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Most Popular Reviews - 2016


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2016, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  2. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  4. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  5. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  7. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat
  9. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  10. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  11. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  12. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett
  13. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  14. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
  15. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo
  16. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  17. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  18. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  19. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  20. Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  21. Spies, Michael Frayn
  22. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  23. Voss, Patrick White
  24. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  25. Indignation, Philip Roth
  26. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan
  27. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  28. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah
  29. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
  30. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  31. The Children Act, Ian McEwan
  32. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  33. 2666, Roberto Bolaño
  34. The Assault, Harry Mulisch
  35. Norwegian Wod, Murakami Haruki
  36. The Healers, Ayi Kwei Armah
  37. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
  38. Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  39. Amir Arsalan, Muhammad 'Ali Naqib al-Mamalik
  40. Wizard of the Crow, , Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  41. 'Art', Yasmina Reza
  42. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
  43. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  44. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  45. Yoruba Proverbs, Oyekan Owomoyela
  46. The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
  47. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  48. The Aesthetics of Resistance, Peter Weiss
  49. Arcadia, Iain Pears
  50. One World, Peter Singer

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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, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  5. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (7)
  6. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (3)
  7. Thus Bad Begins, Javier Marías (n.a.)
  8. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (5)
  9. White Chameleon, Christopher Hampton (-)
  10. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (10)
  11. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (8)
  12. The Evenings, Gerard Reve (n.a.)
  13. Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortázar (28)
  14. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (6)
  15. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (9)

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November, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (5)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (7)
  5. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (6)
  6. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (3)
  7. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (15)
  8. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  9. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
  10. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (8)
  11. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (13)
  12. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (16)
  13. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (12)
  14. Spies, Michael Frayn (17)
  15. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (24)

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October, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  3. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (9)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  5. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (8)
  6. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (11)
  7. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (17)
  8. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  9. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (n.a.)
  10. A Zero-Sum Game, Eduardo Rabasa (n.a.)
  11. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (18)
  12. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (1)
  13. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (12)
  14. GraveLarks, Jan Křesadlo (n.a.)
  15. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (14)

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September, 2016

  1. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (7)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal(3)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  6. Spies, Michael Frayn (40)
  7. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes (41)
  8. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (6)
  9. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (37)
  10. The Doomed City, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (n.a.)
  11. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (52)
  12. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  13. Fragile Travelers, Jovanka Živanović (n.a.)
  14. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (16)
  15. The Subsidiary, Matías Celedón (n.a.)

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August, 2016

  1. Indignation, Philip Roth (12)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (6)
  4. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (2)
  6. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  7. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (33)
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  9. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (8)
  10. Black Diamond, Zakes Mda (-)
  11. Multiple Choice, Alejandro Zambra (n.a.)
  12. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
  13. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (10)
  14. Little Jewel, Patrick Modiano (n.a.)
  15. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, Hilary Mantel (-)

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July, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  5. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (12)
  6. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (27)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  8. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (22)
  9. Atlas of an Anxious Man, Christoph Ransmayr (n.a.)
  10. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (8)
  11. Moonstone, Sjón (n.a.)
  12. Indignation, Philip Roth (56)
  13. Mr. Zed's Reflections, Hans Magnus Enzensberger (n.a.)
  14. In Parenthesis, David Jones (41)
  15. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (16)

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June, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  5. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (12)
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (3)
  7. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (21)
  8. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (31)
  9. Flashman, George MacDonald Fraser (-)
  10. Invisible Hands, Stig Sæterbakken (n.a.)
  11. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (15)
  12. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
  13. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (18)
  14. Cold Shoulder, Markus Werner (n.a.)
  15. Charlotte, David Foenkinos (n.a.)

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May, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  3. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (3)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (2)
  5. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (8)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  7. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (13)
  8. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  9. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (10)
  10. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (9)
  11. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (6)
  12. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (19)
  13. The Healers, Ayi Kwei Armah (42)
  14. Bird in a Cage, Frédéric Dard (n.a.)
  15. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (33)

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April, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  3. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (7)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (6)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (10)
  6. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (15)
  7. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (3)
  8. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (8)
  9. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (19)
  10. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  11. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (5)
  13. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (9)
  14. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (16)
  15. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (14)

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March, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  3. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (3)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (11)
  5. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (32)
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (16)
  7. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (15)
  8. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
  9. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (21)
  10. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (13)
  11. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  12. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah (48)
  13. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  14. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (34)
  15. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (17)

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February, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  3. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (6)
  4. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (22)
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  6. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (12)
  7. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  8. Arcadia, Iain Pears (13)
  9. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton (59)
  10. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (52)
  11. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (23)
  12. 2666, Roberto Bolaño (-)
  13. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (3)
  14. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (28)
  15. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (10)

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January, 2016

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (21)
  3. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (4)
  4. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  5. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (6)
  7. The Lady in the Van, Alan Bennett (2)
  8. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (15)
  9. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (22)
  10. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (12)
  11. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (17)
  12. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (36)
  13. Arcadia, Iain Pears (18)
  14. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (97)
  15. Closer, Patrick Marber (-)


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