I read from a few ‘book’ books and an iPad (12.9" M2).*

Have a book you think I would love to read? Share your recommendation(s) via email to abhijith@keyaar.in

* I don’t recommend the Kindle anymore. I’ve had two of them fail (ghost touches, stuck screens) in less than two years each. The iPad—while bulkier—works alright for short reads at a desk. I do want to try a BOOX or a reMarkable one day.^

2024
How About Now: Going Electric	Various
I Am Not Okay With This	Charles Forsman
Azhukkillam (M)	Rafeeq Ahammed
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2023
Fairy Tale (NR)	Stephen King
The Look of the Book (NR)	Peter Mendelsund
Cyclogeography (NR)
The Education of Yuri	Jerry Pinto
Dog Knows	Sindhoor Pangal
Murakami T	Haruki Murakami
Grafity’s Wall	Ram V, Anand RK, Bidikar
Inside Moebius (1)	Moebius
These Savage Shores	Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vittorio Astone, Bidikar
Harleen	Stjepan Šejic
Batman Damned	Brian Azzarello, Lee Bermejo
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2022
Bewilderment	Richard Powers
If It Bleeds	Stephen King
Karupp Iruttalla Velupp Velichavumalla	Kalpetta Narayanan (Mashu)
The Book of Dog	Hemali Sodhi (Ed.)
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2021
Known and Strange Things	Teju Cole
Evitamivitam (M)	Kalppetta Narayanan (Mashu)
Bike Snob Abroad	Eben Weiss
Sidewalks	Valeria Luiselli
Dog Songs	Mary Oliver
Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Richard Bach
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon
The Unreality of Memory	Elisa Gabbert
What You See When You Read	Peter Mendelsund
Dreyer’s English	Benjamin Dreyer
Vampire in Love	Enrique Vila-Matas
How I Teach	Jon Kolko
Calligraphy	Denise Lach
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2020
How to Love	Thich Nhat Hanh
Aleph Olio: Lust and Love; Stories and Essays	Multiple Authors
Eating Sugar, Telling Lies	Kuzhali Manickavel
Things We Found During the Autopsy	Kuzhali Manickavel
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace	DT Max
Last Chance to See	Douglas Admas, Mark Carwardine
Strip Tease	Carl Hiaasen
Hotel New Hampshire	John Irving
Ghostwritten	David Mitchell
The Complete Peanuts Vol. 1: 1950-1952	Charles M Schulz
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2019
Killing Commendatore	Haruki Murakami
The Librarian	Kavitha Rao
Invisible Libraries	Multiple Authors (Yoda Press)
Weight Loss	Upamanyu Chatterjee
Oblivion	David Foster Wallace
Birthday Stories	Haruki Murakami (Ed.)
Anusmarana (M)	VKN
The Traveling Cat Chronicles	Hiro Akikawa
The Guest Cat	Takashi Hiraide
If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller	Italo Calvino
Close Encounters of the Furred Kind	Tom Cox
Invisible Cities	Italo Calvino
Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World	Henry Hitchings (Ed.)
Love Among the Bookshelves	Ruskin Bond
Win Without Pitching Manifesto	Blair Enns
Deep Work	Cal Newport
The Heart Breaks Free & The Wild One	Ismat Chughtai
Watchlist	Bryan Hurt (Ed.) / OR Books
Digital Minimalism	Cal Newport
Agent to The Stars	John Scalzi
Raga’n Josh	Sheila Dhar
Tropical Classical	Pico Iyer
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
Cat Sense	John Bradshaw
Holes	Louis Sachar
Homer’s Odyssey	Gwen Cooper
Dewey	Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
Gurusagaram (M)	O V Vijayan
Kavi (M)	VKN
The Enlightened Cyclist	Bikesnob
Identity	Milan Kundera
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe	Charles Yu
Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning The World of Cycling	Bikesnob
Haroun and The Sea of Stories	Salman Rushdie
Eleven Ways to Love	Multiple Authors
The ZigZag Way	Anita Desai
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress	Dal Sijie
Tower of Birds: Stories of Adventure and Fantasy	Holly Smith (Trans.) / Raduga Publishers
Two Anti-Novels	Subimal Misra
Letters to a Young Novelist	Mario Vargas Llosa
Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories	Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismat Chughtai
Garage Band	Gipi
The Overstory	Richard Powers
Daivathinte Chitram (M)	Vasu Pradeep
The Friend	Sigrid Nunez
Thoughts on Design	Paul Rand
Energy and Equity	Ivan Illich
Ethilayum Madhurikkunna Kaatukalil (M)	Kalppetta Narayanan (Mashu)
Erotext	Sudeep Sen
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2018
The Shallows	Nicholas Carr
Tourist Season	Carl Hiaasen
Lyra's Oxford	Philip Pullman
Rebel Sell	Joseph Heath, Andrew Potter
Gironimo: Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy	Tim Moore
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked	Adam Alter
David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations	David Foster Wallace
We	Yevgeny Zamyatin
Fury	Salman Rushdie
The Fifth Season	N K Jemisin
Pirate Cinema	Cory Doctorov
Hooked	Nir Eyal
