books

Some good books I read recently

VM

Mar 4, 2021 — 1 min read

Since January 2020

Read

Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin
The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist, Frank Close
Shoes of the Dead, Kota Neelima
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Wild and Wilful, Neha Sinha
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, Helen Lewis
Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

Reread

On Nuclear Matters, Praful Bidwai
Toll the Hounds, Steven Erikson (Malazan 8)
Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars, Vaasanthi
Karunanidhi, Sandhya Ravishankar
Still Bleeding from the Wound, Ashokamitran
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, Sabine Hossenfelder
Exhalation, Ted Chiang

Now reading: A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman

Caliban and the Witch, Sylvia Federici
A Burning, Megha Majumdar
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
When the Whales Leave, Yuri Rytkheu

Thanks to Srividya, Jahnavi, Dhiya, Shankar and Siddharth for the recommendations!

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