The books I bought and read in the last six months...

This is an exercise that I carry out semi-annually ever since I started this blog; making a list of books that I purchased every half year…it helps me keep track of what books I bought and how many of them I read …they are roughly in the order that I bought, I sort of remember the order because this time, I bought more than 5 books at a time more than once……so, here goes…

• The Girl who played with Fire – Stieg Larsson (read)
• The Girl who kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson (read)
• Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino (unread)
• Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings – Italo Calvino (unread)
• In the Castle of My Skin – George Lamming (read)
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle (unread)
• The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (read)
• Dave Barry Does Japan (read)
• Dave Barry Turns 50 (read)
• Dave Barry – Greatest Hits (read)
• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys (unread)
• Penguin’s New Writing in India (1974) – Adil Jussawala (ed.) (read in parts)
• The Englishman’s Cameo – Madhulika Liddle (read)
• The Curious Case of 221B – Partha Basu (read)
• The Switch – Elmore Leonard (unread)
• The Big Bounce – Elmore Leonard (unread)
• Tishomingo Blues – Elmore Leonard (unread)
• Pagan Babies – Elmore Leonard (unread)
• City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit – Elmore Leonard (unread)
• Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin (read)
• Strange Pilgrims (short stories) – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (read some stories)
• The General in his Labyrinth – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (half-way through)
• The Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (unread)
• The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (unread)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – Lynne Truss (read in parts)
• Yakada Yaka – Carl Muller (read many times over…this is my replacement copy, I lost my first one…hilarious…inimitable…)
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith (read)
• Tears of the Giraffe – Alexander McCall Smith (read)
• The Kalahari Typing School for Men – Alexander McCall Smith (read)
• Morality for Beautiful Girls – Alexander McCall Smith (read)
• In the Company of Cheerful Ladies – Alexander McCall Smith (read)
• Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva Performs the Songs of Kabir – Linda Hess (read)
• BPO Sutra: True Stories from inside India's BPOs & Call Centres – Complied and Edited by Sudhindra Mokashi (read…hilarious…)
• India: A Wounded Civilization – V S Naipaul (started reading!)

A good haul I suppose…there could be a couple of books hiding somewhere…or maybe not…