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# Some good books I read recently
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/some-good-books-i-read-recently/
- Published: 2021-03-04T11:19:05.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-04T11:19:05.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Life notes, books, Carmen Maria Machado, Diane Ackerman, fantasy fiction, Helen Lewis, Janaki Lenin, Kota Neelima, Neha Sinha, NK Jemisin, #Migrated-1787484114599, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:22

Since January 2020

### Read

1. *Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper*, Lyudmila Pavlichenko
2. *Every Creature Has a Story*, Janaki Lenin
3. *The Writing Life*, Annie Dillard
4. *Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist*, Frank Close
5. *Shoes of the Dead*, Kota Neelima
6. *The Overstory*, Richard Powers
7. *Wild and Wilful*, Neha Sinha
8. *Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights*, Helen Lewis
9. *Her Body and Other Parties*, Carmen Maria Machado
10. *The Big Book of Modern Fantasy*, ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

### Reread

1. *On Nuclear Matters*, Praful Bidwai
2. *Toll the Hounds*, Steven Erikson (*Malazan* 8)
3. *Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars*, Vaasanthi
4. *Karunanidhi*, Sandhya Ravishankar
5. *Still Bleeding from the Wound*, Ashokamitran
6. *Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray*, Sabine Hossenfelder
7. *Exhalation*, Ted Chiang

Now reading: *A Natural History of the Senses*, Diane Ackerman

### Next

1. *Caliban and the Witch*, Sylvia Federici
2. *A Burning*, Megha Majumdar
3. *The Fifth Season*, N.K. Jemisin
4. *When the Whales Leave*, Yuri Rytkheu

Thanks to [Srividya](https://twitter.com/srividyatadpole?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page), [Jahnavi](https://twitter.com/jahnavi%5Fsen?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page), [Dhiya](https://twitter.com/DhiyaGerber?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page), [Shankar](https://csrshankar.academia.edu/?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page) and [Siddharth](https://twitter.com/svaradarajan?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page) for the recommendations!