What I Read
Yearly curated reading lists with reflections on the books that shaped my thinking — spanning climate, history, fiction, and philosophy.
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What I Read in 2025
As usual, my last year’s reading was split between deliberate explorations and guilty pleasures. The thrillers, murder mysteries, and crime fiction were my airport…
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What I read in 2024
My reading goals used to be overly ambitious, leaving me frustrated at year’s end. I inevitably read less than I had planned. But this…
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What I read in 2023
The absurdity of the hope that we will do things differently in the new year than what we did in the year gone by…
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Reading Theme for this year: Nature and Religion
I just ordered the first lot of books this year on my kindle. Most of these books are on Nature, Sustainability and Religion. This…
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What I read in 2022
I already wrote about what happened with my reading routine and habit this year. But still managed to read some books. Here are the…
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2022 Year in Review: Reading and Books
It is an early morning on a weekend and I am trying to get my thoughts together to plan for the year end trip…
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What I read in 2021
Non-fiction This year I consumed more reports on climate change and carbon market than books. COP26 was a landmark event for everyone whether working…
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What I read in 2020
2020 started horribly for me, and I am not talking about the pandemic which came later. The horrible start of the year forced me…
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Little Dog might sound as a strange name but once I read the story behind his name, there was a tender familiarity that seeped…
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What I read in 2019
This was a post I used to write typically in the first or second week of January. But recently things have not been…
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The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
As a bibliophile who has been working on climate change for more than a decade, I found it surprising that there are very few…
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What I read in 2018 (fiction)
This list consists of the usual comfort and light reading (read crime fiction and thrillers). Yet, this year I tried to explore a few…
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What I read in 2018 (Non-fiction)
This post is almost a couple of months late. It was begging attention in my draft folder for at least six weeks. Finally here…
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What I read in 2017 – Part 2 (Fiction)
I read a lot of fiction. Mostly crime-fiction, it is my guilty pleasure and companion on all my flights. Choosing what to read has…
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What I read in 2017- 1 (Non-fiction)
Thanks to my sleeping disorder and the age-old habit of going to bed with a book or kindle, I did manage to finish 30…
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Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is…
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The Oraganized Mind
Despite my several attempts to organize information in different ways, I am still to find a way that works decently for me. My job…
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What I read in 2016
Non-fiction Connect by John Browne The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo What I talk about when I talk about running by…