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Most Popular Reviews - 2020


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2020, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek
  5. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  6. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat
  7. Goat Days, Benyamin
  8. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay
  9. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  10. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade
  11. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  12. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat
  13. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki
  14. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan
  15. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec
  16. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand
  17. Basti, Intizar Husain
  18. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra
  19. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  20. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee
  21. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fay Weldon
  22. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray
  23. The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa
  24. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  25. The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome
  26. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  27. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
  28. Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
  29. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
  30. First Love, Ivan Turgenev
  31. Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortázar
  32. Voices from Chernobyl, Svetlana Aleksievich
  33. Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay
  34. Labyrinths, Christopher Okigbo
  35. One night @ the call center, Chetan Bhagat
  36. The Voice, Gabriel Okara
  37. River of Fire, Qurratulain Hyder
  38. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes
  39. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  40. The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup
  41. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa
  42. Voss, Patrick White
  43. Women without Men, Shahrnush Parsipur
  44. On Love, Alain de Botton
  45. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  46. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  47. Home and Exile, Chinua Achebe
  48. One World, Peter Singer
  49. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  50. A Man's Place, Annie Ernaux

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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, 2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  3. Sanshirō, Natsume Sōseki (-)
  4. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy (41)
  5. New Passengers, Tine Høeg (n.a.)
  6. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (9)
  7. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (31)
  8. The Garden Next Door, José Donoso (n.a.)
  9. Homeland (Marrow and Bone), Walter Kempowski (n.a.)
  10. Marshlands, André Gide (n.a.)
  11. The Healer, Antti Tuomainen (n.a.)
  12. The Voice, Gabriel Okara (26)
  13. The Golden Child, Penelope Fitzgerald (n.a.)
  14. Lobster Life, Erik Fosnes Hansen (n.a.)
  15. Brief Lives of Idiots, Ermanno Cavazzoni (n.a.)

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November, 2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  2. Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortázar (40)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  4. Q & A, Vikas Swarup (-)
  5. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (36)
  6. The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome (35)
  7. The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life, Ricardo Piglia (n.a.)
  8. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (4)
  9. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (2)
  10. The War of the Poor, Éric Vuillard (n.a.)
  11. The Age of Skin, Dubravka Ugresic (n.a.)
  12. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (46)
  13. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (19)
  14. The Paper Men, William Golding (n.a.)
  15. Paradise of the Blind, Duong Thu Huong (n.a.)

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October, 2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (8)
  2. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (4)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  4. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (5)
  5. Soledad's Sister, Jose Dalisay (38)
  6. The Last Interview, Eshkol Nevo (n.a.)
  7. Earthlings, Murata Sayaka (n.a.)
  8. At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (n.a.)
  9. The Clerk, Guillermo Saccomanno (n.a.)
  10. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra (18)
  11. The Dark Library, Cyrille Martinez (n.a.)
  12. Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo (39)
  13. The Perfect Nine, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (n.a.)
  14. The Bell in the Lake, Lars Mytting (n.a.)
  15. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes (3)

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September, 2020

  1. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (n.a.)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. This I Believe, Carlos Fuentes (49)
  4. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (44)
  5. The Lamp of Umm Hashim, Yahya Hakki (46)
  6. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Kalidasa (96)
  7. Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami, David Karashima (n.a.)
  8. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (17)
  9. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (48)
  10. The Caretaker, Doon Arbus (n.a.)
  11. The Memory Monster, Yishai Sarid (n.a.)
  12. The Distance, Ivan Vladislavić (n.a.)
  13. The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald (n.a.)
  14. The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (n.a.)
  15. Ascent to Glory, Álvaro Santana-Acuña (n.a.)

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August, 2020

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fay Weldon (3)
  3. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee (44)
  4. Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac (n.a.)
  5. Not a Novel, Jenny Erpenbeck (n.a.)
  6. No Room at the Morgue, Jean-Patrick Manchette (n.a.)
  7. Mortal Causes, Ian Rankin (46)
  8. Spark, Matayoshi Naoki (n.a.)
  9. The End of Me, Alfred Hayes (n.a.)
  10. Loves That Bind, Julián Ríos (n.a.)
  11. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (41)
  12. The Corporation Wars: Dissidence, Ken MacLeod (n.a.)
  13. A User's Manual, Jiří Kolář (n.a.)
  14. Arabian Nights and Days, Naguib Mahfouz (n.a.)
  15. Manual, Daren King (n.a.)

