I'm 100% more likely to accomplish things once I make a checklist, so I've quite conveniently compiled a list of books I must read and movies I must watch; there is everything from educational reads to Bollywood movies!
If you have any recommendations, please let me know! And I'd be more than willing to suggest which of my past reads you may enjoy :)
The Dragonfly Effect (Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith)
The No Nonsense Guide to Development (Maggie Black)
The End of Poverty (Jeffrey Sachs)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Eat, Pray, Love: A Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
Animal Dreams (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Secret Daughter (Shilpi Somaya Gowda)
The Forgotten Garden (Kate Morton)
Sarah's Key (Tatiana de Rosnay)
My Sister's Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
The Book of Negroes (Lawrence Hill)
The Kindness of Strangers (Katrina Kittle)
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Diane Ackerman)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Sold (Patricia McCormick)
The Storm that Drowned a City
God's Tears
America's Tsunami
The First Grader
Good Fortune
Presumed Guilty
Jab We Met
Fashion
Taare Zameen Par
Kal Ho Na Ho
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Veer Zaara
Swades: We The People
My Name is Khan
Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gaam
Baghban
Three Idiots
If you have any recommendations, please let me know! And I'd be more than willing to suggest which of my past reads you may enjoy :)
Must-reads
Informative Reads
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Katherine Boo)
The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job that Makes a Difference (Shelley Cryer)
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (John Perkins)
How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to International Development (Arjan de Haan)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Mosquito Coast (Paul Theroux)
Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner)
The Mammoth Book of Cover-ups: The 100 Most Terrifying Conspiracies of All Time (Kon Lewis)
Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind our Obsession with Bottled Water (Peter Gleick)
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Eric Schlosser)
Forget Kathmandu (ManJushree Thapa)
Arresting God in Kathmandu (Samrat Upadhyay)
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (Stephen Kinzer and Merilee S. Grindle)
The Country Under my Skin: A Memoir of Love and War (Gioconda Belli)
Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran (Azadeh Moaveni)
Half of the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn)
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey to the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman (Lisa Shannon and Zainab Salbi)Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind our Obsession with Bottled Water (Peter Gleick)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost his Way (Jon Krakauer)
Little Princes (Connor Grennan)
Forget Kathmandu (ManJushree Thapa)
Arresting God in Kathmandu (Samrat Upadhyay)
Bestsellers and Fiction
Those Who Save Us (Jenna Blum)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls) **one of my favourite books of all time**
The Bishop's Man (Linden MacIntyre)
Before I Go To Sleep (S. Watson)
Before I Go To Sleep (S. Watson)
Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Lacuna (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
The Book of Negroes (Lawrence Hill)
The Kindness of Strangers (Katrina Kittle)
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Diane Ackerman)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Must-watch Movies
Informative
Home (2009)
Waste Land (2010)
Earth (2007)
Life in a Day (2011) *amazing*
Promises (2001)
City of God
Inside Job
Encounters at the End of the World (2011)
Food, Inc.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Earth (2007)
Promises (2001)
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Capitalism: A Love Story
Dear Mandela
Restrepo (2010)
Dear Mandela
Restrepo (2010)
The First Grader
The Weather Underground
Life and Debt
Lolita: Slave to Entertainment
An Inconvenient Truth
Life and Debt
Control Room
Outfoxed
Earthlings
Presumed Guilty
Why We Fight
Elite Squad 1
Elite Squad 2
Chocolate Farmer
Elite Squad 1
Elite Squad 2
Chocolate Farmer
Learning Hindi: Bollywood Movies
Dostana
Devdas
Rang De Basanti
Kurbaan
Wake up Sid
Dil Chaata Hai
We are Family
Udaan
Zindagi Na Milay Dobara
Monsoon Wedding
Cocktail
Dabangg 2
La vie en rose
Bienvenue chez les ch'tis
Elle s'appelait Sarah
Les Intouchables
Monsoon Wedding
French Movies and Entertainment
Les choristesLa vie en rose
Bienvenue chez les ch'tis
Elle s'appelait Sarah
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ReplyDeleteGreat list. I haven't seen some of the documentaries.
I would add Elite Squad 1 and 2 to City of God. They are all about the slums of Rio, and corruption in Brazil.
I was just wandering how you got all the posts on one page. I have a blog too and now that it's March, all my February posts have been archived. How do I keep them all on one page?
I looked up Elite Squad (1 and 2) and they definitely look like a good watch. Thanks for the recommendation! I looked around, but I can't seem to figure out how I set it up that way. I think the template I chose allows all blogs to be posted. Good luck!
DeleteGreat list of books and films that you have. "City of God" and "Born into Brothels" are amazing films.
ReplyDeleteI just watched "Born into Brothels" today! It was brilliant! Any recommendations?
DeleteI love this. Thank you! Now I don't have to look around for things to read and ways to inform myself without being bored to death :)
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