This is a list of books I have read from 2012 onwards. For a list of older books, see:
Books I read in 2024
- Yellowface – Rebecca F. Kuang
- The Cider House Rules – John Irving
- The Town – Chuck Hogan
- The Perfect Girlfriend – Karen Hamilton
- The Body: A Guide for Occupants – Bill Bryson
- The Complete Maus – Art Spiegelman
- The Reappearance of Rachel Price – Holly Jackson
- The Midnight Feast – Lucy Foley
- Embroideries – Marjane Satrapi
- Troubled Blood – J.K.Rowling
- The Ink Black Heart – J.K.Rowling
- The Burning Girls – C.J.Tudor
- The Chalk Man – C.J.Tudor
- The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
- The Maid – Nita Prose
- Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
- Learned by Heart – Emma Donoghue
- The only one left – Riley Sager
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin
- The Broken Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin
- The Kingdom of Gods – N.K. Jemisin
- The Awakened Kingdom – N.K. Jemisin
- Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
Books I read in 2023
- The It Girl – Ruth Ware
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell
- Ghost Lover – Lisa Taddeo
- The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
- Certain Dark Things – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Grownup – Gillian Flynn
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder – Holly Jackson
- Good Girl, Bad Blood – Holly Jackson
- Preludes and Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman
- The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman
- Dream Country – Neil Gaiman
- Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
- Moonflower Murders – Anthony Horowitz
- As Good as Dead – Holly Jackson
- The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager
- The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak
- American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
- Breasts and Eggs – Meiko Kawakami
- Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
- The Hunting Party – Lucy Foley
- The Wych Elm – Tana French
- The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told – Muhammad Umar Memon
- Don’t you cry – Mary Kubica
- The Ex-Wife’s Survival Guide – Debby Holt
- The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
- The Golden Couple – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- One Last Secret – Adele Parks
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
- The seven moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
- These Violent Delights – Chloe Gong
Books I read in 2022
- Animal – Lisa Taddeo
- Firefly Lane – Kristin Hannah
- Dead to her – Sarah Pinborough
- The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino
- Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
- A House for Mr. Biswas – V.S. Naipaul
- Mythos – Stephen Fry
- The end of her – Shari Lapena
- A slow fire burning – Paula Hawkins
- Truly Devious – Maureen Johnson
- The Vanishing Stair – Maureen Johnson
- The Hand on the Wall – Maureen Johnson
- The Mirror and the Light – Hilary Mantel
- The World Beneath Their Feet – Scott Ellsworth
- The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters – Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Hamnet – Maggie O’ Farrell
- Verity – Colleen Hoover
- Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Lost Daughter – Elena Ferrante
- The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah
- Club You to Death – Anuja Chauhan
- Eleanor & Park – Rainbow Rowell
- The Maidens – Alex Michaelides
- A Murder on Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
- Black Leopard Red Wolf – Marlon James
- The Other Americans – Laila Lalami
- Still Life – Louise Penny
- Beautiful world, where are you – Sally Rooney
- Normal People – Sally Rooney
- Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
- Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo
- Babyville – Jane Green
- The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear
Books I read in 2021
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
- To sleep in a sea of stars – Christopher Paolini
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life – Bill Bryson
- Those Pricey Thakur Girls – Anuja Chauhan
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl
- Mystic River – Dennis Lehane
- Macbeth – Jo Nesbo
- Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House – M.C.Beaton
- Swing Time – Zadie Smith
- 44 Scotland Street – Alexander McCall Smith
- Espresso Tales – Alexander McCall Smith
- His Perfect Wife – Natasha Bell
- The Motorcycle Diaries – Ernesto Che Guevara
- Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
- The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
- An Anonymous Girl – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- The Innocents – Laura Lippman
- Jamaica Inn – Daphne du Maurier
- Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
- The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
- The last letter from your lover – Jojo Moyes
Books I read in 2020
- Tidelands – Philippa Gregory
- Christmas Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
- The Silent Wife – A.S.A Harrison
- Queen of Air and Darkness – Cassandra Clare
- The End of Innocence – Moni Mohsin
- Fire and Blood – George R.R.Martin
- Children of Virtue and Vengeance – Tomi Adeyemi
- City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction– Arundhati Roy
- The Redeemer – Jo Nesbo
- Beartown – Fredrik Backman
- Three Women – Lisa Taddeo
- The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
- A Perfect Spy – John le Carré
- The Model Wife – Julia Llewellyn
- You are not Alone – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- Finding Audrey – Sophie Kinsella
- The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton
- Mr.Cavendish, I Presume – Julia Quinn
Books I read in 2019
- He Said She Said – Erin Kelly
- The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah
- The Sane Psychopath – Salil Desai
- Secret Diary of an Incurable Romantic – Chitrangada Mukherjee
- Anon – Bhavani Iyer
- Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
- Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
- Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
- 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami
- The Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu
- Beast – Krishna Udayasankar
- Dissolution – C.J. Sansom
- The Wife Between Us – Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
- I owe you one – Sophie Kinsella
- The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu
- Dragonfly in Amber – Diana Gabaldon
- The Hungry Tide – Amitav Ghosh
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie
- The Secret Adversary – Agatha Christie
- Angels – Marian Keyes
- Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
- A Turn in the Road – Debbie Macomber
- Shanghai Girls – Lisa See
- Marley and Me – John Grogan
- Antony & Cleopatra – Colleen McCullough
- Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran
- The Secret Keeper – Kate Morton
- Lethal White – Robert Galbraith
- Milkman – Anna Burns
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway – Ruth Ware
- Voyager – Diana Gabaldon
- The Fifth Child – Doris Lessing
- Three Wishes – Liane Moriarty
Books I read in 2018
- The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
- The Knife of Never Letting go – Patrick Ness
- The Buddha of the Brothel – Kris Advaya
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness – Arundhati Roy
- Artemis – Andy Weir
- The Malhotra Bride – Sundari Venkatraman
- The Eyre Affair – Jasper Fforde
- Elizabeth 1 – Margaret George
- Bridget Jones’s Baby – Helen Fielding
- The Girl who Takes an eye for an eye – David Lagercrantz
- Moonlight Mile – Dennis Lehane
- The Fallen – David Baldacci
- This Charming Man – Marian Keyes
- Knot for Keeps – Sathya Saran
- The Good Girl – Mary Kubica
- A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas
- Love is for Life and Beyond – Yashwant Kanodia
- The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
- Mrs. Funnybones – Twinkle Khanna
- The Tennis Party – Madeleine Wickham
- The Ask and the Answer – Patrick Ness
- Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness
- The Goat Thief – Perumal Murugan
- Saving Fish From Drowning – Amy Tan
- Empire of Storms – Sarah J. Maas
- Tower of Dawn – Sarah J.Maas
- Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
- Such is her Life – Reecha Agarwal Goyal
- The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
- The Glass Palace – Amitav Ghosh
- The Woman in the Window – A.J.Finn
- It’s my Girlfriend’s Wedding – Sahil Rajput
- Closed Casket – Sophie Hannah
- The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
- I am Thunder – Muhammad Khan
- A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J.Maas
- Yours Forever – Nimmu
- Lord of Shadows – Cassandra Clare
- The Disappearance of Sally Sequeira – Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
Books I read in 2017
- The Strongman’s Daughter – Madhuri Iyer
- This was a man – Jeffrey Archer
- Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures – Muhammad Khalid Akhtar
- Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
- X – Sue Grafton
- The Tailor of Panama – John LeLeCarré
- The Mask Diaries – Abhinav Goel
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
- Divergent – Veronica Roth
- The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet – Colleen McCullough
- Gone Baby Gone – Dennis Lehane
- The Night Watch – Sarah Waters
- The Dovekeepers – Alice Hoffman
- Miss Laila Armed and Dangerous – Manu Joseph
- Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Purity – Jonathan Franzen
