The book bucket challenge for me..


Recently there was this string of posts on FB called the "Book bucket challenge" where people named their top 10 favourite books and nominated friends to name their top 10 favourite books.. Up until then I considered myself a 'well read' person.. But reading other people's list of books just blew my mind...made me realise that I am a frog in the well and the amount of books I have read can be compared to a drop in the ocean.. I have come up with my "Book bucket challenge".. A list of books I hope to read in the coming year.. So here goes..

1. Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2. One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3. Midnight's children - Salman Rushdie

4. The kite runner - Khaled Hosseini

5. A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini

6. The day of the jackal - Frederick Forsyth

7. The cuckoo's calling - Robert Galbraith

8. The lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri

9. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh

10. The last man in Tower - Aravind Adiga

Let's see how the challenge goes.. will let you people know the progress on this in a years' time from now.. Keep watching this space ;-)

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