Thursday, December 18, 2014

Books I read in 2014

  1. Bombay-London-New York. By Amitava Kumar. 5/5
  2. Sightlines. By Kathleen Jamie. 3/5
  3. Istanbul: Memories and the city. By Orhan Pamuk. 5/5
  4. A portrait of the artist as a young man. By James Joyce. 3/5
  5. A river runs through it. By Norman Maclean. 5/5
  6. Butterflies on the roof of the world. By Peter Smetacek. 4/5
  7. The great work of your life. By Stephen Cope. 2/5
  8. An enchantment of birds. By Richard Cannings. 3/5
  9. Handling the truth: on the writing of memoir. By Beth Kephart. 5/5
  10. Why I read. By Wendy Lesser. 3/5
  11. The goldfinch. Donna Tartt. 5/5
  12. The elements of style. Strunk & White. 5/5
  13. The end of your life book club. Will Schwalbe. 5/5
  14. The summing up. Somerset Maugham. 5/5
  15. Ransom. David Malouf. 5/5
  16. Land of the seven rivers: A brief history of India's geography. Sanjeev Sanyal. 3/5
  17. India. A history. John Keay. (Part). 5/5. 
  18. The last wave. An island novel. Pankaj Sekhsaria. 3/5. 
  19. The collected works of A. J. Fikry. Gabrielle Levin. 4/5. 
  20. Discovering birds: The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline, 1760-1850. P. L. Farber. 4/5.  
  21. This is the story of a happy marriage. Ann Patchett. 3/5. 
  22. Arctic summer. Damon Galgut. 4/5. 
  23. Macbeth. Shakespeare. 5/5. 
  24. A short guide to a long life. David B. Agus. 5/5. 
  25. Their fate is our fate: How birds foretell threats to our health and our world. Peter Doherty. 3/5. 
  26. The forest unseen. David George Haskell. 3/5. 
  27. Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury. 5/5. 
  28. The wind in the willows. Kenneth Grahame.  5/5. 
  29. Fire season. Field notes from a wilderness lookout. Philip Connors. 5/5. 
  30. Four fields. Tim Dee. 5/5. 
  31. The narrow road to the deep North. Richard Flanagan. 5/5. 
  32. Wilderness and razor wire. Ken Lamberton. 4/5. 
  33. People of the book. Geraldine Brooks. 5/5. 
  34. In the suicide's library: A book lover's journey. Tim Bowling. 5/5. 
  35. Claxton: Field notes from a small planet. Mark Cocker. 5/5. 
  36. The art of stillness. Adventures in going nowhere. Pico Iyer. 3/5. 
  37. The loser. Thomas Bernhard. Didn't complete. 
  38. The song of the magpie robin: A memoir. Zafar Futehally. 4/5. 

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