We are in June! God, Time flies. I remember January like it was yesterday.
My Reading Report: What did I read in the first half of the year? I have separated my list per genre:
Non-Fiction
Business
- Winner Take All By Dambisa Moyo
- Poor Economics: A radical Rethinking on how to fight poverty By Esther Duflo and Abijhit Barnajee
- The New Harvest (Currently reading) By Calastous Juma
- The Challenge For Africa (Currently reading) By Wangari Maathai
Art|African
Fiction
English| African
I reviewed almost all of these books in this blog.
- Ghana must go By Taiye Selasi
- Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Daughters who walk this path By Yejide Kilanko
- How to read the air By Dinaw Mengestu
- Nothing Come close By Tololupe Popoola
- Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe
- No longer at ease By Chinua Achebe
- Arrow of God By Chinua Achebe
- Half of a Yellow Sun By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Half-blood blues By Esi Edugyan
- Thread of gold beads (currently reading) By Nike Campbell
- Crossbones By Nurruddin Farah
- The Book Of Negroes By Lawrence Hill
English |Fiction | Non-African
- Let love find you By Johanna Lindsey
- The Burning Lamp By Johanna Lindsey
- Last man in Tower By Aravind Adiga
- Quicksilver By Johanna Lindsey
- Prisoner of my Desire By Johanna Lindsey
- The Jewel of Medina By Sheryl Jones
- Too Deep By Jayne Ann Krentz
- Fired up By Jayne Ann Krentz
French|Fiction|African
I don’t plane my readings in advance, I just go with the flow. But, I recently went shopping and bought close to 30 books: 80% of them are Non-Fiction.
I will probably read these books for the rest of the year:
Non-fiction|English|French
- Lean In By Sheryl Sandberg
- Rwanda Inc By Patricia Crisafulli and Andrea Redmond
- How the west was lost By Dambisa Moyo
- The End of poverty By Jeffrey Sacchs
- The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity By Amartya Sen
- L’Afrique dans la politique étrangère indienne: Les nouvelles ambitions africaines de New Delhi par Alioune Ndiaye
What did you read since january? Share below.
Impressive. I’m afraid mine was not so 🙂