Reading resolution for 2018
2 min readDec 24, 2017
I plan to read 24 books this year from different genres including Fantasy, YA and Romance.
- Comic science fiction Series : The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (#5 Novels) (1 out of 5)✔️
- Travel: On the Road by Jack Kerouac ❌
- Fantasy, YA: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling ✔️
- Magic Realism: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie ❌
- Thriller: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Mystery, Crime, Psychological thriller: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ❌
- Historical Fiction, Satire: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Picaresque Fiction: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Allegory, YA, Speculative and Psychological Fiction: Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
- Comedy, YA: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney ✔️
- Humor, Satire, Science and Speculative fiction: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ❌
- Romance: The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
- Family Drama: A Hundred Little Flames by Preeti Shenoy ✔️
- Classic, Utopian and Dystopian fiction, Political fiction: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
- Classic, Southern Gothic, Coming-of-Age Fiction: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Classic, Historical Fiction: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Popular Science: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Autobiography: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Philosophy, Popular science: Super intelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- Non-fiction: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Memoir: Just Kids by Patti Smith ❌
- Self-help: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Horror, Satire, Black comedy: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
- Non-fiction: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari ✔️
I am tempted to add another 5 books that I may possibly end up reading. Or may be not! (depends 😜)
- Mystery, Conspiracy fiction, Thriller: Inferno by Dan Brown
- Business, Politics & Government: Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
- Detective fiction, Mystery: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- Fantasy Fiction, Humor, Children’s literature: Matilda by Roald Dahl
Going by the above list, I should be able to finish at least two books per month. I feel a bit of guiltiness that I have not included many business/non-fiction related books which originally drove my interest towards reading.
I hope I make time for reading everyday. Tell me what you’re reading for 2018!😄
