Reading List 2021

2021 for me has been all about taking life even slower than 2020 and going one step ahead in the slow direction. Inspired by Neelesh Mishra’s slow movement - to a slower, unhurried, more meaningful, and rooted life where we reconnect with ourselves, nature and the beautiful small joys and experiences that we leave behind in our fast-paced lives.

Highlighted in bold are highly recommended and must read books. Happy reading!!!

1. Remnants of a separation: a history of the partition through material memory by Aanchal Malhotra (Non-fiction, history)
2. Almost invisible by Mark Strand (Fiction, poetry)
3. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari (Non-fiction, history)
4. Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt (Non-fiction, economics)
5. Being mortal by Atul Gawande (Non-fiction, science and health)
6. Mystery of capital by Hernando De Soto (Non-fiction, economics)
7. The four agreements by Miguel Ruiz (Non-fiction, self-help)
8. Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction, short stories)?
9. An area of darkness by VS Naipaul (Non-fiction, travel/cultural/history/memoir)
10. Arguments for liberty by Aaron Ross Powell (Non-fiction, philosophy)
11. The idea of India?by Sunil Khilnani (Non-fiction, cultural/history/politics)
12. The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime by Mark Haddon (Fiction, mystery/young adult)?
13. A brief history of time by Stephen hawking (Non-fiction, Science)
14. Human chain:poem by Seamus Heaney (Fiction, poetry)
15. Ghachar ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag (Fiction, Indian culture/contemporary)
16. The lonely city by Olivia Laing (Non-fiction, art/memoir)
17. Doing good better by William MacAskill?(Non-fiction, philosophy/self-help)
18. Community: the structure of belonging by Peter Block (Non-fiction, sociology)
19. The prisons we broke by Baby Kamble (Non-fiction, Indian culture)
20. The burden of democracy by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Non-fiction, politics)
21. India moving: a history of migration by Chinmay Tumbe (Non-fiction, history)
22. The good girls by Sonia Faleiro (Non-fiction, crime)
23. Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz?(Fiction, poetry)
24. Food and faith: a pilgrim's journey through India by Shoba Narayan (Non-fiction, food/travel/faith)
25. Malevolent republic by KS Komireddi (Non-fiction, history/politics)
26. The lost decade by Puja Mehra (Non-fiction, economics)
27. India's founding moment by Madhav Khosla (Non-fiction, history/politics)
28. Born a muslim?by Ghazala Wahab (Non-fiction, religion/culture)
29. I, Lalla: the poems of Lal D?d?(Fiction, poetry)

Books that affected me the most

1. Being mortal by Atul Gawande (Non-fiction, science and health)
2. The prisons we broke by Baby Kamble (Non-fiction, Indian culture)
3. The good girls by Sonia Faleiro (Non-fiction, crime)
4. Doing good better by William MacAskill?(Non-fiction, philosophy/self-help)