The Six Month Haul and Reading

These are the titles I picked up at Abids this year from the first of January to the last day of June. The six month haul adds up to forty three books. Of these, I’ve read only eight and the remaining twelve books are those I bought at various times. I’ve listed them below. As can be seen I haven’t read even half the number of books I’ve bought in the same period which is something I plan to reverse in the second half of the year.

THE SIX MONTH HAUL OF 2011

January

1. ‘Beyond the Mexique Bay’ by Aldous Huxley
2. ‘The Autograph Man’ by Zadie Smith-
3. ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Dragon Tattoo’ by Stieg Larsson
4. ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion
5. ‘At Home With Books’-

February

1. ‘Lucky Man’ by Michael J. Fox
2. ‘The Almost Moon’ by Alice Sebold
3. ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’ by Mohammed Hanif
4. ‘If It Is Sweet’ by Mridula Koshy
5. ‘The Liveliest Art’ by Arthur Knight
6. ‘Shining Through’ by Susan Isaacs
7. ‘Newspaper Days’ by Theodore Drieser
8. ‘Diamond Dust’ by Anita Desai

March
1. ‘The Finkler Question’ by Howard Jacobson
2. ‘Wonderland’ by Joyce Carol Oates-
3. ‘The Elephant Vanishes’ by Haruki Murakami
4. ‘This Boy’s Life’ by Tobias Wolff
5. ‘Life is Elsewhere’ by Milan Kundera
6. ‘Stephen Fry in America’ by Stephen Fry

April
1. ‘Get Carter’ Screenplay by Mark Hodges-
2. ‘The Arrangement’ by Elia Kazan-
3. ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ by Che Guevara
4. ‘The Continental Op’ by Dashiell Hammett
5. ‘Encore Provence’ by Peter Mayle
6. ‘Dave Barry’s Guide to Guys’ by Dave Barry
7. ‘Better- A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance’ byAtul Gawande
8. ‘After Dark’ by Haruki Murakami

May
1. ‘The Man in My Basement’ by Walter Mosley
2. ‘All the Pretty Horses’ by Cormac McCarthy
3. ‘Complications’ by Atul Gawande
4. ‘A House for Mr Biswas’ by V.S. Naipaul
5. ‘The Leopard’ by Jo Nesbo
6. ‘Perdido Station Street’ by China Mieville
7. ‘Beyond the Blue Mountains’ by Penelope Lively
8. ‘Lunatic in My Head’ by Anjum Hasan

June
1. ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ by Pascal Mercier,
2. ‘Freaky Deaky’ by Elmore Leonard
3. ‘Freedom Song’ by Amit Chaudhri
4. ‘Arabia’ by Jonathan Raban
5. ‘Out of Sight’ by Elmore Leonard
6. ‘The Cobra’s Heart’ by Ryszard Kapuscinski
7. ‘Worth Dying For’ by Lee Child
8. ‘Chance’ by Robert B Parker

BOOKS I READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2011
1. ‘Up in Honey’s Room’ by Elmore Leonard
2. ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’ by Mohammed Hanif
3. ‘Utz’ by Bruce Chatwin
4. ‘If It Is Sweet’ by Mridula Koshy
5. ‘Global Soul’ by Pico Iyer
6. ‘Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
7. ‘Write Away’ by Elizabeth George
8. ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid
9. ‘White Album’ by Joan Dision
10. ‘Istanbul’ by Orhan Pamuk
11. ‘Freaky Deaky’ by Elmore Loenard (nth reading)
12. ‘Complications’ by Atul Gawande
13. ‘Counsel of Strangers’ by Gouri Dange
14. ‘Out of Sight’ by Elmore Leonard
15. ‘Eats Shoots and Leaves’ by Lynne Truss
16. ‘Playing With Fire’ by Gordon Ramsay
17. ‘The Cobra’s Heart’ by Ryszard Kapuscinski
18. ‘One L’ by Scott Turow
19. ‘Diamond Dust’ by Anita Desai
20. ‘Moth Smoke’ by Mohsin Hamid

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