My top 10 (no ranks) this year: A Horse Walked Into A Bar - David Grossman Milkman - Anna Burns Less - Andrew Sean Greer Not Quite Not White : Losing and Finding Race in America - Sharmila Sen Winners Take All : The Elite Charade of Changing The World - Anand Giridharadas The RTI Story : Power To The People - Aruna Roy Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng Partitions Of The Heart - Harsh Mander Bombay Balchao - Jane Borges Twitter and Tear Gas : The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest - Zeynep Tufekci
Ingrid Srinath @ingridsrinath > On 26-Dec-2019, at 9:15 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay > <sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The books I liked are: > > * Bottle of Lies (Katherine Eban) - from having a very scattered > awareness of the underbelly of generics, the book was useful to > understand what goes on. > * Coming Out As Dalit (Yashica Dutt) - aside from the topical nature > of the memoir, the writing/prose has strength which is both authentic > and makes one pause > * Assam - The Accord, The Discord (Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty) - have > always had fragmented understanding of the accords and this provided > an opportunity to seek to know more and have better understanding of > the troubles. > > full list of books I read are at > <https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/732796> > > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 9:04 AM Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 7:49 AM Anil Kumar <anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Any takers for a book recommendation thread this year? >>> >>> Two books I enjoyed reading are: >>> >>> 1. This Divided Island - Samanth Subramaniam. >> >> 2. A Beginner's Guide to Japan - Pico Iyer. >>> >> >> I also enjoyed 'Autumn Light' by Pico Iyer. >> >> Other books that I read and enjoyed in 2019: >> >> * We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families >> (Gourevitch, Philip) : Excellent book about the Rwandan genocide, and the >> aftermath >> >> * The Fat Years (Koonchung, Chan): Sometime after the 2008 Great Financial >> Crisis, China becomes the dominant world superpower following the collapse >> of the Western economies. But there seems to be a collective amnesia in >> China. People don't seem to remember what happened during some crucial >> months. Only a handful seem to be immune from this amnesia. >> >> * A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Weinberg, Samantha) >> : The story of the discovery of the Coelacanth. >> >
