My top reads by genre this year. In a departure for me, there was hardly anything related to identity, rights or history, still a rich harvest!
Literary fiction: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towler (it gave me joy) Crime/Thriller: The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow, the first of his acclaimed trilogy which was completed this year. Prose like gunfire. Comic: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the media Nonfiction: The Journalist and the Murderer by Janel Malcolm (an old classic, which asks uncomfortable questions of journalism) Memoir: Paper Route: Finding my way to Precision Journalism by Philip Meyer (by the man who ‘invented’ data-driven, computational journalism) Craft: Draft No. 4: on the writing process by John McPhee (On that note, this was also the year that I finished Draft No. 1 of my nonfiction book on journalism. At the very least, three more drafts to go!) On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:17 AM Alok Prasanna Kumar <kautilya...@gmail.com> wrote: > To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular order) > > 1. Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde > 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe > 3. Interrogating My Chandal Life by Manoranjan Byapari > 4. Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra (older but read this year) > 5. The Flaming Feet by DS Nagaraj (older but read this year) > 6. There's Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari (older but read this > year) > 7. Nightmarch by Alpa Shah > 8. Early Indians by Tony Joseph > 9. The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu > 10. Single by Choice edited by Kalpana Sharma > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Ingrid <ingrid.srin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Alok Prasanna Kumar > Advocate > Ph: +919560065577 > -- H R Venkatesh John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, Stanford University Twitter: @hrvenkatesh