- Room – Emma Donoghue
- Survivors – Anamika Mukherjee
- The Escape Artist – Diane Chamberlain
- The Poison of Love – K.R.Meera
- Truthwitch – Susan Dennard
- Nefertiti – Michelle Moran
- The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty
- 3 and a half murders – Salil Desai
- The Constant Gardener – John Le Carré
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz
- Death comes to Pemberley – P.D. James
- Happiness is all we want – Ashutosh Mishra
- Into the Water – Paula Hawkins
- Bijnis Woman – Tanuja Chandra
- My not so perfect life – Sophie Kinsella
- Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
Books I read in 2016
- Make Me – Lee Child
- Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
- After You – Jojo Moyes
- The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith
- Blood Work – Michael Connelly
- The Burning Room – Michael Connelly
- In the Shadows of Death – Sourabh Mukherjee
- The Sinister Silence – Moitrayee Bhaduri
- City of Bones – Cassandra Clare
- City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare
- City of Glass – Cassandra Clare
- Christine – Stephen King
- Mr. Mercedes – Stephen King
- Fool Me Once – Harlan Coben
- Hedon – Priyanka
- The Spectacular Miss – Sonia Bahl
- I am big. So what? – Shuchi Singh Kalra
- The Pleasure is all Mine – Shanaya Taneja
- All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- Anywhere but Home – Anu Vaidyanathan
- The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
- Go set a Watchman – Harper Lee
- The Lives of Others – Neel Mukherjee
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick
- Lady Midnight – Cassandra Clare
- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms – George R.R. Martin
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
- A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James
- Bring up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
- The Monsoon Murders – Karan Parmanandka
- The Year of the Runaways – Sunjeev Sahota
- Aqson Level 1 – Sreejib
- Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
- Penumbra – Bhaskar Chatopadhyay
- Never Gone – Anusha Subramanian
- If I Stay – Gayle Forman
- Midnight Sun – Jo Nesbo
- My Family and Other Animals – Gerald Durrell
Books I read in 2015
- He Fixed the Match She Fixed Him – Shikha Kumar
- Games Girls Play – Aastha Atray Banan
- J – Howard Jacobson
- Kalona’s Fall – P.C.Cast and Kristin Cast
- Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit and Other Stories – P.G.Wodehouse
- The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
- The Return of the Butterfly – Moni Mohsin
- Ananya – Shilpa Gupta
- Revival – Stephen King
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – Amy Chua
- My Clingy Girlfriend – Madhuri Bannerjee
- The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
- Field of Prey – John Sandford
- Mistress of Honour – Bhaavna Arora
- Simple Plane Love – Priyanka Luthra
- The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
- God Help the Child – Toni Morrison
- Odd Thomas – Dean Koontz
- Written in the Stars – Anjali Kirpalani
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Laini Taylor
- Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil – James Runcie
- Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins – James Runcie
- Lady Audley’s Secret – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Drood – Dan Simmons
- The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters
- Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
- The Night It Rained Guns – Chandan Nandy
- Item Girl – Richa Lakhera
- The Lowland – Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Dead Meat – Ankush Saikia
- The Leopard – Jo Nesbo
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan
- Shopaholic to the Stars – Sophie Kinsella
- How to Seduce a Billionaire – Portia da Costa
- The Murder of Sonia Raikkonen – Salil Desai
- Moving Pictures – Terry Pratchett
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- Before We Met – Lucie Whitehouse
- The Hanging – Lotte and Soren Hammer
- The Ghost Runner – Parker Bilal
- The Thomas Berryman Number – James Patterson
- A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
- A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J.Maas
- Uglies – Scott Westerfield
- Outlaws – Javier Cercas
- Throne of Glass – Sarah J.Maas
- Crown of Midnight – Sarah J.Maas
- Heir of Fire – Sarah J.Maas
- Before I go to Sleep – S.J.Watson
- One – Sarah Crossan
- Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
- Dangerous Women – George R.R.Martin and Gardner Dozois
- The Big Indian Wedding: The Ultimate Guide for Dummies – Sakshi Salve
Books I read in 2014
- Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
- Jeeves and the Wedding Bells – Sebastian Faulks
- We Need New Names – NoViolet Bulawayo
- Stay Where You Are and Then Leave – John Boyne
