2020 की किताबें

Teg Hindustan Ki	Harpal Singh 'Arush'	6
Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition	B. R. Ambedkar	6
Saaye Mein Dhoop	Dushyant Kumar	6
Bhimrao Ambedkar : Ek Jeevani	Christophe Jaffrelot	6
DHARAMVEER BHARTI KI LOKPRIYA KAHANIYAN	Dharmveer Bharti	4
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	4
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	6
Aaj Bhi Khare Hain Talab	Anupam Mishra	1
Abutar Kabutar	Uday Prakash	5
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true	Richard Dawkins	4
A Thousand Splendid Sun	Khaled Hosseini	4
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	J.K. Rowling	6
Rashtrapita Ki Patrakarita	Arjun Tiwari	4
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	6
Simant Katha	Ushakiran Khan	2
The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories	Ruskin Bond	6
How to Speak Science	Bruce Benamran	6
Aawazon Ke Ghere	Dushyant Kumar	5
Ashad ka Ek Din	Mohan Rakesh	6
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien	6
Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda	Dharmveer Bharti	4
A View from the Outside	P. Chidambaram	6
Ek Tha Doctor Ek Tha Sant	Arundhati Roy	6
Darshan-Chintan aur Sachchi Ramayan	E.V. Ramasamy Periyar	6
Duniya Jise Kahte Hain	Nida Fazli	6
The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics)	Salman Rushdie	6
Hindi Patrakarita Aashvasti Aur Ashanka	Krishna Bihari Mishra	4
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling	6
Princess More Tears to Cry	Jean Sasson	5
Bharat Aur Uske Virodhabhas	Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen	4
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	6
Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor E. Frankl	5
Globe ke Bahar Ladki	Pratyaksha	2

Ratings:

1	Boring - Left Midway
2	Poor
3	Average
4	Partly Good
5	Good
6	Must Read

2019 की किताबें

इस साल वैसे तो पचास करीब किताबें पढ़ने का टार्गेट था लेकिन 23 ही पढ़ पाया। 2019 के चुनावों के परिणामों से निराशा हुई फिर 370 के हटते-हटते तक 'अमर्त्य सेन' की 'Argumentative Indians' बीच में ही छोड़ दी। NRC और CAA के आते-आते न्यूज़ भी देखना छोड़ दिया। पढ़ना-लिखना फिजूल की कवायद लगने लगी।

जब देश में आग लगाई जा रही हो, सत्ता में बैठे लोग आग में तेल डाल रहे हों और बहुसंख्यक जनता अपनी आने वाली पुश्तों के अंधकार के लिए जश्न माना रही हों तो क्या तो आप भारत का इतिहास पढ़ें और क्या वर्तमान!

हताशा!

सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक के 40 उपन्यास पढ़ लिए। उनका ज़िक्र इस लिस्ट में नहीं कर रहा हूँ। मैंने वैसे तो कभी pulp fiction नहीं पढ़ा लेकिन सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक के उपन्यास वाकई बहुत अच्छे लगे। उनका फ़ैन बनने के बाद यूट्यूब पर उनके interviews भी देखे। उनके नज़रिये से हिन्दी साहित्य की राजनीति भी जानी।

नया साल उम्मीद ले कर आए। हमारे लिए... हमारे बच्चों के लिए...

Kavyanjali	Gopaldas Neeraj	6
Kavve Aur Kala Pani	Nirmal Verma	6
21 Lessons For The 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	6
Naye Yug Mein Shatru	Manglesh Dabral	6
The Grand Design	Stephen Hawking	6
Bhagat Singh Ko Phansi	Malvender Jit Singh Waraich, Gurudev Singh Siddhu	4
Bhagat Singh Ko Phansi - 2	Malvender Jit Singh Waraich, Rajwanti Maan	4
Subhashchandra Bose : Kuchh Adhkhule Panne	Rajshekhar Vyas	6
Parinde	Nirmal Verma	5
1857: Koi aur bhi tha	Harpal Singh 'Arush'	6
Kurukshetra	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	6
A Briefer History of Time	Stephen Hawking	6
Apaar Khushi Ka Gharana	Arundhati Roy	6
Rajyog	Swami Vivekanand	1
The Hidden Pool	Ruskin Bond	5
Haroun and The Sea of Stories	Salman Rushdie	5
The Shadow Lines	Amitav Ghosh	1
The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness	Arundhati Roy	6
The Mughal World	Abraham Eraly	6
Shaharyar Suno	Shaharyar	6
Bhartiya Arthatantra Itihas Aur Sanskriti	Amartya Sen	6
Ek Tha Doctor Ek Tha Sant	Arundhati Roy	6
Gulamgiri	Jyotirao Govindrao Phule	4
Conman	Surendra Mohan Pathak	6
Thaharti Sanson Ke Sirhane Se	Ananya Mukherjee	6

