My Reading List

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

Troubled Blood – J.K.Rowling
The Ink Black Heart – J.K.Rowling
The Burning Girls – C.J.Tudor
The Chalk Man – C.J.Tudor

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

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