Read in 2024 (25 = 15 + 10; NF 6)
ENGLISH FICTION (11)
FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION -- (10): Independent People by Halldor Laxness [Translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson], Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano, Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić [translated from the Croatian], Vegetarian by Han Kang, We by Yevegeny Zaymatin, Goat Days by Benyamin, Pedro Paramo by Juan Ralfo, The Story of Layla & Majnun by Nizami [Translated from the Persian in prose form by Rudolph Gelpke, Zia Inayat Khan and Omid Safi], Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos, At the Door and Other Stories by Boris Pilnyak [Translated from the Russian],
NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (1): Karma Cola by Gita Mehta.
ENGLISH POETRY (7=2+5)
POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (2): (The Lusiads by Camoles (translated from the Portuguese)), Poem of the Deep Song by Garcia Lorca,
POETRY IN ENGLISH (5): The Book of Cat Poems (anthology), Nur Melange (anthology of Ghazals); The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, Selected Poems by Thomas Lux, The Double Truth by Chard deNiord,
ENGLISH NON-FICTION (3=0+0+3)
ENGLISH NON-FICTION (3=0+0+3)
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY (0):
POPULAR SCIENCE / ECONOMICS (0):
NON-FICTION - HISTORY / ARTS/ OTHER (3): The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European by Stefan Zweig, A Little History of Poetry by John Carey, Rhyme's Reason by John Hollander,
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 (4=0+3+1)
Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 0+ Poetry: 2 + Non-fiction: 1):
Rekha by Bhagvaticharan Varma, Rashmirathi by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Saaye mein Dhoop by Dushyant Kumar,
Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 1): Poems from the Sanskrit [Translated by John Brough].
Top 5 reads (among the books read for the first time)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness [Translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson],
The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European by Stefan Zweig,
Vegetarian by Han Kang,
We by Yevegeny Zaymatin,
Fox by Dubravka Ugrešić [translated from the Croatian]
