I’ve decided to keep a running list of what I’ve been reading because its something I’ve always wanted to do but never did, and the useful thing of having a blog should be a chance to get yourself virtually organized. Even if my room (and life) is a complete mess, I should remember everything I’ve read so I can at least bring alive the memory I attach to each novel.
Anyway, I won’t dredge up the past too much at one time because it could take a few months, but I’ll just keep a list from this point on. If I really feel like it, I’ll write about them too, but usually reading is a very personal thing for me. I keep my opinions and thoughts and interperetations very safely and securely, like little secrets only known by me. Thus I’ve always hated book reports. 
If you have any suggestions for me, please do comment. I read almost any genre, but I’m very picky about my style of writing. I will drop a book if I can’t stand the author’s voice, and I love reading a really good author again and again and again
Currently Reading: Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer; Kill as Few Patients as Possible, Oscar London; Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
I Plan to Read: Bonk by Mary Roach, The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama, The Scream by Rohinton Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry. Raising my Voice by Malalai Joya,
****Memorable Favorites****
(No particular order, the ones in bold are books I love so much I quote from them, the ones I’d save in a fire, figuratively speaking*)
(*figurative because I don’t own all of them yet. Waiting for the gigantic library of the future)
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott; Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
Destination Unknown, Agatha Christie
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Teacher Man, Frank McCourt
The Opposite of Fate, Amy Tan
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
I Am America and So Can You, Stephen Colbert
Better, Atul Gawande
Complications, Atul Gawande
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
The Five Find-Outers Series, Enid Blyton (I grew up on Enid Blyton)
The Malory Towers Series, Enid Blyton
The Harry Potter Books, J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Crucible, Arthur Miller
Night, Elie Wiesel
Day, Elie Wiesel
Doctors, Erich Segal
The Kite Runner’s Son, Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Stiff, Mary Roach
The Witches, Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Roald Dahl
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally
Eat, Live, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert (this book affected me so much more than I thought it would)
****Others I’ve Relished****
Two Lives, Vikram Seth
God Bless You, Dr Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut
Naked, David Sedaris
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
Diamond Dust and Other Stories, Anita Desai
Such a Long Journey, Rohinton Mistry
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
The Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Amy Tan
Jo’s Boys, Louisa May Alcott
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
‘Tis, Frank McCourt
Man, Woman and Child, Erich Segal (aka where the movie Masoom walked out of. Dialogues intact)
Sister of my Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
The Mistress of Spices, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Love, Toni Morrison
Paradise, Toni Morrison
The ABC Murders, Agatha Christie (I’ve actually, I think, worked my way over the years through most of Christie, who is one of my favorite authors of all time. I include the ones I remember vividly)
Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colorblind, Oliver Sacks
The Financial Planner, R.K. Narayan
The Guide, R.K. Narayan
Spook, Mary Roach
If Tomorrow Be Sweet, Thrity Umrigar
The Space Between Us, Thrity Umrigar
Peril at End House, Agatha Christie
Murder in Mesopotamia, Agatha Christie
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Agatha Christie
Mrs McGinty’s Dead, Agatha Christie
Racist by Kunal Basu
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
The English Teacher by RK Narayana
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the Pond, Ha Jin
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (this waas so deserving of the Booker, unlike Kiran Desai’s win in my opinion)
****Books That Just Didn’t Click****
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (I’m probably in a worldwide minority and believe me, I have analyzed myself time and time again and so have all my English professors, but it is how it is, and at least I’m honest)
Emma, Jane Austen (I have, honestly, tried to see why I just can’t seem to see what the world sees, but I don’t have any answers. Austen and I just don’t get along unlike most literature enthusiasts of the world. I do, however, get along surprisingly well with all Austen lovers. As long as they don’t leave in shock)
God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (who can say why the amazing Anita Desai has never won the Booker but been nominated thrice, yet her daughter’s work, which is clearly flawed, did. I won’t go into why its flawed right now, and this is just my opinion)
The Namesake, Jhumpha Lahiri (Now it just seems like I don’t like famous Indian fiction authors! To clarify, Indian fiction is one of my favorite genres. I just think some specific books are over-exaggerated by the Western media, and I see them in a different light with my background and perspective…)
Half A Life, V.S. Naipaul
[Constantly updated as I think of new titles or read new ones. Always looking for recommendations ]
[Oh this is exciting! Just thinking of the books I've read brings back good memories!]
My all -time favourites are reading stuff written by my two kiddos….who are both equally very inspirational and vividly beautiful writers!!
“The Five Find-Outers Series, Enid Blyton (I grew up on Enid Blyton)”
Didn’t we all
I liked the Adventure series. It was quite jarring to my perception of her as a lovable children’s writer when as I grew older I learnt about the implicit sexism and racism in her books.
Long list !
I’d be really happy with myself if I read a fraction of these books in my lifetime !!
@lisa
Surprisingly, I could never find her in the States and almost no one I spoke to ever knew of her, which came as a shock to me. In regards to the hidden negativity…that’s why I always fear going back to reading classics I loved…and sometimes, I wonder if we don’t look too deep and analyze too much as adults stories we took simply at face value as children.
@Deepak
I didn’t think it was this many till I started writing em out. Maybe you’ll find out your list is longer 
nice selection of reads you have
I keep a list in a notebook, but am debating transferring it to online as well 
@ Kay
This is hopefully more semi-permanent!
Neat! If I tried writing in a notebook it’d be more private and I’d like that, but I’m sure I’d lose the notebook!