Hindu Goddesses - Krishna Dharma
Indian Summer - Alex Von Tunzelmann
How to make friends & influence people - Dale Carnegie
Monkey King comic series - Wei Dong Chen (Adaptation of Chinese classic: Journey to the West)
The 7 habits of highly effective people - Stephen Covey
Skin in the game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Gandhi / Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran
Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge - Arthur Osborne
Iliad & Odyssey - abridged prose
Food rules: Illustrated edition, an eater's manual: Michael Pollan
Harry Potter series
Books to skip:
Thinking fast & slow - Daniel Kahneman
The signal & the noise - Nate Silver
The three kingdoms (Chinese classic)
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My experiments with Truth - Gandhi (only for a student of history or Gandhiji)
The Linga Purana translation - Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (only for students of Hinduism)
Great Epics of India: Puranas. 19 volume set - Dipavali Debroy (only for students of Hinduism, some of the translations feel disrespectful)
Brahmavaivarta Purana translated by Shantilal Nagar (only for students of Hinduism & Vaishnavas)
Yoga Vasishta (recommend for students of Yoga & Hinduism)
Narayana Guru - the Hindu publication (incorrect info & Marxist lens)
How to change your mind - Michael Pollan (listen to his interviews for a gist instead)
Ramayanam & Mahabharatam - Rajagopalachari (Too abridged for my liking)
Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit
Books to evaluate:
Flight of dieties & the rebirth of temples - Meenakshi Jain
The Infidel Next Door - Rajat Mitra
Aavarana - SL Bhyrappa
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