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Most Popular Reviews - 2018


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2018, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  2. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  5. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  7. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  8. Goat Days, Benyamin
  9. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  10. Basti, Intizar Husain
  11. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  13. Cold Skin, Albert Sánchez Piñol
  14. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  15. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat
  16. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  17. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo
  18. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  19. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  20. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki
  21. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  22. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan
  23. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay
  24. Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
  25. Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela
  26. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah
  27. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  28. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  29. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec
  30. Voss, Patrick White
  31. Anniversaries, Uwe Johnson
  32. River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder
  33. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl
  34. Memoirs, Pablo Neruda
  35. Veronica My Daughter, Ogali Ogali
  36. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  37. Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay
  38. The Rainbow Troops, Andrea Hirata
  39. The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome
  40. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  41. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  42. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes
  43. Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur
  44. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White
  45. The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa
  46. Killing Commendatore, Murakami Haruki
  47. Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  48. Wizard of the Crow, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  49. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
  50. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

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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, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Goat Days, Benyamin (9)
  3. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (4)
  4. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  5. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (13)
  6. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (7)
  7. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (2)
  8. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (8)
  9. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (6)
  10. A Chronicle of the Peacocks, Intizar Husain (95)
  11. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (11)
  12. Anniversaries, Uwe Johnson (12)
  13. Memoirs, Pablo Neruda (38)
  14. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (20)
  15. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White (81)

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November, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (3)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  4. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (27)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (12)
  6. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (7)
  7. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (6)
  8. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (4)
  9. Goat Days, Benyamin (8)
  10. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (2)
  11. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (17)
  12. Anniversaries, Uwe Johnson (16)
  13. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  14. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (14)
  15. The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome (67)

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October, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (59)
  3. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (2)
  4. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (4)
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  6. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (5)
  7. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (20)
  8. Goat Days, Benyamin (13)
  9. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (10)
  10. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (8)
  11. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  12. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (19)
  13. Killing Commendatore, Murakami Haruki (33)
  14. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  15. The Day of the Owl , Leonardo Sciascia (-)

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September, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (31)
  5. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (6)
  6. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes (10)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  8. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (-)
  9. An Accidental Man, Iris Murdoch (n.a.)
  10. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (13)
  11. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (14)
  12. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl (65)
  13. Goat Days, Benyamin (26)
  14. My Struggle: Book Six, Karl Ove Knausgaard (4)
  15. A Chronicle of the Peacocks, Intizar Husain (-)

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August, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. My Struggle: Book Six, Karl Ove Knausgaard (n.a.)
  5. Killing Commendatore, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
  6. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (14)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  8. The Man Who Came in from the Back of Beyond, 'Biyi Bandele-Thomas (34)
  9. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (37)
  10. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes (-)
  11. Crashed, Adam Tooze (n.a.)
  12. Kruso, Lutz Seiler (n.a.)
  13. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (18)
  14. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (26)
  15. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (6)

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July, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra (-)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (2)
  5. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (5)
  6. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (10)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  8. Sand, Wolfgang Herrndorf (n.a.)
  9. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (12)
  10. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (9)
  11. Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert (n.a.)
  12. Memoirs, Pablo Neruda (23)
  13. Mesopotamia, Serhiy Zhadan (n.a.)
  14. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (39)
  15. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (15)

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June, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Basti, Intizar Husain (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (10)
  5. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (39)
  6. The Valley of the Fallen, Carlos Rojas (n.a.)
  7. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (8)
  8. Heidegger's Shadow, José Pablo Feinmann (n.a.)
  9. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (23)
  10. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (32)
  11. Havoc, Tom Kristensen (n.a.)
  12. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (19)
  13. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White (50)
  14. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  15. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (25)

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May, 2018

- Reviews -

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Basti, Intizar Husain (3)
  3. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (2)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (5)
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (14)
  7. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (72)
  8. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (9)
  9. Veronica My Daughter, Ogali Ogali (37)
  10. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  11. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (6)
  12. River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder (30)
  13. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy (19)
  14. First Person, Richard Flanagan (n.a.)
  15. The Order of the Day, Éric Vuillard (n.a.)

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April, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (5)
  3. Basti, Intizar Husain (8)
  4. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (6)
  6. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (14)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  8. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah (31)
  9. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (17)
  10. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (18)
  11. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (35)
  12. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (24)
  13. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (11)
  14. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (19)
  15. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (25)

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March, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  4. Cold Skin, Albert Sánchez Piñol (1)
  5. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (11)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (15)
  8. Basti, Intizar Husain (37)
  9. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (9)
  10. Goat Days, Benyamin (22)
  11. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (29)
  12. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (12)
  13. Sanshirō, Natsume Sōseki (-)
  14. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (8)
  15. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (6)

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February, 2018

  1. Cold Skin, Albert Sánchez Piñol (13)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  6. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (51)
  7. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (42)
  8. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (10)
  9. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (6)
  10. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (41)
  11. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (11)
  12. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (73)
  13. Hotel Silence, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (n.a.)
  14. The Rehearsals, Vladimir Sharov (n.a.)
  15. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)

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January, 2018

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (12)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  5. Goat Days, Benyamin (26)
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (3)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  8. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  9. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (17)
  10. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (7)
  11. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (8)
  12. T Singer, Dag Solstad (n.a.)
  13. Cold Skin, Albert Sánchez Piñol (-)
  14. Dust, Adrián Bravi (n.a.)
  15. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (13)

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