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson
Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog	Grant Petersen
Difficult Pleasures	Anjum Hasan
Seven Sixes are Forty Three (Saat Sakkam Trechalis)	Kiran Nagarkar
Ex-formation	Kenya Hara
Ultimate Sandman	Neil Gaiman, etc.
Paul Rand: Conversations with Students	Michael Kroeger
Twenty-two Tips on Typography	Enric Jardi
View From the Cheap Seats	Neil Gaiman
99 Ways to tell a Story: Exercises in Style	Matt Madden (Link)
Twelve Faces of Time: Horological Virtuosos	Elizabeth Doerr, Ralf Baumgarten
5000 Kilometers Per Second	Manuele Fior
The Education of a Design Entrepreneur	Steven Heller (Ed.)
Sea Prayer	Khalid Hosseini
Kayar Murukukayaanu (M)	Kalppetta Narayanan (Mashu)
The Art of My Neighbour Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki
A Persistence of Vision: Arnold Schwartzman profiles his Work in Graphic Design and Film	Arnold Schwartzman
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography	Roland Barthes
Noise (Pocket Penguin)	Hari Kunzru
Short Short Stories (PP)	Dave Eggers
Moveable Feast	Ernest Hemingway
Sons of Thunder (Writing from the Fast Lane: A Motorcycling Anthology)	Neil Bradford (Ed.)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again	David Foster Wallace
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Beginners	Raymond Carver
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2017
For Esmé—with Love and Squalor	J D Salinger
number9dream	David Mitchell
Thirteenth Tale	Diane Setterfield
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon
Pulp	Bukowski
Women	Bukowski
Ask the Dust	John Fante
Asterios Polyp	David Mazzucchelli
The Paper Menagerie	Ken Liu
Em and the Big Hoom	Jerry Pinto
The Corrections	Jonathen Franzen
American Gods	Neil Gaiman
Samayaprabhu (M)	Kalppetta Narayanan
A Dustbin of Milligan	Spike Milligan
The Circuses That Sweep Throught the Landscape	Tejaswini Apte Rahm
Narcopolis	Jeet Thayil
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship	Bukowski
Anansi Boys	Neil Gaiman
Murder With Bengali Characteristics	Shovon Chowdhury
The Lake	Banana Yoshimoto
Design of Future Things	Don Norman
Memories of My Melancholy Whores	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Incest	Marquis De Sade
Children Solve Problems	Edward De Bono
The 5 Day Thinking Course	Edward De Bono
On Writing Well	William Zinsser
A Street Cat Named Bob	James Bowen
Obfuscation	Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum
If We're Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, What are We Reaching For?	Emigre No. 65
Spook Country	William Gibson
Ravan and Eddie	Kiran Nagarkar
Come On In!: New Poems	Bukowski
A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book One	Karl Ove Knausgaard
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius (Trans: Gregory Hays)
Born to Run	Christopher McDougall
Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights	Salman Rushdie
Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays	David Foster Wallace
Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life: A Wee Handbook for the Perplexed	Matt Groening
Letters to a Young Poet	Rainer Maria Rilke
Temporary People	Deepak Unnikrishnan
Reading Like a Writer	Francine Prose
Ma-yute Kaththukal (M)	Mandakini Narayanan
Oru Valarthu Poochayute Jeevita Katha	V R Sudheesh
A Tale for the Time Being	Ruth Ozeki
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Jonas Jonasson
Gus and His Gang	Chris Blain
Just Ride
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2016
In Custody	Anita Desai
Clear Light of the Day	Anita Desai
The Artist of Disappearance	Anita Desai
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard	Tom Holt
Wind and Pinball	Murakami
Ham on Rye	Bukowski
Philosophy of Andy Warhol	Andy Warhol
Bleeding Edge	Thomas Pynchon
Sea of Poppies	Amitav Ghosh
River of Smoke	Amitav Ghosh
Super Sad True Love Story	Garry Shteyngart
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays	Eco
Pwning Tomorrow	Short Fiction from the EFF
Hackers	Cory Doctorov
Finders Keepers	Stephen King
Solar	Ian McEwan
Slapstick or Lonesome No More	Kurt Vonnegut
While Mortals Sleep	Kurt Vonnegut
Rant	Palahniuk
Fragile Things	Neil Gaiman
You Are Here	Meenakshi R Madhavan
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage	Murakami
Lonesome Traveller	Jack Kerouac
The Book of Other People	Edited by Sadie Smith
Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue	Will Eisner
On Writing	Charles Bukowski
The Strange Library	Haruki Murakami
Counter-clock World	Philip K Dick
Devotion of Suspect X	Keigo Higashino
UBIK	Philip K Dick
The Shadow of The Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Angel's Game	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Midnight Palace	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Master and Margarita	Mikhaíl (Afanasyevich) Bulgakov