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 |
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