10 Books I Recommend Reading (on India & Spiritualism)

I published this blog originally on April 2014

Books on India that will intrigue you, make you laugh, and make you wonder

• India: A history by John Keay
• May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons by Elisabeth Bumiller
• The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
• Yuganta by Irawati Karve (critical look at Mahabharata)

Books I recommend reading if you are interested in Hindu or Buddhist Philosophy

• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Cutting through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
• Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Words of my Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche

Books by V.S. Naipaul that I really like

• India: A wounded civilization
• The Mystic Masseur
• An Area of Darkness
• A Bend in the River