- The Casual Vacancy – J.K.Rowling
- Things Your Mother Never Told You About Love – Juhi Pande
- And The Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
- Under the Dome – Stephen King
- Envious Casca – Georgette Heyer
- The Son – Jo Nesbo
- Bluebeard’s Egg – Margaret Atwood
- Delhi Mostly Harmless – Elizabeth Chatterjee
- Bucket List of a Traveloholic – Sarika Pandit
- Afterburn / Aftershock – Sylvia Day
- Adopted Miracles – Anamika Mukherjee
- The Queen of the Tearling – Erika Johansen
- A Blunt Instrument – Georgette Heyer
- Solo – William Boyd
- Bad Luck and Trouble – Lee Child
- Fade into Red – Reshma K.Barshikar
- In Custody – Anita Desai
- Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
- Bubble Wrap – Kalyani Rao
- Seduced by Murder – Saurbh Katyal
- His Runaway Royal Bride – Tanu Jain
- The Full Moon Bride – Shobhan Bantwal
- The Thousand Names – Django Wexler
- Tuki’s Grand Salon Chase – Parul Sharma
- Predator – Patricia Cornwell
- Virgin Gingelly – V.Sanjay Kumar
- The Black Coat – Neamat Imam
- Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
- Manhattan Mango – Madhuri Iyer
- Finding Arun – Marisha Pink
- The Mother-in-Law Cure – Farha Z.Hasan
- To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
- Far Beyond the Dead End – Saikat Baksi
- The Murder Bag – Tony Parsons
- Happily Murdered – Rasleen Syal
- Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Tamanna – Tejeshwar Singh
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- Washington Square – Henry James
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
- Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
- The Blood Telegram – Gary J.Bass
- An Isolated Incident – Soniah Kamal
- Killing Ashish Karve – Salil Desai
Books I read in 2013
- Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese
- A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
- The Beautiful and Damned – F.Scott Fitzgerald
- The Other Side of the Table – Madhumita Mukherjee
- Dear Life – Alice Munro
- Our Lady of Alice Bhatti – Mohammed Hanif
- The Secrets of the Dark – Arka Chakrabarti
- Wedding Night – Sophie Kinsella
- Jacob Hills – Ismita Tandon Dhanker
- The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- Ghostman – Roger Hobbs
- The Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng
- The House at Riverton – Kate Morton
- The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
- Final Cut – Uday Gupt
- Night Film – Marisha Pessl
- TransAtlantic – Colum McCann
- Love Potion Number 10 – Betsy Woodman
- The Signature of all Things – Elizabeth Gilbert
- A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
- Mad About the Boy – Helen Fielding
- The Case of the Love Commandos – Tarquin Hall
- The Enchantress of Florence – Salman Rushdie
- A Storm of Swords – George R.R.Martin
- A Feast for Crows – George R.R.Martin
- A Dance with Dragons – George R.R.Martin
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Bat – Jo Nesbo
- Deja Dead – Kathy Reichs
- The City of Devi – Manil Suri
- Polka Dots, Pony Tails and Purple Pouts – Amrita Anand Nayak
- The Homing Pigeons – Sid Bahri
- The Source – Ursula James
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Sea of Innocence – Kishwar Desai
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World – Haruki Murakami
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carré
- The Goddess Chronicle by Natsuo Kirino
- Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
- Private Berlin – James Patterson and Mark Sullivan
- He Loves me Not – Vrushali Telang
- The Tiger’s Wife – Téa Obreht
- Spying in High Heels – Gemma Halliday
Books I Read in 2012
- The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- 9 Dragons – Michael Connelly
- The Brass Verdict – Michael Connelly
- The Reversal – Michael Connelly
- Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012 – Zomato
- You Never Know When You”ll Get Lucky – Priya Narendra
- Hard Times – Charles Dickens
- The Krishna Key – Ashwin Sanghi
- The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes
- On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
- The Affair – Lee Child
- A Mysterious Death at Sainik Farms – Rukmani Anandani
- The Wedding Girl – Madeleine Wickham/Sophie Kinsella
- Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris
- Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris
- Deliver Us From Evil – David Baldacci
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- Hell’s Corner – David Baldacci
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories – Leo Tolstoy
- Guilty Wives – James Patterson
- I’ve Got Your Number – Sophie Kinsella
- Fallen – Karin Slaughter
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken – Tarquin Hall
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Mohammed Hanif
- Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri