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By the end of this page I had finished school and had joined college in delhi (though that lasted just a few months)..
204 Love and Glory
205 Papillon
206 Case of deadly toy
207 Flyaway
208 75 short masterpieces
209 Biggles goes to war
210 Lonely Road
211 Voices in the city
212 Flight of the falcon
213 Captains Courageous
214 Ulysses (James Joyce - and I couldnt see what the fuss was about)
215 Great Gatsby
216 Q Clearance
217 Sophies Choice
218 Tregaron's daughter
219 Georgy Girl
220 Eggs, beans and crumpets
221 Curtain : poirots last case
222 outstanding short stories
223 Area of Darkness
224 Rendevous with Rama
225 Nightrunners of Bengal
226 As the crow flies
227 My India
228 West of Appomattox
229 Jasmine
230 Voice of the night
231 In an antique land
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My reading was mostly dictated by what I could find in the local library - but that added to the fun.. and the unexpected joy at finding something I enjoyed by accident..
141 Shroud for a Nightingale
142 Games
143 Piranhas (Harold Robbins)
144 Bloodline
145 Choir Boys
146 Unsuitable job for a woman
147 Drifters (James Michener with that fave quote : How sweet it is to do nothing all day, and after having done so, to rest :-) )
148 Fools die
149 R Document
150 Doomsday Conspiracy
151 Red Fox
152 Darkness Comes
153 Best mysteries of Isaac Asimov
154 Master of the Game
155 Centennial
156 Wanderlust
157 Day of judgment
158 Cage of shadows
159 Leave it to Psmith (as u might have noticed, I was never short on PG Wodehouse)
160 Brain (or Robin Cook for that matter)
161 Without feathers
162 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
163 Mating season
164 Catoplus Terror
165 Indiscretions of Archie
166 Far Country
167 Biplane
168 I'll take Manhattan
169 North by the rails
170 Shout at the devil
171 Clocks
172 Doctor at sea
173 Bridge Across Forever
174 World According to Garp
175 Requiem for a wren
176 Exorcist
177 Expedition to Earth
178 Almighty
179 Lord of the Dance (an absolute surprise - an Englishman's journey in Akbar's court)
180 Illusions
181 Best Science Fiction 2
182 Air Force One is down
183 Scruples
184 Marathon Man
185 One hundred years of solitude (I dont think I 'got' it though)
186 Scapegoat
187 Nothing by chance
188 Doctor in clover
189 Mulliner Mights
190 The Body
191 Doctor and son
192 Raise the Titanic
193 Kramer versus kramer
194 Games People Play
195 Case of baited hook
196 Magic Army
197 Fear of Flying
198 Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
199 Kings General
200 War of the worlds
201 Tron
202 Master of the World
203 Where shall we go this summer?
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Just a note about the numbering..this is purely a chronological order and not my favorites or anything.. just wish i had started keeping score earlier since a lot of good ones dont appear here..
This next page sees me in Nagpur where I had the local Mess library to give me company..
69.Matlock Paper
70. Love and War
71.Case of fabolous fake
72.First Officer
73. Hollow
74. Smile and say murder
75. Shall we tell the President?
76. Robots of Dawn
77. Three men in a boat
78. Dead Zone
79. Dogs of War
80. Floating Admiral
81. Coma
82. Ghost Story
83. Night of Error
84. Hobbit
85. Animal Farm
86. Odessa File
87. A Stranger in the mirror
88. Spring Fever
89. Stars, like dust
90. Clear and Present Danger (again, a personal fave)
91. Merlyn's Magic
92. Bride
93. On wings of eagles
94. Godplayer
95. Much Obliged, Jeeves
96. Tinker tailor soldier spy
97.Psmith journalist
98. quiver full of arrows
99 Fever
100 Floodgate
101 Casebook of the Black widowers
102. Fine Things
103 Bachelors Anonymous
104 Omen
105 Sound of Thunder (Wilbur Smith's Courtney series and another good read)
106 Whiff of death
107 Rat trap
108 Laughing gas
109 Lord of the flies
110 Nightfall
111 A Sparrow Falls
112 Quick Service
113 Condominium
114 Breakfast of Champions
115 Deadly doubles
116 Pickwick Papers
117 Enemy
118 Battle Cry (Leon Uris)
119 Heart of a Goof
120 Song of Roland Smith
121 One flew over the cuckoo's nest
122 Aliens in the family (this was a cousin's kid's book)
123 till we meet again (judith krantz)
124 the man from st. petersburg
125 trevayne
126 round the bend (nevil shute)
127 seventh secret
128 twice shy
129 The Captain and the Enemy (graham greene)
130 Commissar's report
131 IQ 83
132 Eye of the Tiger
133 Far Arena (great one abt a roman gladiator who awakes after 2000 years)
134 Chariots of the Gods
135 Lucifers Hammer
136 Day of the Triffids
137 Jeeves in the offing
138 Sybil
139 Air Bridge
140 Jian
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We were just about to leave Cal when I started this list so a lot of books I read then didnt make it here but heres to those two libraries, one in Turf View and the other in Fort William - may u ever prosper..
40.Son of a wanted man
41. Trotter-nama
42. Lawless lady
43.Introducing Susan Dare
44.Nightmare
45.Death's eye view
46. Murder machine
47. Death rides a boxcar
48. Bearded lady
49. Murder set to music
50. Zero clue
51. storm
52. dont look now
53. booktaker
54. king in yellow
numbers 42 to 54 were from a compilation called 30 Great Mystery Novels or something but I was trying to create a record tally so they came in individually..
55. Ice
56. Bear Island
57. Mitla Pass
58. Pillars of the Earth (my favorite Follett)
59. Samraj (the mahabharata in fantasy mode)
60. Pet Sematary
61. Five Little Pigs
62. Beyond Love
63. Gate of flying knives
64. Unicorn tapestry
65. Sleep well of nights
66. Blackheart and Whiteheart
67. Supergirl
68. Mask
Page Zero
City : Calcutta
Time : Summer of '91
I had just finished my tenth and was quietly reading my way through the local library , and well, this just seemed like a great idea...
1. Rhinemann Exchange (Ludlum used to be my top fave then)
2. One lonely night
3. Death comes as the end
4. Day of the jackal (amazing book!)
5 Danger on the diamond (I hadnt finished with the Hardy Boys yet)
6. Ninja Killers
7. Mystery of the Blue Train
8. Negotiator
9. Heaven and Hell (part of John Jakes' trilogy of the American Civil War)
10. Prodigal Daughter
11. Partisans (maclean, remember him?)
12. Hospital
13. Serpent Tooth Mystery
14. Osterman Weekend
15. Forge Of God
16.Evening News
17. Gemini Contenders
18. Fantastic Voyage II
19. Misery (my first Stephen King!)
20. Road to Gandolfo
and thats just the first month..
21. Platoon
22. Nineteen Eighty Four
23. Mindbend
24. Mila 18
25. Nine Tomorrows
26. Daddy (thats Danielle Steele - i read everything)
27. Talisman (King again)
28. Ring (Steele again)
29. Man woman and child
30. Turn of the screw
31. Empire strikes back
32 Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'amour)
33. Contact
34.Ninja
35.Trinity
36. One (Richard Bach)
37. Godfather
38. Atlas Shrugged
39. Eagle has landed
to be continued...
