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The 12 Best Books I Read in 2021

By Piyushi Dhir

I love reading and since you are here, I am guessing you enjoy the activity too. The biggest challenge with reading is finding good books to read. If I have a really good book in hand, I can always make the time for it. I also find it keeps me off the screen and mindless […]

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The 10 Best Books I Read in 2020

By Piyushi Dhir

While I am a writer, I am also an avid reader. As a child, I maintained a diary where I recorded every book I read. Of course, this was before the time of spreadsheets and Goodreads. Once I discovered Goodreads, I was a convert. It was the best place for me to maintain a list […]

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The Ten Best Books I Read in 2019

By Piyushi Dhir

The Ten Best Books I Read

Last week I wrote about how books and reading have always been a passion for me. I also promised to come up with my selection of favourites from 2019. So without further ado, here are the winners: The Summer Country, by Lauren Willig One of the most beautiful books I read in 2019, The Summer […]

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Why Reading is Food for my Soul

By Piyushi Dhir

Reading Food for my Soul

When I think back, I can’t remember a time I didn’t love books. As a kid, I was lucky to have access to well-stocked libraries at the Air Force stations wherever my father was posted. I recollect devouring books with unconstrained thirst. My siblings were just like me. I think we got it from our […]

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The 12 Best Books I Read in 2018- Part 2

By Piyushi Dhir

Reading in 2016

If you are always hungry for book recommendations, I hope you find something for yourself from my list of The 12 Best Books I Read in 2018. Catch the first six books in Part 1 here. And let’s move on to the next six awesome books I read in 2018: 7. The Grand Sophy, by Georgette […]

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The 12 Best Books I Read in 2018- Part 1

By Piyushi Dhir

The Ten Best Books I Read

Every time I walk into a library or a book shop, I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of books there are in the world. And I always think that I will never have enough time to read everything I want to! Honestly, I could live my entire life doing nothing but reading, and still […]

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The 10 Best Books I Read in 2017- Part I

By Piyushi Dhir

The 10 Best Books I Read in 2017

While I am a writer, I think I am more of a reader. I sometimes get so lost in a particular book that I become alarmingly negligent of my writing work. After reading 85 books in 2015 and choosing to keep entirely away from the Goodreads Reading Challenge in 2016, I set myself a moderate […]

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The 10 Best Books I Read in 2016- Part II

By Piyushi Dhir

10 Best Books I Read in 2016 Part II

Continuing from where I left off last week, here are the next five book recommendations. If you missed last week’s post, you can look up The 10 Best Books I Read in 2016- Part I. 6. Fool for Love After all the heavy reading I’d been doing, Fool for Love made for a lovely break. This […]

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