reading

2024

• He Who Drowned the World - Shelley Parker-Chan
• She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan
• Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo Reum (Translated by Shanna Tan)
• Release - Lucy Christopher
• Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
• A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science - Rita Colwell
• Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
• Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree
• Idol, Burning - Rin Usami
• A Year in Tōkyō: An Illustrated Guide and Memoir - Christy Anne Jones
• Julia and the Shark - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Weyward - Emilia Hart
• Lady Tan’s Circle of Women - Lisa See

2023

• Poison For Breakfast - Lemony Snicket
• We Found A Hat - Jon Klassen
• Little Girls Are Wiser Than Men - Leo Tolstoy
• Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit - Jen Campbell
• Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
• The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
• Chronicles of Avonlea - L. M. Montgomery
• The Collectors - Philip Pullman
• The Pregnant King - Devdutt Pattanaik
• Durga - Kevin Missal
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• The Emissary - Yoko Tawada
• Victoria - Daisy Goodwin
• The Bombay Prince - Sujata Massey
• The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
• La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
• Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
• The Tenth Riddle - Sapan Saxena
• Serpentine - Philip Pullman
• Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami
• Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution - R. F. Kuang

2022

• The Winter of the Witch - Katherine Arden
• Lyra’s Oxford - Philip Pullman
• She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite A Movement - Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
• The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
• The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
• The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
• The Girl in the Tower - Katherine Arden
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden
• Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World - Cal Newport
• Briar Rose - Jane Yolen
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford

2021

• P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection - P.G. Wodehouse
• The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
• The Last Queen - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• The Diaries of Adam and Eve - Mark Twain
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) - Stieg Larsson
• The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2) - Sujata Massey
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

2020

• Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire - Ira Mukhoty
• Latitudes of Longing - Shubhangi Swarup
• When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife - Meena Kandasamy
• The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
• The Children Act - Ian McEwan
• Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
• The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo
• Magic Flutes - Eva Ibbotson
• The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
• The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
• In the Unlikely Event - Judy Blume
• Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
• Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
• Pastoralia - George Saunders
• What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape - Sohaila Abdulali
• A Space of Her Own: Personal Narratives of Twelve Women - Leela Gulati
• Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People - Anand Neelakantan
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library) - J.K. Rowling
• The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1) - Sujata Massey
• Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
• Strange Planet (Strange Planet #1) - Nathan W. Pyle
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
• The Secret History - Donna Tartt
• Pachinko - Lee Min-jin
• The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
• Origin (Robert Langdon, #5) - Dan Brown
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1) - Douglas Adams

2019

• Men Explain Things to Me - Rebecca Solnit
• The Bhagavad Gita - Introduced & Translated by Eknath Easwaran - Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
• The Forest of Enchantments - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
• The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado Pérez
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
• Leila - Prayaag Akbar
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
• The Taiga Syndrome - Cristina Rivera Garza
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Nutshell - Ian McEwan
• Milkman - Anna Burns

2018

• The Illicit Happiness of Other People - Manu Joseph
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
• I’ve never been (Un)happier: (Penguin Petit) - Shaheen Bhatt
• When Home Is An Idea - Rochelle D’Silva
• The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - Marie Kondō
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Coraline - Neil Gaiman
• Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty - Nikita Gill
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis, #1-4) - Marjane Satrapi
• Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition - Saadat Hasan Manto
• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

2017

• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
• The Book of Tea - Kakuzō Okakura
• Sita: Warrior of Mithila (Ram Chandra #2) - Amish Tripathi
• The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
• Scion of Ikshvaku (Ram Chandra, #1) - Amish Tripathi
• Love - Toni Morrison
• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino

2016

• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• Living History - Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) - Robert Galbraith
• Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales - Margaret Atwood
• Bossypants - Tina Fey

2015

• After River - Donna Milner
• Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
• The Old Nurse’s Story - Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Alison Weir
• Men Without Women - Haruki Murakami
• Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
• Heidi - Johanna Spyri
• The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
• Yesterday - Haruki Murakami
• Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple
• The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
• The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) - Robert Galbraith
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Cat’s Eye - Margaret Atwood
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern
• Beloved - Toni Morrison

2014

• The School - Donald Barthelme
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• Flora - Gail Godwin
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• Reunion - John Cheever
• Boys and Girls - Alice Munro
• Hills Like White Elephants - Ernest Hemingway
• The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
• The Looking Glass - Anton Chekhov
• Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
• Breast Stories - Mahasweta Devi
• The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
• The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
• The Female Man - Joanna Russ
• A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea - Dina Nayeri
• The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
• The Story Of X - Lois Gould
• Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella
• Happy Endings - Margaret Atwood
• Eleven - Sandra Cisneros
• Pygmalion - John Updike
• The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
• Allegiant (Divergent, #3) - Veronica Roth
• Insurgent (Divergent, #2) - Veronica Roth
• The Cuckoo’s Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) - Robert Galbraith
• 1984 - George Orwell
• The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) - Graeme Simsion
• Divergent (Divergent, #1) - Veronica Roth
• Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Three Women - Rabindranath Tagore
• A Restless Wind - Shahrukh Husain
• Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly - Sun-mi Hwang
• A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf