Sidhwa’s fluctuating and disorderly list of favorite books

• Palace Walk (Naguib Mafouz)
• Waiting For the Barbarians (J.M. Coetzee)
• Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
• Meatless Days (Sara Suleri)
• The In-Between World of Vikram Lal (Moyez Vassanji)
• Family Matters (Rohinton Mistry)
• A House For Mr. Biswas (V. S. Naipaul)
• The Mimic Men (V. S. Naipaul
• An Angry Tide (Amitav Ghosh)
• A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth)
• Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie)
• Baumgartner’s Bombay (Anita Desai)
• Namesake (Jhumpa Laheri)
• Difficult Daughters (Manju Kapur)
• Arranged Marriages (Chitra Divkaruni)
• The Collected Short Stories of Kushwant Singh (Kushwant Singh)
• Charlie Wilson’s War [George Crile]
• Three Cups of Tea [Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin]
• Refuge (Terry Tempest Williams)
• Poems — Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke)
• The Essential Rumi (Translations by Coleman Barks and Joyn Moyne)
• Urdu Ghazals (by Ghalib Iqbal Faiz Zauk etc.)
• Short Stories essays and novels by Saadat Hasam Manto & Ismat Chugtai
• Pickwick Papers (Dickens)
• Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
• Black Mischief (Evelyn Waugh)
• A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
• Moby Dick (Melville)
• Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
• Everything by P G Wodehouse
• Thrillers by John la Carre Ken Follett etc.