Justice Markandey Katju
Many young people have asked me what books they should read. Therefore I have prepared a list of books I recommend :
British:
1.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
2.David Copperfield
3.Oliver Twist
4.Great Expectations
5. Pickwick Papers
6. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
7. Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
8. Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte
9. King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
10. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
11. 1984 by George Orwell
12. Animal Farm
13. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
14. Short stories by Maugham
15. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
16. Treasure Island
17. War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
18. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
19. Beau Geste by P.C. Wren
20. Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves
21. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
22. The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot
23. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
24. The Sign of the Four
25. The Valley of Fear
26. Short stories of Sherlock Holmes
27. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
28. Tess by Thomas Hardy
29. Waverley by Walter Scott
30. Ivanhoe
American:
1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2.Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
4. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
5. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
6. Arrowsmith
7. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls
9. The Old Man and the Sea
10. The Sun Also Rises
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
13. Of Mice and Men
14. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
15. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
16. Lord Jim
17. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
18. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
19. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
20. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
21. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
22. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
23. Our Man in Havana
24. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
25. Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
27. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
28. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper
French:
1. Father Goriot by Honore Balzac
2. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
4. The Three Musketeers
5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
6. Short stories of Maupassant
7. Candide by Voltaire
8. Zadig
9. Germinal by Emil Zola
10. Twenty thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
German:
1. Robbers by Schiller
2. The Sorrows of the Young Werther by Goethe
3. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
4. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
5. Poems of Heinrich Heine
Russian:
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2. Anna Karenina
3 Resurrection
4. Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
5. Mother by Maxim Gorki
6. Short Stories of Gorki
7. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
8. Brothers Karamazov
9. Dead Souls by Gogol
!0. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
11. Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
12. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Italian:
1. Deacameron by Boccaccio
2. The Prince by Machiavelli
Spanish:
1. Don Quixote by Cervantes
Greek:
1. Iliad
2. Odyssey
Norwegian:
1. Doll's House by Ibsen
Czech:
1. The Trial by Kafka
Hungarian:
1. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Chinese:
1. The Dream of the Red Chamber
2. Stories by Lu Hsun
South African:
1. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Columbian:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Persian:
1. Rubaiyats of Omar Khayyam
2. Masnavi of Rumi
3. Akbarnama by Abul Fazl
Turkish:
1. Tuzuk-e-Babri by Babar
Sanskrit:
1. Abhigyan Shakutalam by Kalidas
2. Meghadoot
3.Mahabharat by Ved Vyas
4.Ramayan by Valmiki
Hindi:
1. Godan by Premchand
2.Short stories of Premchand
3. Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas
Tamil:
1. Silapathiharam by Ilango
2.. Poems of Subramania Bharati
Bengali:
1. Shrikant by Sharat Chand Chattopadhyaya
2. Shesh Prashna
3. Palli Samaj
4. Devdas
5.Brahman ki Beti
6. Pather Davi
7 Anand Math by Bankim Chand Chattopadhyaya
8.Gitanjali by Tagore
Urdu:
1. Stories by Saadat Hasan Khan Manto
2. Diwan of Ghalib
3. Poems of Faiz Ahmed Faiz
The above is my own select list, though others may have other choices
