Book shelf

My love affair with books and reading started at a rather tender age. Since then, I haven’t been able to step into a bookstore without walking out with at least one book! Given that I’m always immersed in a book, I figured it would be a good idea to list out the books I’ve read each month. All the books are also starred on a scale of 1-4 (scale explained below). Books that have been reviewed on the blog are linked. If you’re wondering what book to read next, why not take a look at the list below and see if something piques your interest? Happy reading!

Scale: * Thrash it! ** Bearable *** Interesting **** Engrossing

Some of my all-time favorites:

May 2012 reading list:

Feast of Roses – Indu Sundaresan **** | Shadow Princess - Indu Sundaresan **** | The Devotion of Suspect X – Keigo Higashino **** | 50 Shades of Grey trilogy – E.L. James

April 2012 reading list:

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon **** | The Elegance of a Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery*** | Angelogy – Danielle Trussoni** | The Lollipop Shoes – Joanne Harris ****

March 2012 reading list:

All on a Summer’s Day – Judy Gardiner **** | 84 Charring Cross Road – Helene Hanff **** | The Power – Rhonda Byrne ** | Caught in Crystal – Patricia C. Wrede *** | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows****

February 2012 reading list:

The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes *** | Brooklyn – Colm Toibin *** | The Kashmir Shawl – Rosie Thomas****

January 2012 reading list:

A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold – George R. R. Martin |Brida – Paulo Coelho *** | Sacred Hearts – Sarah Dunant ****

December 2011 reading list:

The Book of Clouds – Chloe Aridjis | Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin *** | Clash of Kings – George R. R. Martin **** | A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow – George R. R. Martin****

November 2011 reading list:

The Human Factor – Graham Greene *** | Secret of the Nagas (Book 2 of the Shiva Trilogy) – Amish **** | The Swimmer – Roma Tearne ***

October 2011 reading list:

The Storyteller of Marrakesh – Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya **** | Committed – Elizabeth Gilbert | The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood ****

September 2011 reading list:

The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman *** | The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman *** | Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro **** | Bone China – Roma Terane ****

August 2011 reading list:

Sarah’s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay **** | Golden Compass – Philip Pullman *** | The Art of Murder – Jose Carlos Somoza ****

July 2011 reading list:

Sweet Sanctuary – Sheila Walsh *** | Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (re-read)

June 2011 reading list:

Brixton Beach – Roma Tearne **** | Blueeyedboy – Joanne Harris **** | The Weight of a Mustard Seed – Wendell Steavenson | All and Nothing – Raksha Bharadia **** | Delivered with Love – Sherry Kyle ***

May 2011 reading list:

The Passage – Justin Cronin **** | Harlan Cohen – The Innocent **** |The Reading Group – Elisabeth Noble ***

April 2011 reading list:

You Believers – Jane Bradley *** | Mosquito – Roma Tearne **** | Chanakya’s Chant – Ashwin Sanghi *

March 2011 reading list:

The Immortals of Meluha – Amish**** | Why We Get Fat and What to do About It – Gary Taubes **** | The Japanese Wife – Kunal Basu ** | These Things Hidden – Heather Gudenkauf ***

February 2011 reading list:

Mornings in Jenin – Susan Abulhawa **** | Bridge in the Rain – Bianca Lakoseljac *** | Dance, Dance, Dance – Haruki Murakami ***

January 2011 reading list:

City of Djinns – William Dalrymple **** | Angel Words – Doreen Virtue *** | The Swan Thieves – Elizabeth Kostova ***

December 2010 reading list:

The Time Travelers’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger **** | The Book of Tomorrow – Cecelia Ahern ** | Murder in Mesopotamia – Agatha Christie ***

November 2010 reading list:

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace – Tamara Chalabi **** | The Mermaid’s Mirror – L.K. Madigan *** | The Long Road Home – Mary Alice Monroe ***

October 2010 reading list:

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner – Stephanie Myer ** | The Missing Rose – Serdar Ozkan*** | The Raising – Laura Kasischke *** | The Wrecking Light – Robin Robertson

September 2010 reading list:

The Butterfly Effect – Andy Andrews *** | 2 States – Chetan Bhagat ** | Dreams from my Father – Barack Obama *** | The White Tiger – Arvind Adiga ****

August 2010 reading list:

Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer *** | Empire of the Indus – Alice Albinia **** | Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer ***

July 2010 reading list:

Lajja – Taslima Nasreen * | Blackberry Wine – Joanne Harris **** | The Last Song – Nicholas Sparks *** | Spring Moon – Bette Bao Lord ****

June 2010 reading list:

New Moon – Stephenie Meyer *** | The Girl Who Played With Fire – Stieg Larsson ****

May 2010 reading list:

The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemmingway *** | The History of Love – Nicole Kraus **** | Starbook – Ben Okri **

April 2010 reading list:

The Broker – John Grisham *** | The God of Spring – Arabella Edge *** | The Heretic Queen – Michelle Moran ****

March 2010 reading list:

The Evil Seed – Joanne Harris ** | Divine Magic – Doreen Virtue *** | Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri **** | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling (re-read) | Evening Class – Maeve Binchy ****

February 2010 reading list:

Nefertiti – Michelle Moran **** | The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini **** | Breakfast at Tiffany’s and other stories – Truman Capote **** | The Sign of the Cross – Chris Kuzneski *

January 2010 reading list:

Immortality – Milan Kundera **** | Meditation for Busy People – Osho **** | The Secret (re-read) | Harry Potter and The Philospoher’s Stone – JK Rowling (re-read) | Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling (re-read) | Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling (re-read)

December 2009 reading list:

The Impressionist – Hari Kunzru *** | Twilight – Stephanie Meyer * | The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown ***

November 2009 reading list:

Gods Behaving Badly – Marie Phillips *** | Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert **** | Tintin and Herge **** | The Winner Stands Alone – Paulo Coelho ** | Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichei ****