At the start of 2023, one of the goals I set for myself was to read as many or more books as my age and I am grateful to have accomplished that goal. Below is my reading list for 2023- highlighted in bold are my absolute favorites and would highly recommend it.
- Everybody loves a good draught by Palagummi Sainath
- Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
- The Sari by Mukulika Banerjee and Daniel Miller
- Political tribes by Amy Chua
- Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking by Krish Ashok
- Ret samadhi (Tomb of sand) by Geetanjali Shree
- Muslim portraits by Mukulika Banerjee
- Gods And Ends by Lindsay Pereira
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
- Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance by Shrilal Shukla
- Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
- The Country without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Jonathan Livingston seagull by Richard Bach
- Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Joy in the Morning by PG Wodehouse
- Days & Nights In The Forest by Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
- Momin komno itihas by Momin Miyaji Nurmohmed
- The prophet by Khalil Gibran
- State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Francis Fukuyama
- The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell
- All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Renarque
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King 📚✨. Your reading initiative is so inspiring! 🌱 By the way, if you're passionate about making a difference, Treegens is sponsoring a Guinness World Record for Tree Planting. It's a great cause that aligns with the #slowmovement and #simplethings ethos. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/TreeGuinnessWorldRecord. Happy reading and planting!
Absolutely loving your commitment to the #slowmovement through reading! 📚 As Ernest Hemingway once said, "There is no friend as loyal as a book." Keep embracing those simple joys and expanding your world one page at a time. Happy reading! 🍃📖 #simplethings