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Most Popular Reviews - 2015


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2015, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2015

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  2. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  5. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat
  6. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  7. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  8. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  9. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  10. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett
  11. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  12. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  13. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  14. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  15. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
  16. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  17. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek
  18. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
  19. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  20. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  21. The Children Act, Ian McEwan
  22. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo
  23. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
  24. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  25. The Assault, Harry Mulisch
  26. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  27. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  28. Norwegian Wod, Murakami Haruki
  29. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  30. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah
  31. The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
  32. Voss, Patrick White
  33. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
  34. Wizard of the Crow, , Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  35. The History Boys, Alan Bennett
  36. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl
  37. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  38. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  39. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
  40. Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  41. 'Art', Yasmina Reza
  42. Spies, Michael Frayn
  43. Proof, David Auburn
  44. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  45. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  46. To Each His Own, Leonardo Sciascia
  47. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  48. Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela
  49. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  50. Amir Arsalan, Muhammad 'Ali Naqib al-Mamalik

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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, 2015

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (1)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  5. The Healers, Ayi Kwei Armah (20)
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (10)
  7. The Triple Helix, Richard Lewontin (-)
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  9. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett (76)
  10. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (9)
  11. After the Circus, Patrick Modiano (n.a.)
  12. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (16)
  13. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (4)
  14. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (12)
  15. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (15)

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November, 2015

  1. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (11)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  4. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (2)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (4)
  6. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (9)
  7. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (14)
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (12)
  9. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (13)
  10. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (8)
  11. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (19)
  12. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (10)
  13. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (5)
  14. Captivity, Spiró György (n.a.)
  15. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (16)

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October, 2015

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (8)
  3. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (2)
  4. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (6)
  5. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  7. Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich (-)
  8. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (16)
  9. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (7)
  10. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (17)
  11. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (31)
  12. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (9)
  13. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (25)
  14. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (14)
  15. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (20)

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September, 2015

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  2. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (10)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  4. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes (33)
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  6. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (1)
  7. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (11)
  8. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (31)
  9. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  10. Beauty is a Wound, Eka Kurniawan (n.a.)
  11. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (26)
  12. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (14)
  13. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl (-)
  14. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (49)
  15. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (8)

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August, 2015

- Reviews -

  1. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (1)
  2. The Widower, Mohamed Latiff Mohamed (n.a.)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (8)
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  6. Fragments of Lichtenberg, Pierre Senges (n.a.)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  8. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  9. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (9)
  10. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (10)
  11. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (22)
  12. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn (95)
  13. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (30)
  14. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (16)
  15. Amir Arsalan, Muhammad 'Ali Naqib al-Mamalik (23)

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July, 2015

- Reviews -

  1. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (1)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  5. Submission, Michel Houellebecq (n.a.)
  6. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  7. The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton (7)
  8. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (38)
  9. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (8)
  10. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (14)
  11. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (19)
  12. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (15)
  13. Gene Mapper, Fujii Taiyo (n.a.)
  14. A Perfect Crime, A Yi (n.a.)
  15. The Way Things Were, Aatish Taseer (n.a.)

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June, 2015

  1. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  6. Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (n.a.)
  7. The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton (25)
  8. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (10)
  9. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (6)
  10. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  11. Book of Numbers, Joshua Cohen (20)
  12. Before and During, Vladimir Sharov (n.a.)
  13. The Illogic of Kassel, Enrique Vila-Matas (n.a.)
  14. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (32)
  15. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (21)

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May, 2015

- Reviews -

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (11)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (3)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (2)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (12)
  8. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (10)
  9. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (15)
  10. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (n.a.)
  11. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (7)
  12. Sphinx, Anne Garréta (n.a.)
  13. Against Nature, Tomas Espedal (n.a.)
  14. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (94)
  15. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (19)

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April, 2015

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (4)
  3. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (5)
  4. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (13)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (10)
  7. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (12)
  8. The Eye of the Storm, Patrick White (-)
  9. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (6)
  10. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (14)
  11. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (17)
  12. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  13. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (26)
  14. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (11)
  15. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)

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March, 2015

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  3. The Helios Disaster, Linda Boström Knausgård (n.a.)
  4. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (6)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (8)
  6. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (14)
  7. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  9. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (17)
  10. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  11. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (23)
  12. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
  13. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (33)
  14. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (9)
  15. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (80)

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February, 2015

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
  4. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (14)
  7. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (22)
  8. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (8)
  9. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (12)
  10. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (21)
  11. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
  12. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  13. The Investigation, Peter Weiss (-)
  14. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (34)
  15. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (43)

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January, 2015

- Reviews -

  1. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  2. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (30)
  4. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (8)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  7. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (14)
  8. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  9. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (58)
  10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (12)
  11. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (9)
  12. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (11)
  13. The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Mizumura Minae (n.a.)
  14. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (10)
  15. The Children Act, Ian McEwan (56)


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