|Date|Title|Authors|Rating|Review| |----|-----|-------|------|------| |2021/01/10|Mysterious affair at styles|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2020/10/01|Chaos: Making a New Science |James Gleick|~~~
~~~|| |2020/12/01|What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions|Randall Munroe|~~~
~~~|| |2021/01/03|Chronicle of a Death Foretold|Gabriel García Márquez|~~~
~~~|| |2021/05/01|The God Delusion|Richard Dawkins|~~~
~~~|| |2020/12/31|His Dark Materials 3-Book Mass Market Paperback Boxed Set|Philip Pullman|~~~
~~~|| |2021/03/22|The Order of Time|Carlo Rovelli|~~~
~~~|| |2021/04/02|Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel|George Orwell|~~~
~~~|| |2021/01/23|Man's Search for Meaning|Viktor E. Frankl|~~~
~~~|| |2021/05/02|The Alchemist|Paulo Coelho|~~~
~~~|| |2021/05/04|Fahrenheit 451|Ray Bradbury|~~~
~~~|| |2021/05/08|Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood|Marjane Satrapi|~~~
~~~|| |2021/05/14|The Kite Runner|Khaled Hosseini|~~~
~~~|| |2021/05/29|Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind|Yuval Noah Harari|~~~
~~~|| |2021/07/08|Jonathan Livingston Seagull|Richard Bach|~~~
~~~|| |2021/09/06|Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow|Yuval Noah Harari|~~~
~~~|| |2021/09/12|When We Cease to Understand the World|Benjamín Labatut|~~~
~~~|| |2022/01/24|進撃の巨人 34 [Shingeki no Kyojin 34]|Hajime Isayama|~~~
~~~|| |2022/03/16|Azaadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction|Arundhati Roy|~~~
~~~|| |2022/03/18|Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality|Max Tegmark|~~~
~~~|| |2022/02/09|Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures|Merlin Sheldrake|~~~
~~~|| |2022|Phase Transitions|Ricard Solé|~~~
~~~|| |2022/06/27|The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future|David Wallace-Wells|~~~
~~~|| |2022/05/28|Midnight's Children|Salman Rushdie|~~~
~~~|| |2022/07/20|Never Let Me Go|Kazuo Ishiguro|~~~
~~~|| |2022/08/08|Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors|Matt Parker|~~~
~~~|| |2022/10/13|Where the Crawdads Sing|Delia Owens|~~~
~~~|| |2022/09/06|Normal People|Sally Rooney|~~~
~~~|| |2024/03/06|The Forever War|Joe Haldeman|~~~
~~~|| |2024/03/20|Before the Coffee Gets Cold|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|~~~
~~~|| |2024/03/14|The Seven Dials Mystery|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2024/02/24|The Big Four|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2021|To Kill a Mockingbird|Harper Lee|~~~
~~~|| |2024/04/15|Tales from the Café|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|~~~
~~~|| |2024/04/06|Pride and Prejudice|Jane Austen|~~~
~~~|| |2024/02/20|The Midnight Library|Matt Haig|~~~
~~~|| |2024/02/06|The Secret Adversary|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2023/11|The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann|Ananyo Bhattacharya|~~~
~~~|| |2024/04/30|Before Your Memory Fades|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|~~~
~~~|| |2024/06/12|Manacled: The Flashbacks|SenLinYu|~~~
~~~|| |2024/06/03|Manacled: Volume 1|SenLinYu|~~~
