1. Hansel and Gretel
Macaw Books (U.S.A.)
www. macawbooks.com
2. Picturebooks
Rhymes
3. Amar Chitra Katha
Amar Chitra Katha Pvt. Ltd.
Editor : Anant Pai
From Age 3
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From Age 6 or 7
4. Bread and Dew
Grigore Vieru
(Raduga)
5. Tintin
Herge
6. Abridged Classics
(-Various titles. For example, schoolchildren in India of a certain age group must have read such books from S. Chand or Sultan Chand Publications (they had illustrations at intervals too)).
7. Key Words with Ladybird
Ladybird
(E.g. Books ‘6c’ and ‘9c’)
8. Ladybird Classics
(Simplified, concise versions of renowned literary works.
E.g. King Solomon’s Mines, A Tale of Two Cities?)
Suitable abridged versions, desirably with illustrations
(From Age 8 or 9).
9. Walter de la Mare
10. Jules Verne
Suitable abridged versions, desirably with illustrations
(From Age 8 or 9)
11. Figures for Fun
Yakov Perelman
(Mir)
12. Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Suitable abridged version
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From Age 14 or 15
13. Alistair Maclean
E.g. –
a) Force 10 from Navarone
b) Athabasca
c) Night without End
d) Fear is the Key
e) When Eight Bells Toll
f) Where Eagles Dare
g) Satan Bug
h) Caravan to Vacares
i) South by Java Head
j) Red Alert (‘Alastair MacNeill’)
14. Anton Chekhov
Collections
The four volume complete works from Raduga Publishers (have they been reprinted after 1990?) are good
(Translators : Olga Shartse, Graham Whittaker?, Kathleen Klein-Horujy)
15. Leo Tolstoy
E.g. –
God Sees the Truth But Waits
A Prisoner in the Caucasus
The Bear Hunt
16. Classics (English Literature)
E.g. –
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Great Expectations
Bleak House
Mansfield Park
The Mill on the Floss
Middlemarch
17. A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
18. How To Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie
(From Age 13)
19. The Lost Horizon
James Hilton
20. He That Hath Wings
Edmond Hamilton
21. The Scope of Happiness
Vijaylakshmi Pandit
22. Agatha Christie
(From Age 15 or 16)
E.g. –
a) Towards Zero
b) Poirot’s Early Cases
c) The Moving Finger
d) The Mysterious Affair at Styles
e) The Secret Adversary
f) The Seven Dials Mystery
g) N or M?
h) Elephants Can Remember
i) The Sittaford Mystery
j) Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
k) Death Comes as the End
l) Murder is Easy
m) Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
23. All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
24. Liam O’ Flaherty
25. William Wordsworth
26. Alfred Tennyson
27. Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
(Perhaps one with paraphrasing, in lower section of each page)
28. Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K Jerome
29. The Adventures of Asterix (*)
Goscinny & Uderzo
30. Sherlock Holmes (Complete Works)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bantam
(the two-volume complete works)
31. 1000 Maths Quiz
Dilip M Salwi
Rupa
32. Jurassic Park (*)
Michael Crichton
33. Hammer of God (*)
Arthur C. Clarke
(From Age Fifteen)
34. Where Angels Fear to Tread
E M Forster
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From Age 17
35. Ivan Turgenev
E.g. –
The Country Doctor
36. O Jerusalem!
Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
37. Kim
Rudyard Kipling
(Madhuban Pub.)
(a suitable abridged version for teenagers should be found. With respect, the original work has too much of worldliness, shrewdness. It is short of innocence. It is at places perhaps unnecessarily dense).
38. An Autobiography
Agatha Christie
39. Amusing Experiments
(Prosveshcheniye Moscow; Vostok Calcutta)
40. The Little Princess
Frances H Burnett
41. The Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan
42. Animal Farm (*)
George Orwell
43. Stephen Leacock, W H Auden, P J O Tailor (Spice of Life; The Statesman), Swinburne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning.
Robert Southey.
