52 weeks and 52 books

This year I got back to reading. Well, reading because I love reading and not as an obligation or a requirement. I kept thinking, should I just go with the flow or should I list books I want to read?

I even made a list of books I want to read and thought of writing about them. 23 books as it is 2023. I started writing about it too but I scratched that idea and I decided to write this.

52 weeks 52 books.

I took some time, went through my book collection and Amazon wishlist and I decided on a list of 52 books. A couple of them are re-reads, a couple of them are short reads, some are booker prize won books, and a couple of non-fiction too.

And these aren't just randomly picked either. These are the books that I want genuinely read. I read a bit about the books and thought if I will be enjoying them or not.

So, here it goes.

1. A Princess Remembers by Gayatri Devi

2. Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

3. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

4. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

6. The Monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma

7. The God of small things by Arundathi Roy

8. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor

9. The Immortals by Meluha by Amish Tripathi

10. The Secret of Nagas by Amish Tripathi

11. The oaths of Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi

12. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 4 ( The Crown)

13. Ponniyin Selvan: Part 5 (Epitome of sacrifice)

14. The 12 commandments of being a woman by Tahira Kashyap Khurrana

15. The Dark Room by RK Narayan

16. Sellout by Paul Beatty

17. The bookstore sisters by Alice Hoffman

18. A passage to India by EM Forster

19. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera

20. The ardent swarm by Yamen Manai

21. The puma years: A Memoir by Laura Coleman

22. North to paradise by Ousman Umar

23. My India by Jim Corbett

24. Last train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin

25. Where the desert meets the sea by Werner Sonne

26. Freedom by Osho

27. The keeper of happy endings by Barbara Davis

28. The seven-day switch by Kelly Harms

29. Letters from an Indian Summer by Siddharth Dasgupta

30. The broken circles: A memoir of escaping Afghanistan by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller

31. Born with wings by Daisy Khan

32. When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi

33. The Other Man by Farhad J Dadyburjor

34. Dracula by Bram Stoker

35. The Complete Grimm's fairy tales by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm

36. Do it today by Darius Foroux

37. Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell

38. Deep work by Cal Newport

39. The Inheritance of Loss by Anita Desai

40. Schindlers list by Thomas Keneally

41. The secret diary of Adrian mole 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend

42. Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

43. The overdue life of Amy Byler

44. Circe by Madeline Miller

45. These tangled vines by Julianne MacLean

46. Mother dear: A thriller by Nova Lee Maier

47. Greatest folk tales of Bihar by Nalin Verma

48. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

49. Paper wife: A Novel by Laila Ibrahim

50. Zikora: A short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

51. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

52. The Dressmakers gift by Fiona Valpy

I think the list is an interesting one containing various genres. I hope I can read all of these, at least half of them.

Hope you enjoyed reading it.

Happy Reading!!!