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Most Popular Reviews - 2014


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2014, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2014

  1. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  3. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  4. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  5. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  7. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  8. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
  9. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  10. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  11. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  13. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  14. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones
  15. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  16. Q & A, Vikas Swarup
  17. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  18. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
  19. The History Boys, Alan Bennett
  20. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  21. The Assault, Harry Mulisch
  22. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar
  23. Atonement, Ian McEwan
  24. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
  25. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo
  26. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl
  27. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki
  28. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah
  29. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan
  30. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
  31. Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  32. The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng
  33. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  34. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  35. Disgrace, J.M.Coetzee
  36. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ
  37. 'Art', Yasmina Reza
  38. Spies, Michael Frayn
  39. Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
  40. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
  41. Proof, David Auburn
  42. Wizard of the Crow, , Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  43. One World, Peter Singer
  44. Voss, Patrick White
  45. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  46. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett
  47. Closer, Patrick Marber
  48. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard
  49. In the Light of What We Know, Zia Haider Rahman
  50. The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

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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, 2014

  1. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4)
  5. The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett (80)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  7. The Strange Library, Murakami Haruki (27)
  8. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (9)
  9. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (12)
  10. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (36)
  11. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (11)
  12. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (28)
  13. Under the Rainbow, Solomonica de Winter (-)
  14. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (14)
  15. So Long a Letter, Mariama Bâ (21)

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November, 2014

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  3. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (6)
  5. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (9)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (10)
  7. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (28)
  8. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (17)
  9. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (5)
  10. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (67)
  11. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (15)
  12. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (21)
  13. Honeymoon, Patrick Modiano (n.a.)
  14. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (19)
  15. Proof, David Auburn (36)

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October, 2014

  1. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (12)
  3. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  5. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (9)
  6. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (11)
  7. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl (2)
  8. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (61)
  9. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (22)
  10. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (14)
  11. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (6)
  12. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (10)
  13. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah (44)
  14. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (15)
  15. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (25)

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September, 2014

  1. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (1)
  2. How Democratic Is the American Constitution ?, Robert A. Dahl (-)
  3. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (16)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (5)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  6. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (2)
  7. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (7)
  8. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin (28)
  9. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (4)
  10. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (29)
  11. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (21)
  12. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (12)
  13. Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires, Julio Cortázar (n.a.)
  14. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  15. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (67)

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August, 2014

  1. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  2. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (8)
  3. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  4. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (1)
  5. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (12)
  6. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
  7. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (9)
  8. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  9. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, David Shafer (n.a.)
  10. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (7)
  11. The Children Act, Ian McEwan (n.a.)
  12. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
  13. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (78)
  14. Wittgenstein Jr, Lars Iyer (n.a.)
  15. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami Haruki (29)

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July, 2014

  1. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
  5. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  6. Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle (50)
  7. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (15)
  8. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (12)
  9. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (5)
  10. The Symmetry Teacher, Andrei Bitov (n.a.)
  11. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (30)
  12. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (47)
  13. In the Light of What We Know, Zia Haider Rahman (18)
  14. The Mad and the Bad, Jean-Patrick Manchette (n.a.)
  15. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (41)

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June, 2014

  1. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (3)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (12)
  4. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  5. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (11)
  6. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat (26)
  7. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (8)
  8. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (6)
  9. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (13)
  10. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (9)
  11. The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, Joël Dicker (5)
  12. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (21)
  13. Laidlaw, William McIlvanney (n.a.)
  14. Summer House with Swimming Pool, Herman Koch (n.a.)
  15. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (7)

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May, 2014

  1. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (15)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  5. The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, Joël Dicker (n.a.)
  6. Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (18)
  7. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (11)
  8. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (17)
  9. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (3)
  10. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (5)
  11. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (4)
  12. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (62)
  13. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (9)
  14. Matigari, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (21)
  15. In the Light of What We Know, Zia Haider Rahman (16)

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April, 2014

- Reviews -

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda (-)
  3. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (7)
  4. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (9)
  5. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (6)
  6. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel García Márquez (-)
  7. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (5)
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  9. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (18)
  10. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane (29)
  11. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (2)
  12. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (19)
  13. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (14)
  14. F, Daniel Kehlmann (n.a.)
  15. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (13)

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March, 2014

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (1)
  3. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  4. The Good Life Elsewhere, Vladimir Lorchenkov (n.a.)
  5. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (9)
  6. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (15)
  7. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (8)
  8. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  9. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (5)
  10. Arcadia, Tom Stoppard (31)
  11. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (18)
  12. A Sentimental Novel, Alain Robbe-Grillet (n.a.)
  13. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (7)
  14. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (43)
  15. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (13)

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February, 2014

- Reviews -

  1. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (35)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  3. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (8)
  5. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (1)
  6. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah (56)
  7. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (6)
  8. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (17)
  9. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (20)
  10. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (10)
  11. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo (27)
  12. The Panda Theory, Pascal Garnier (n.a.)
  13. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (7)
  14. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (11)
  15. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (14)

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January, 2014

  1. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (1)
  2. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (2)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  4. 1914, Jean Echenoz (n.a.)
  5. The The Guest Cat, Hiraide Takashi (n.a.)
  6. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (9)
  7. The History Boys, Alan Bennett (5)
  8. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (57)
  9. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (11)
  10. In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (70)
  11. The Assault, Harry Mulisch (6)
  12. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (12)
  13. The Light and the Dark, Mikhail Shishkin (n.a.)
  14. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (13)
  15. Atonement, Ian McEwan (23)


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