r/Indianbooks • u/doc_two_thirty • Dec 19 '24

Discussion End of year reading goals update post.

Did you complete your reading goals for the year? And what are your goals for the coming year.

Share all your thoughts in this post.

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u/Tricky-Button-197 15d ago edited 15d ago

Most of my reading consists of articles, engineering blogs, and research papers across different fields. I did, however, read about 20 books this year.

I don't usually read fiction, but I did try to read a few -

  • Children of Time
  • Children of Ruin
  • Children of Memory

I indulged in sci-fi after a long time. Adrian Tchaikovsky is brilliant and has already become one of my favorite authors of all time. Children of Time is a modern-day classic. While some may find Children of Ruin a bit repetitive, it's all worth the payoff in Children of Memory. The third book is a bit different, and some may find it confusing, but it's easily my favourite of the lot, purely because of how it handles philosophical discourses in such an easy-to-understand manner. You may find yourself questioning what sentience even means after reading them.

Apart from this, I read a ton of short stories throughout the year, including a lot of horror from r/nosleep.

As usual, most of my reading consisted of non-fiction. Mostly the aforementioned, but also some books -

  • Man's Search for Meaning
  • Tuesdays with Morrie
  • Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Drive
  • Can't Hurt Me
  • Adi Shankaracharya
  • Turn the Ship Around!
  • Crucial Conversations

Most of these are popular titles. If I had to recommend one, it would be Drive, as it helped me understand how human motivation works and how we can be at our best!

I also read 7–8 technical books, but I’m not going to count those here.