My recommendations for this year are: 1. Max Hastings' excellent All Hell Let Loose. A rather compelling, very well balanced retelling of WW2. Most excellent.
2. VS Ramachandran's The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human. I have a gigantic man-crush on VS. Very good. 3. Dara O Briain's Tickling the English. Basically an immensely smart, sensitive Irish standup comic musing on the English. Very funny. But also intelligent. 4. Anything by Arnaldur Indridasson. I discovered this Icelandic crime writer this year. Brooding, plodding, cold, grey and all that. But also shorn of all ornamentation. Delightful. 5. John Julius Norwich's The Popes. Magisterial history of the papacy. You, no not even you Dan Brown, can make this stuff up. 6. Sebastian Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem: The Biography. Jhakkas. I've read mostly non-fiction this year. Sidin Sunny Vadukut London correspondent, Mint - WSJ www.livemint.com Mobile: 07572441292 On 5 Dec 2011, at 17:47, Anish wrote: >> Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar +1. >Levine? and Carol Dweck's Mindset >> +1 > Have to admit have read both of them intersting books > ------Original Message------ > From: Shoba Narayan > Sender: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011 > Sent: 5 Dec 2011 17:43 > >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 10:13:19 +0530 >> From: Sumant Srivathsan <[email protected]> >> >> So, having identified a deficiency, Shoba, got recommendations? > > I loved Beautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro. Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar. > Price of Privilege by Madeline someone. Levine? and Carol Dweck's Mindset. > But not too many women writers in the subcontinent. > Namita Devidayal's book? I liked her Music Room but haven't read the recent > one. > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
