Category: What I Read

Yearly curated reading lists with reflections on the books that shaped my thinking — spanning climate, history, fiction, and philosophy.

  • 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 reading and guilty pleasures, feeding the inner child who grew up on comics and superhero books.…

  • 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 year, I focused more on engaged and slow reading than meeting my quantitative reading goals. I…

  • What I read in 2023

    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 is mindboggling. Yet, hope and optimism force us to persist in our practice of making resolutions.…

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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 books that I finished this year. There are at least 3-4 books that I am done…

  • 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 on climate change or not and it produced a lot of decisions and debates, resulting in…