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Most Popular Reviews - 2023


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2023, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2023

     [Reviews with an asterisk (*) were first posted in 2023.]

  1. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal
  2. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  5. Basti, Intizar Husain
  6. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre
  7. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa
  8. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
  9. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  10. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan
  11. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade
  12. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray
  13. A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux
  14. Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov
  15. Never, Ken Follett
  16. Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree
  17. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  18. The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa
  19. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay
  20. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl
  21. Silverview, John le Carré
  22. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee
  23. Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux
  24. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
  25. Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov
  26. Heaven, Kawakami Mieko
  27. Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo
  28. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  29. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol
  30. The Ice Palace, Tarjei Vesaas
  31. The Shards*, Bret Easton Ellis
  32. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  33. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  34. I Have Some Questions for You*, Rebecca Makkai
  35. Happening, Annie Ernaux
  36. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  37. The Enigma of Room 622, Joël Dicker
  38. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  39. Hell Screen, Akutagawa Ryunosuke
  40. Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur
  41. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec
  42. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
  43. Goat Days, Benyamin
  44. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat
  45. Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
  46. The Reunion, Guillaume Musso
  47. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
  48. Old Filth, Jane Gardam
  49. Voss, Patrick White
  50. The Face of Another, Abe Kobo

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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, 2023

- Reviews -

  1. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. A Shining, Jon Fosse (n.a.)
  4. Skeletons in the Closet, Jean-Patrick Manchette (n.a.)
  5. The Gold Seekers, Augusto Monterroso (n.a.)
  6. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (11)
  7. The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute, Pu Songling (n.a.)
  8. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (3)
  9. Newton's Brain, Jakub Arbes (n.a.)
  10. The Necessary Angel, C.K.Stead (n.a.)
  11. The Riven Heart of Moscow, Mikhail Osorgin (n.a.)
  12. Distress, Greg Egan (n.a.)
  13. Maigret and the Saturday Caller, Georges Simenon (n.a.)
  14. Trilogy, Jon Fosse (19)
  15. White Shadow, Roy Jacobsen (n.a.)

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November, 2023

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
  2. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (4)
  3. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (2)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (28)
  5. My Death, Lisa Tuttle (n.a.)
  6. Beethoven's Assassins, Andrew Crumey (n.a.)
  7. The Secret Hours, Mick Herron (n.a.)
  8. Memoirs, Pablo Neruda (25)
  9. Lichtspiel, Daniel Kehlmann (n.a.)
  10. Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo (51)
  11. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (61)
  12. The Last One, Fatima Daas (-)
  13. The Jib Door, Marlen Haushofer (n.a.)
  14. Bournville, Jonathan Coe (27)
  15. Die Ballade des letzten Gastes, Peter Handke (n.a.)

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October, 2023

  1. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (55)
  2. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (6)
  3. Trilogy, Jon Fosse (-)
  4. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (1)
  5. An Angel Walks Through the Stage, Jon Fosse (n.a.)
  6. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (11)
  7. The Wolves of Eternity, Karl Ove Knausgaard (n.a.)
  8. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl (19)
  9. The Pole, J.M.Coetzee (n.a.)
  10. The Siren's Lament, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (n.a.)
  11. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (-)
  12. The Three Fat Men, Yuri Olesha (n.a.)
  13. Melancholy, Jon Fosse (-)
  14. The Babes in the Wood, Ruth Rendell (n.a.)
  15. Scenes from a Childhood, Jon Fosse (-)

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September, 2023

  1. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (8)
  2. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (21)
  3. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (1)
  4. Beyond the Door of No Return, David Diop (n.a.)
  5. The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below, José María Arguedas (n.a.)
  6. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (20)
  7. The Gasp, Romain Gary (n.a.)
  8. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol (19)
  9. Nipponia Nippon, Abe Kazushige (n.a.)
  10. In Praise of Shadows, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (n.a.)
  11. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  12. Persuader, Lee Child (n.a.)
  13. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (72)
  14. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (-)
  15. Bournville, Jonathan Coe (n.a.)

