Note:The last two levels are only for CAT aspirants

(this is the reading list that I forward to my students)

READING LEVEL EXPECTED RECOMMENDATIONS

newspaper:indian express,hindustan
zero level absolutely no reading habits times or The Hindu
magazine: india today,outlook or Frontline

newspaper reader/magazine begin with fiction-following writers

level one reader recommended:
Western writers:
J.K.Rowling (Harry Pottter)
Paulo Cohelo (The Alchemist)
Sidney Sheldon (Tell me your dreams)
Agatha Christie (Sleeping Murder)
Enid Blyton (Famous five series)

Indian writers:
Sudha Murthy (Gently falls the bakula)
Shobha De (Spouse)

start reading indian fiction ,following

level 2 fiction readers only western Indian writers recommended
Amitav Ghosh (The Hungry Tide)
Vikram Seth (The golden gate)
Jhumpa Lahiri (Unaccustomed Earth)
Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)

Wester writers:
PG Wodehouse (Blandings castle)
JRR Tolkein (The Hobbit)
Lee Child (One Shot)
Ayn Rand (Fountainhead)

start reading non-fiction,followinig works

level 3 voracious fiction readers recommended
Amartya Sen (the argumentative indian)
Arundhati roy (the algebra of infinite justice)
Frijito Capra (The tao of physics)
Peter Watson (ideas)
autobiographies/biographies
books on religion (spirituality) or articles
would do
(for more books on non-fiction send
me a mail,will den send you a word
document with names of some more
books to read)

move on to reading on the following

people,do a wikisearch on them and get
used to the terminologies that they use
level 4 non-fiction readers and their works
Louis Althusser Theodor Adorno

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 Jean Baudrillard Mikhail Bakhtin
Kenneth Burke Maurice Blanchot
Gilles Deleuze Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault Stanley Fish
Antonio Gramsci Anthony Giddens
Donna Haraway Jurgen Habermas
Max Horkheimer Agnes Heller
Fredric Jameson Ivan Illich
Bruno Latour Jacques Lacan
Paul de Man Georg Lukács
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Karl Marx
Edward Said Jean-Paul Sartre
Ludwig Wittgenstein Claude Levi-Strauss
Felix Guattari Roland Barthes
Martin Heidegger Walter Benjamin
Richard Rorty Albert Borgmann
Edmund Husserl Hegel
Julia Kristeva Terry Eagleton
Jean Francois Lyotard Hans-George Gadamer
Herbert Marcuse Charles Taylor

here are a few websites with articles

which would give you adequate
level 5 after a wikisearch practice for the RC section in CAT

GENERAL
http://www.scoretop.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4670&PN=1

SCIENCE
http://www.firstscience.com/site/archive.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
http://www.sciam.com/

RELIGION
http://www.buzzle.com/chapters/archives-238.asp
http://www.religion-online.org/

PHILOSOPHY
http://www.essortment.com/in/Philosophy.General/index.htm
http://www.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/archive/oldsite//philosophy/articles/index.html

Psychology
http://www.uncommon-knowledge.co.uk/psychology.html

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 http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/psychology.html

SOCIOLOGY
http://soc.sagepub.com/reports/mfr1.dtl
http://www.aboutsociology.com/sociology/List_of_sociology_topics

LITERATURE
http://www.essortment.com/in/Literature.General/index.htm
http://www.buzzle.com/chapters/archives-251.asp

HISTORY
http://www.historynet.com/
http://www.essortment.com/in/History.Events/index.htm

POLITICS
http://www.magportal.com/c/soc/intl/
http://www.buzzle.com/chapters/archives-234.asp

GEOGRAPHY
http://geography.about.com/cs/a.htm
http://www.ezgeography.com/

ECONOMICS
http://economics.about.com/cs/a.htm
http://www.europe-economics.com/pubs/articles.htm

MANAGEMENT
http://www.magportal.com/c/bus/strat/
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/Management/

I guess this much reading should easily see you through the CAT paper!!!!! Happy reading!!!!!!!!!!

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