Good Books I got For Only Ten Rupees

In Hyderabad where I live, ten rupees won’t buy you a decent meal to fill your stomach but I am happy to say, for the same amount you can buy a good second hand book that will fill your mind for life. Here’s the list of books I got for only ten rupees at Abids.

1. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
2. Free/Style Writing by Chris Anderson
3. Elvis is Dead and I am Not Feeling So Good Myself by Lewis Grizzard
4. The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
5. Recovering by May Sarton
6. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
7. Healing Heart by Norman Cousins
8. The Elements of Style by Strunk & White
9. The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
10. Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon
11. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
12. Into the Great Solitude by Robert Perkins
13. Acquired Tastes by Peter Mayle
14. If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
15. Ballad of Sad Café by Carson McCullers
16. Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
17. The Shining by Stephen King
18. Martha Stewart: Just Desserts by Jerry Oppenheimer
19. Light Luggage by V.V. John
20. Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
21. Bandits by Elmore Leonard
22. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
24. Ragman’s Son by Kirk Douglas
26. Sophie's Choice by William Styron