It has been a while since I posted on this blog. It just so happens that life is what happens to you when you have other plans. Having said that, I decided early this year to ready 42 books this year across a wide range of genres. I have been trying to keep pace, and have succeeded so far.

Here are the books that I have read and plan to read:

1. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison  ( Read)
2. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker ( Read)
3. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan ( Read)
4. Nutshell: A Novel by Ian McEwan ( Read)
5. Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ( Read)
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
7. The Plot Against America by Phil Roth
8. Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
9. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Harari
11. The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
12. American Political Rhetoric: Essential Speeches and Writings by Peter Augustine Lawler and Robert Schaefer
13. Keynes Hayek: The Clash that defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott
14. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
15. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
16. The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
17. Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
18. Twilight of the  Elites: America after Meritocracy by Chris Hayes
19. What is Mathematics: An Elementary Approach to Idea and Methods by Robbins & Stewart
20. Algorithms to live by: Computer Science of Human Decisions by Christian & Griffiths
21. Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
22. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
23. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
24.  The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability and Avoiding the Next Collapse by Mohammed El-Arian
25. The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism by Joyce Appleby
26. The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
27. Where Good Ideas come from by Steven Johnson
28. Original: How Non-Conformists move the world by Adam Grant
29. Start with Why by Simon Sinek
30. The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
31. Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
32. Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry that Forged a Nation by John Ferling
33. The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel by Adam Johnson
34. Between the World and Me: Ta Nehisi-Coates
35. Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution
36. The Blue Guitar by John Banville
37. The Euro Crisis and its Aftermath by Jean Pisani-Fery
38. Africa: Why Economists get it wrong by Morten Jerven
39. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
40. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
41. The Meursalt Investigation by Daoud and Cullen
42. The Stranger by Albert Camus