The Year in Books

Slightly lower count at 61 from the 72 and perhaps dropped in terms of the quality of my reading as well. But some of them were truly brilliant. 'A Room of One's Own', 'Saundarya Lahari', 'Wooden on Leadership', 'Em and the Big Hoom', 'The Undoing Dance', '3 Zakia Mansion', 'The Hero With a Thousand Faces', 'Culture Code', 'All My Rage', '40 Rules of Love', 'Save the Cat', 'Murder in the Mushaira', 'The War of Art', 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running' and 'Hollywood to Himalayas' were the ones I enjoyed most.

Of the writers I met this year were Ayush Puthran, Madhavi Lata, Jerry Pinto, Connor Sharkey, Jayanthi Jaisimha, Abhinay Renny, Ushal Akella, Mani Rao, R Sridhar, Harshavardhan, Gouri Dange, Deepti Naval, P Sainath, Gita Ramaswamy, and Sandhya Iyer. Mostly at the Hyderabad Literary Festival.  

Friend of mine who puts my book on top and sends pics

As things go, I once again resolve to read a better list of books, perhaps complete as many as I can from the book shelf which is now rather full of unread books. Top of my mind somehow is Amrita Pritam's autobiography which I propose to gift myself.

1. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
2. Saundarya Lahari - Mani Rao
3. Hum Aisich Bolte - Usha Akella
4. Swimming Against the Tide - Madhavi Lata
5. The Art of Conversation and Self- Expression - Betty E Norris
6. The Tools - Phil Stultz and Barry Michels
7. Liberating Passion - Omar Khan and Paul B Brown
8. Classified - Rajashekharan Nair
9. Coaching Beyond - R Sridhar and Kaushik
10. The Hyderabad heist _ Sharmishta Shenoy
11. Asylum - Jerry Pinto
12. Em and the Big Hoom - Jerry Pinto
13. Much Ado about Everything - Jayanthi Jaisimha
14. Bobby - Connor Sharkey
15. Sahrudaya Sangathyam - Harshavardhan
16. Vanijya Fannulu - Harshavardhan
17. Wooden On Leadership - John Wooden
18. Gunbatte - Albert Lierbermann
19. The Undoing Dance - Srividya Natarajan
20. Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami 
21. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paul Coelho
22. 3 Zakia Mansion - Gouri Dange
23. The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich
24. Walking - Henry Thoreau
25. Save the  Cat - Blake Snyder
26. When Chicken Soup is Not Enough - Ralph and Rutherford
27. Reinventing Organisations - Frederic Laloux
28. The Laws of Attraction - Esther and Jerry Hicks
29. There's No Such Place as Far Away - Richard Bach
30. Small Towns, Big Stories - Ruskin Bond
31. Hippie - Paulo Coelho
32. Yo Yo Nama - Gouri Dange
33. Footprints - Dr B.L. Maheshwari
34. Colourless - Abhinay Renny
35. The Golden Key - George Macdonald
36. Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners - Leo and Edmond
37. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad - Twinkle Khanna
38. A Country Called Childhood - Deepti Naval
39. The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
40. The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
41. The Last Queen - Chitra Divakurani Banerjee
42. Exprovement - Hersh Haladkar
43. Satyajit Ray - Suranjan Ganguy
44. Birthday Girl - Haruki Murakami
45. Talking Life - Nasreen Munni Kabir with Javed Akhthar
46. Maturity - Osho
47. The Hero's Journey - Joseph Campbell
48. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
49. The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
50. The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
51. The Hero With a 1000 Faces - Joseph Campbell
52. Hollywood to Himalayas - Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
53. Rogues and Rajahs - S D Iyer
54. The 40 Rules of Love - Elif Shafak
55. All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir
56. The Sweet Salt of Tamil - Tho Pa
57. The Last Heroes - P Sainath
58. The Love of a Good Woman - Alice Munro
59. Laughing Gas and Other Poems - David Nicholas
60. Zeba - Huma Qureshi
61. Murder at the Mushaira - Raza Mir