On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get some recommendations, and further disturb the balance > of the TBR pile on my shelves. What were the best books you read last year? My list: Non-fiction: * The Hacker Ethic --Pekka Himanen * What Management Is --Joan Magretta * Peopleware --Tom Demarco and Timothy Lister * The Case for India --Will Durant (available only from Strand; no ISBN) * Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China --Peter Hessler * Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology --Devdutt Pattanaik * Palestine --Joe Sacco Fiction: * My Name is Red --Orhan Pamuk * The Glass Palace --Amitav Ghosh -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/
