MY FAVOURITE BOOKS

 

These are some of my favourite books, and as you can see, these are mostly the modern classics. I have enjoyed them immensely. This is not the order in which I have enjoyed them or prefer them; I have merely listed them as I remembered them.

 

 

 

Poetry  Here are a few of them-certainly not all:

 

i)                    Ted Hughes, Collected Works

ii)                   Sylvia Plath, Selected Poems, Selected by Ted Hughes

iii)                 Michel Schmidt (ed) , Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry in English

iv)                 Dylan Thomas, Selected Poems

v)                  Wallace Stevens, Selected Poems

vi)                 Michel Benedickt (ed) Anthology of Surrealist Poetry

vii)               TS Eliot, Collected Works

viii)              Garcia Lorca, Selected Poems

ix)                 Vasant Abaji Dahake, Yogbhrasta, Shunah Shepa, Shubhavartaman ( Marathi)

x)                  Arun Kolatkar, Bhijki Vahi, Arun Kolatkarchya Kavita  ( Marathi) & , Jejuri (English)

xi)                 Namdeo Dhasal, Golpitha, Khel,  & Tuhi Iyyata Kaichi  ( Marathi)

xii)               Dilip Chitre, Ekun Kavita Vol. I, II, III ( Marathi)  Traveling in a Cage & The Mountain

xiii)              Ravji Patel, Angat (Gujarati)

xiv)             Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Athva  (Gujarati)

xv)               Sitanshu Mehta, Jatayu & Odysseus nu Halesu (Gujarati)

xvi)             Suresh Joshi,  Pratyancha (Gujarati)

xvii)            Mirzha Ghalib, Divan E Ghalib (Urdu)

xviii)          Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Chand Ka Muh Tedha Hai (Hindi)

xix)             Chad Walsh, ed. Today’s Poets, Charles Scribner’s Sons, NY, 1964

xx)               JD Mc Clatchy, The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, NY, Vintage Books, 1996

xxi)             Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies (Tr. David Young)1992

 

Novels

 

i)                    Andre Gide, The Immoralist.

ii)                   Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities & If On a Winter’s Night, a Traveler

iii)                 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude , Love in the Time of Cholera, Love and Other Demons,

iv)                 Albert Camus, The Plague , The Fall,  The Outsider

v)                  James Joyce, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

vi)                 JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

vii)               Gunter Grass, The Flounder    & The Tin Drum

viii)              Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, & Invitation to Beheading

ix)                 Emile Bronte, Wuthering Heights

x)                  Bhalchandra Nemade, Cocoon (Kosla) Trs. Sudhakar Marathe

xi)                 OV Vijayan, The Legends of Khasak

xii)               Mahasweta Devi, Hajar Chaurasir Ma

xiii)              Franz Kafka, The Trial

xiv)             Lawrence Sterne, Life and Adventures of Tristam Shandy, a Gentleman

xv)               Milan Kundera,  The Unbearable Lightness of Being, & Immortality

xvi)             Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

xvii)            Salman Rushdie, Fury, Shame, Moor’s Last Sigh

xviii)          VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas