Books Read in 2019

Read in 2019 (40 = 22+ 18; NF 7) 

ENGLISH FICTION (13) 

FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION --  (6):  The Time and the Place and other stories by Naguib Mahfouz [Translated from the Arabic by Denys-Johnson-Davies], Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade [translated from the French by Catherine Spencer], Granada by Rawada Ashour, The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño, Decay of An Angel by Yukio Mishima, Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol,

NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (7): The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan, Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi by R. K. Narayan, Wanting by Richard Flanagan, (Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy), The Boys who Faught by Devdutt Pattanaik, [The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh], Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar,

ENGLISH POETRY (15=3+13) 

POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (3):  (Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda [Translated from the Spanish by Donald D. Walsh]), The Rubaiyat by Omay Khayyam [Translated from the Persian by Edward Fitzgerald], (Masnavi, Volume I by Rumi),

POETRY IN ENGLISH (13): The Double Truth by Chard deNiord, The Undressing by Li-Young Lee, Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson, So Far So Good by Ursula K. Le Guin, Sea Prayer Khaled Hosseini, The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes, Zoo by Odgen Nash, In A Language You Know by Len Verwey, Patina by Kavita Jindal, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, Annapurna Poems by Yuyutsu Sharma, The Rime of Ancient Mariner and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Wild Iris by Louis Gluck,


ENGLISH NON-FICTION (9=4+3+2)

PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY / HISTORY (4):  (Vasistha's Yoga translated by Swami Venkatesananda), (India by Al-beruni), Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, (Every time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It by Daniel Klein), 

POPULAR SCIENCE / ECONOMICS (3): (Cohesion by Rowlinson), (The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen),  (Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius by Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates),
 
NON-FICTION - OTHER (2): (Principles by Ray Dalio), The Mays of Ventadorn by W. S. Merwin, 


MAHABHARATA (by Mahrishi Ved Vyas; translated from Samskrit into English by Kisari Mohun Ganguly) (0/18): 

LITERATURE: NON-INDIAN LANGUAGES (1=0+1; 0): (Residencia en la Tierra by Pablo Neruda), 

LITERATURE : INDIAN LANGUAGES (1=0+1; 0 )

Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 0 + Poetry: 0 + Non-fiction: 0): 

Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 1): Shiva Tandava Strotram by Ravana/ Valmiki

(If I am through more  than 50% of the book, it goes into the list of the year past, otherwise it appears in the new list next year. See here for the books read in 2018, with a selection of my favorite reads from the year past.)