Read in 2021 (11 = 8+ 3; NF 3)
ENGLISH FICTION (5)
FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- (3): Samarkand [Translated from the French], The Aunt Who Wound not Die by Shirshendu Mukherjee [Translated from the Bengali], (Laila and Majnun by Nizami [Translated from the Persian]),
NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (2): Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste, (Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin),
ENGLISH POETRY (3=2+1)
ENGLISH POETRY (3=2+1)
POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (2): (Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski (translated by Blackburn)), (Rhymes of Whimsy: The Complete Abol Tabol by Sukumar Roy (Translated from the Bengali by Nilandri Roy),
POETRY IN ENGLISH (1): Lice by W. S. Merwin,
ENGLISH NON-FICTION (3=2+0+1)
ENGLISH NON-FICTION (3=2+0+1)
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY / HISTORY (2): (Vasistha's Yoga translated by Swami Venkatesananda), (India by Al-beruni),
NON-FICTION - OTHER (1): The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris,
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 (0=0+0; 0 )
Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 0 + Poetry: 0 + Non-fiction: 0):
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 2020, with a selection of my favorite reads from the year past.)
