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Top 10 Stories of Modern India

29/7/2022

27 July 2022
Top 10 Stories of Modern India
1. A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
2. When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
3. The Machine Is Learning by Tanuj Solanki
4. Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
5. Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar
6. Prelude to a Riot by Annie Zaidi
7. The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
8. One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan
9. A Burning by Megha Majumdar
10. The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other Stories by Nisha Susan

Top 10 21st-Century Fantasy Novels

20/7/2022

20 July 2022
Top 10 21st-Century Fantasy Novels
1. The New Moon’s Arms by Nalo Hopkinson (2007)
2. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor (2010)
3. Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston (2011)
4. Alif the Unseen by G Willow Wilson (2012)
5. A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar (2013)
6. The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (2015)
7. The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard (2015)
8. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (2020)
9. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2020)
10. A Master of Djinn by P Djèlí Clark (2021)

Top 10 Books About Twins

13/7/2022

13 July 2022
Top 10 Books About Twins
1. Esau and Jacob in the Bible
2. Helen and Ellie in Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
3. Cersei and Jaime Lannister in The Song of Ice and Fire novels by George RR Martin
4. Rahel and Esthappen in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
5. Desiree and Stella in The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
6. Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
7. Aneeka and Parvaiz in Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
8. Viola and Sebastian in Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
9. Hamnet and Judith in Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell
10. Dora and Nora in Wise Children by Angela Carter

Top 10 Funny Comic Books

6/7/2022

06 July 2022
Top 10 Funny Comic Books
1. Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust
2. Pyongyang by Guy Delisle
3. Everything Is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell
4. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
5. My Dumb Dirty Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt
6. Reunion by Pascal Girard
7. Snackies by Nick Sumida
8. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
9. Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
10. On the Camino by Jason

Top 10 Stories of Male Friendship

30/6/2022

29 June 2022
Top 10 Stories of Male Friendship
1. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
2. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
4. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
5. The Third Man by Graham Greene
6. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
7. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
8. Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
9. 1939 by Peter Taylor
10. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome

Top 10 Books About Terrible Jobs

22/6/2022

22 June 2022
Top 10 Books About Terrible Jobs
1. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
2. The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
3. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4. Something Happened by Joseph Heller
5. Pastoralia by George Saunders
6. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
7. Work Won’t Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe and Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan
8. Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry by BS Johnson
9. There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura
10. All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills

Top 10 Forests in Fiction

15/6/2022

15 June 2022
Top 10 Forests in Fiction
1. Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
2. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
3. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
4. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
5. The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom Lee
6. Reflections by Angela Carter from Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
7. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
8. Pollard by Laura Beatty
9. The Gingerbread House by Robert Coover, from Pricksongs and Descants
10. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge

Top 10 Novels About Things That Go Horribly Wrong on Islands

10/6/2022

08 June 2022
Top 10 Novels About Things That Go Horribly Wrong on Islands
1. The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun (2013)
2. The Bachelors by Adalbert Stifter (1845)
3. Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine (2011)
4. The Magus by John Fowles (1965)
5. The Dragon Can’t Dance by Earl Lovelace (1979)
6. The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis (1903)
7. The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (1994)
8. The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid (1996)
9. The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (1940)
10. Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson (1965)

Top 10 Books About Listening to Nature

1/6/2022

01 June 2022
Top 10 Books About Listening to Nature
1. The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
2. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
3. What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
4. Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros
5. Sudden Music by David Rothenberg
6. Earth’s Wild Music by Kathleen Dean Moore
7. A Sweet, Wild Note by Richard Smyth
8. Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
9. One Square Inch of Silence by Gordon Hempton
10. Collins Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe

Top 10 Novels About Inheritance

29/5/2022

25 May 2022
Top 10 Novels About Inheritance
1. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
2. The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
4. Howards End by EM Forster
5. My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
6. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
7. The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
8. Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare
9. The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens