''In the pages of books not only lies wanton knowledge.
In the pages of books lies abundant joy''- Unknown
The year 2013 was a good one for me as far as consuming literary works was concerned. I managed to read fifteen (15) novels. My interest for reading peeked last year largely due to my joining Writers Project, a book reading club, which holds online book discussions (follow them on twitter @wpghana). Most of the books read are by African Writers.
List
of books I read last year include:
Daughters
of Swallow by
Malaka
Down
And Out In Paris and London by
George Orwell
Kongi’s
Harvest by
Wole Soyinka
As
The Crow Flies by
Veronique Tadjo
A
Heart’s Quest by
Elikplim Akorli
A
Question Of Power by
Bessie Head
Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong’O
A
Grain of Wheat by
Ngugi wa Thiong’O
Weep
Not, Child by
Ngugi wa Thiong’O
A
Man of The People by
Chinua Achebe
The
Palm Wine Drinkard by
Amos Tutola
A
Car Named Desire by
Tennesse Williams
The
Poor Christ of Bomba by
Mongo Beti
Inferno
by Dan Brown
Purple
Hibiscus by
Chimamamda Ngozi Adichie
I have been reading ‘There
Was A Country’ by Chinua Achebe, The
African Predicament by Kofi Anyidoho, Nelson Mandela’s No Easy Walk To Freedom and The
State of Africa by Martin Meredith along those highlighted above.
I have a list of books to read this year and the topmost
include: The Alchemist by Paolo
Coelho. I hope to land Manuscript Found
In Accra too, 1984 by George
Orwell, Imperialism: The Last Stage Of
Neo-Colonialism by Kwame Nkrumah, Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of A Yellow Sun, Beloved
by Toni Morrison Autobiography of Alex Ferguson,
although I’ve started the year with F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Crime
And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I have over this past two years developed a practice
where I read some classical novels. This year, I’ll be reading once again:
Things
Fall Apart
Animal
Farm
The
English Dictionary
Purple
Hibiscus (latest addition)
I hope to write a couple of reviews on books I’ll be
reading. And I won’t mind exchanging books with other bookworms.
And oh, I wish you all, readers and visitors of this blog
A Happy New Year.
