Delhi Book Fair Haul: 2018 Edition

It happened again! I bought more books.

It was the Delhi Book Fair last month, and this is the haul post. Yes, haul because I got quite a few books and some stationery items that made me very happy. Full disclosure, I still haven’t read a lot of the books that I got last year. But here I am, buying more beautiful books to add to my collection, and I don’t regret it one bit!

I’ve never been one to follow the tradition of buying just as many books I would read. It was a rainy day, and only I know how I reached the fairgrounds. Because there was muddy water almost up to our knees at one point, and even entering became a challenge. But we had a strong will. Not to sound too full of me, but we triumphed. The day got gradually better because the weather was pleasant and well Books! So, following are all the cool things I found. I’ll mention the Goodreads rating and the price of the books for your reference.

• The first two books from the Divergent Series by Veronica Roth. Divergent(Goodreads Rating 4.3/5) and Insurgent(GR 4.1/5).

I was stoked to find that the particular stall didn’t have the next two in the same theme to complete my series. Rs 150 each.

Book Bucket-List 2018!

2017 has been a good year reading wise. I read 16 books in total! 4 more than my target of 12 books for the twelve months. Although my favorite genre is horror, most of the books I read were fiction. I also ventured out of my comfort zone and read some different books just to expand my range of reading. I’ve listed all the books on the blog, and you can find their reviews and ratings here, based on my opinion.

I’ll admit that sometimes it was a bit difficult with a job, but I found most of my reading time while traveling for work. A lot of people prefer to catch up on television in their free time, but I chose books for the majority of last year. That doesn’t mean I gave up TV, of course! In fact, I may have watched a little bit more than normal, and there is a post coming about that as well!

The goal for 2018: 20 books! 

This post is on my Bucket List for 2018. All the books that I dream about, and plan on reading. They are in no particular order of preference. Some books I end up fancying by reading someone’s review, or Instagram book-fies. But mostly, Amazon and Goodreads recommendations based on my previous reads make the list. I don’t have a very fancy, photogenic bookshelf yet, but it serves its purpose. It looks pretty and my goal for 2018 is to ‘double-park’ it with more books! Another line of books along the front so I can feel proud of my bookcase-baby!

Without further ado, here are the books that Amazon recommended or I fancy reading:

1. Little fires everywhere, Celeste Ng
2. Into the water, Paula Hawkins
3. Before we were yours, Lisa Wingate
4. Sleeping beauties, Stephen and Owen King
5. Without merit, Coleen Hoover
6. Beartown, Frederick Backman
7. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
8. Rich People Problems, Kevin Kwan (Crazy Rich Asians #3)
9. The Identicals, by Elin Hilderbrand
10. The God of Small things and The ministry of Utmost happiness, Arundhati Roy
11. The Great Gatsby
12. The Fault in Our Stars
13. Les Miserables
14. Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
15. To Kill a Mockingbird
16. The Giving Tree
17. One hundred years of solitude, Garcia Marquez
18. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnell
19. The Stranger, Albert Camus
20. War and Peace, Tolstoy
21. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Following are my Goodreads Recommendations, along with their average ratings:

1. Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf  3.61
2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind really liked it 4.00
3. Middlemarch  by George Eliot  3.94
4. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding  3.73
5. Love’s Labour’s Lost  by William Shakespeare 3.54
6. Moonfleet by John Meade Falkner 3.91
7. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse  4.12
8. The Monk by Matthew Lewis  3.80
9. The Young Man’s Guide by William A. Alcott  3.53
10. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond by Denis Johnson  3.84
11. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock  3.53
12. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu  3.83
13. Against Nature Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans  3.88
14. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis  4.23
15. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7) by P.G. Wodehouse  4.36 avg rating
16. The Fall of the House of Usher  by Edgar Allan Poe 3.94
17. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror  by Robert Louis Stevenson  3.95
18. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 3.84
19. The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello 4.00

Some of the books are available for free on the Project Gutenberg website, which makes me very happy indeed. I’d love to know your suggestions about good books to read, or comments about any of the books I’ve mentioned. Or you can tell me I’m crazy for thinking I could read 20 books in 2018!