De-lurking just for you, Thaths :) Most of these were consumed in e-book form, so there should be no difficulty in finding them - exceptions were the books by Diana Eck and TM Krishna, picked up at Landmark in Chennai. My list for 2014, in no particular order: - “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” - Atul Gawande - “Gandhi Before India” - Ramachandra Guha- "The Peripheral" - William Gibson- "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" - Elizabeth Kolbert - "A Southern Music: The Karnatik Story" - TM Krishna- "Capital in the 21st Century" - Thomas Piketty - "Banaras- City of Light" - Diana Eck- "Leaders Eat Last" - Simon Sinek - "Flash Boys"- Michael Lewis- ""Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization" - Vaclav Smil - "The Heroic Legend of Arslan- Vol 1 & 2" - Collected Manga - Yoshiki Tanaka (Author), Hiromu Arakawa (Mangaka) CheersDivya On Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:33 PM, Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu Dec 04 2014 at 4:27:40 PM harry <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would also recommend (though not connected to India) "The people in the > trees" - Hanya Yanagihara ... > > That does sound interesting. Where is everyone else on this thread this year? Sankarshan? Udhay? Rashmi? Lahar? Suresh? Divya? Sumant? Etc. Thaths