Reading List

I consider myself a bookworm. Ever since my grandmother taught me how to read when I was just 5 years old - before even going to school - books have made me happy. A trip to the book store or the library is always a welcome detour from other mundane errands. A couple of summers ago, when I spent a month in New England with my cousin's family, we visited a rather vast and well-stocked used book store - a great resource for filling up bookcases the eco-friendly (and affordable!) way. On that trip, I picked up mountains of used books and brought them home with me.

To be completely honest, the number of books that I have read for pure pleasure (read: that have not been assigned to me at school) in the past few years is embarrassingly low, not for lack of want but rather for lack of time. This year though, I resolved to get back to reading more, especially more fiction books. So I thought this would be a good time to share a few of the books whose pages I am planning to get lost in during 2012.

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• The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
• Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley