“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”- Fran Lebowitz.

I can't agree more.

My reads since January 2013:

Year 2013

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Jan 2013

2. Water - Asia's New Battleground by Brahma Chellenay - Jan / Feb 2013

3. Billionaire Boy - Mark Zuckerberg in His Own Words - edited by George Beahm - Feb 2013

4. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Feb / Mar 2013

5. Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow by Sarat Chandra Das - Mar 2013

6. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Mar / Apr 2013

7. 2 States - The Story of My Marriage by Chetan Bhagat - Apr 2013

8. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S Sharma - Apr 2013

9. The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass - Apr / May 2013

10. Manuscript found in Accra by Paulo Coelho - May 2013

11. The Way of The Knife - the untold story of USA's secret war by Mark Mazzetti - May / June 2013

12. What Young India Wants by Chetan Bhagat - June 2013

13. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell - July 2013

14. An Uncertain Glory - India and Its Contradictions by Jean Dreze & Amartya Sen - July / Aug 2013

15. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - Aug 2013

16. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri - Sep 2013
17. The Call of the Wild by Jack London - Oct 2013
18. The Arumentative Indian by Amartya Sen - Oct 2013
19. Madam O Mahashay (Madam & Sir)- Bengali novel by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Sharadiya Desh 2013)- Oct 2013
20. Keu Keu Theke Jaan (Few persons remain) - Bengali story by Samaresh Majumdar (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
21. Debnathbabur Ishwar (God of Mr. Debnath)- Bengali story by Harsha Dutta (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
22. Atithi (The Guest) - Bengali story by Sukanta Gangopadhyay (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
23. Upatyaka Paar Hoye (Beyond the Valley) - Bengali story by Mallika Dhar (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
24. Aamader Chhoto Nodi (Our small river) - Bengali story by Ullas Mullick (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Oct 2013
25. Faster Than Lightning - My Autobiography by Usain Bolt - Oct / Nov 2013
26. Kintu Kano Jaabo (But why should I go) - Bengali novel by Amrit Saha (Sharadiyaa Patrika 2013) - Nov 2013
27. Phooler Torah (The Flower Bouquet)- Bengali story by Prachet Gupta (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Nov 2013
28. Mayabi Saras(The Conjurer Heron) - Bengali story by Maniratna Mukhopadhay (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Nov 2013
29. Moneybag - Bengali story by Prachet Gupta (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
30. Barhi Phire (Returning Home) - Bengali story by Prachet Gupta (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
31. Phuray Shudhu Chokhe (Ends only in sight) - Bengali novel by Smaranjit Chakraborty (Sharadiya Desh 2013) - Nov 2013
32. Kobir Bari (The Poet's House) - Bengali story by Anita Agnihotri (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
33. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - Nov 2013
34. Hold My Hand by Durjoy Datta - Nov 2013
35. Tobuo (Yet) - Bengali story by Suchitra Bhattacharya (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
36. Sparsho (Touch) - Bengali story by Harsha Dutta (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
37. Plastic'er Manush (Man made of plastic) - Bengali story by Basudeb Malakar (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
38. Bidhaba Bhata (Widow Allowance) - Bengali story by Ullas Mullick (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
39. Sansar (The World) - Bengali story by Sangeeta Bandopadhyay (Sharadiya Desh 2011) - Nov 2013
40. Himsheetal (Ice-cold) - Bengali story by Samaresh Majumdar (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
41. Netajir Opekkhay (Awaiting Netaji) - Bengali story by Shekhar Basu (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011) - Nov 2013
42. Ei Nau Parijaat (Take this amaranthus) - Bengali story by Ramapada Roy (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011)
43. Swapnopath (Dream-way) - Bengali story by Harsha Dutta (Sharadiyaa Anandabazar Patrika 2011)
44. Emma by Jane Austen - Nov / Dec 2013
45. Ekta Pistol O Dumur Gachh (A pistol and fig tree) - Bengali short story by Syed Mustafa Siraj (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
46.  Special Officer - Bengali short story by Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
47. Sanko (The Narrow Wooden Bridge) - Bengali short story by Sunil Gangopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
48. Chaabi (The Key) - Bengali short story by Ashapurna Debi (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
49. Almari (The Cupboard) - Bengali short story by Narendranath Mitra (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013
50. Jhalmudi (Hot Corn) - Bengali short story by Dibyendu Palit (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Dec 2013

Year 2014
1. A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - Jan 2014

2. From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth - Jan 2014

3. Taatka Barafer Maachh (Ice Fresh Fish) - Bengali short story by Samaresh Majumdar (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Jan 2014

4. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple - Jan 2014 

5. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell - Jan / Feb 2014

6. Ghare Baire (The Home and The World) - Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore - Feb 2014

7. Marata (The Deadbody) - Bengali short story by Banaphool (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

8. Haaoa-Badal (Wind Change) - Bengali short story by Achintya Kumar Sengupta (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

