Some great books I’ve read in 2012
If you are like me, you are always on the lookout for books to read.
Here are some books I read in 2012 and recommend:
1. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
This is one book that would make you get up and do stuff. Work on your projects, take a notepad and start working on things you’ve been postponing.
2. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
I’ve never seen anyone write a better novel than this one. I couldn’t stop thinking about the book for a long time after reading it.
3. Midnight’s children - Salman Rushdie
This novel won the Booker’s Booker prize. As someone else said it in its review. It makes you be thankful for being literate in the 21st century. Absolutely great writing.
4. My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
Funny, charming book. If you are into reading about exotic places like I am, you will love this one.
5. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit - Daniel Quinn
A philosophical look at where humans fit into the world. Made me to stop eating meat :)
Other great books I read in 2012 and highly recommend:
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- West with the Night - Beryl Markham
- Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness - Lynn Schooler
- King’s Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game - Paul Hoffman
- Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti - Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master - Takuan Soho
- Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The stranger - Albert Camus