Criteria:

1	Boring - Left Midway
2	Poor
3	Average
4	Partly Good OR Language
5	Good
6	Must Read

HAPPY NEW YEAR
नया साल मुबारक!!

Books read in 2018

Books read in 2018 with my ratings for them are as follows:

1	The Post Office	Rabindranath Tagore	2
2	It	Stephen King	1
3	Mirza Ghalib	Vishwanath	1
4	India Since Independance	Bipan Chandra	6
5	Geetanjali (Hindi Translation)	Rabindranath Tagore	1
6	The Theory Of Everything	Stephen Hawking	6
7	Nyay Ka Ganit	Arundhati Roy	6
8	Dyodhi	Gulzar	6
9	Sanskritik Patrakarita:sakshatkar Par Aadharit Sannate Meinchamakti Awazen	Ajit Rai	6
10	The Small Town Sea	Anees Salim	6
11	Andha Yug	Dharmveer Bharti	6
12	Childhood Days	Satyajeet Ray	4
13	Duniya Jise Kahte Hain	Nida Fazli	5
14	Bahujan Sahitya Ki Prastaavana	Pramod Ranjan, Ivon Koska	5
15	Aaj ke Prasidh Shayar - Ahmad Faraz	Ahmad Faraz	4
16	And Then One Day: A Memoir	Naseeruddin Shah	6
17	Amrita Pritam - Meri Priya Kahaniyaan	Amrita Pritam	3
18	Kamayani Mool Path Evam Teeka	Vishwambhar Manav	3
19	Gyarahvin-A ke Ladke	Gaurav Solanki	4
20	Baniya Bahu	Mahashweta Devi	6
21	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari	6
22	Daal Par Khili Titli	Ashok Chakradhar	5
23	Rashmirathi	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	6
24	Geeta Sanchayan	Veerendra Sharma	1
25	Dushkar	Mahashweta Devi	5
26	Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow	Yuval Noah Harari	6
27	Urvashi	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	4
28	Sampradayik Rajniti Tathya Evam Mithak	Ram Puniyani	1
29	Writing Into The Dark	Dean Wesley Smith	5
30	Swami Vivekananda - The Living Vedanta	Chaturvedi Badrinath	5
31	The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness	Arundhati Roy	6
32	The Diary Of A Young Girl	Anne Frank	6
33	An Ordinary Person’s Guide To Empire	Arundhati Roy	6
34	Shaharyar Suno	Shaharyar	4
35	Achut Kaun Aur Kaise?	B. R. Ambedkar	6
36	Animal Farm	George Orwell	6
37	Obesity Code	Jason Fung	6
38	Dongri Se Dubai Tak	S. Hussain Zaidi	6
39	Gaban	Munshi Premchand	5
40	Einstein	Mohan Maharishi	5

Rating Criteria

1	Left Midway
2	Poor
3	Average
4	Partly Good OR Language
5	Good
6	Must Read

Happy New Year!!

Books read in 2017

Books read in 2017 with ratings. Books read 40. 2018's target is 56 books.

