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Friday, April 04, 2025

Books read in 2025

 Read or reading in 2025 (32 = 21 + 11; NF 3) 

ENGLISH FICTION (19
FICTION IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION --  (16): Amulet by Roberto Bolano,  A Dog's Heart by Mikhael Bulgakov [Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield] No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai [Translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene], Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami  [Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel], The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov [Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel], (Winter by Karl Ove Knaussgaurd), Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Kiromi Kawakami  [Translated from the Japanese], The Rings of Saturn by S. G. Sebald [translated from the German by Michael Hulse], | The Suitcase by Sergei DovtalovFear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb [translated into English by Adriana Hunter]Pushkin Hills by Sergei Dovtalov [translated from the Russian into English by Katherina Dovtalov],  Life and Political Reality by Shahidul Zahir [translated from the Bengali into English by V. Ramaswamy and Shahroza Rahmin], Scene 75 by Rahi Masoon Raza [Translated from Hindi/Urdu by Poonam Saxena]Divorce by Cesar Aira [Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews], Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima, Strike Your Heart by Amelie Nothomb,
                                                                                                                                                                        
NOVEL / FICTION IN ENGLISH (3): David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Blind Man with a Pistol by Himes, Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah,
 
ENGLISH POETRY (6=2+4) 
POETRY IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION (2): A Tree Within by Octavio Paz, The Gypsies and Other Narrative Poems by Alexander Puskin [Translated from the Russian by Antony Wood], 

POETRY IN ENGLISH (4): Ellipses by Fady Joudah, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry,  The Veil by Denis Johnson, Lice by W. S. Merwin


ENGLISH NON-FICTION (1=0+1+0)
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION / MYTHOLOGY (0):  

POPULAR SCIENCE / ECONOMICS (1):  Formula by Albert-László Barbási,
 
NON-FICTION - HISTORY / ARTS/ OTHER (0): 

 
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 (6=1+5+2)

Hindi / Urdu / Punjabi (Fiction/Mythology: 1+ Poetry: + Non-fiction: 0):
Pratinidhi Kavitayein by Ageya, Magadh by Srikant Verma, (Kashi ka Assi by Kashinath Singh), Hunkar and Rashmirathi by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar

Sanskrit (Fiction: 0+ Poetry: 1 + Non-fiction: 1): (Lilavati by Bhaskaracharya).