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    2020

    September

    Rebecca

    2019

    October

    A Nation of Idiots

    Why I am an Atheist

    September

    DNF: The Bride’s Mirror

    August

    Divided by Partition United by Resilience

    2018

    November

    I am M-M-Mumbai

    September

    Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

    Poonachi

    American Gods

    Chokher Bali

    August

    Daughters of the Sun

    Legends of Khasak

    The Girl on the Train

    The Sixth Wife

    The Seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle

    DNF: The Mulberry Courtesan

    July

    The Palace Of Illusions

    The Stranger

    Two

    The BFG

    Uglies

    Footprints on Zero Line

    Continuing on the Road Not Taken

    June

    The Goat Thief

    Matilda

    Padmavat

    Twilight Falls on Liberalism

    Peach

    Animals Eat Each Other

    May

    Convenience Store Woman

    Serious Men

    The Letters

    Malice

    Wonder

    Roll of the Dice

    The Baptism of Tony Calangute

    Men without Women

    April

    A Story of a Long-Distance Marriage

    Why I am a Hindu

    Heidi

    Why Willows Weep

    Scots Pine (A Valediction Forbidding Mourning)

    Indian Nationalism

    Why Elms Die Young

    This One (or How the Blackthorn Got Its Flowers)

    Why the Ash Has Black Buds

    Beyond the Fog

    The Old Mansion

    Bone

    The Back Room

    Sukhe Sawan

    Cannibal

    Wings of a Silent Wish

    Last Meal at Whole Foods

    Black Beauty

    Death of an Indian

    The Bed of Arrows

    The Nightingale and the Rose

    Death of Sheikh Burhanuddin

    March

    Sea of Strangers

    It is what it is

    Turning

    Indian Cultures as Heritage

    Do you suppose it’s the east wind?

    Banished

    Stray City

    Winter kept us Warm

    Birds of Paradise

    Indian Summer: The Secret History of The End of An Empire

    Passing Through

    The Flight

    Anything You Might Want

    Everything Is Far from Here

    Feminism is for everybody: passionate politics

    Beasts and Children

    Red Glow of the New Moon

    Conflict Zone Date

    The Closing Door

    Solid Objects

    Chubby Minutes

    A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition

    Language

    Old as the Hills

    Moths of the New World

    Happy New Year

    Underbush Man

    The Big Switch: It’s Never Too Late

    Foreign-Returned

    The Toymaker and His Wife

    The Boundary

    That Thing Around Your Neck

    February

    The Immortalists

    Exchange of Lunatics

    Draupadi

    Cabulliwallah

    Running Like a Girl

    Breaking Point

    Like a Pigeon

    The Hare and the Tortoise

    DNF: One Enduring Lesson

    Urashima

    Ravana’s Sister (Meenakshi)

    Sweetness

    Durand’s Curse

    Rag

    A Sheet

    Sanatan Choudhuri’s Wife

    Kailasam

    The Parrots of Desire: 3000 Years of Indian Erotic Writings

    The Cure

    Three Virgins

    ‘Bu’ or ‘Smell’

    Under Cover of Darkness

    Bookstamp from The Doodle Soup!

    Black Jesus

    The Headless Woman

    An Era of Darkness

    Lihaaf, and Of Fists and Rubs

    Enlightenment

    The Necklace

    My Curls Have Blown All the Way to China

    The Wise Parrot

    The Freezer Chest

    The Hotel

    Puerile Delusion

    Hope Hidden in Hibiscus

    Northeast Regional

    January

    Flower Hunters

    The Vegetarian

    Ma’I Dada- The Man With Three Names

    A Happy Story

    Escape from New York

    The Wagon

    Aanandi

    the Assassinations - A Novel of 1984

    Obscure Domains of Fears and Desires

    Laajwanti

    The Shroud

    Love Is Blind and Deaf

    The Damp Roman Candle

    The Tree Bears Witness

    The Man

    Fable of a Severed Head

    The Saga of Jaanki Raman Pandey

    The Missing Mail

    The Tree

    The Vultures of the Parsi Cemetery

    Rani Padmini

    A Small Flame

    The Dog

    Ali Baba and Forty Thieves

    Audunn and the Bear

    Midnights

    All the Dirty Parts

    The Pose

    Cat Person

    How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium

    DNF: Hell! Has No Saints

    The Difficult Path

    The size of things

    The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty

    I’m the meat, you’re the knife

    The Green Man of Sinai

    Hall of small mammals

    ‘You are happy?’

    2017

    December

    Norse Mythology

    Murder on the Orient Express

    my Hanuman Chalisa

    The Proxy

    Hotel Iris

    The Sceptical Patriot

    November

    On India

    Gerald’s Game

    Blowfish

    Poetic Musing

    Mason’s Missing

    Reign

    Victoria and Abdul

    Metonyms of Romance

    Poison of Love

    Medici

    The Last Di Sione Claims his Prize

    Victoria and Abdul

    October

    Brunelleschi’s Dome

    Riding the Tech Tide

    Of Mice and Men

    Belle Dormant

    Origin

    Kashmir Diaries

    Silent Scream

    The Book Thief

    A Lot Like Love… A Li’l Like Chocolate

    History/Historical Fiction: Periods I like to read about (Part III)

    Gerald’s Game

    History/Historical Fiction: Periods I like to read about (Part II)

    September

    History/Historical Fiction: Periods I like to read about (Part I)

    Alias Grace

    Final Girls

    Origin by Dan Brown: A Glimpse

    Eleanor and Park

    The 10-Minute Tale - 1

    The Elephant and the Cassowary

    Zoon

    In the Name of God

    Taking the Road Not Taken

    August

    Our Moon has Blood Clots

    The Crown

    If the Creek Don’t Rise

    Author Interview: Leah Weiss

    38 Bahadurabad

    Midnight’s Children

    Ashoka, Lion of Maurya

    The Tudors

    Behold, I shine: Narratvies of Kashmir’s Women and Children

    The Black Prince: Expectations vs Reality

    Three Review Copies I’m Excited to Read

    A State of Freedom

    July

    Reading Bhagat Singh

    Memories of my Melancholy Whores

    Where can you find free (and quality) books to read?

