Some of my Favourite Reads of 2018-2021

Reading is my preferred way of consuming stories and media.
Here’s a list of some favourite reads (in no particular order) of the past 2 years

FICTION

1. 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami *my favourite read of 2020
2. Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
3. My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel – Oyinkan Braithwaite
4. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
5. Conversations with Friends: A Novel – Sally Rooney
6. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
7. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
8. A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
9. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe series Book 1) – Raymond Chandler
10. Less (Pulitzer Prize) – Andrew Sean Greer
11. The Sympathizer (Pulitzer Prize)- Viet Thanh Nguyen
12. Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
13. Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
14. Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
15. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
16. Beautiful You – Chuck Palaniuk
17. Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
18. The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
19. The Martian – Andy Weir
20. The Girl on the Train – Paul Hawkins
21. The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
22. Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend & Rich People Problems – Kevin Kwan
23. Indian Killer – Sherman Alexie
24. Men without Women – Haruki Murakami
25. Dune – Frank Herbert
26. Daisy Jones & the Six: A Novel – Taylor Jenkins Reid
27. Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson
28. Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Bell Jar– Sylvia Plath
30. Evvie Drake Starts Over – Linda Holmes
31. Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro

Non-Fiction

1. Bad Feminist: Essays – Roxane Gay
2. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide – Carol Anderson
3. Dear Girls – Ali Wong
4. Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
5. Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi
6. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou
7. The Last Girl – Nadia Murad
8. The Girl Who Smiled Beads – Clemantine Wamariya
9. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law – Haben Girma
10. My Horizontal Life – Chelsea Handler
11. Awareness – Anthony de Mello
12. The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders – John E. Sarno
13. The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk 
14. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison – Piper Kerman
15. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself – Melody Beattie
16. Everybody lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
17. The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
18. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
19. Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
20. Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
21. Bossy Pants – Tina Fey
22. Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
23. The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
24. Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
25. The Everything Store – Brad Stone
26. Gang Leader for the Day – Sudhir Venkatesh
27. Night – Elie Wiesel
28. White Rage – Carol Anderson
29. Funny in Farsi – Firoozeh Dumas