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Annie’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Annie’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Annie Zaidi’s Followers (353)
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Annie Zaidi
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Dukhti-rag, India
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July 2013
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A prize for short fiction
One of the good things that happened over the last year: my short story, ‘Zinnias in the Graveyard’, won third prize (shared with Brecht De Poortere) at the Hudson Review Short Story competition 2024-25. It took a while but the story has finally been published in the Summer 2025 issue of the Hudson Review. Here's a brief excerpt: The last gardener Shafiqa had hired asked for three
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Prelude to a Riot
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Gulab
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2014
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Love Stories # 1 to 14
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2012
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Bread, Cement, Cactus
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2020
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Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing
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2015
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Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales
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2010
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City of Incident - A Novel in Twelve Parts
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The Bad Boy's Guide To The Good Indian Girl
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2011
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The Comeback : A Novel
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Crush: 50 Poems
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2007
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Annie’s Recent Updates
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Annie Zaidi
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
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| Good book. Will appeal particularly to writers who have struggled with the publishing industry. | |
"There are Partition novels, and then there is 'The Women's Courtyard'. This is the story of a Muslim family set in the United Provinces in the final years of the freedom movement- there are people who side with the British, the people who want indepe"
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Idea
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Indian Readers: 2013, dely is coming! | 205 | 290 | Dec 31, 2013 10:09AM | |
| Indian Readers: Who do you think is the newest kid on the block in Indian English Literature? | 59 | 384 | May 02, 2015 05:31AM |
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”
― The Sound of Things Falling
― The Sound of Things Falling
