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It is that time of the year when we share the list of our favourite books. I normally wait till the beginning of the new year to share this list. But this time, I feel that I’m not going to finish the current book I’m reading and so I thought it is a good time to make this list.
This year was not a great reading year for me, in terms of number of books. I had a three-month reading slump during the first half of the year, and a two-month reading slump during the second half, and with this, half my reading year was gone. But in terms of spectacular books, I read many.
I read 34 books, out of which 18 were fiction and 15 were nonfiction and one defied classification. I read 20 books by male writers and 14 books by female writers. I read 18 books which were written originally in English, 14 books which were translated, and 2 books in their original language which was not English.
So, here is the list of my favourites.
(1) Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba – I thought this was a manga comic when I got it, but it turned out to be a novel. I was disappointed initially, but I needn’t have, because it was spectacular. It has Japanese culture, history, ghosts and strange happenings embedded inside and it is beautiful.
(2) The Three-Cornered World by
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Martin Luther King and the History of Religious Extremism
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” would make it on my list of must-reads for American cultural literacy. Written as he awaited release from a Birmingham, Alabama jail in 1963, King explained why the non-violent protests couldn’t “wait” any longer, as some moderate white Christians asked him to do.
“When you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro,” King wrote, “living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you go forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness”–then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.”
King wove together learned references to the likes of Socrates, Aquinas, Reinhold Niebuhr, T.S. Eliot, and Marin Buber, along with a mobilizing passion for his cause. Of course the whole letter is suffused with biblical concepts and references. Perhaps the most arresting historical passage of all is this one, where King combines a biblical, Reformed, and American view of “extremism”:
“Though I was initially disappointed