In no particular order, here are my recs (full disclosure, I acquired most of these in ebook form, while in the UK, unless otherwise mentioned): - Conversations with Mani Ratnam, Baradwaj Rangan - hardcopy in Chennai - The Sixth Gun volumes 1-6, ongoing comic book - ecomics at Comixology app - The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver - The Black Count, Tom Reiss - Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin - Mother Pious Lady, Santosh Desai - hard copy in Mumbai - Return of a King, William Dalrymple - hard copy in Mumbai - The Caliph's Splendour, Benson Bobrick - The Rythm of Riddles, translation by Arunava Sinha of Byomkesh Bakshi stories - hard copy borrowed from a friend who picked it up in Kolkata - India: A Sacred Geography, Diana L. Eck
Cheers Divya Sent from my iPad On 7 Dec 2012, at 00:58, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > For the fourth year in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? > What are you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/New > Year's holidays? > > Past silk list recommendations have included such gems as: > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > * Samanth Subramaniam's Following Fish > * Sarnath Bannerjee's Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, and > * Devdutt Pattanaik's Myth=Mithya. > * Aman Sethi's A Free Man > > Books that are easy to get a hold of in India (and more difficult > elsewhere) preferred (but not required). Fiction and non-fiction > recommendations are equally welcome. > > Some of the books that I read and enjoyed this year: > > The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer > Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, Art Spiegelman (an > oldie, but I only got to it this year) > The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar (The Dungeon series is also highly recommended) > > Thaths > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
