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.