Books Read Jan - Dec 2025

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This should have been technically published in Jan earlier this year but life was busy.

 I was on a Sherlock Holmes binge - because once you reread one you feel you have to reread the rest.

- The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)
- His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8)
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
- The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
- A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
 

Business/Marketing/Startups
- The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
- Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application


- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) - After all this while, I read it. I'm not ashamed to admit it was for the first time. It has also triggered a rewatch of the movies as well as an interest in the music of the movies. The Lament for Gandalf is especially haunting on the violin.

- Ubik - Another of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces which predicted in terrifying detail some of our current world's socio-economic artifacts.
 

Cold war/spy thrillers
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- The Charm School - This was a hidden gem that I found in a Reddit thread
- Icon - Frederick Forsyth's thriller, reread
- The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) 

And while I was at it I reread some Ian Fleming too
- You Only Live Twice (James Bond, #12)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 

On to more interesting authors - including Russian classics
- The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
- The Very Best of Anton Chekhov

- Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
- Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book

Asimov rereads
- Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)
- The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)
- The Naked Sun (Robot, #2)
- The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
- Prelude to Foundation (Foundation, #6)

- Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts
- Taj Mahal - Giles Tillotson
- Netaji, Dead or Alive? - Samar Guha
- A Brief History of the Great Moghuls - Bamber Gascoigne - avoidable.
- Indira - Katherine Frank
- The Bose Deception: Declassified
- The Last Years of British India - Edwardes Michael
- The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple, #0.5)
- India's Biggest Cover-up
- 1984
- Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
- The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)
- The Pale Horse (Ariadne Oliver, #5)  

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