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Saturday, January 06, 2024

Books read in 2024

 

Read in 2024 (20 = 16 + 4; NF 4) 

ENGLISH FICTION (10
FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION --  (8): (Flights by Olga Tocarzuk [Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft]), [Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec], 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,                                                                                                                                                                               
NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (2):  [Karma Cola by Gita Mehta], (Overstory by Richard Parker).

ENGLISH POETRY (4=1+3) 
POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (1):  (The Lusiads by Camoles (translated from the Portuguese)),

POETRY IN ENGLISH (3): The Book of Cat Poems (anthology), Nur Melange (anthology of Ghazals); The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry,


ENGLISH NON-FICTION (4=2+0+2)
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY (2):  (Vasistha's Yoga translated by Swami Venkatesananda), (India by Al-beruni),

POPULAR SCIENCE / ECONOMICS (0):  
 
NON-FICTION - HISTORY / ARTS/ OTHER (2): (The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European by Stefan Zweig), A Little History of Poetry by John Carey,

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 (2=0+1; 1)
Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 0+ Poetry: 0 + Non-fiction: 1):
 (Sanskriti ke Char Adhyay by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar), Rekha by Bhagvaticharan Varma

Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 0):