My 2015 Reading Challenge

To all those who have been asking – here is a complete list of the 105 books I read as part of the Brunch Book Challenge, run by the Hindustan Times’ Sunday Magazine HT Brunch from January to December, 2015.

For more on my reading experience and the books that I loved, click here.

1. The Zoya Factor – Anuja Chauhan
2. Battle For Bittora – Anuja Chauhan
3. Those Pricey Thakur Girls – Anuja Chauhan
4. Fifty Shades of Grey – E L James
5. Fifty Shades Darker – E L James
6. Fifty Shades Freed – E L James
7. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
8. Storm Front – A Derrick Storm Thriller – Richard Castle
9. Killing Floor – Lee Child
10. Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
11. Frozen Heat – Richard Castle
12. Power Play – Joseph Finder
13. The Colour of Law – Mark Gimenez
14. Angel – Colleen McCullough
15. The Lighthouse – P.D. James
16. One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
17. The Ravenscar Dynasty – Barbara Taylor Bradford
18. Other People’s Marriages – Shane Watson
19. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
20. The Girl Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson
21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson
22. This Charming Man – Marian Keyes
23. Passing Under Heaven – Justin Hill
24. The House That BJ Built – Anuja Chauhan
25. Suspicion – Joseph Finder
26. Dark Places – Gillian Flynn
27. Sharp Objects – Gillian Flynn
28. Deadly Heat – Richard Castle
29. Ultimate Storm (29a. A Brewing Storm / 29b. A Raging Storm / 29c. A Bloody Storm) – Richard Castle
30. The Woman Who Stole My Life – Marian Keyes
31. The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
32. Wild Storm – Richard Castle
33. Raging Heat – Richard Castle
34. Something Borrowed (with Bonus-The Diary of Darcy J Rhone) – Emily Giffin
35. Something Blue – Emily Giffin
36. Half Girlfriend – Chetan Bhagat
37. The Fixer – Joseph Finder
38. Grey – E L James
39. The Immortals of Meluha – Amish Tripathi
40. The Secret of the Nagas – Amish Tripathi
41. The Oath of the Vayuputras – Amish Tripathi
42. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
43. Memory Man – David Baldacci
44. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
45. Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll
46. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
47. Aarushi – Avirook Sen
48. Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng
49. Like It Happened Yesterday – Ravinder Singh
50. Your Dreams Are Mine Now – Ravinder Singh
51. Paper Towns – John Green
52. Company Man – Joseph Finder
53. Killing Monica – Candace Bushnell
54. Paranoia – Joseph Finder
55. Few Things Left Unsaid – Sudeep Nagarkar
56. That’s the Way We Met – Sudeep Nagarkar
57. It Started with a Friend Request – Sudeep Nagarkar
58. Sorting Out Sid – Yashodhara Lal
59. Ravan & Eddie – Kiran Nagarkar
60. The Extras – Kiran Nagarkar
61. Cuckold – Kiran Nagarkar
62. The Unexpected Son – Shobhan Bantwal
63. If Today Be Sweet – Thrity Umrigar
64. The Flying Man – Roopa Farooki
65. Mrs Funnybones – Twinkle Khanna
66. Bedtime Story and Black Tulip – Kiran Nagarkar
67. Rest in Peace : Ravan and Eddie – Kiran Nagarkar
68. A Calmer You – Sonal Kalra
69. More of A Calmer You – Sonal Kalra
70. Me, Mia, Multiple – Debashish Irengbam
71. The Wedding Season – Su Dharmapala
72. God’s Little Soldier – Kiran Nagarkar
73. Among the Ten Thousand Things – Julia Pierpont
74. The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
75. There’s Something About You – Yashodhara Lal
76. Eats, Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss
77. Making India Awesome – Chetan Bhagat
78. The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz
79. Girl in the Dark – Anna Lyndsey
80. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
81. The World We Found – Thrity Umrigar
82. Love Stories that Touched My Heart – Ravinder Singh
83. In the Blood – Lisa Unger
84. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
85. Driving Heat – Richard Castle
86. Pretty Baby – Mary Kubica
87. Black-Eyed Susans – Julia Heaberlin
88. Engraved in Stone – Madhulika Liddle
89. Yes, My Accent is Real – Kunal Nayyar
90. Saints of the Shadow Bible – Ian Rankin
91. Circling the Sun – Paula McLain
92. The Space Between Us – Thrity Umrigar
93. The Skin Collector – Jeffery Deaver
94. In the Name of Salome – Julia Alvarez
95. The Bestseller She Wrote – Ravi Subramanian
96. Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
97. Is It Just Me? Or is it nuts out there? – Whoopi Goldberg
98. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
99. Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Story of India’s First Superstar – Yasser Usman
100. Rearview: My Roadies Journey – Raghu Ram
101. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
102. Wildflower – Drew Barrymore
103. A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler
104. If God was a Banker – Ravi Subramanian
105. Life is a Bitch – Asmit Rathod

Have you read any fun and exciting books this past year? I would love to hear from you. Do share your favourite reads in the comments section.

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