Fiction and Non-fiction

Here are some books I have read in no particular order:

  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (PB, 2003, Mar 2021)
  • Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa (PB, Jan 2011)
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (PB, Mar 2020)
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (PB, Jan 2012)
  • The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurcharan Das (PB, May 2012)
  • Herzog by Saul Bellow (PB, May 2012)
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (PB, 2016)
  • Why Partition? by Perry Anderson (LRB, Jul 2012)
  • Personal History by Katharine Graham (PB, Aug 2013, Jan 2018)
  • A Life's Music by Andrei Makine(PB, Jun 2014)
  • Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott (PB, Jun 2014, Aug 2019)
  • The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck (HB, May 2015)
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (PB, Jun 2016)
  • The Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D T Max (PB, Jun 2016, Jan 2019)
  • Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (PB, Mar 2020)
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (PB, Aug 2016)
  • Jimmy Bluefeather by Kim Heacox(PB, Aug 2016)
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • An Economist in the Real World by Kaushik Basu (HB, Nov 2016)
  • Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag (PB, Dec 2016, Nov 2017)
  • Just Kids by Patti Smith (PB, Jan 2017)
  • The Lonely City by Olivia Laing (HB, Jan 2017)
  • The Glamour Of Strangeness by Jamie James
  • The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R Covey (PB, Mar 2017)
  • On The Move, A Life by Oliver Sacks (PB, Feb 2017)
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (AB, Feb 2017)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (AB, March 2017)
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (AB, Apr 2017)
  • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull (PB, Jul 2017)
  • Why Nations Fail by Daron by Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (PB, Aug 2017)
  • The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner (PB, Aug 2017)
  • At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell (HB, Sep 2017)
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo (PB, Sep 2017)
  • This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff (PB, Sep 2017)
  • The Plague by Albert Camus (PB, Sep 2017)
  • When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (HB, Oct 2017)
  • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (PB, Nov 2017)
  • The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (EB, Nov 2017)
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (PB, Dec 2017)
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (PB, Dec 2017)
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (EB, Dec 2017)
  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (EB Dec 2017)
  • Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper (EB, Dec 2107)
  • The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert (PB, Jan 2018)
  • Words by Jean-Paul Satre (PB, Jan 2018)
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance (EB, Jan 2018)
  • The End of Faith by Sam Harris (PB, Feb 2018)
  • Principles by Ray Dalio (EB, Feb 2018)
  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed (EB, Feb 2018)
  • Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon McKenzie (HB, Apr 2018)
  • The Hindus, An Alternative History by Wendy Donniger (HB, Feb 2018)
  • Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright (PB, Jan 2018, Mar 2020)
  • Educated by Tara Westover (EB, Apr 2018)
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles (EB, May 2018)
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (EB, May 2018)
  • The Modern Mind by Peter Watson (EB, May 2018)
  • The subtle art of not giving a fu*k by Mark Manson (EB, Jul 2018)
  • The Shape of the New by Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot (HB, Jun 2016, Dec 2018)
  • Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens (PB, Oct 2018, Feb 2020)
  • Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder (PB, Nov 2018)
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby (EB, Dec 2018)
  • The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (EB, Dec 2018)
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt (EB, Dec 2018)
  • The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis (EB, Mar 2019)
  • Believe Me by Eddie Izzard (EB, Mar 2019)
  • M Train by Pattie Smith (PB, Apr 2019)
  • Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami (PB, Apr 2019)
  • Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (PB, Apr 2019)
  • Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda (PB, May 2019)
  • The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (PB May 2019, Aug 2020)
  • Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari (PB, May 2019)
  • Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker (PB, Jun 2019)
  • Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier (EB, Jun 2019)
  • Why I Am A Hindu by Sashi Tharoor (EB, Jul 2019)
  • Swami Vivekananda by Rakesh Tripathi (EB, Jul 2019)
  • Crypto by Steven Levy (PB, Jul 2019)
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (PB, Aug 2019)
  • Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath (PB, Apr 2020)
  • Figuring by Maria Popova (PB, 2020)
  • The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas (PB, Jul 2020)
  • The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan (EB, Feb 2021)
  • Confessions of a Philosopher by Bryan Magee (PB, May 2021)