1. Who we are and how we got here by David Reich 2. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford 3. Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis 4. The secret history of the mongol queens by jack weatherford 5. Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste, and Political Power in South India by Hugo gorringe 6. The Warren Commission report (not a new book by any measure)
On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 11:17, 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 >
