Sunday, February 01, 2015

The Reading List: 2014 (Feb '14 to Jan '15)

List of books read during the last year:
  1. Neuromancer (William Gibson) (reread)
  2. Count Zero (William Gibson) (reread)
  3. The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides)
  4. Mona Lisa Overdrive (William Gibson) (reread)
  5. Disgrace (J M Coetzee)
  6. पंद्रह पाँच पचहत्तर (गुलज़ार) (tr. Fifteen Five Seventy-Five (Gulzar))
  7. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
  8. Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) (reread)
  9. The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
  10. Sharaz De: Tales from the Arabian Nights (Sergio Toppi)
  11. Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer)
  12. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident (Eoin Colfer)
  13. Libra (Don DeLillo)
  14. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Eoin Colfer)
  15. पीली छतरी वाली लड़की (उदय प्रकाश) (tr. The Girl with the Yellow Parasol (Uday Prakash))
  16. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (Eoin Colfer)
  17. Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (Eoin Colfer)
  18. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox (Eoin Colfer)
  19. Holy Fire (Bruce Sterling)
  20. Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex (Eoin Colfer)
  21. और अंत में प्रार्थना (उदय प्रकाश) (tr. And Prayer in the End (Uday Prakash))
  22. Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian (Eoin Colfer)
  23. Autobiography of a Corpse (Sigizmund Khrzhizhanovsky)
  24. Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
  25. The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
  26. तुग़लक़ (गिरीश कर्नाड) (tr. Tughlaq (Girish Karnad))
  27. Dubliners (James Joyce)
  28. अग्नि और बरखा (गिरीश कर्नाड) (tr. Fire and Rain (Girish Karnad))
  29. India: A Million Mutinies Now (VS Naipaul)
  30. The Black Company (Glen Cook)
  31. American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
  32. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
  33. Dance, Dance, Dance (Haruki Murakami)
  34. The Eye of the World (Robert Jordan)
  35. जूठन (ओमप्रकाश वाल्मीकि) (tr. Leftovers (Omprakash Valmiki))
The prospects of reading heavily in the next year are going to take a severe downward hit. NF thinks the numbers for 2015 might be in the 15-20 range <*shudders*>.

2 comments:

Arvind Krishna said...

Working too hard?

Nanga Fakir said...

More like panic setting in :(