The Year in Books

Books

72 books (some merely qualify as booklets or coffee table books but I will shamelessly add them to my list). Some superb ones - 'The Book thief' made me cry like I never did in my life, 'Dropping Ashes on the Buddha' taught me how to keep my sanity when I felt I was losing it, 'Stoner' will stay with me forever, 'The Passage to India' is a classic for a reason. Krishna's two books were an absolute delight to reread and appreciate his craft. 'Mantras and Meditations' taught me to meditate everyday for 5 minutes. 'Inquilab' was a fine insight into the time of independence.

Thanks is owed to Abhinay, Vinod, Krishna, Raja, Shobha, JR Jyothi saab and all others who gave me books to read. 

1) Humans of New York - Brandon Stanton
2) Essential Rumi - Coleman Barks
3) Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
4) David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell
5) Cat Among the Pigeons Agatha Christie
6) The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
7) Inquilab - Khwaja Ahmed Abbas

8) The First Firangis - Jonathan Gil Harris
9) Calling Sehmat - Harinder Sikka
10) The Forest of Enchantment - Chitra Banerjee Divakurani
11) A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
12) Ice Boys in Bell Bottoms - Krishna Shastri Deveulapalli
13) Tilaka - Dr Priyabala Shah
14) Jump Cut - Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
15) Please Call me By My Name - Thich Naht Hanh
16) If You Love Someone - Harimohan Paruvu
17) Story of the Legendary Holkar Team  - Dr Avinash Chitale
18) Darkness - Bharti Mukherjee
19) Stoner - John Williams
20) License to Live - Priya Kumar
21) How to Become a Cartoonist
22) An Actor's Actor - Hanif Zaveri
23) Thrukkural - Rajaram (translated by)
24) Down Under - Bill Bryson
25) Why We Sleep - Mathew Walker
26) Wrist Assured - R Kaushik
27) Think Like a Monk - Jay Shetty
28) The Wind Blows Away Our Words - Doris Lessing
29) Isa Tana Dhanaki; Kon Badhai 
30) How Come No one Told Me This Before - Prakash Iyer
31) Uh Oh - Robert Fulghum
32) The Punch Magazine Selected Stories - Selected Short Stories
33) Every Night Josephine - Jacqueline Susan
34) Art of Bitfulness - Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani
35) Arrivals and Departures - Vrinda Baliga
36) Name Place Animal Thing - Vrinda Baliga
37) Love and God - 
38) Notes of a School Principal - Ivan Novikov
39) Dropping Ashes on the Buddha - Stephen Mitchell
40) Dubliners - James Joyce
41) Mix Tape - Vrinda Baliga
42) Zero to One - Peter Thiel
43) Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
44) The Gujarat Files - Rana Ayyub
45) A Passage to India - EM Forster
46) What are you doing with your life - J Krishnamurti
47) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
48) Making a Good Script Great - Linda Seger
49) Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
50) Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
51) The Communication Book - Mikael Krigerus and Roman Tschappeller
52) Bluebeard's Egg - Margaret Atwood
53) Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
54) Land Guns Caste Woman - Gita Ramawami
55) The Mystic Wisdom of Kabir - Swami Brhmeshananda
56) Those Who Can, Teach - Andria Zafirakou
57) Khuswanth Singh on Humour - Maya Dayal
58) Writing the Murder Mystery  - Barbara Norville
59) Scene and Structure - Jack M Bickham
60) The Freedom Manifesto - Karan Bajaj
61) Unveiling Jazbaa - Aayush Puthran
62) Vihangam - Gangaraju Gunnam
63) Harijan - Gopinath Mohanty
64) Anatomy of a Dacoity - VR Chaitanya
65) Quick and Easy FengShui - Anurag Mehta
66) How to Change Absolutely Anything -Damian Hughes
67) They are There - Vinjamuri Surya Prakash
68) A Journey in Ananda - V Surya Prakash
69) Footsteps in Our Journey - V Surya Prakash
70) Making Life Right When it Feels All Wrong - Herbert Fenstersheim and Jean Baer
71) The 15 Invaluable Lessons of Growth - John Maxwell
72) The Winning Mindset - Damian Hughes