Book List 2017

I had a very knotty relationship with books this year. I suspect it had something to do with the ways in which I was struggling with identity and belonging. I have tried to blog about it, but words are insufficient at the moment. So, for now, here is a list of the books I read this year (in alphabetical order).

Additionally, here are some book reviews I had written that are published elsewhere:

Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Safak (Scroll.in)

Harraga by Boualem Sansal (HuffPost India)

Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter (Scroll.in)

I wish you a great year ahead. :)

Country	Book	Author	Rating	Genre/Type
Algeria	Harraga	Boualem Sansal	3/5	Fiction
Canada	The Mystics of Mile End	Sigal Samuel	3/5	Fiction
Canada	Milk and Honey	Rupi Kaur	1/5	Poetry
India/Pakistan	Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women’s Fiction	Maryam Mirza	4/5	Non-Fiction
India	A Book of Simple Living	Ruskin Bond	4/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
Israel	A Horse Walks Into a Bar	David Grossman	4/5	Fiction
Korea	Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	4/5	Fiction
Middle East	Exit West	Hamid Mohsin	3/5	Fiction
Middle East	Muhammad: A Biography	Karen Armstrong	4/5	Non-Fiction
Middle East	Headscarves and Hymens	Mona Eltahawy	3/5	Non-Fiction
Norway	Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You In All the Confusion?	Johan Harstad	3/5	Fiction
Sweden	A Man Called Ove	Fredrick Backman	3/5	Fiction
Syria	The Calligrapher’s Secret	Rafik Schami	4/5	Fiction
Turkey	Three Daughter’s of Eve	Elif Safak	2/5	Fiction
U.A.E	Letters to a Young Muslim	Omar Saif Ghobash	4/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
U.K.	Home Fire	Kamila Shamsie	3/5	Fiction
U.S.A	Upstream: Selected Essays	Mary Oliver	5/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
U.S.A	American Gods	Neil Gaiman	4/5	Fiction
U.S.A	All Grown Up	Jami Attenberg	3/5	Fiction
U.S.A	My Misspent Youth: Essays	Meghan Daum	4/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
U.S.A	The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion	Meghan Daum	3/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
U.S.A	Men Explain Things to Me	Rebecca Solnit	5/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
U.S.A	Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems	Raymond Carver	5/5	Poetry
U.S.A	Letters to my Daughter	Maya Angelou	3/5	Non-Fiction/ Essays
U.S.A/ Ghana	Homegoing	Yaa Gyasi	3/5	Fiction
U.S.A/ Israel	Joining the Sisterhood; Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives	Edited by Tobin Belzer	4/5	Non-Fiction/Essays