Reading List

2023

Fiction

  • Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami
  • Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
  • Flowers Of Evil (Les Fleurs Du Mal) by Charles Baudelaire

Non-Fiction

  • Portraits from Memory: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

Short Stories and Essays

  • B. Wordsworth by V.S. Naipaul
  • Ballad of the Little Black Boy by David Dabydeen

2022

Fiction

  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • O Cortiço (The Slum) by Aluísio Azevedo
  • The Carrying by Ada Limón
  • If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
  • The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
  • I Have More Souls Than One (Poem Collection) by Fernando Pessoa

Non-Fiction

  • Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish
  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
  • Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme—and Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent
  • Everything Is Fucked by Mark Manson
  • Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (re-read)
  • The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  • Not Nice by Aziz Gazipura
  • Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby

Short Stories and Essays

  • Science as a Vocation by Max Weber
  • The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science by Werner Karl Heisenberg
  • The Breakthrough by Daphne Du Maurier
  • Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
  • Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
  • The Veiled Woman by Anaïs Nin
  • Linda by Anaïs Nin
  • Little Birds by Anaïs Nin
  • Behind the Prison by Nagai Kafu
  • Closet LLB by Uno Koji
  • General Kim by Ryunosuke Akutagawa