Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Have you ever fantasized about living in chocolate houses and swimming in chocolate rivers? Having the world’s best chocolates? All your chocolate dreams come true in this book. Amazing creativity by Roald Dahl makes it a true classic.

There is not much to say about this book except that if you have missed reading it as a kid, read it now.


A suggestion: Please do not watch the movie. It is horrible and totally undermines the book.

Books Read in 2008

These are the books I read in 2008. There are a couple of them which I didn't read to the end. Because I found them dreadfully boring.

1. The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
4. Lajja - Taslima Nasreen
5. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
6. Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
7. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
8. Its Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong
9. The Inscrutable Americans - Anurag Mathur
10. The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
11. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
12. Emma - Jane Austen
13. Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
14. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
15. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
16. The Google Story - David A. Vise
17. Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
18. Fish!
19. 1984 - George Orwell
20. A Brief History of Time - Stephen W. Hawking
21. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
22. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
23. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
24. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
25. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? - Loius V. Gerstner Jr.
26. Wings of Fire - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
27. Lord of The Flies - William Golding
28. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
29. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
30. The Hound of Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
32. Iacocca - Autobiography - Lee Iacocca
33. Sam Walton - Made in America - Sam Walton
34. Selected Stories - Saadat Hasan Manto
35. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
36. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
37. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
38. The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghosh
39. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
40. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42. Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
43. Treasure Island - Robert L. Stevenson
44. The Gathering - Anne Enright
45. The Trial - Franz Kafka
46. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
47. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
48. The Best of Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
51. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - William Darlymple
52. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin S. Sharma
53. True History of The Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
54. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
55. The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
56. A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
57. The Siege of Krishnapur - H .G. Farrell
58. Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
59. Bringing Down The House - Ben Mezrich
60. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
61. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
62. To Sir With Love - E. R. Braithwaite