    Author Interview – Tejaswini Apte-Rahm

    Best Stories from Around the World

    Literary world in the first half of 2017

    An Ishmael of Syria

    13 Reasons Why: series adaptation

    Scion of Ikshvaku

    Reading and Travelling

    Indira

    June

    The Snowman

    Sita: Warrior of Mithila

    Five Reasons to read Anne of Green Gables

    All the Missing Girls

    Baaz

    Author Interview: Haley Harrigan

    Secrets of Southern Girls

    Thirteen Reasons Why

    May

    My Husband the Stranger

    Things We Lost in Fire

    Review Copies

    The First Trillionaire

    Zelaldinus, A Masque

    Bull

    April

    The Spy

    Kissing the Demon

    Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

    DNF: Saraswati’s Intelligence

    Maybe the Baby

    The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad

    The Age of Innocence

    March

    Neon Soul

    The last tree

    Speak Gigantular

    Talking to Ayisha Malik

    Sophia Khan is Not Obliged

    Murder is Easy

    Eight Women Authors Who Have Made Reading Worthwhile

    Beloved

    February

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Finding Juliet

    The Princess of a Whorehouse: The Story of a Swamp Lotus

    Movie Adaptation: Room (2015)

    Human Acts

    Strung with love

    The Curse of Mohenjodaro

    January book buying

    The Pavilion of Former Wives

    January

    A Perilous Undertaking

    Alternate Opinion: The Old Man and the Sea

    These Circuses That Sweep Through the Landscape

    Movie Adaptation: Cinderella (2015)

    Blog tour- Two Days gone

    The Lesser Bohemians

    Lanka’s Princess

    DNF: I Love My Love

    Blogtour: Lost Girls by Merrie Destefano

    The Four Patriots

    TBR 2017

    Five Reading Resolutions for 2017

    2016

    December

    Happy New Year 2017

    2016: A Year in Books

    Alternate Opinion: Bitter Sweet Love

    The Red Queen

    DNF: Colorful Notions (The Roadtrippers 1.0)

    Confused Bastards

    Movie Adaptation: Arrival (2016)

    The Princess Saves Herself in This One

    November Haul

    Her final breath

    Ghachar Ghochar

    November Haul

    November

    Room

    The one about November birthdays…

    My Father is a Hero

    The Girl on The Train by Paula Hawkins

    Bicycles and Blackberries

    The Peshwa: The Lion And the Stallion

    Hag-seed

    Happy belated birthday!

    October

    Bitter Sweet Love

    A Sister’s Secret - Two Sisters. A Harrowing Secret. One Fight For Justice.

    Origin One Store - Box Review

    Autumn

    Bookhaul - September 2016

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    A Forgotten Affair

    Movie Adaptation - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #1)

    Happy birthday to…

    In Their Shoes

    September

    Books and Travel

    The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

    The Trouble with Women

    Incursion (Catalyst Moon #1)

    O’s Little Book of Love and Friendship

    The Handmaid’s Tale

    August additions to my bookshelf

    August

    The day I became a bird

    Happy birthday to…

    Cinderella

    Sputnik Sweetheart

    India celebrates 70 years of Independence…

    The Universe Of Us

    We Should All Be Feminists

    Celebrating the spirit of friendship with 12 quotes

    The Tudor Kings and Queens

    Is there anything better than book hauls? July buys..

    July

    The girls

    The Secret Life of Bees

    Wait until Spring Bandini

    Grey

    June

    The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

    The Confession of Katherine Howard

    June Book Box from The Biblio Box

    Broken Pieces

    Confessions of a Queen B* (The Queen B* #1)

    What got me reading

    May

    In the clearing

    World’s Best Boyfriend by

    Clisson and Eugénie

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Summer specials

    April

    The Rejected Writer’s Book Club

    Short stories from Rabindranath Tagore

    The Prophet

    Black Taj

    Every Exquisite Thing

    The Gift of the Magi

    March

    To Read List 2016

    Pillow Talk

    A dozen damsels we love.

    Paper Towns

    To All The Phenomenal People Out There, Happy Women’s Day!

    The Happy Prince & Other Tales

    Robert & Fahad Book Series

    February

    A Christmas Carol

    The Girl in the Mirror

    Rainbow

    Bidding adieu: Harper Lee

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Expressing love in 14 ways

    The Snow Queen

    The 5th Wave

    Well-spent Weekends: Atta Galatta

    Fatal Attraction: When love turns to murder

    January

    Gone Wild

    Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    10 books on my to-read list 2016

    She

    10 books I want to get through this year

    2015

    December

    Season of the rainbirds

    Flawed (Flawed, #1)

    Mary, Queen of Scots

    King Of Hearts

    The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

    Love And Misadventure

    The Metamorphosis

    To Kill A Mocking Bird

    The God of Small Things

    Eterlimus

    October

    Poor Little Rich Slum

    Movie Adaptation - The DUFF II

    Hooker Heels

    Author Interview - Ryan Ringbloom on Hooker Heels II

    September

    The Tudor Wife

    May

    All the Bright Places

    Adultery

    2014

    October

    Trash: An Innocent Girl. A Shocking Story of Squalor and Neglect

    September

    Hold My Hand