Monday, December 31, 2018

The Year in Books - 2018

66 books.
Thanks are owed to so many who gifted or recommended books to me - Sagar, Vinod, Sunil Jyoti, Shobhs, Anjali, Abhinay, Mythily, Chitra Viraraghavan, Rajesh Janwadkar, Rajendra Nargundkar, Satish Nargundkar, Gauri Dange, Krishna Gubili, Krishna Prasad Nukala

1) Wonder - R.J. Palacio
2) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Nirad C Choudary
3) The Magic of Thinking Big - David Scwarzpf
4) Democracy's XI - Rajdeep Sardesai
5) The Way of the Screenwriter - Amnon Buchbinder
6) The Inner Game of Work - Timothy Galloway
7) Work - Thich Nhat Hanh
8) Don't Get Me Started - Mitchell Symons
9) The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
10) The Magic of Moonlight and Other Stories - Sudha Murthy
11) A Feast of Vultures - Josy Joseph
12) Principles - Ray Dalio
13) An Era of Darkness - Shashi Tharoor
14)How to Win Freinds and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
15) 50 Greatest Short Stories
16) Mossad - Michael Bar-Zohar
17) The Best Writing on writing -Jak Heffron
18) Notes from the House of Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky
19) House of Cards - Sudha Murthy
20) Knot for Keeps - Sathya Saran
21) Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
22) The Magic of the Lost Temple - Sudha Murthy
23) How to become a Buddha in 5 weeks - Giulio Cesare
24) Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
25) Bang on the door - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
26) You are a badass at making money - Jen Sincero
27) Botham, An autobiography - IT Botham
28) Wise and Otherwise - Sudha Murthy
29) The Habit of winning - Prakash Iyer
30) Measure what matters - John Doer
31) The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown
32) Into the Great Heart - Kamla Kapur
33) in the sanctuary of a poem - Salil Chaturvedi
34) The Dhoni Touch - Bharat Sundaresan
35) Delhi Thaatha - Chitra Viraraghavan
36) Only the Paranoid Survive - Andrew Grove
37) The Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
38) Sun Mere Bandhu Re, S.D. Burman - Sathya Saran
39) Dave Barry is not taking this sitting down - Dave Barry
40) Anything to look hot - Jas Kohli
41) TED Talks - Chris Anderson
42) The Dark Room - RK Narayan
43) India Cried that Night - Supratim Sarkar
44) High Output Management - Andrew Grove
45) Arabian Nights
46) Classic Short stories
47) Black Friday - Hussain Zaidi
48) Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow - Daniel Kahneman
49) The 39 Steps - John Buchan
50) 281 and beyond - VVS Laxman and Kaushik
51) The Boy in Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
52) Always a Parent - Gauri Dange
53) Sita -Devadutt Pattnaik
54) Passion Quotient - Virender Kapoor
55) Comedy Writing Secrets - Melvin Helitzer
56) Revenge of the Gaia - James Lovelock
57) I am not a crook - Art Buchwald
58) Half Lion - Vinay Sitapati
59) Guide - RK Narayan
60) I am a Troll - Swati Chaturvedi
61) On the Road to Tarascon - Arnab Nandy
62) The Fire Burns Blue - Karunya Kesavan and Sidhanta Patnaik
63) Viriah - Krishna Gubili
64) Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
65) The Great Railway Bazaar - Paul Theroux
66) Kwaidan - Lafcadio Hearn

In fiction, I ticked off The Fountainhead finally, 39 Steps, Darkness at noon, Wonder, Guide. In non-fiction, I enjoyed reding Flow, Sapiens, Measure What Matters, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Viriah, High output Management, How to be a Buddha in 5 weeks, Thnking Fast and Thinking Slow. Biographies included VVS Laxman's book, Half Lion and Botham's bio. I was very impressed by 'The Fire Burns Blue' a debut book by Sidhanta Patnailk and Karunya Kesavan. Comedy writing by Art Buchwald, Dave Barry, Mitchell Symons made life so bearable.


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