Read in 2020 (33 = 26+ 7; NF 7)
ENGLISH FICTION (19)
FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- (14): The Brewer of Preston by Andrea Camilleri [Translated from the Italian], A Bridge on Drina by Ivo Andric [Translated from the Serbian], The Unicorn Expedition, The Emperor's Ring, The Golden Fortress and The Bandits of Bombay by Satyajit Ray [Translated from the Bengali by Gopa Majumdar], Springtime in Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti [Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor], The Sailor Who Fell From the Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima [Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan], Woodworm by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay [Translated from the Bengali by Shampa Banerjee], Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki [Translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney], Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky [Translated from the Russian], Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante [Translated from the Italian], His Excellency Eugene Rougon by Emile Zola [Translated from the French by Brian Nelson], Star by Yukio Mishima [Translated from the Japanese]
NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (5): Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, (At Swim, Two Birds by Flann O'Brien), (Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin), Rain by W. Somerset Maugham, Angle of Repose by William Stegner,
ENGLISH POETRY (2=2+1)
ENGLISH POETRY (2=2+1)
POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (1): (Masnavi, Volume I by Rumi), Proensa (translated by Blackburn),
POETRY IN ENGLISH (3): New and selected Poems by Thomas Lux, American Poets for my Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, Saudade by Traci Brimhall,
ENGLISH NON-FICTION (7=2+3+2)
ENGLISH NON-FICTION (7=2+3+2)
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY / HISTORY (2): (Vasistha's Yoga translated by Swami Venkatesananda), (India by Al-beruni),
NON-FICTION - OTHER (2): (Give and Take by Adam Grant), Borges and Me by Jay Parini,
MAHABHARATA (by Mahrishi Ved Vyas; translated from Samskrit into English by Kisari Mohun Ganguly) (0/18):
LITERATURE: NON-INDIAN LANGUAGES (0=0+0; 0):
LITERATURE : INDIAN LANGUAGES (1=0+2; 0 )
Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 0 + Poetry: 1 + Non-fiction: 0): Sanchayika by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Badalon se Salaam Leta hun by Gopal Das Neeraj,
Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 0):
Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 0):
(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 2019, with a selection of my favorite reads from the year past.)
