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Books I read in 2025

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Sixty-nine, not bad!
  1. Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  2. A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
  3. Arrival/Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  4. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  5. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 🙌🏻
  6. Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück
  7. Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah 👍🏻
  8. The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
  9. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  10. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk 🩵
  11. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 👍🏻
  12. Anne of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  13. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
  14. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  15. The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov
  16. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  17. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  18. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  19. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  20. Beloved by Toni Morrison 🙌🏻
  21. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  22. Kiki’s Delivery Service, Eiko Kadono
  23. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 🙌🏻
  24. Life of Chuck, Stephen King (from If It Bleeds)
  25. Flights, Olga Tokarczuk
  26. The Doctor and the Saint, Arundhati Roy
  27. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, Banu Mushtaq
  28. The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen
  29. My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
  30. Annihilation of Caste by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
  31. History of Modern Manipur by Lal Dena
  32. The Indispensable Zinn, Howard Zinn
  33. A Livable Future is Possible, Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou
  34. Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
  35. History of Manipur Pre-Colonial Period, Gangmumei Kamei
  36. Rebel India, Henry Noel Brailsford
  37. Rainbow Valley, L.M. Montgomery
  38. The No‑Show by Beth O’Leary
  39. The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund‑Broka
  40. Saint Death by Mark Dawson
  41. Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
  42. The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
  43. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff.
  44. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 🙌🏻
  45. Circe by Madeline Miller 🤍
  46. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  47. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
  48. Rosa Parks by Kristen Susieka
  49. The Cassandra Complex by Holly Smale
  50. Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood
  51. The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
  52. Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
  53. Enduring Loss—Stories from the Kuki-Naga Conflict in Manipur
  54. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
  55. A Life of One's Own by Joanna Biggs
  56. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum 🤍
  57. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy 😅
  58. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 🙌🏻
  59. The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante 👍🏻
  60. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante👍🏻
  61. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante👍🏻
  62. Oneness vs. the 1% by Vandana Shiva, Kartikey Shiva
  63. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  64. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
  65. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  66. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
  67. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  68. White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky🤍
  69. Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy

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