~~~|| |2024/06/26|Manacled: The Ending|SenLinYu|~~~
~~~|| |2025/03/28|Yellowface|R.F. Kuang|~~~
~~~|| |2024/07/04|Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked The World|Pénélope Bagieu|~~~
~~~|| |2024/07/05|Before We Say Goodbye|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|~~~
~~~|| |2024/07/06|I Want to Eat Your Pancreas|Yoru Sumino|~~~
~~~|| |2024/07/17|White Nights|Fyodor Dostoevsky|~~~
~~~|| |2024/07/30|The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 1|Nagabe|~~~
~~~|| |2024/07/31|Amygdalatropolis|Edia Connole, B.R. Yeager|~~~
~~~|| |2024/08/08|Kindred|Octavia E. Butler|~~~
~~~|| |2024/08/15|Prey|Michael Crichton|~~~
~~~|| |2024/08/08|The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 3|Nagabe|~~~
~~~|| |2024/08/25|The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes|Suzanne Collins|~~~
~~~|| |2024/08/20|The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 5|Nagabe|~~~
~~~|| |2024/08/20|The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 4|Nagabe|~~~
~~~|| |2024/09/04|The Picture of Dorian Gray|Oscar Wilde|~~~
~~~|| |2024/09/14|Solaris|Stanisław Lem|~~~
~~~|| |2024/09/23|The ABC Murders|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2024/09/26|The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane|Kate DiCamillo|~~~
~~~|| |2024/10/21|Cursed Bunny|Bora Chung|~~~
~~~|| |2024/10/28|Rendezvous with Rama|Arthur C. Clarke|~~~
~~~|| |2024/11/06|Conversations with Friends|Sally Rooney|~~~
~~~|| |2024/12|The Last Bookshop in London|Madeline Martin|~~~
~~~|| |2024/12/26|The Mystery of the Blue Train|Agatha Christie|~~~
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Although the suspects were obvious. Christie still managed in the classic Poirot fashion twist the method of the madness just enough to keep me engrossed. 
| |2025/03/17|The MANIAC|Benjamín Labatut|~~~
~~~|| |2025/01/30|Five Little Pigs|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/02/05|Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 1|Jun Mayuzuki|~~~
~~~|| |2025/02/05|Carrie Soto Is Back|Taylor Jenkins Reid|~~~
~~~|| |2025/02/05|Kowloon Generic Romance, Vol. 2|Jun Mayuzuki|~~~
~~~|| |2025/02/16|Human Acts|Han Kang|~~~
~~~|| |2017/01|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoevsky|~~~
~~~|| |2015/05|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|~~~
~~~|| |2025/02/25|Mrs McGinty's Dead|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/03/04|Markov Chains: From Theory to Implementation and Experimentation|Paul A. Gagniuc|~~~
~~~|| |2025/04/05|The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/04/24|Three Act Tragedy|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/05/05|Orbital|Samantha Harvey|~~~
~~~|| |2025/05/08|Sharp Objects|Gillian Flynn|~~~
~~~|| |2025/08/28|Gabriel's Inferno|Sylvain Reynard|~~~
~~~|| |2025/06/13|The Labours of Hercules|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/05/27|The House Of Fear|Ibn-e-Safi|~~~
~~~|| |2025/10/17|Peril at End House |Agatha Christie|~~~
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. In the roger ackroyd way it's designed to take your perspective, play with it, and deceive. 

