2015 was a good reading year. I managed to achieve an unrealistic challenge which required a great deal of planning and obsessive list making. 
 End of the year conclusions: 
 1. Bulgakov is my boo. 
 2. I have a weird like-dislike relationship with Margaret Atwood. 
 3. I was waiting for Samuel Beckett. 
 4. I adore Atul Gawande. 
 5. I should have met Sophocles two decades ago. 
 6. Tolkein will forever be the best. 
 7. I need more Pynchon in my life. 
 8. I also need more Tennesse Williams in my life but only in small doses. 
 9. I am weary of fantasy. (I am looking at you Sanderson, Rothfuss, GRR Martin) 
 10. Sci Fi has been hit and miss. Misses more than hit. Meh. 
 11. I admire Captain America. 
 12. Adiche makes me sad. 
 13. Philip K Dick is still underrated. 
 2015 showed me what I enjoy reading the most: book that toes the line by being ambitious, abstract, absurd and borderline pretentious. 
 What I enjoyed reading in 2015 the most: 
 - Books with fake people dealing with real life issues.(A fine balance, A brief history of seven killings) 
 - Whenever Socrates' douchiness met its match. (Protagoras, Gorgias) 
 - Greek tragedies (Oedipus) 
 - Little nuggets written by pre-20th century men and women of science. (The chemical history of a candle.) 
 - Memoirs by comedians. They are good when you are on a treadmill. Or folding clothes or doing dishes. Or when you don't have time to sit and read anything else. (Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling) 
 - the book is a giant metaphor. (Sleeping on Jupiter, Satin Island) 
 Biggest disappointment of the year: 
 Career of Evil, The Finkler Question, Armada 
 The sequel that didn't disappoint: The Dark Forest 
 Favorite books for the year: 
 - A fine balance 
 - Master and Margarita 
 - Cat on a hot tin roof 
 - Being Mortal 
 - Gorgias 
 - The Summer Book 
 The author I will blindly follow: Marlon James 
 I don't get why many like it: Madam Bovary. The Goldfinch 
 It's not you, its me: Wolf Hall, Boy snow bird 
 I am glad I finally read them: 
 - Mikhail Bulgakov 
 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
 - Margaret Atwood 
 - Samuel Beckett 
 - Tennesse Williams 
 - Wolfgang Von Goethe 
 - Amitav Gosh 
 - Paul Scott 
 - Thomas Hardy 
 - Tove Jansson 
 I want my money back: 
 - The Giver 
 - Career of Evil 
 - The Goldfinch 
 - Sophie's world 
 - Frog Music 
 - Earthsea Quartet 
 I've given higher rating cause I am biased and a hypocrite: 
 - The Narrative of John Smith 
 - Bossypants 
 - Cages 
 - Ready player one 
 - The Names 
 I've given lower rating cause am a douche and/or snob or was low on sugar: 
 - Civil War 
 - Death of a salesman 
 - Ancillary Sword 
 - The Tales of Beedle the Bard 
 Unforgettable lines came from these: 
 "for philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life." - Gorgias 
 "I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)" - Cat on a hot tin roof 
 "She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time." - The Summer Book. 
 "Our so called independence was rather like a shot-gun wedding." - The Jewel in the crown 
 "Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off." - The Blind Assassin 
 "You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,' he replied. 
 'Dostoevsky's dead,' said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. 
 'I protest!' Behemoth exclaimed hotly. 'Dostoevsky is immortal!" - The Master and Margarita 
 Though I am not tactile person, I would hug these: 
 - I am China 
 - Don Quixote 
 - The housekeeper and the professor 
 - Burial Rites 
 - The Blue Fox 
 - The Summer Book. 
 I am giving up on these series: 
 - Game of thrones 
 - King killer chronicles 
 - Cormoran Strike 
 - Shattered Sea 
 - Brandon Sanderson's everything. 
 Will be reading these series: 
 - Old Man's war 
 - Foundation, Discworld 
 - Inspector Chen Cao 
 - The Dresden Files 
 - Three body 
 - The Anderson Project 
 When these people put up their reviews, I always read/watch: 
 Written on GR: 
 - Seemita 
 - Cecily 
 - Steve Sckenda 
 - Nandakishore Varma 
 - Manny 
 - Jibran 
 - s.penkevich 
 On YouTube: 
 - Yamini, The Skeptical reader 
 - Rachel, Kalanadi 
 - Didi, Brown Girl Reading 
 - Nicole 
 - Kamil