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August, 2023

  1. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. The Reunion, Guillaume Musso (-)
  4. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (3)
  5. Swastika Night, Murray Constantine (Katharine Burdekin) (n.a.)
  6. The Feast, Margaret Kennedy (n.a.)
  7. Exiled Shadow, Norman Manea (n.a.)
  8. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (11)
  9. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (21)
  10. Do You Remember Being Born ?, Sean Michaels (n.a.)
  11. The Wizard of the Kremlin, Giuliano da Empoli (n.a.)
  12. The Specters of Algeria, Hwang Yeo Jung (n.a.)
  13. This Little Art, Kate Briggs (n.a.)
  14. Honoré de Balzac, Peter Brooks (n.a.)
  15. The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa (6)

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July, 2023

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
  2. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (-)
  3. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (6)
  4. The Most Secret Memory of Men, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (n.a.)
  5. Happy Valley, Patrick White (-)
  6. The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa (34)
  7. February 1933, Uwe Wittstock (n.a.)
  8. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
  9. Lobster, Guillaume Lecasble (n.a.)
  10. Basti, Intizar Husain (11)
  11. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (2)
  12. What Entropy Means to Me, George Alec Effinger (n.a.)
  13. People from My Neighborhood, Kawakami Hiromi (n.a.)
  14. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  15. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (53)

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June, 2023

  1. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
  2. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (5)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  4. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
  5. Tomás Nevinson, Javier Marías (n.a.)
  6. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (10)
  7. A Season on Earth, Gerald Murnane (n.a.)
  8. I Hate Martin Amis et al., Peter Barry (n.a.)
  9. The Unseen, Roy Jacobsen (n.a.)
  10. Mrs. S, K. Patrick (n.a.)
  11. Basti, Intizar Husain (3)
  12. Sir Thomas Browne, Gavin Francis (n.a.)
  13. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Yagisawa Satoshi (n.a.)
  14. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (15)
  15. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (25)

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May, 2023

  1. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  3. Basti, Intizar Husain (4)
  4. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (16)
  5. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (10)
  6. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  7. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth (-)
  8. Dalkey Days, Steven Moore (n.a.)
  9. Morning Yet on Creation Day, Chinua Achebe (-)
  10. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (6)
  11. Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov (58)
  12. Biography of X, Catherine Lacey (n.a.)
  13. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (14)
  14. Seduced by Story, Peter Brooks (n.a.)
  15. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (7)

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April, 2023

  1. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (1)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  4. Basti, Intizar Husain (8)
  5. The Garden of Seven Twilights, Miquel de Palol (n.a.)
  6. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (77)
  7. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (5)
  8. Look at the Lights, My Love, Annie Ernaux (n.a.)
  9. A Man's Place , Annie Ernaux (21)
  10. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (27)
  11. Everybody Dies in this Novel, Beka Adamashvili (n.a.)
  12. Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, Kobayashi Erika (n.a.)
  13. Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov (17)
  14. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (6)
  15. Chaka, Thomas Mofolo (48)

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March, 2023

  1. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (3)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  4. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (1)
  5. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (5)
  6. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (24)
  7. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (74)
  8. Basti, Intizar Husain (18)
  9. The Birthday Party, Laurent Mauvignier (n.a.)
  10. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (50)
  11. First Blood, Amélie Nothomb (n.a.)
  12. Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (10)
  13. Happy Valley, Patrick White (-)
  14. Ghosts in Princeton, Daniel Kehlmann (n.a.)
  15. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (81)

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February, 2023

  1. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (52)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (2)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (3)
  5. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (6)
  6. Siblings, Brigitte Reimann (n.a.)
  7. The Hive, Camilo José Cela (n.a.)
  8. Poor Things, Alasdair Gray (68)
  9. Black Empire, George S. Schuyler (n.a.)
  10. Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree (28)
  11. I Have Some Questions for You, Rebecca Makkai (n.a.)
  12. Collected Works, Lydia Sandgren (n.a.)
  13. Love at Six Thousand Degrees, Kashimada Maki (n.a.)
  14. A Man's Place , Annie Ernaux (27)
  15. Never, Ken Follett (14)

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January, 2023

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
  2. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (4)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  4. The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis (n.a.)
  5. The Reunion, Guillaume Musso (42)
  6. Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov (15)
  7. The Voice, Gabriel Okara (8)
  8. Mr. Breakfast, Jonathan Carroll (n.a.)
  9. Forbidden Notebook, Alba de Céspedes (n.a.)
  10. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (35)
  11. One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (-)
  12. Woman of the Dead, Bernhard Aichner (-)
  13. Silverview, John le Carré (33)
  14. Never, Ken Follett (29)
  15. Idol, Burning, Usami Rin (n.a.)

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