1. “A Farewell to Arms” – Ernest Hemingway
2. “Pride and Prejudice” – Jane Austen
3. “India Wins Freedom” – Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4. “Nineteen Eighty-Four” – George Orwell
5. “Gandhi and Stalin” – Louis Fischer
6. “Sword of Tipu Sultan” – B. S. Gidwani
7. “War and Peace” – Leo Tolstoy
8. “The Spirit of Laws” – Montesquieu
9. “The City of the Saints” – Sir Richard Francis Burton
10. “The Story of My Experiments with Truth” – M. K. Gandhi
11. “Crossing the Threshold of Hope” – Pope John Paul II
12. “Higher than Hopes” (Biography of Nelson Mandela) – Fatima Meer
13. “Remembering Babylon” – David Malouf
14. “Daughter of the East” – Benazir Bhutto
15. “The Bluest Eye” – Toni Morrison
16. “Glimpses of World History” – Jawaharlal Nehru
17. “Shahnameh” – Ferdowsi
18. “The Good Earth” – Pearl S. Buck
19. “Gulliver’s Travels” – Jonathan Swift
20. “To Live or Not to Live” – Nirad C. Chaudhuri
21. “Tahqiq-i-Hind” – Al-Biruni
22. “Around the World in Eighty Days” – Jules Verne
23. “The Prince” – Niccolò Machiavelli
24. “Das Kapital” – Karl Marx
25. “Mankind and Mother Earth” – Arnold Joseph Toynbee
26. “A Prisoner’s Scrapbook” – L. K. Advani
27. “Zulfi, My Friend” – Piloo Mody
28. “The Power and the Glory” – Graham Greene
29. “Life Divine” – Sri Aurobindo
30. “Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own” – Janet Morgan
31. “The Conquest of Happiness” – Bertrand Russell· “To Kill a Mockingbird” – Harper Lee
32. “The Great Gatsby” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” – Gabriel García Márquez
34. “Moby-Dick” – Herman Melville
35. “The Catcher in the Rye” – J.D. Salinger
36. “Ulysses” – James Joyce
37. “Brave New World” – Aldous Huxley
38. “The Brothers Karamazov” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
39. “Don Quixote” – Miguel de Cervantes
40. “The Odyssey” – Homer
41. “Les Misérables” – Victor Hugo
42. “Crime and Punishment” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
43. “The Divine Comedy” – Dante Alighieri
44. “Anna Karenina” – Leo Tolstoy
45. “The Count of Monte Cristo” – Alexandre Dumas
46. “The Iliad” – Homer
47. “Wuthering Heights” – Emily Brontë
48. “Frankenstein” – Mary Shelley
49. “Jane Eyre” – Charlotte Brontë
50. “The Hobbit” – J.R.R. Tolkien
51. “The Lord of the Rings” – J.R.R. Tolkien
52. “The Old Man and the Sea” – Ernest Hemingway
53. “The Picture of Dorian Gray” – Oscar Wilde
54. “A Tale of Two Cities” – Charles Dickens
55. “Madame Bovary” – Gustave Flaubert
56. “Dracula” – Bram Stoker
57. “1984” – George Orwell
58. “Animal Farm” – George Orwell
59. “The Alchemist” – Paulo Coelho· “Long Walk to Freedom” (Biography of Nelson Mandela) – Nelson Mandela
60. “The Diary of a Young Girl” (Anne Frank’s Diary) – Anne Frank
61. “My Life” (Autobiography of Bill Clinton) – Bill Clinton
62. “Dreams from My Father” (Autobiography of Barack Obama) – Barack Obama
63. “The Audacity of Hope” – Barack Obama
64. “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” – Doris Kearns Goodwin
65. “The Path to Power” (Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson) – Robert A. Caro
66. “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” – Paul Kennedy
67. “The Guns of August” – Barbara W. Tuchman
68. “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order” – Samuel P. Huntington
69. “The World Is Flat” – Thomas L. Friedman
70. “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt” – Doris Kearns Goodwin
71. “Kissinger: A Biography” – Walter Isaacson
72. “The Art of War” – Sun Tzu
73. “The Prince” – Niccolò Machiavelli
74. “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” – John Mearsheimer
75. “The Making of the Atomic Bomb” – Richard Rhodes
76. “Madame Curie: A Biography” – Eve Curie
77. “Einstein: His Life and Universe” – Walter Isaacson
78. “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar” – Simon Sebag Montefiore
79. “Churchill: A Life” – Martin Gilbert
80. “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” – Malcolm X, Alex Haley
81. “A World Transformed” – George H.W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft
82. “Ghost Wars” – Steve Coll
83. “The Cold War: A New History” – John Lewis Gaddis
84. “All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror” – Stephen Kinzer
85. “The Road to Serfdom” – Friedrich Hayek
86. “The End of History and the Last Man” – Francis Fukuyama
87. “The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage” – John Hughes-Wilson88. “The Best and the Brightest” – David Halberstam