Books

I enjoy reading books and am documenting some recommendations here -- (Last Updated January 28, 2024)

2024

3 books

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Expatriates by Janice Y.K. Lee
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

2023

9 books

Waiting by Ha Jin
The Bride Groom by Ha Jin
Normal People by Sally Rooney
All The Lights We Cannot See by Anothony Doerr
A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond
Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Book of Everlasting Things by Aanchal Malhotra
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond

2022

4 books

Face to Face by Ved Mehta
Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
The Code Breaker by Walter Issacson

2021

3 books

Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

2020

6 books

Sula by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Solaris by Stanisław Lem

2019

10 books

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Trick by Domenico Starnone
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Mothers: A Novel by Brit Bennett
Calypso by David Sedaris
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Sula by Toni Morrison