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Sunday, March 28, 2021

Books Read in 2021

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) 
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)
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY / HISTORY (2):  (Vasistha's Yoga translated by Swami Venkatesananda), (India by Al-beruni), 

POPULAR SCIENCE / ECONOMICS (0):
 
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): 


(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.)