Books read in 2023

 

Read in 2023 (50 = 27 + 23; NF 12) 

ENGLISH FICTION (14) 

FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION --  (9): Sweet Bean Paste by Durian [Translated from the Japanese], The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris], Pyre and One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan [Translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan], The Red Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk [Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap], Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov [Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel], Peach Bosson Paradise by Ge Fei [translated from the Chinese by Canaan Morse], Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth [Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel],                                                                                                                                                                              

NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (5):  Victory City by Salman Rushdie, The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen, Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, House of Caravans by Shilpi Suneja.

ENGLISH POETRY (16=10+6) 

POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (10): Cronopios and Fomas by Julio Cortazar [in Spanish and in English, translated from the Spanish by Paul Blackburn], Gilgamesh [translated by David Ferry], Poem of the Deep Song by Federico Garcia Lorca [translated from the Spanish Poema del Canto Jondo by Carlos Bauer], (Poems of Fernando Pessoa: Alberto Ceiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis, Fernando Pessoa, Bernado Soares [edited and translated from the Portuguese by Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown])

POETRY IN ENGLISH (6): Wasteland and other poems by T. S. Eliot, Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney, Double Truth by Charles DeNiord, Sweet Ruin by Tony Hoagland, A Nostalgiac's Map of America and The Country Without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali,


ENGLISH NON-FICTION (12=2+4+6)

PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY (2): In Light of India by Octavio Paz [translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger], Jafarnama by Guru Gobind Singh [Translated from the Persian]

POPULAR SCIENCE / ECONOMICS (4):  The Life and Legacy of G.I. Taylor by G. Batchelor, Science and Cooking: Physics meets Food, from Homemade to Haute Cuisine by Michael Brenner, Pia Sorensen and David Weitz, (Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking by Krish Ashok),  On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee,
 
NON-FICTION - HISTORY / ARTS/ OTHER (6): A History of the World in Six Glasses and (An Edible History of Humanity) by Tom Sandage, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel,  How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco, Milk: A 10,000 year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky, Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

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 (8=1+7; 0)

Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 1+ Poetry: 7 + Non-fiction: 0):
 (Ret Samadhi by Geetanjili Shree), 

Pallav by Sumitranandant Pant, Selected Poems of Firaq Gorakhpuri, ed. Urdu and [translated from the Urdu into English by K.C. Kanda], Rashmirathi by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Madhushala by Harvinash Rai Bachchan, Kamayani by Jaishankar Prasad, Jafarnama by Guru Gobind Singh [Translated from the Persian]
Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 0):