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Not My Own Booklist – Part Tres
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
This is my third and final post and attempt to store and share the top seven books selected by a small circle of my friends. I had no idea when I started to compile the lists that I would end up needing three posts to capture and share them. Now, that I’ve done the work, I am so glad I invested the time. I do believe I have created a very valuable reference for my use and for whoever else wants to.
I may have missed one or two but here is the third and final installment of book treasures for us to savor over time:
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor
Educated – A Memoir by Tara Westover
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
The Poison of Love by K.R. Meera
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True by Richard Dawkins
Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari (Translator)
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Patel: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India by Rupika Chawla
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
So, that’s it on this topic. When I look at this list of books spread out over three posts, first I am once again awed by the rich reading treasures that are available to us. Then, I am amazed at the wise reader friends I have. So fortunate are we!
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.” – Patrick Rothfuss
Not Just My Own Booklist – Part Deux
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
Before I lose my inspiration I thought it best to capture all the books from my close friends’ circle. They are saved as posts on Facebook but sometimes that’s like looking for a needle in the haystack (as I found when I was looking for the relevant posts). Therefore, I’m going to capture the rest of the books here in one place (technically, two or three) and call it a day. I don’t want to lose the lists and want to be able to check them out anytime in one safe and secure place.
As a reminder, this is a booklist in random order of my friends’ favorite seven books. The way this post and tag worked was that each of the tagged friends could only select seven books so I am going with the safe assumption that they chose their top ones. Unless they were being ornery. 😉
So, here goes, the rest of the awesome list of books that are worth putting on your booklist:
Give Us Credit – Alex Counts
Nicholas and Alexandra – Robert K. Massie
The Year of the Runaways – Sunjeev Sahota
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
Harilal & Sons – Sujit Saraf
The Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh
The Power of NOW – Eckhart Tolle
Four Steps from Paradise – Timeri N. Murari
Two Lives – Vikram Seth
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison – Behrouz Boochani, Omar Tofighian
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien
Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult
The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion – Sam Harris
Seven Sixes Are Forty Three – Kiran Nagarkar
Orphan X – Gregg Hurwitz
The Obstacle Is The Way – Ryan Holiday
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Well, there are far more of these than I thought! I do believe this is going to lead to a Part Tres. Count this post as part 2 of 3.
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