Recommended books/novels that every MBA aspirant should read
Reading is the ideal way for improving your speed and accuracy in verbal section. Ability to read fast not only helps for reading comprehension but also for other sections like Reasoning and quantitative aptitude by digesting and comprehending the information quickly.
Solving an RC is testing, developing reading habit over time is skill. So Read! Read! Read!
If you are not a regular reader, I would suggest that you start with something simple and easy and then move on to books which are slightly harder to read.
The list has been categorized into 3 levels with the first one being the easiest one. In the starting, you should read books for which keep your interest alive. And then proceed to more difficult and different genre books. Try to read books from different categories to make yourself comfortable with different genres.
Level 1-
| Book | Author | Category |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | Fiction |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | Political Satire |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Fantasy |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Detective Novel |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Mystery, Thrilller |
| Old Man and The Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Literary Fiction |
| Who moved my Cheese | Spencer Johnson | Motivational |
| To kill a mockingbird | Harper Lee | Fiction |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert Kiyosaki | Personal Finance |
| Harry Potter Series | J.K. Rowling | Fantasy |
Level 2
| Book | Author | Category |
| 1984 | George Orwell | Fiction |
| India Unbound | Gurcharan Das | Non Fiction |
| Freakonomics | Steven Levitt | Economics |
| The White Tiger | Arvind Adiga | Fiction |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Fiction |
| Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Psychology |
| The World is Flat | Thomas L. Friedman | Globalization |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Comedy Science Fiction |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | Satire,war fiction |
| The Naked Ape | Desmond Morris | Anthropology |
| The fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Philosophy |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | Fiction |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Fiction |
| The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking | Science |
| Good to Great | Jim C Collins | Management |
| Introduction to sociology | Anthony Giddens | Sociology |
| The Lean Startup | Eric Ries | Business |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Science Fiction |
Level 3 –
| Book | Author | Category |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Philosophy |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig | Philosophy |
| India after Gandhi | Ramachandra Guha | History |
| The Argumentative Indian | Amartya Sen | Essays |
| The Great Indian Novel | Shashi Tharoor | Fiction |
| The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | Fiction |
| Sperm Wars | Robin Baker | Evolution |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | Historiographic Metafiction |
| Collapse | Jared Diamond | Sociology |
| Civilization and Its Discontents | Sigmund Freud | Psychology |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | Behavioral Economics |