44. Matilda
Roald Dahl
45. Dylan Thomas
select works and quotes
46. World History (*)
John Farndon & Victoria Parker
Consultant : Richard Tames
Miles Kelly
47. Boy
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
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From Age 19
48. William Hazlitt
49. World’s Great Short Stories
Edited by Pranab Bandyopadhyay
Book Club
50. The World’s Greatest Short Stories
Jaico Publishing House
51. Something Called Nothing
Roman Podolny
Mir
52. Space Time Gravitation
Mir
53. Bankim Rachanavali – Vol. 3 (*)
(Complete English Works)
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
Sahitya Samsad (Kolkata)
54. Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
55. National Geographic
(old volumes – pre-2010)
56. The Last Mughal
William Dalrymple
57. The Best of Ruskin Bond/Delhi Is Not Far
Penguin Books
Ruskin Bond’s Book of Verse
Penguin Books
All Roads Lead to Ganga/Roads to Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond
Rupa Co
Rain in the Mountains – Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond
Penguin Books
The Rupa Book of Ruskin Bond’s Himalayan Tales
Rupa Co
Captain Young’s Ghost (Ghostly Tales from the Indian Hills)
Ruskin Bond
Speaking Tiger
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From Age 25
58. Philip Edward Thomas
59. P. G. Wodehouse
E.g. –
Very Good Jeeves
Jeeves in the Offing
The Code of the Woosters
60. Collected Ghost Stories
M R James
Wordsworth Classics
61. Gerald Durrell
62. A Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
63. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L Shirer
64. Aurangzib
Jadunath Sircar
Orient Longman
(The paperback title of about 400 pages, meant for general readership)
65. Icons of England
Edited by Bill Bryson
Black Swan
66. Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
Black Swan
67. Is Paris Burning?
Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
68. The Crusades (*)
-The War for the Holy Land
Thomas Asbridge
69. Amsterdam (*)
Chris Verheugd
Uitgeverij Bekking Amsterdam
70. What If
Randall Munro
71. The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen
72. Rosemary Timperley
73. In Search of Great Britain and Northern Europe
(Reader’s Digest People and Places)
Reader’s Digest
73 b) In Search of Russia and Eastern Europe
(Reader’s Digest People and Places)
Reader’s Digest
73 c). Life on the Home Front (*)
(Reader’s Digest; Journeys into the Past)
Reader’s Digest
74. The History and Culture of the Indian People
E.g. – The Vedic Age (Vol. 1)
The Classical Age (Vol. 3) (*)
British Paramountcy and the Indian Renaissance (Vol. 9 and 10) (*)
General Editor: R C Majumdar
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
103. Iranianism
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
The Asiatic Society (Calcutta)
75. A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Windmill
76. The Lord of the Rings –
J R R Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring (Volume One)
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Harper Collins
76 b) The Silmarillion
JRR Tolkien
Harper Collins
77. A Little Book of Life
Ruskin Bond
Rupa I Rainlight
78. A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
79. Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
80. New Concise Larousse Gastronomique
Hamlyn
81. The London Magazine (old volumes) (*)
82. The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles (*)
Rosemary Sutcliff
83. Our Moon Has Blood Clots
Rahul Pandita
Vintage
84. The Girl Who Escaped ISIS
Farida Khalaf
Andrea C Hoffmann
Vintage
85. In Order to Live
Yeonmi Park
Penguin
86. The Last Girl (*)
Nadia Murad
Jenna Krajeski
87. A History of Rajasthan
Rima Hooja
(available on Kindle)
88. France – An Adventure History (*)
Graham Robb
89. The French Revolution
Christopher Hibbert
(available on Kindle)
90. Made in America
Bill Bryson
91. Mother Tongue
Bill Bryson
Penguin
92. Southern India – A Guide to Monuments, Sites & Museums
George Michell
Roli Books
93. Undaunted Courage
(‘Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West’)
Stephen E. Ambrose
Simon & Schuster
94. History’s Greatest Battles
(Masterstrokes of War)
Nigel Cawthorne
95. 100 Great Books
John Canning
96. The Golden Treasury (Of The Best Songs and
Lyrical Poems in the English Language)
(Selected and Arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave
Introduction by C Day Lewis)
Rupa
97. Selected Poems – John Keats
Edited with an Introduction and
Notes by Edmund Blunden
Rupa
98. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
99. Germania : In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and their History
Simon Winder
100. A History of English Literature
Edward Albert
Fifth Edition, Revised by J A Stone
Oxford University Press
101. The Cypress Tree
Kamin Mohammadi
Bloomsbury
102. Goa : A Daughter’s Story
Maria Aurora Couto
TEXTBOOKS
(A) Living English (1989 – 1992)
(B) Living Science (1988 – 1992)
(C) Guided English (1993 – 1995)
(D) Gulmohar Graded English (1993 – 1995)
(E) The ICSE History Textbooks of the Early and Mid-1990s (For Indian readers)
(F) The ICSE Geography Textbooks of the Early and Mid-1990s
(G) Frank School Atlas (1994-1997)
(H) A Pageant of Poems (1996 – 1997)
(I) A Collection of Short Stories (1996 – 1997)
(J) High School English Grammar and Composition
Wren & Martin
(~1994-1995)
They may be acquired from somewhere, such as second-hand book stalls.
The National Library at Kolkata, being a ‘copyright library’, must be having copies.
[ ICSE stands for the Indian Council of Secondary Education ].
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- Fundamentals of Physics
Resnick, Halliday, Walker
John Wiley
- Essentials of Chemistry
Wesley E. Lingren
Prentice – Hall
- Concepts of Physics
H C Verma