Indrani's reading adventures 2016

[Indrani]

I love epistolary fiction. Saving these for future reference

1. Love Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn (1684)
2. Pamela by Samuel Richardson (1740)
3. Letters from a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny (1747)
4. Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1761)
5. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett (1771)
6. Evelina by Frances Burney (1778)
7. Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1784)
8. Aline and Valcour by Marquis de Sade (1795)
9. Hyperion by Friedrich Hölderlin (1797)
10. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1799)
11. The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (1806)
✔ Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817)
13. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac (1841)
14. Poor Folk By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1846)
15. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848)
16. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1859)
17. Lady Susan by Jane Austen (1871)
18. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)
19. The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yone Noguchi (1901)
20. The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London (1903)
✔ Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster (1912)
22. You Know Me Al: A Busher’s Letters by Ring Lardner (1916)
23. Givi Shaduri by Mikheil Javakhishvili (1928)
24. Farthing Hall by Hugh Walpole and J.B. Priestley (1929)
25. The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace (1930)
26. Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery (1936)
27. Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (1942)
28. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
29. Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (1956)
30. The Key (Kaji) by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (1956)
✔ Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1959)
32. Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman (1964)
33. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
34. Herzog by Saul Bellow (1964)
35. Silence by Shusaku Endo (1966)
✔ 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970)
37. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (1971)
✔ Carrie by Stephen King (1974)
39. A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1978)
40. So Long a Letter (Une si longue letre) by Mariama Bâ (1981)
✔ The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)
42. The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend (1985)
43. Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Welden(1985)
44. The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg (1986)
45. Juletane by Myriam Warner-Vieyra (1987)
46. The Facts by Philip Roth (1988)
47. Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech (1990)
48. Letters from the Inside by John Marsden (1991)
49. Possession by A.S. Byatt
50. Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock (1991)
51. Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (1992)
52. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (1995)
53. Zenzele: A Letter for my Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire (1996)
54. The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg (1996)
55. Going Solo by Hope Keshubi (1997)
56. Jazmin’s Notebook by Nikki Grimes (1998)
57. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (1999)
✔ The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (1999)
59. Feeling Sorry for Cecelia by Jaclyn Moriarty (2000)
60. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (2000)
61. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (2000)
62. Tarzan’s Tonsillitis by Alfredo Bryce Echenique (2001)
63. Ella Minow Pea by Mark Dunn (2001)
64. The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty (2003)
65. We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2003)
66. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips (2004)
67. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern (2004)
68. TTYL by Lauren Myracle (2004)
69. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004)
70. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (2005)
71. Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon (2005)
72. World War Z by Max Brooks (2006)
73. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (2007)
74. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale (2007)
✔ The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (2008)
✔ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (2008)
77. Overqualified by Joey Comeau (2009)
78. Richard Yates by Tao Lin (2010)
79. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (2011)
80. Frances & Bernard by Carlene Bauer (2012)
81. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wien (2012)
82. Dear Mr Knightley by Katherine Reay (2013)
83. Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple (2013)
84. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (2013)
85. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira (2014)
86. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero (2014)
87. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han (2014)
88. Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher (2014)
89. Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg (2014)
90. Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar (2014)
91. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (2015)
✔ The Martian by Andy Weir (2015)
93. The Devourers by Indra Das (2015)
94. Dear Mrs. Naidu by Mathangi Subramanian (2015)
95. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (2015)
96. The Incarnations by Susan Barker (2015)
97. Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson (2015)
98. How to Party With an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings (2016)
99. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Nèuvel (2016)
100. Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu by Yi Shun Lai (2016)

[Ahtims]

Baap reh ... all 100?
I too will come here to pick and choose epistolary :-)

[Jaya]

Iv got a couple of them, yet to be read. Il also refer to your list, lazy me :P

[Jaya]

And I HIGHLY recommend Dracula and The Historian

[Indrani]

Em wrote: "Baap reh ... all 100?
I too will come here to pick and choose epistolary :-)"

Ha ha.. I am sure I wont read all 100.

[Indrani]

Jaya wrote: "And I HIGHLY recommend Dracula and The Historian"

Noted. Dracula is long pending on me anyway.

[Indrani]

Note to self

Starting BR on 1st Sep

Fingersmith
The Legends of Khasak

Currently BRing

Tigana
Em and The Big Hoom

pick-it-for-me Sep

Catch-22

Want to read/complete soon

Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
Possession
ফার্স্ট পার্সন (actually no hurry on this one)

[Ahtims]

Am there too for the 2 Sept. buddy reads

[Indrani]

Em wrote: "Am there too for the 2 Sept. buddy reads"

yep. looking forward to it.

[Indrani]

Indrani's reading adventures are slowly meandering around with almost no loving care. On a forced break from social media for the time being.

Saving this list of books from James Altucher. (Read his blog once in a while and mostly agree with what he says). Plan to read some of these books


✔ “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
2. “Antifragile” by Nassim Taleb (and “The Black Swan” and “Fooled by Randomness” by him)
3. “Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed
4. “Master of Love” by Don Miguel Ruiz
5. “Anything You Want” by Derek Sivers
6. “Mindset” by Carol Dweck
7. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
8. “Sapiens” by Yuval something.
9. “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz
10. “Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway
11. “Jesus’ Son” by Denis Johnson (a collection of short stories, not a religious book)
12. “The Rational Optimist” by Matt Ridley (and the Evolution of Everything by him)
13. “Bold” by Peter D. and Steven Kotler
✔ “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
15. “Peak” by Anders Ericsson
16. “The Surrender Experiment” by Michael Singer (along with The Untethered Soul by him)
17. “Confessions of a Buddhist Atheist” by Stephen Batchelor
18. “Mastery” by Robert Greene
19. “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel
20. “War of Art” by Stephen Pressfield (and “Turning Pro“)
21. “Post Office” by Charles Bukowski
22. “Purple Cow” by Seth Godin
23. “Maus” by Art Spiegelman
✔ “On Writing” by Stephen King
25. “How We Got to Now” by Stephen Johnson (and his book on ideas)
26. “Creativity, Inc” by Ed Catmull
27. “Sick in the Head” by Judd Apatow
28. “Born Standing Up” by Steve Martin
29. “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle (and “Practicing the Power of Now” by him)
30. “5 Love Languages” by Gary Chapman
31. “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World” by Harry Browne
32. “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
33. “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey
✔ “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
✔ “What We Talk About When We talk about Running” by Haruki Murakami
36. “The Stranger” by Albert Camus
✔ “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo
38. “The Blue Zones” by Dan Buettner
39. “The New Evolution Diet” by Art Devany
40. “Poking the Dead Frog” by Mike Sacks
41. “Socrates” by Paul Johnson
42. “Small Victories” by Anne Lamott
43. “Meet Your Happy Chemicals” by Lorette Breuning

[Ahtims]

haven't heard of a few of.these books. Will explore at leisure.

[Girish, The Good cop]

nice list. exploring a few for certain in the near future

[Gorab, TheGunman]

Quite an interesting (and tough!) list. All the best :)

[Indrani]

Gorab wrote: "Quite an interesting (and tough!) list. All the best :)"

true that. :) and most of these are non-fiction - a known weak area for me,

this my ambition list.. not many would get read really.