Vaidik Sanskriti	Govind Chandra Pandey	1
This is Not the End of the Book	Umberto Eco	5
An Era of Darkness	Shashi Tharoor	5
Rashmirathi	Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	5
Nari Tum Ananya Ho	Jaishree Goswami Mahant	4
Aahat Desh	Arundhati Roy	5
The Complete Long Stories of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	5
The Mistress of Honour	Bhaavna Arora	2
Tamanna Tum Ab Kahan Ho	Nidheesh Tyagi	4
Aadi aur Ant	S. C. Shrivastava	1
India's Struggle for Independence	Bipan Chandra	5
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	5
Durabhi Sandhi	Manu Sharma	5
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	1
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	5
1962 The War That Wasn't	Shiv Kunal Verma	1
Teen Sau Ramayan	A. K. Ramanujan	5
Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	4
1984	George Orwell	5
Kamayani	Jaishankar Prasad	1
Aksharon Ke Saaye	Amrita Preetam	5
Theek Tumhare Peechhe	Manav Kaul	5
Mahishasur ek Jannayak	Pramod Ranjan	4
Gujarat Files	Rana Ayyub	5
Maut ka Rahasya	Param Anand	4
Andha Yug	Dharmveer Bharti	5
Unlucky 13	James Patterson	2
Raag Darbari	Shrilal Shukl	4
Raat Pashmine Ki	Gulzar	5
To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	5
The Diary Of A Young Girl	Anne Frank	5
Unity of Life and Other Essays	Chaturvedi Badrinath	5
Circle of Five	Jan Raymond	3
Baap Re Baap	Pradeep Chaubey	2
Abutar Kabutar	Uday Prakah	5
Naye Yug Mein Shatru	Mangalesh Dabral	4
Maila Aanchal	Fanishwarnath Renu	5
Laugh with Laxman	RK Laxman	5
Sahitya Ke Naye Prashn	Prabhakar Shrotriya	3
Mamooli Cheezon Ka Devta	Arundhati Roy	5

Books read in 2016

Last year I read 43 books. Below are those books. Starred are recommended ones. The target for 2017 is of 60 books. Lets see how the year goes. Here goes the list:

1	Ba-Bye	Krishn Bihari
2	Madhushala	Bachchan	*
3	Mere Manch Ki Sargam	Piyush Mishra
4	Gunahon Ka Devta	Dharmveer Bharti
5	Kitne Pakistan	Kamaleshwar	*
6	Kathghare Mein Loktantra	Arundhati Roy	*
7	Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman	Shamsurrahman Farooqi
8	Ek Sahityik Ke Prempatra	Pushpa Bharti
9	Death Under the Deodars	Ruskin Bond
10	Relativity: The Special and the General Theory	Albert Einstien
11	Loser Kahin Ka	Pankan Dubey
12	The Glass Castle	Jeanette Walls	*
13	Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka
14	Khushwantnama (Mere Jeevan ke Sabak)	Khushwant Singh
15	Carol	Patricia Highsmith
16	Hum Tum aur who Truck	Mo Yan
17	Immortals of Meluha	Amish Tripathi	*
18	Secret of the Nagas	Amish Tripathi
19	The Oath of Vayuputras	Amish Tripathi
20	Narad Ki Bhavishyawani	Manu Sharma
21	The Home and the World	Tagore	*
22	Wings of Fire	APJ Kalam
23	Mrs Funnybones	Twinkle Khanna
24	The Rozabal Line	Ashwin Sanghi
25	2014: The Election that changes India	Rajdeep Sardesai	*
26	Cobalt Blue	Sachin Kundalkar
27	This Unquiet Land	Barkha Dutt	*
28	Forbidden Desires	Madhuri Banerjee
29	Breakthrough	Michael C. Grumley	*
30	Khali Naam Gulab Ka	Umberto Eco
31	Unity of Life and other essays	Tulsi Badrinath
32	Matchbox	Ashapurna Debi
33	Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir	Malik Sajad	*
34	The Brothers Bihari	Sankarshan Thakur	*
35	The Hour Before Dawn	Ajaz Ashraf	*
36	The Tunnel of Time	RK Laxman
37	Schitzophrenia	Diwakar Chaudhri
38	Station Eleven	Emily St. John Mandel	*
39	The Mystery of Munroe Island	Satyajit Ray	*
40	Ghaas Ka Pul	Ravindra Verma
41	NYPD Red 3	James Patterson
42	Conversation with Wahida Rehman	Nasreen Munni Kabir	*
43	Aadha Gaon	Rahi Masoom Raza