2020 | Reading | Watching | Listening | List

Books

Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa 👌
பூனாச்சி(Poonachi) அல்லது ஒரு வெள்ளாட்டின் கதை — பெருமாள் முருகன்(Perumal Murugan) 👌
கோபல்ல கிராமம் (Gopalla Gramam) — Ki. Rajanarayanan 👌
தலைகீழ் விகிதங்கள்(Thalaikeezh Vikithankal) - நாஞ்சில் நாடன்(Nanjil Nadan)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen — Paul Torday
Vivisector — Patrick White
Killing Commendatore — Haruki Murakami 👌
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky — Pevear & Volokhonsky(translation)
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky — Constance Garnett(translation) 👌
The Plague — Albert Camus 👌
Death in Venice — Thomas Mann
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima
The Secret History — Donna Tartt 👌
The Ghost —- Robert Harris
The Second Sleep — Robert Harris
Drive — James Sallis

The Peregrine — J.A. Baker 👌
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions — Alberto Manguel
Walden — Henry Thoreau
Working — Robert Caro 👌
Unix — A History and a Memoir — Brian Kernighan 👌
I Am a Strange Loop — Douglas Hofstadter
Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language — Douglas Hofstadter 👌
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies — Douglas Hofstadter
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking — Douglas Hofstadter
Musicophilia — Oliver Sacks
The Leonard Bernstein Letters — Leonard Bernstein, Nigel Simeone
Selected Letters of Norman Mailer — Norman Mailer J. Michael Lennon
The Naive and Sentimental Novelist — Orhan Pamuk
Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from the New Yorker — St. Clair McKelway 👌

All these films were watched before the COVID lockdown(jan & feb). Never got to watch one after that.