Saturday, December 31, 2016

Books I read in 2016


S. No.BookWriter
1Les Misérables*Victor Hugo
2A Short History of Nearly Everything*Bill Bryson
3Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
4Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryRoald Dahl
5Golden CompassPhilip Pullman
6Subtle KnifePhilip Pullman
7The Amber SpyglassPhilip Pullman
8Lyra's OxfordPhilip Pullman
9Once Upon a Time in the NorthPhilip Pullman
10The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Vol 1 1933-34: The Art of ListeningJiddu Krishnamurti
11Meditation: The First and Last Freedom*Osho
12The Richest EngineerAbhishek Kumar
13The Design of Everyday Things*Donald A. Norman
14Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design*Bill Buxon
15Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web UsabilitySteve Krug
* These books were started in previous years but finished in 2016.

 I made a conscious effort this year to read more.

I am still having fallow weeks of not reading a single page followed by weeks in which I devour more than three hundred pages and will need to discipline myself to be more consistent next year.

Being more into audio books for last two years, I switched back to ebooks at the start of this year.

Les Misérables is one book which is going to stay with me forever. These quotes and reviews will give you a flavor of it.