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Saturday, January 06, 2024

Books read in 2024

 

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)
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]
 

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