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2026 · 3 books

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas ★★★★★17 Jul (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Devil's Alternative Frederick Forsyth ★★★★22 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) White Nights Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★★25 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2025 · 2 books

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories Banu Mushtaq ★★★★★30 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5) Rick Riordan ★★★★★9 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2024 · 10 books

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4) Rick Riordan ★★★★★31 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3) Rick Riordan ★★★★17 Nov (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) Rick Riordan ★★★★7 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Starter Villain John Scalzi ★★★25 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Looking for Alaska John Green ★★★★23 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) East of Eden John Steinbeck ★★★★★21 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) Rick Riordan ★★★★18 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Art of UNIX Programming Eric S. Raymond ★★★★16 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Orson Scott Card ★★★★16 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Twisted Ones T. Kingfisher ★★★★21 Jun (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2023 · 8 books

Sakina’s Kiss Vivek Shanbhag ★★★★9 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Dune Messiah (Dune #2) Frank Herbert ★★★★4 Aug (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Lord of Light Roger Zelazny ★★★★★10 Jul (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Death of Ivan Ilych Leo Tolstoy ★★★★★27 Mar (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Great Train Journey Ruskin Bond ★★★★27 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) Agatha Christie ★★★25 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) And Then There Were None Agatha Christie ★★★★★17 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Till We Have Faces C.S. Lewis ★★★★14 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2022 · 5 books

In Patagonia Bruce Chatwin ★★★★31 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Pachinko Min Jin Lee ★★★★★29 Nov (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Storm Runner (The Storm Runner, #1) J.C. Cervantes ★★★★22 Jul (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Erik Larson ★★★★6 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank Matthew Rosenberg ★★★★6 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2021 · 6 books

Lord of the Flies William Golding ★★★★23 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel ★★★★★5 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History J.V. Pawar ★★★★4 Aug (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) J.K. Rowling ★★★★★11 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18) Agatha Christie ★★★11 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Nimona N.D. Stevenson ★★★★★17 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2020 · 31 books

Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are Danny Gregory ★★★★28 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones James Clear ★★★★22 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India A.K. Ramanujan ★★★★22 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) Pierce Brown ★★★★★21 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1) Alvin Schwartz ★★★★10 Nov (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The E-myth Revisited Michael E. Gerber ★★★★★19 Aug (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Who was Shivaji? Govind Pansare ★★★★4 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Adventures of Tintin, Volume 1: Tintin in the Land of the Soviets / Tintin in the Congo (Tintin #1-2) Hergé ★12 Apr (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Princess Bride William Goldman ★★★★★6 Apr (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Austin Kleon ★★★★30 Mar (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Railway Children E. Nesbit ★★★★29 Mar (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1) Dr. Seuss ★★★★27 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Abigail and the Snowman Roger Langridge ★★★★27 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Daytripper Fábio Moon ★★★★★14 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Wytches, Volume 1 Scott Snyder ★★★★12 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1) André Aciman ★★★★10 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Gender Queer: A Memoir Maia Kobabe ★★★★★7 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) 101 Things I Learned in Film School Neil Landau ★★★31 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3) Neal Shusterman ★★★★30 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde ★★★★27 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Saga, Book Two Brian K. Vaughan ★★★★27 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) Neal Shusterman ★★★★★27 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Invisible Cities Italo Calvino ★★★★22 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky ★★★★★21 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Scott McCloud ★★★★★20 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3 Junji Ito ★★★★★15 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2. Junji Ito ★★★★★15 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) Maya Angelou ★★★★★14 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 Junji Ito ★★★★8 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★★★8 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Saga, Book One Brian K. Vaughan ★★★★★8 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2019 · 25 books

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson ★★★★31 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) From Hell Alan Moore ★★★★31 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World Neil Gaiman ★★★★★26 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Matilda Roald Dahl ★★★★★21 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory Raphael Bob-Waksberg ★★★★20 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) League of Legends: Ashe - Warmother Odin Austin Shafer ★★★★15 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) League of Legends: Lux John O'Bryan ★★★★14 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) Marjane Satrapi ★★★★★8 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) Marjane Satrapi ★★★★★8 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1) Rudyard Kipling ★★★1 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern ★★★★31 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Funny Boy Shyam Selvadurai ★★★★29 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Love Story (Love Story, #1) Erich Segal ★★★★13 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Aristotle and Dante, #1) Benjamin Alire Sáenz ★★★★★11 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor Charles Allen ★★★★★7 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Stardust Neil Gaiman ★★★★25 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Beloved Toni Morrison ★★★★★24 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) Neal Shusterman ★★★★★23 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1) Diana Wynne Jones ★★★★★2 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Battle Angel Alita, Vol. 1 Yukito Kishiro ★★★★★11 Aug (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) Amitav Ghosh ★★★★★21 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★23 Mar (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Elephant's Journey José Saramago ★★★★15 Mar (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Annihilation of Caste B.R. Ambedkar ★★★★★18 Feb (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Foundation (Foundation, #1) Isaac Asimov ★★★★★20 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2018 · 17 books

