Reading List 2023

Reading List 2023

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

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