Gokul Paranjothi
52 in 52: The reading challenge.
2 min readFeb 23, 2018

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The list

Here’s a list of all the books I read during 2017! While I somehow managed to get through 52 books for the year, writing about them took a backseat, in view of the other interesting adventures I was lucky to be part of during the year. However, I do hope to stick to the task of writing about each of these books, and getting them done as soon as possible.

  1. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  2. The Circle, Dave Eggers
  3. Make something up stories you can’t unread, Chuck Palahniuk
  4. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
  5. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
  6. The Leaf by Niggle, J.R.R Tolkien
  7. Selection Day, Aravind Adiga
  8. The Kaunteyas, Madhavi.S.Mahadevan
  9. The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
  10. The Curious incident of the dog in the night time, Mark Haddon
  11. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
  12. The Light between Oceans, M.L.Stedman
  13. The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George
  14. The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
  15. Lexicon, Max Barry
  16. The Silmarillion, J.R.R Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien
  17. The Children of Hurin, J.R.R Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien
  18. Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
  19. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  20. The Man in the High Castle, Philip.K.Dick
  21. Fahrenheit 451, Kurt Vonnegut
  22. The sense of an ending, Julian Barnes
  23. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
  24. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
  25. White Teeth, Zadie Smith
  26. The Orphan Master’s son, Adam Johnson
  27. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
  28. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie.R.King
  29. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
  30. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  31. The Sellout, Paul Beatty
  32. Freakonomics, Stephen.J.Dubner & Steven Levitt
  33. The Water Knife, Paulo Bacigalupi
  34. Inferno, Dan Brown
  35. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Joel Dicker
  36. A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
  37. The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
  38. Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
  39. Tinkers, Paul Harding
  40. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  41. The Snowman, Jo Nesbo
  42. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
  43. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
  44. The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne
  45. The Golden House, Salman Rushdie
  46. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
  47. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
  48. American War, Omar El Akkad
  49. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  50. Relentless, Tim.S.Grover
  51. Roverandam, J.R.R Tolkien
  52. How Not to be Wrong The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg

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