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Most Popular Reviews - 2013


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2013, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  5. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
  6. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  7. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  8. The History Boys, Alan Bennett
  9. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  10. Q & A, Vikas Swarup
  11. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  12. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  13. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  14. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  15. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  16. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  17. The Assault, Harry Mulisch
  18. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  19. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  20. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
  21. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  22. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  23. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
  24. Spies, Michael Frayn
  25. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  26. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
  27. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  28. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  29. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  30. Proof, David Auburn
  31. 'Art', Yasmina Reza
  32. The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick
  33. One World, Peter Singer
  34. The Dinner, Herman Koch
  35. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
  36. Night Train to Lisbon, Pascal Mercier
  37. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  38. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  39. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  40. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl
  41. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  42. Voss, Patrick White
  43. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
  44. Closer, Patrick Marber
  45. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  46. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
  47. 1Q84, Murakami Haruki
  48. My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
  49. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
  50. Double Indemnity, James M. Cain

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      Previous month's position given in brackets.
      Not applicable ("n.a.") indicates book is new.
      "-" indicates book was not among top 50 reviews.

December, 2013

- Reviews -

  1. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (4)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  4. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (6)
  5. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (7)
  6. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (15)
  7. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (8)
  8. Zibaldone, Giacomo Leopardi (n.a.)
  9. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (10)
  10. The Restoration Game, Ken MacLeod (n.a.)
  11. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (17)
  12. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (41)
  13. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (9)
  14. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (27)
  15. A True Novel, Mizumura Minae (14)

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November, 2013

  1. Leg over Leg (I), Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq (n.a.)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  4. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (2)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (9)
  6. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (4)
  7. The History Boys, Alan Bennett(8)
  8. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (5)
  9. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (12)
  10. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (7)
  11. The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, Naguib Mahfouz (34)
  12. Double Negative, Ivan Vladislaviċ (n.a.)
  13. Alex, Pierre Lemaitre (n.a.)
  14. A True Novel, Mizumura Minae (n.a.)
  15. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (20)

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October, 2013

  1. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  2. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (n.a.)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  4. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (8)
  5. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (-)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  7. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (11)
  8. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (9)
  9. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  10. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (15)
  11. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (27)
  12. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (42)
  13. One World, Peter Singer (21)
  14. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (5)
  15. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (16)

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September, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (16)
  5. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  6. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (10)
  7. Cocaine, Pitigrilli (n.a.)
  8. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (23)
  9. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (-)
  10. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (26)
  11. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  12. The Devil's Workshop, Jáchym Topol (n.a.)
  13. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (14)
  14. The Infatuations, Javier Marías (9)
  15. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (-)

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August, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (13)
  4. Night Film, Marisha Pessl (n.a.)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (3)
  6. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (10)
  7. The Attack, Yasmina Khadra (40)
  8. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  9. The Infatuations, Javier Marías (n.a.)
  10. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (27)
  11. Atonement, Ian McEwan (21)
  12. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn (75)
  13. Days in the History of Silence, Merethe Lindstrøm (n.a.)
  14. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (82)
  15. The Unknown University, Roberto Bolaño (n.a.)

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July, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (3)
  4. The Crocodile, Maurizio de Giovanni (n.a.)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (13)
  6. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (4)
  7. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (11)
  8. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  9. Nostalgia, Mircea Cărtărescu (n.a.)
  10. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
  11. My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, Patricio Pron (10)
  12. The Sculptors of Mapungubwe, Zakes Mda (n.a.)
  13. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (48)
  14. The Corpse Washer, Sinan Antoon (n.a.)
  15. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (23)

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June, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  3. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (10)
  4. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (12)
  5. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  6. The End of Oulipo ?, Lauren Elkin and Scott Esposito (n.a.)
  7. Joyland, Stephen King (n.a.)
  8. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (29)
  9. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (40)
  10. My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain, Patricio Pron (n.a.)
  11. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (8)
  12. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (7)
  13. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (5)
  14. Atonement, Ian McEwan (13)
  15. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (22)

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May, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  2. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (15)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (2)
  6. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (22)
  7. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (9)
  8. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (13)
  9. Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan (n.a.)
  10. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (50)
  11. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (5)
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (12)
  13. Atonement, Ian McEwan (6)
  14. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (8)
  15. My Struggle II: A Man in Love, Karl Ove Knausgaard (4)

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April, 2013

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (3)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  4. My Struggle II: A Man in Love, Karl Ove Knausgaard (n.a.)
  5. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (10)
  6. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  7. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (15)
  8. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (6)
  9. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (11)
  10. Proof, David Auburn (20)
  11. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (7)
  13. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (8)
  14. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (17)
  15. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (-)

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March, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  3. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  5. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (8)
  6. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (9)
  7. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (11)
  8. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (6)
  9. Pentecost, David Edgar (39)
  10. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (7)
  11. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (10)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (12)
  13. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (13)
  14. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (17)
  15. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (19)

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February, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (7)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  6. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (3)
  7. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (4)
  8. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (8)
  9. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (10)
  10. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (6)
  11. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (-)
  12. Atonement, Ian McEwan (13)
  13. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (37)
  14. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson (14)
  15. The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick (48)

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January, 2013

  1. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  3. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (1)
  4. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (4)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  6. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (6)
  7. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (5)
  8. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (-)
  9. Sandalwood Death, Mo Yan (n.a.)
  10. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (10)
  11. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (13)
  12. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (-)
  13. Atonement, Ian McEwan (7)
  14. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson (-)
  15. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee (11)


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