I thought I had predicted the twist. And i actually had. Then Christie took the twist, loosened it up and tightened it in a different spot and turned everything upside down. 

I must ask forgiveness about her royal highness. Queen of Crime dame Agatha Christie. I thought I had realised the twist. 

<spoiler>I was looking for the "gotcha" kind of twist in the invalid croft not being invalid at all. But she took the twist. And made it into an even more unexpected twist. 

I didn't see it coming at all. It's the classic roger ackroyd kinda moment when the whole story is designed to trick you into believing otherwise. Maggie and Nick having the same name was insane. What a clever girl she was. 
I mean if one would just remove the drug addict husband of fredericka and all that fiasco it would still have the answer. So much going on. The cocaint business of challenger. The air man's marriage. His estate coming into the play. 
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Certainly one of her cleverest. And surprisingly if you stop at the second last chapter. When poirot is planning the play to happen in the end house.  
With everything known upto the last chapter. You can, combining all the notes definitely come up to the correct answer.  So it is a clever puzzle with a satisfiable answer. 
| |2025/06/27|A Murder Is Announced|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/07/11|Sunrise on the Reaping|Suzanne Collins|~~~
~~~|| |2025/07/12|Tender Is the Flesh|Agustina Bazterrica|~~~
~~~|| |2025/07/22|Death in the Clouds|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/08/11|Lord Edgware Dies|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/08/26|One, Two, Buckle My Shoe|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/09/13|Before We Forget Kindness|Toshikazu Kawaguchi|~~~
~~~|| |2025/09/19|Your Utopia|Bora Chung|~~~
~~~|| |2025/10/14|Katabasis|R.F. Kuang|~~~
~~~|| |2025/11/21|Firestarter|Stephen King|~~~
~~~|| |2025/10/26|The Housemaid|Freida McFadden|~~~
~~~|| |2025/09/30|At Bertram's Hotel|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/11/03|Tamas|Bhisham Sahni|~~~
~~~|| |2026/03/18|The Secret of Secrets|Dan Brown|~~~
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Take a shot everytime katherine says I wrote it in my book. 
| |2025/11/27|Cat Among the Pigeons|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2025/12/08|The Hungry Tide|Amitav Ghosh|~~~
~~~|| |2025/12/31|Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sunderban|Amitav Ghosh|~~~
~~~|| |2025/12/18|The Sittaford Mystery|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2026/01/05|The White Tiger|Aravind Adiga|~~~
~~~|| |2026/01/09|The Wife Upstairs|Freida McFadden|~~~
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It keeps you engrossed even thoough the writing is bad, the characters do not have any unique voice, all women are gullible and weak, adam is a walking stereotype. No one writes diaries like this. So descriptive. I understand why Freida had to write explicitly in the beginning of the chapter who the POV will be of, because the writing style is almost same. Just bad writing with a nice twist. And action packed finale. The final Adam scene was definitely creepy though. 
| |2026/01/21|The Body in the Library|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2026/02/05|Everything There Is|M G Vassanji|~~~
~~~|| |2026/02/10|Hickory Dickory Dock|Agatha Christie|~~~
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Although it lacked the poirot reveal moment. It still had its moments. 
Full of entertaining characters and twists that you won't be able to guess.. Sometimes too twisted imo. 

Also, I felt that this is a perfect book for a movie adaptation with the diverse cast of characters. Exactly what Hollywood is after these days. 
| |2026/02/13|The Mystery of the Screaming Clock|Robert Arthur|~~~
~~~|| |2026/02/23|Project Hail Mary|Andy Weir|~~~
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I loved the heart this book developed in the latter half. Rocky's character and their friendship with Grace is so cute! 
The science is pretty good. The fiction Is too. Characters are fun. Dialogues are well written and funny. Action pieces were entetianing. I loved this book a lot. 

P. S. I am astonished how Andy made a character without any back story. 
| |2026/03/22|Momo|Michael Ende|~~~
~~~|| |2026/04/01|Captain Young's Ghost: Ghostly Tales from the Indian Hills|Ruskin Bond|~~~
~~~|| |2026/03/29|Murder at the Vicarage|Agatha Christie|~~~
~~~|| |2026/04/11|Flowers for Algernon|Daniel Keyes|~~~
~~~|| |2026/05/06|Julia|Sandra Newman|~~~
~~~|| |2026/04/24|Japanese Ghost Stories|Lafcadio Hearn|~~~
~~~|| |2026/04/27|The Murder of Roger Ackroyd|Agatha Christie|~~~
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Second reading is even more remarkable 
| |2026/05/16|Book Lovers|Emily Henry|~~~
~~~|| |2026/06/14|Strange Houses|Uketsu|~~~
~~~|| |2026/06/07|Miss Marple's Final Cases|Agatha Christie|~~~
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