Thursday, December 31, 2020

List of Books Read in 2020

 The number dropped sharply to 63 from 80, mainly because I picked some massive tomes. Overall not as satisfactory as I would like it because I am still behind in the perfect choice of books to read. I read many that didn't want to. I did read some that I wanted to and am glad I ticked off 'The Story of Philosophy' and 'I Am That'.

Here's the list

1. Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne

2, Desi Modern Love - Ranjani Rao

3. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

4. Wanted! The 100 Mile per Hour Dog - Jeremy Strong

5. I'm Possible - K Hariprasad

6. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo

7. Dangling Gandhi - Jayanti Sankar

8. Garden of the Snake - Appupen

9. All the Lives We Never Had - Anuradha Roy

10. Girls of Mumbaistan - Piyush Jha

11. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth

12, Summers Will Never be the Same - 

13. The Outsider - Frederick Forsyth

14. The Malevolent Republic - KS Komireddi

15. Conscious Leadership - Gary Douglas and Others

16. The Song of Life and Other Stories - Vijaya Rajadhyaksha

17. No Spin - Shane Warne

18. The Nigger of Narcissus - Joseph Conrad

19. Being you - Changing the World - Dan Heer

20. Bruce Lee - A Life - Mathew Polly

21. Home to Roost - Teresa Hainsworth

22. ABBA - Andrew Oldham

23. I am That - Nisargadutt Maharaj

24. Dongri to Dubai - S Hussain Zaidi

25. Tell Tale - Jeffrey Archer

26. Kargil - The Inside Story - Harinder Baweja

27. Eat the Rich - PJ Rourke

28. Change Anything - Kerry Patterson, Joseph Greeny

29. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers - Sean Covey

30. Diamond Dust - Anita Desai

31. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven Covey

32. Only When I Larf - Len Deighton

33. Mother Pious Lady - Santosh Desai

34. Peak - Anders Ericcson and Robert Pool

35. Jack Patel's Dubai Dreams - PG Bhaskar

36. 10 Secrets of Success and Inner Peace - Dr Wayne Dwyer

37. The Power of Full Engagement - Jim Loehr and Tony Shwartz

38. The Wanderer - Kahlil Gibran

39. Breath of Gold - Sathya Saran

40. Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goldman

41. The Art of Breathing - Sri Rudrabhayananda

42. One World; A Symphony of Drabbles - Ruchi Ranjan

43. Lucky Luke, Cowboy Adventures

44. Essays in Love - Alain de Botton

45. The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz

46. Courage, Conviction, Controversy and Cricket - Vedam Jaishankar

47. Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

48. The Untethered Soul - Michael A Singer

49. Born to Run - Christopher McDougall

50. The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar

51. How to think like DaVinci - Daniel Smith

52. Lord Edgware Dies - Agatha Christie

53. Dark Star - Rajesh Khanna - Gautam Chintamani

54. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 

55. Hayavadana - Girish Karnad

56. The Virgin and the Gipsy - DH Lawrence

57. Something Childish but Very Natural - Katherine Mansfield

58. The Pakistani Bride - Bapsi Sidhwa

59. The Moaning of Life - Karl Pinkerton

60. The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant

61. The Goal - Eliyahu Goldratt

62. The Portable MAD

63. All the Light We Cannot See


Glad I read 'The God Delusion', 'I am That', 'The Outsider', 'Bruce Lee's Biography', 'Benjamin Franklin's autobiography', 'Born to Run' among others. In business books I enjoyed reading 'The Goal', 'How to Change Anything', 'Conscious leadership'. In self-help I enjoyed reading '7 habits', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'Furiously Happy'. In fiction 'Johnny Got a Gun', 'All the Lives We Never Had', 'The Pakistani Bride', 'The Virgin and the Gipsy', 'Jack Patel's Dubai Dreams', 'Hayavadana'. In non-fiction I loved reading 'Born to Run' which will remain one of my favorite books of all time.  Not a bad year with books.

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