Dog Years: The Quantified Shelf
→ August 5, 2019 | Reading time: 28 minutes
I read from a few ‘book’ books and a Kobo Clara B/W. *
Have a book you think I would love to read? Share your recommendation(s) via email to abhijith@keyaar.in
\* The Kobo has a much better user experience than the Kindle (that I used to read from before two of them died without notice). It can also be used without an account (sideload only). ^
| 2024 | |
| How About Now: Going Electric | Various |
| I Am Not Okay With This | Charles Forsman |
| Azhukkillam (M) | Rafeeq Ahammed |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 2022 | |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
| If It Bleeds | Stephen King |
| Karupp Iruttalla Velupp Velichavumalla | Kalpetta Narayanan (Mashu) |
| The Book of Dog | Hemali Sodhi (Ed.) |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 | |
| - | |
| 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 |