Best Reads of 2017 – Chennai SRRs speak

So, I found a splendid group of bibliophiles during 2017 which brought a hemisphere of positive energy into my life. I wrote about them at length yesterday. And because we are readers, books always wafted over our discussions like saffron in the kahwa chai.

Now that a new year has walked in and we are looking at the various books we might read or gift or add to our collection, here is a compilation – the  top 5 reads of (some) SRRs in Chennai.

Ravi:
The Book Thieves by Anders Rydell
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levin
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhari

 

Narayanan:
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
An Inscrutable Mystery (Chidambara Rahasya) by K P Poornachandra Tejaswi
A Question of Proof by Nicholas Blake
Tracks on the Snow by Lord Charnwood

Devi Nayar:
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Solomon:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
The Surgeon of Cowthorne by Simon Winchester
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
Lion’s Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

Mahesh:
Manasarovar by Ashokamitran
Two Measures of Bhakti by Vijay Nambisan
A Meeting over the Andheri Overbridge by Ambai
The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
The Force by Don Winslow

 

Meg:
Ghachar Ghachar by Vivek Shanbhag
Sita’s Sister by Kavita Kane
Hangwoman by K R Meena
The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt
Serious Men by Manu Joseph

Saikrupa:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Before We Visit The Goddess by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Vishy:
Judas by Amos Oz
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt
Fire in Babylon by Simon Lister

Pratip:
Madhorubhagan by Perumal Murugan
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J K Rowling
Waterboarding by Bragadeesh Prasanna
Batman: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
Justice League: Origin by Geoff Johns

Karthik:
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Embassytown by China Miéville
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Renuka:
Quiet by  Susan Cain
The Liberation of Sita by Volga
Handbook For My Lover by Rosalyn D’Mello

Mine:
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil

And I am done! What are your best reads of 2017? Share it in a comment if you so wish.

May there be light (and more books in 2018!) 🙂