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck ★★★★7 Aug (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag ★★★★★28 Jul (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country Neil Gaiman ★★★★★31 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Akira, Vol. 4 Katsuhiro Otomo ★★★★★30 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Akira, Vol. 3 Katsuhiro Otomo ★★★★★30 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Akira, Vol. 2 Katsuhiro Otomo ★★★★★30 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Akira, Vol. 6 Katsuhiro Otomo ★★★★★30 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Akira, Vol. 5 Katsuhiro Otomo ★★★★★30 May (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Akira, Vol. 1 Katsuhiro Otomo ★★★★★2 Apr (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ★★★★★17 Mar (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) Ernest Cline ★★★★15 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House Neil Gaiman ★★★★★5 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) Art Spiegelman ★★★★★2 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) Art Spiegelman ★★★★2 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Facts In The Case Of The Departure Of Miss Finch Neil Gaiman ★★★★2 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) I Killed Adolf Hitler Jason ★★★★1 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Collected Essex County Jeff Lemire ★★★★★1 Jan (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2017 · 7 books

Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) Dan Brown ★★★31 Dec (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Wrath Of Khan (Star Trek: The Original Series, #7; Movie Novelization, #2) Vonda N. McIntyre ★★★★3 Nov (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes Neil Gaiman ★★★★2 Nov (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Trial Franz Kafka ★★★★7 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Stranger Albert Camus ★★★★★7 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Dune (Dune, #1) Frank Herbert ★★★★★16 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab) One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez ★★★★★8 Jun (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2016 · 2 books

The Art of War Sun Tzu ★★★★★24 Oct (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins ★★★★5 Jun (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2011 · 1 book

Anything for You, Ma'am: An IITian's Love Story Raheja Tushar ★1 Sep (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

2008 · 1 book

War and Peace Leo Tolstoy ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab)

Before I kept dates · 60 books

1984 George Orwell ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) Arthur C. Clarke ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) Dan Brown ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity Matt Wagner ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Batman: A Death in the Family Jim Starlin ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 Frank Miller ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Dark Watch (Oregon Files, #3) Clive Cussler ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Deception Point Dan Brown ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Doomsday Clock #1: That Annihilated Place Geoff Johns ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Doomsday Clock #2: Places We Have Never Known Geoff Johns ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) E.L. James ★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Fire Ice (NUMA Files, #3) Clive Cussler ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Ghost World Daniel Clowes ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) How to Take Smart Notes Sönke Ahrens ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Inca Gold (Dirk Pitt, #12) Clive Cussler ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 1 Tom Taylor ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 2 Tom Taylor ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Last Man Standing David Baldacci ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) Agatha Christie ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) N or M? (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #3) Agatha Christie ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Raven's Gate (Power of Five, #1) Anthony Horowitz ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Second Son (Jack Reacher, #15.5) Lee Child ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Temple Matthew Reilly ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Apocalypse Watch Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1) Robert Ludlum ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Bourne Objective (Jason Bourne, #8) Eric Van Lustbader ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2) Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne, #3) Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Cassandra Compact (Covert-One, #2) Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Client John Grisham ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Color Purple (The Color Purple, #1) Alice Walker ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Deceiver Frederick Forsyth ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Gemini Contenders Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) Stieg Larsson ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Godfather (The Godfather, #1) Mario Puzo ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Icarus Agenda Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Janson Command (Paul Janson, #2) Paul Garrison ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Lazarus Vendetta (Covert-One, #5) Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Matarese Circle (Matarese, #1) Robert Ludlum ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Matarese Countdown (Matarese, #2) Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Matlock Paper Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Minority Report Philip K. Dick ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Moscow Vector (Covert-One, #6) Robert Ludlum ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Prometheus Deception Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Road to Gandolfo Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Scarlatti Inheritance Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Sigma Protocol Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, #1) Steve Berry ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) The Tristan Betrayal Robert Ludlum ★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Watchmen Alan Moore ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents… Alan Moore ★★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) ಕರ್ವಾಲೊ | Karvalo K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) ನಮ್ಮ ಊರಿನ ರಸಿಕರು Goruru Ramaswamy Iyengar ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab) ಬೆಟ್ಟದ ಜೀವ | Bettada Jeeva Kota Shivarama Karanth ★★★★ (Goodreads, opens in new tab)