Books I read @ a glance in 2007

Though I had a different resolution for the year 2007, I was impressed with my husband's resolution - "Reading 20 books". I happen to take up on his resolution and reach the goal partly inspite of my 3 months vacation to India. This was a small effort from my side to start towards investing time in reading and avoid my procrastination as well. Here is the listing along with their author names and also containing my small personal notes outlining the book:

1.Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus - Author John Gray
-Talks about differences between men and women. Compares men to elastic and women to waves

2. The Monk who sold his Ferrari - Author Robin S Sharma
-10 Steps to radiant living -NEWSTART

3. Siddhartha - Author Hermann Hesse
-Never have your ego dominate you. Have thirst for learning new things continuously. Learn to think, wait and fast.

4. Aesop's Stories - Indian moral stories
5. Chandamama - Indian moral stories
6. Akbar and Birbal Stories - Indian moral stories

7. Deception Point - Author Dan Brown
-Suspense thriller. Its all about the NASA, president and the politics

8. Interpreter of Maladies - Author Jhumpa Lahiri
-The Indo-american life storeis

9. Freakonomics - Author Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
-The hidden side of everything

10. The Four Hour Workweek - Author Timothy Ferriss
-Escape 9-5. Live anywhere and join the new rich

11. Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Author Richard Bach
-Self perfection and self sacrifice through continuous learning to achieve higher plane of existence.

12. One Minute Manager - Author Ph.D. Kenneth Blanchard, M. D. Spencer Johnson
-One minute goals, one minute praising and one minute reprimand are the basic secrets of one minute management

13. Memories of Midnight - Author Sidney Sheldon
-Suspense murder thriller

14. The Mystery of Lord Ganesh - Author (Translation of Satyajit Ray's Feluda collection)
-Suspense detective containing 3 stories in this book

To add to the above list, I already finished reading two books for this year -

1. Warren Buffett Speaks:Wit and Wisdom fromt he World's Greatest Investor - Author Janet Lowe
-This book is a library of notes and quotes collection revealing the many aspects of the World's Greatest Investor--his wit, personality, and wisdom.

2. From Midnight to Millennium - Author Shashi Tharoor
-The book describes about Gandhi, Nehru, Indira & about other successful Politicians along with other historical events about the Indian politics from the midnight of our Independence until to the millennium year, describing a full analysis of the accomplishments and failures of the past 50 years" that will be "useful to anyone interested in modern India.

I hope you would pick any of these books and enjoy reading!