Wednesday, January 04, 2012

41 books in 2011

2011 saw me reading 41 books, which is down 18% from 2010's tally of 50 books. However, I am glad that I managed to do all this reading, while taking on new hobbies in 2011 (which shall be detailed in a separate post.)

Best authors of 2011:

  • Stieg Larsson: Clearly the best in terms of story, characters, suspense.
  • Rohinton Mistry: Absolutely amazing characters - stunning drama and great attention to detail.
  • Sunil Gavaskar: His books gives a great perspective into the era of India Cricket which was pretty much unknown to people of me, and perhaps to my generation as a whole.
  • John Grisham: Good old Grisham, still fascinates me with his writing. Haven't got bored of him yet.

3 comments:

Deepak said...

That's a good number!
Any recommendations from the non-fictions?

Deepak said...

And here's my own list http://blog.deepakrajanna.com/2012/01/reading-in-2011.html

Shreeni said...

Deepak: Non fiction recommendations would be:

1. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
2. Rework by founders of 37 Signals.

The rest few that I read in 2011 didn't impress me much. (And I also realized I read very little non-fiction in 2011 :)

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