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
- 1Q84 – Haruki Murakami *my favourite read of 2020
- Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
- My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel – Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- Conversations with Friends: A Novel – Sally Rooney
- The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
- White Teeth – Zadie Smith
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
- The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe series Book 1) – Raymond Chandler
- Less (Pulitzer Prize) – Andrew Sean Greer
- The Sympathizer (Pulitzer Prize)- Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
- Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette – Maria Semple
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Beautiful You – Chuck Palaniuk
- Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
- The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
- The Martian – Andy Weir
Non-Fiction
- Bad Feminist: Essays – Roxane Gay
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide – Carol Anderson
- Dear Girls – Ali Wong
- Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
- Open: An Autobiography – Andre Agassi
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou
- The Last Girl – Nadia Murad
- The Girl Who Smiled Beads – Clemantine Wamariya
- Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law – Haben Girma
- My Horizontal Life – Chelsea Handler
- Awareness – Anthony de Mello
- The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders – John E. Sarno
- The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
- Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison – Piper Kerman
- Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself – Melody Beattie
- Everybody lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- The Art of Asking – Amanda Palmer
- The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
- Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
- Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari
- Bossy Pants – Tina Fey