Murder Must Advertise — Dorothy L. Sayers

Ravelstein — Saul Bellow

Permutation City — Greg Egan | ★ Must-read

Dubliners — James Joyce

The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham

She Said — Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey | ★ Must-read | Won Pulitzer for news reporting | Brilliant Movie, had some great scenes like this and this.

Conclave — Robert Harris | Liked the movie version better, it won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.

Literary Lapses — Stephen Leacock

The Devil’s Alternative — Frederick Forsyth | ★ Must-read

Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible — Alan Rusbridger’s quest to practice and play the most feared piano pieces — Chopin - Ballade No.1 — in one year

Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott

Work Clean — Dan Charnas

A Poetry Handbook — Mary Oliver

First You Write a Sentence — Joe Moran

I’m Waiting for You — Kim Bo-young

Letters to a New Developer — Dan Moore

Life Stories — Collection of Profiles from The New Yorker

கொலை அரங்கம், Kolai Arangam — Sujatha | ★ Must-read

கொலையுதிர் காலம், Kolaiyudir Kaalam — Sujatha

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest — Edward Chancellor

18வது அட்சக்கோடு, 18Vathu Atchakodu - Ashokamitran

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — Gail Honeyman | ★ Must-read | I loved this book

Rendezvous with Rama — Arthur C. Clarke

By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life — Pamela Paul

The Correspondent — Virginia Evans

The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov

In Progress/Picking up later

War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (in progress)

Thérèse Raquin — Emile Zola | There is a Audiobook version narrated by Kate Winslet. (dropped halfway)

Gravity's Rainbow — Thomas Pynchon | Abandoned halfway through. May require the kind of uninterrupted time only a global pandemic provides—careful what you wish for.

Reading War and Peace: I’ve come to believe the only viable way to finish it is to turn it into a couple’s goal—possibly an annual one—where two people sit together, silence their phones, and bravely attempt to scale it.