Back in January 2014 I had taken a New Year Resolution to read 30 booksevery year. And then I made a complete list of books that I wanted to read. Thankfully, I could complete the whole list within 5 months.

Now, since I'm studying for the Civil Services Examination, I'll be busy till December 2014 to read any other book. But, I have already made a list of the next 30 Books that I want to read starting in January 2015. 

Here are the two lists - 

2015 List - Books I Want To Read

1) The Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru2) Memsahib's Chronicles - Suchita Malik3) Punjab - Rajmohan Gandhi4) India Unbound - Gurcharan Das5) In Spite of the Gods - Edward Luce6) India Grows at Night - Gurcharan Das7) Everybody Loves a Good Drought - P Sainath8) Confronting the State - Nani Gopal Mahanta9) Challenge and Strategy - India's Foreign Policy - Rajiv Sikri10) Breakout Nations - Ruchir Sharma11) Dancing with Maharaja - Sundar12) Non Stop India - Mark Tully13) Open Secrets - Maloy Krishna Dhar14) Neta, Babu and Subsidy - Sandip Sen15) Pyramid of Virgin Dreams - Vipul Mittra16) Gandhi Before India - Ramachandra Guha17) The Service of the State - Bhaskar Ghose18) The Haves and the Have-Nots - Branko Milanovic19) The Great Convergence - Kishore Mahbubani20) The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie21) An Uncertain Glory - India - Jean Dreze22) Sita - Devdutt Pattanaik23) The Accidental Prime Minister - Sanjaya Baru24) Pax Indica - Shashi Tharoor25) The Idea of India - Sunil Khilnani26) India After Gandhi - Ramachandra Guha27) Implosion - John Elliott28) Battles Half Won - Ashutosh Varshney29) Anticipating India - Shekhar Gupta30) And What Remains In The End - Robin Gupta

2014 - Books That I Have Read

1) The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch *2) It’s Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong *3) Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom *4) The Fakir - Ruzbeh N. Bharucha5) Bureaucrazy Gets Crazier : IAS Unmasked - M.K. Kaw 6) Five Minds of the Future - Howard Gardner7) Everyday Greatness - Stephen Covey **8) Jaya - Mahabharata - Devdutt Pattanaik **9) Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom10) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse11) The Secret - Rhonda Byrne12) TTD Venkateshwara’s Mahatyam and stories.13) The Insider’s (IAS) view - Javid Chowdhary14) Walking with lions (IFS) - Natwar Singh15) I Dare (IPS) - Kiran Bedi16) The Book of Ram - Devadutt Pattanaik17) Understanding Islam *18) Anne Frank’s Diary *19) The Life and Times of Swami Vivekananda20) District Administration (IAS) - N P Nawani21) The Hindus - An Alternative History - Wendy Doniger22) Shiva Maha Puranam.23) You are unique - APJ Abdul Kalam24) My Experiments with Truth - M.K. Gandhi *25) Yoga - Step by step.26) Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga27) A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin *28) Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi *29) The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and F Engels30) And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini

The starred ones indicate the best 10 books out of the 30 according to me. :)