
My love affair with books started at a rather tender age. Since then, I haven’t been able to step into a bookstore without walking out with at least one book! Given that I’m always immersed in a book, I figured it would be a good idea to list out the books I read each month, loosely sorted by genre. All the books are starred on a scale of 1-4, and I’ve provided links to the books that I’ve reviewed here. If you’re wondering what to read next, why not take a look at the book list below and see if something piques your interest? Happy reading!
Scale: * Thrash it! ** Bearable *** Interesting **** Engrossing
Literary Fiction
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood ****
The Testaments – Margaret Atwood ****
Against the Loveless World – Susan Abhulhalwa ****
Memories of my Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ***
All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr ****
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell – Nadia Hashimi ****
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway ****
Norse Gods – Neil Gaiman ****
Historical fiction
The Empress – Laura Martínez-Belli ****
The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker ****
The Painter from Shanghai – Jennifer Cody Epstein ****
Nefertiti – Michelle Moran ****
Madame Tussaud – Michelle Moran ****
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows****
The King’s Last Song – Geoff Ryman ***
Conqueror series – Conn Iggulden ***** (Conquerer, Bones of the Hills, Empire of Silver, Birth of an Empire, Lords of the Bow)
Pearl Of China – Anchee Min ****
General Fiction
The Kabul Beauty School – Deborah Rodriguez ***
Still Alice – Lisa Genova ****
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman ****
Ape House – Sara Gruen ****
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid ****
Sugarland – Martha Conway ****
Three Souls – Janie Chang ****
The Spy – Paulo Coelho ***
Thrillers
Night Film – Marisha Pessl ****
The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair – Joel Dicker ****
The Light Between Oceans – M.L. Stedman ****
Time for Tanechka – N.A. Milliongton ****
Those in Peril – Wilbur Smith ***
Watch Over Me – Jane Renshaw ****
A Cure For Madness – Jodi McIsaac ****
Fantasy, dystopia and YA
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern ****
The Bear and the Nightingale – Katherine Arden ****
Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters – Nikita Gill ****
Game of Thrones series – George R. R. Martin **** (Game of Thrones, Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow, A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold)
The Vine Witch – Luanne G. Smith ****
The Glamourist – Luanne G. Smith ****
The Golem and the Djinni – Helene Wecker ****
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer ****
The Gospel of Loki & The Testament of Loki by Joanne Harris ****
Indian/Sri Lankan/Pakistani authors
Wind Horse – Kaushik Barua ****
Magical Women – Sukanya Venkatraghavan ****
Dark Things – Sukanya Venkatraghvan ****
Along Came a Spyder – Apeksha Rao ****
Romance & Women’s Fiction
Water for Elephants – Sarah Gruen ****
Roseheart – Catherine Dehdashti ***
Recipes for a Perfect Marriage – Kate Kerrigan ****
The Rain Sparrow – Linda Goodnight ***
Self-development & Spirituality
Blessed Are The Weird – Jacob Nordby ***
The Book of Ichigo Ichie – Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles ****
The Dalai Lama’s Cat – David Michie ****
The Dance – Oriah ****
Biographies & Memoirs
Wild – Cheryl Strayed ***
Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert ****
Buck – MK Asante ****
84 Charring Cross Road – Helene Hanff ****
Yes, My Accent Is Real – Kunal Nayyar ***
Empire of the Indus – Alice Albinia ****
The Diary of Anais Nin Vol 1 & 2 ***
The Far End of Happy – Kathryn Craft ****
Graphic novels/comics
Relish: My Life in the Kitchen – Lucy Kinsley ****
Manga Classics: Les Miserables – Victor Hugo ****
Tintin and Herge ****