Recommended Books
Here you can find a number of books that I have enjoyed and have recommended in the past, including a few novels for good measure. Each of these link to Amazon so that you can read more about each one, though you can feel free to support other vendors, including your local bookshop. This page will be updated every once in awhile so feel free to check back. May these books befriend you!
Yoga, Philosophy, Wisdom
- One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Magus of Strovolos by Kyriacos C. Markides
- The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts by Issai Chozanshi
- Kinship With All Life by J. Allen Boone
- A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (esp the James Clavell edition)
- The Self Possessed by Dr. Fred Smith
- Mysticism in the 21st Century by Dr. Connell Monette
- Shadow Yoga, Chaya Yoga: The Principles of Hatha Yoga by Shandor Remete
- Ka: Stories of the Minds and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso
- Jnaneswari by Shri Jnaneswar Maharaj
- Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga: A New Approach to Sanskrit by Zoë Slatoff-Ponté
- The Tracker by Tom Brown Jr.
- White Lama by Douglas Veenhof
- One Simple Thing by Eddie Stern
History
- Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
- A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez
- Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalyrymple
- The Last Mughal by William Dalyrymple
- White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalyrymple
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara Tuchman
- An Era of Darkness by Shashi Tharoor
- Churchill’s Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee
- The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madigan
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- Jahangir : An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal by Parvati Sharma
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Ayurveda
- Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life by Dr. Claudia Welch
- How the Art of Medicine Makes the Science More Effective: Becoming the Medicine We Practice by Dr. Claudia Welch
- The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies by Dr. Vasant Lad
- Ayurvedic Cooking for Self-Healing by Dr. Vasant Lad
Fiction
- Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
- True Grit by Charles Portis
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- Possession by A. S. Byatt
- The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
- A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
- Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier
- Cloud of Sparrows by Takashi Matsuoka
- Shōgun by James Clavell
- Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen by Lloyd Alexander
- Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Books about Bombay
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
- Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
- Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
- Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
- No God in Sight by Altaf Tyrewala
Photo: Dr. Svoboda with colleagues Dr. Ramkumar Kutty and Dr. Claudia Welch
