The Year of my Unconscious Reading 2016 was so loyal to me and I’m grateful for that despite the ramifications over my life. At First, i wanted to read 30 books for the year, then 52 and eventually according to Goodreads, i read 82 books for the past year in which almost every books made a notch in helping me relax, smile, learn things and sometimes change the way which i felt right before. Some Highlighted books of my last year reading follows now.

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Science and Technology

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein. Nothing more than mind boggling phenomena about the space and time in which are presumably living. Energy is just m Csquared and gravity is more than you think, Mr. Newton!

Cosmos by Carl Sagan. There’s a tingling in the spine, a faint sensation of falling from adistant memory. i knew i was approaching the grandest mysteries of the universe. About an Ionian civilization before the times of Christ in which some already invented calculus from which the miracles done by Jesus could have mathematically formulated.

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Gott and Michael Strauss. About Everything that aren’t/ weren’t at planet Earth which we got to know by telescopes and satellites. And Time Travel… Whoa! Some real Positive hopes for the fans.

The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking. Struggles and fights for the building up the unified theory of everything that could sum up 4% everything but what about the unknown unknowns. Theories in a Nutshell.

The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer. The Lengthy Book title says it all. I want to believe but I also want to know.

Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior by Robin Dunbar. Darwinism from a different perspective. Great Combo with The Believing Brain book.

Autobiographical Accounts and Biography

What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman. Flamboyance. Ingenious. Ingenuous. Hilarious. Awesomeness. Unique Physicist.

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens. Deathbed Memoir of the great 21st century atheist incarcerated by Cancer. Dark, Disturbing Thoughts. Death always makes us depress.

Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance. Everything from Scratch: Zip2, X.com, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, Solar city, Hyperloop Technologies. Not surprising to know that he even pees fast in less tha 3 seconds.

Science Fiction and Short Stories

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I like this stubborn old man as well. Lots of Craziness and Smartness. A roller coaster ride.

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. Dark Prophetic Vision of Homo Sapiens. Journey was so good that it kept haunting me for weeks.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. I love Dick. He’s the best (see, I ain’t using ‘It’) Will Robots eventually be better at Empathy than Humans? A Different kind of Evolution?

The Martian by Andy Weir. A little late and only after having watched the film version. Book’s better. Finally an awesomeguy whom you can follow right from the beginning of his works.

All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein. Strange things about short stories is that they leave you to think a lot. Just think. Who knows? You could be the next Einstein. 9 Page Original Story or 1 hour 37 minutes Movie named Predestination?

Picture Books

The Vincent van Gogh Atlas by Nienke Denekamp. So much from the letters and life of van Gogh brothers. So many places he wandered. So many things he tried to become. Soul Enriching.

Adulthood Is a Myth and Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen

It’s All Absolutely Fine by Ruby Elliot

These 3 books are comical, quirky scribbles about the silly problems faced like social anxiety, shyness and other problems often faced by introverts, nerds, bibliophiles. So much Relatable and Comforting.

Tamizh Books

Enge Pogirom Naam [எங்கே போகிறோம் நாம்? meaning Where are we heading?] by Tamizharuvi Manian. History of Political leaders and Parties of Tamilnadu, a state in India, a Country on Planet Earth. Mind Expanding Read.

Parukai [பருக்கை meaning Cooked Grain] by Veerapandiyan. A true account on Government Arts College students struggling to survive in Chennai. If you know to read Tamizh, this should be your next book. Learn to never waste food. Never!

அப்பா என்னும் வில்லன் Appa Ennum Villan [The Antagonistic Father] by Bharathi Baskar. Collection of short cultural stories that i once loved to read in my school days. Revisiting helps Recuperate.

That was it for 2016!

I hope 2017 would be good enough year of conscious reading without clashing my career plans. But it was soo good reading books and forgetting the whole freaking world and never give up on books. Have a great year everyone.!

To get the link of the books, visit Goodreads here.