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1 | TITLE | AUTHOR | REC? | REVIEW | HIGHLIGHTED LINES | |
2 | Pineapple Street | Jenny Jackson | N | A quick and easy read. Showcases a rich family in Brooklyn. Lack of plot. | Her own family was a restaurant booth - you could always scoot in and make space for one more. Cord's family waa a table with chairs, and those chairs were bolted to the floor. | The wrong guests could ruin even the best parties. | |
3 | The Centre | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqui | Y | Maybe I’m just too disconnected. Every day my Urdu gets worse. And now it’s all mixed up with the Hindi. The other day I said shanti instead of khamoshi. | When I speak in Urdu, I change. I'm not sure how exactly. Sometimes, it feels like I become more honest. More real. Other times, I wonder if I become more childlike. This may be due to the limitations of my vocabulary. Since I speak Urdu mainly-slash-only to my elders, and the Urdu novels and films that I consume tend to be very PG, maybe my Urdu has never properly... adulted. Like once, sitting with Naima in a café, I was trying to tell her about the sex stuff with Adam in Urdu so that the white people next to us wouldn't overhear. And I realized I didn't have the words. I ended up saying things like "aana" for "come" and, by the end, resorting to pantomime. The white people next to us, who probably wouldn't have noticed otherwise, totally figured out what we were talking about. | "The narcissism of small differences." That's a term coined by Freud. "Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen." It means, I think, that when two things are very similar, you end up inflating the small differences between them far more than you would the larger differences between two less similar things. I think this is the game that India and Pakistan play. | ||
4 | Birnam Wood | Eleanor Catton | ||||
5 | Every Rising Sun | Jamila Ahmed | ||||
6 | A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Mass | ||||
7 | The Idea of You | Robinne Lee | ||||
8 | I Am Pilgrim | Terry Hayes | ||||
9 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | ||||
10 | The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | Rec: Kathryn Minshew | |||
11 | The Colour of God | Ayesha S. Chaudhry | ||||
12 | The Premonition | Michael Lewis | ||||
13 | Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | Audiobook? | |||
14 | How We Met | Huma Qureshi | ||||
15 | Turn Right at Machu Picchu | Mark Adams | Peru | |||
16 | Against the Loveless World | Susan Abulhawa | ||||
17 | The House of Spirits | Isabel Allende | ||||
18 | Lee Kuan Yew | Graham Allison | Singapore | |||
19 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | England | |||
20 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | Paris | |||
21 | The Only Woman in the Room | Marie Benedict | Austria | |||
22 | City of Thieves | David Benioff | ||||
23 | Through Black Spruce | Joseph Boyden | Canada | |||
24 | People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks | Bosnia | |||
25 | The Dumb House | John Burnside | ||||
26 | The Hero With a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | ||||
27 | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes | Zachary D. Carter | ||||
28 | Exhalation | Ted Chiang | ||||
29 | Let My People Go Surfing | Yvon Chouinard | Patagonia | |||
30 | Origin Story: A Big History of Everything | David Christian | ||||
31 | The New Wilderness | Diane Cook | ||||
32 | Recursion | Blake Crouch | NYC | |||
33 | Strapless | Deborah Davis | Paris | |||
34 | French Exit | Patrick DeWitt | ||||
35 | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | ||||
36 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | France | |||
37 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | St. Petersburg | |||
38 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | Alabama | |||
39 | The Magus | John Fowles | ||||
40 | The Beach | Alex Garland | Thailand | |||
41 | The E-Myth Revisited | Michael Gerber | ||||
42 | The Eighth Life | Nino Haratischwili | ||||
43 | You Can't Go Home Again | Sarvat Hasin | Karachi | |||
44 | Brit(ish) | Afua Hirsch | ||||
45 | A Bestiary | Lily Hoang | ||||
46 | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas Höfstadter | ||||
47 | Cazalet Chronicles | Elizabeth Jane Howard | UK | |||
48 | Fault Lines | Emily Itami | Tokyo | |||
49 | An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | ||||
50 | The Far Pavilions | M.M. Kaye | India | |||
51 | World Order | Henry Kissinger | ||||
52 | How We Disappeared | Jing-Jing Lee | ||||
53 | AI Superpowers | Kai-Fu Lee | China | |||
54 | Negotiating the Impossible | Deepak Malhotra | ||||
55 | Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | ||||
56 | This House of Clay and Water | Faiqa Mansab | Lahore | |||
57 | The Razor's Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | USA | |||
58 | Sevenwaters Trilogy | Juliet Marillier | Ireland | |||
59 | This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto | Suketu Mehta | ||||
60 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | India | |||
61 | Family Matters | Rohinton Mistry | India | |||
62 | Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford | UK | |||
63 | The Radium Girls | Kate Moore | ||||
64 | Nexus | Ramez Naam | Audible | |||
65 | Survival in the Killing Fields | Haing Ngor | Cambodia | |||
66 | A Tale For The Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | Tokyo | |||
67 | The Dutch House | Ann Patchett | Philadelphia | |||
68 | Capital in the 21st Century | Thomas Piketty | ||||
69 | How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan | ||||
70 | Dada: Art and Anti-Art | Hans Richter | Europe | |||
71 | The Things We Cannot Say | Kelly Rimmer | ||||
72 | Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | ||||
73 | Princess | Jean Sasson | Saudi | |||
74 | The Only Street in Paris | Elaine Sciolino | Paris | |||
75 | The Raj Quartet | Paul Scott | India | |||
76 | If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late | James J. Sexton | ||||
77 | Honor | Elif Shafak | Turkey/London | |||
78 | The Untethered Soul | Michael A. Singer | ||||
79 | Roadside Picnic | Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | Translated from Russian | |||
80 | How Asia Works | Joe Studwell | ||||
81 | The Twentieth Wife | Indu Sundaresan | India | |||
82 | The Source: Open Your Mind, Change Your Life | Tara Swart | ||||
83 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | ||||
84 | Heads of the Colored People | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | ||||
85 | The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien | Edited by Christopher Tolkien, this is the narrative of the time before The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings). | |||
86 | The Collected Schizophrenias | Esmé Weijun Wang | ||||
87 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Winifred Watson | ||||
88 | The Glimpses of the Moon | Edith Wharton | ||||
89 | They Were Sisters | Dorothy Whipple | ||||
90 | The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | Florida | |||
91 | The Picture of Dorian Grey | Oscar Wilde | ||||
92 | We Are All Birds of Uganda | Hafsa Zayyan | Uganda |