9. Karnaphoolir Daak (Call of Karnaphooli) - Bengali short story by Subodh Ghosh (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

10. Sandesh (The News) - Bengali short story by Jyotirindra Nandi (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

11. Snayu (The Nerve) - Bengali short story by Santosh Kumar Ghosh (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

12. Khil (The Peg) - Bengali short story by Bimal Kar (Anandasangi - Robibaer Galpo) - Feb 2014

13. Aami Aaamar Mato Noi (I am not like myself) - Bengali short story by Abul Bashar (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014  

14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - Feb 2014

15. Bosbar Ghar (The Sitting Room) - Bengali short story by Ramapada Chowdhury (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

16. Aamar Ekhon Samay Nei (I don't have time right now) - Bengali short story by Suchitra Bhattacharya (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

17. Thatta (The Jest) - Bengali short story by Samaresh Basu (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

18. Obosthan (The Location) - Bengali short story by Bani Basu (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014 

19. Pashanbhar  (A weight as heavy as stone) - Bengali short story by Moti Nandi (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

20. Suitcase - Bengali short story by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

21. Annapurna (A Hindu Goddess who feeds the world) - Bengali short story by Shyamal Gangopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

22. America - Bengali short story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Anandasangi - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014

23. Shonite Sumadhur Sojja (Sweet Bed on Blood) - Bengali short story by Atin Bandyopadhyay - Robibarer Galpo) - Feb 2014
24. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - Feb / Mar 2014

25. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green - Mar 2014
26. Toba Tek Singh - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014     

27. Khol Do (Open It) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

28. Nangi Awazein (Naked Sounds) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

29. Mozzale - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

30. Thanda Gosht (The Cold Meat) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

31. Hatak (Insult) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

32. Kali Salwar (The Black Garment) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014 

33. Khushiyan (Delights) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

34. Naya Kanoon (The New Act) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

35. Mamad Bhai (Brother Mamad) - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014

36. Mommy - story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Toba Tek Singh Aur Anya Kahaniya) - Mar 2014     

37. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - Mar 2014

38. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami - Mar 2014
39. The Stranger by Albert Camus - Mar 2014
40. Anandamath (The Abbey of Bliss) - Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay - Mar 2014
41. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - Mar / Apr 2014
42. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - Apr 2014
43. Crusador or Conspirator? Coalgate and Other Truths by PC Parakh - Apr 2014
44. My Life and Work by Henry Ford - Apr 2014
45. The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru - Apr / May 2014
46. One Night @ the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat - May 2014
47. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Jun 2014
48. Darwinbad : Bigyan O Darshan (Darwinism : Science and Philosophy) by Tapan Mishra - Jun 2014
49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Apr 2014 to Jul 2014
50. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Jul 2014
51. Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis by Brahma Chellaney - May to Aug 2014
52. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - Aug 2014
53. In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh - Aug 2014
54. Godaan (The Gift of a Cow) - Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand - Aug / Sep 2014
55. Sons of Brahma by Dhruba Hazarika - Sep 2014
56. Ajaya: Roll of the Dice by Anand Neelakantan - Sep 2014`
57. Half Girlfriend by Chetan Bhagat - Oct 2014
58. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - Sep / Oct 2014
59. Nirbachito Kuri (Selected Twenty) - a collection of Bengali short stories by Samaresh Majumdar - Nov 2014
60. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran - Nov 2014
61. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - Dec 2014
62. Mother by Maxim Gorky - Oct to Dec 2014
63. Love Match by Reggie Thomas - Dec 2014

Year 2015
1. Banglar Prabad (Proverbs of Bengal) by Sudeshna Basak - Dec 2014 / Jan 2015

2. The Storyteller's Tale by Omair Ahmad - Jan 2015
3. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster - Jan 2015
4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - Jan / Feb 2015
5. Beyond the Idea  by Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble - Feb 2015
6. And We Remained by Asad Ali Junaid - Feb 2015
7. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande - Feb 2015
8. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie - Feb / Mar 2015
9. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - Mar 2015
10. Mahaloko Bikte Dekha Hain (collection of Hindi poems) by Piyush Kaviraj - Mar 2015
11. The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor - Mar / Apr 2015
12. Jeevansmriti (Memories of Life) by Rabindranath Tagore - Apr 2015
13. Return of a King - The Battle for Afghanistan 1839 - 1842 by William Darlymple - Apr 2015
14. The WISDOM and TEACHINGS of Stephen R. Covey - Apr / May 2015
15. A Village in Bengal - Photographs and an Essay by Chirodeep Chaudhury - May 2015
16. The 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan Bhagat - June 2015
17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - May / June 2015
18. Prothom Protishruti (The First Promise) - Bengali novel by Ashapurna Devi - June / July 2015
19. Gulabi by Pankaj Suneja- July 2015
20. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami - July 2015
21. Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan - July / August 2015
22. Dakghar (Post Office) by Rabindranath Tagore - August 2015
23. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - September 2015
24. Sita - Bengali story by Sayantani Putatunda (Sharadiya Anandabazar Patrika 2015) - Sep 2015
25. India: An Alphabet Ride by Shallu Jindal - Oct 2015
26. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Sep / Nov 2015
27. Hajar Churashir Maa ( The Mother of Sl No. 1,084) - Bengali novel by Mahasweta Devi - Nov 2015
28. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson - Nov 2015
29. Narmada - Hindi novel by Laxman Rao - Nov 2015
30. What I Did Not Learn at IIT by Rajeev Agarwal - Dec 2015
31. The Poetry of A Common Indian Female by Virendra Narayan Desai
32. The Art of War by Sun Tzu  - Dec 2015

Year 2016- 
1. Selected Stories by Alice Munro - Nov 2015 / Jan 2016

2. Padmanadir Majhi (The Boatman of Padma River) - Bengali Novel by Manik Bandopadhyay - Jan 2016
3. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - Jan / Feb 2016
4. A Situation in New Delhi by Nayantara Sahgal - Feb 2016
5. The Blue Umbrelia by Ruskin Bond - Feb 2016
6. The Country of First Boys by Amartya Sen - Feb / Mar 2016
7. Nirmala - Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand - Mar 2016
8. The Treasure of Kafoor by Aroon Raman - Apr 2016
9. The Trial by Franz Kafka - Apr 2016
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Apr / May 2016
11. Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat - May 2016
12. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - Jun 2016
13. Shesh Katha (The Last Word) - Bengali short story by Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay - Jul 2016
14. Pashchatbhumi (The Background) - Bengali short story by Debesh Roy - Jul 2016
15. Voter Savitribala - Bengali short story by Banaphool - Jul 2016
16. Aamake Dekhun (Please, Look at Me) - Bengali short story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay - Jul 2016
17. Saareng (The Captain of the Boat) - Bengali short story by Achintya Kumar Sengupta - Jul 2016
18. Baachar Jonyo ( For Living) - Bengali short story by Prafulla Roy - Jul 2016
19. Ranipachhand ( The Queen's Pick) - Bengali short story by Annadashakar Roy - Jul 2016
20. Khara (The Drought) - Bengali short story by Sunil Gangopadhyay - Jul 2016
21. Niruddesh (Missing) - Bengali short story by Premendra Mitra - Jul 2016
22. Shesh Bikeler Duti Mukh (Two Faces of the Falling Afternoon) - Bengali short story by Moti Nandi - Jul 2016
23. Dhas (The Slide) - Bengali short story by Satinath Bhaduri - Jul 2016
24. Taaser Gharer Moto (Like the House of Cards) - Bengali short story by Syed Mustafa Siraj - Jul 2016
25. Seemarekhar Seema (The Limit of the Boundary Line) - Bengali short story by Ashapurna Devi
26. Bharatbarsho (The India) - Bengali short story by Ramapada Chowdhury - Jul 2016
27. Thogini (The Female Thug) - Bengali short story by Subodh Ghosh - Jul 2016
28. Bondur Jonyo Bhumika (Foreword for the Friend) - Bengali short story by Bimal Kaar - Jul 2016
29. Ekti Premer Galpo ( A Love Story) - Bengali short story by Narendranath Mitra - Jul 2016
30. Pran-Pipasa (The Thirst for the Life) - Bengali short story by Samaresh Basu - Jul 2016
31. Manonio Porikshok Mahashay Somipeshu (To the Respected Examiner) - Bengali short story by Narayan Gangopadhyay - Jul 2016
32. Gachh (The Tree) - Bengali short story by Jyotirindra Nandi - Jul 2016
33. Chhoto Katha (The Insignificant Word) - Bengali short story by Santosh Kumar Ghosh - Jul 2016
34. Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein - Aug 2015 to Jul 2016
35. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - Jul / Aug 2016
36. Chhoto Galpo Sankalan (Collection of Short Stories in Bengali) by Ashapurna Devi - Aug 2016
37. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Aug 2016
38. Jatinbabur Mrityu (Death of Mr. Jatin) - Bengali short story by Prachet Gupta - Sep 2016
39. When God is a Traveller by Arundhathi Subramaniam - Sep 2016
40. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Aug / Oct 2016
41. One Indian Girl by Chetan Bhagat - Oct 2016
42. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - Oct 2016
43. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - Oct / Nov 2016
44. A Matter of Rats: A Short Biography of Patna by Amitava Kumar - Nov 2016
45. The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad by Twinkle Khanna - Nov / Dec 2016
46. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Dec 2016
47. Kohinoor: The Story of World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand - Dec 2016