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July, 2020

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  2. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (13)
  3. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fay Weldon (2)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (12)
  5. A Man, Hirano Keiichiro (n.a.)
  6. Villa of Delirium, Adrien Goetz (n.a.)
  7. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  8. The Lusíads, Luís Vaz de Camões (n.a.)
  9. Crisis, Karin Boye (n.a.)
  10. Clark Gifford's Body, Kenneth Fearing (n.a.)
  11. They Say Sarah, Pauline Delabroy-Allard (n.a.)
  12. Conversations with James Joyce, Arthur Power (n.a.)
  13. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (28)
  14. Sand, Ashokamitran (n.a.)
  15. A Death, Zalman Shneour (n.a.)

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June, 2020

  1. You Should Have Left, Daniel Kehlmann (-)
  2. Big Girls Don't Cry, Fay Weldon (29)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  4. After Tears, Niq Mhlongo (-)
  5. Memoirs, Pablo Neruda (-)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (7)
  7. Miss Iceland, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (n.a.)
  8. Four by Four, Sara Mesa (n.a.)
  9. The Hospital Ship, Martin Bax (n.a.)
  10. Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson (n.a.)
  11. Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, Anne Carson (n.a.)
  12. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  13. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (78)
  14. The Thousand and One Ghosts, Alexandre Dumas (n.a.)
  15. Esau and Jacob, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (n.a.)

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May, 2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. The Unicorn, Iris Murdoch (n.a.)
  4. The Distant Lands, Julian Green (n.a.)
  5. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (9)
  6. The Wall, Marlen Haushofer (n.a.)
  7. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  8. Scandal, Endo Shusaku (n.a.)
  9. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (30)
  10. Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (33)
  11. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (4)
  12. Maigret and the Ghost, Georges Simenon (n.a.)
  13. Nihilist Girl, Sofya Kovalevskaya (n.a.)
  14. The Man Who Died, Antti Tuomainen (n.a.)
  15. Dante's Bones, Guy P. Raffa (n.a.)

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April, 2020

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  3. Goat Days, Benyamin (5)
  4. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (9)
  5. Breasts and Eggs, Kawakami Mieko (n.a.)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  7. Basti, Intizar Husain (7)
  8. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (4)
  9. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (12)
  10. Insomnia, Alberts Bels (n.a.)
  11. A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux (n.a.)
  12. A Life Without End, Frédéric Beigbeder (n.a.)
  13. The Palimpsests, Aleksandra Lun (n.a.)
  14. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec (25)
  15. Woe from Wit, Alexander Griboedov (n.a.)

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March, 2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  3. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (n.a.)
  4. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (5)
  5. Goat Days, Benyamin (6)
  6. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  7. Basti, Intizar Husain (73)
  8. The Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome (-)
  9. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (24)
  10. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra (18)
  11. The Society of Reluctant Dreamers, José Eduardo Agualusa (n.a.)
  12. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat(7)
  13. An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears (n.a.)
  14. The Eighth Life (For Brilka), Nino Haratischvili (n.a.)
  15. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (57)

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February, 2020

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (3)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (4)
  5. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (5)
  6. Goat Days, Benyamin (8)
  7. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (6)
  8. Reading is Walking, Gonçalo M. Tavares (n.a.)
  9. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (70)
  10. The Circus, Jonas Karlsson (n.a.)
  11. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (12)
  12. Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores, Massimo Carlotto (n.a.)
  13. Card Catalogue, Alistair Ian Blyth (n.a.)
  14. Artforum, César Aira (n.a.)
  15. Foreign Studies, Endo Shusaku (n.a.)

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January, 2020

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  3. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat (5)
  4. Five Point Someone, Chetan Bhagat (8)
  5. Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Okot p'Bitek (3)
  6. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat (10)
  7. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (11)
  8. Goat Days, Benyamin (24)
  9. Samskara, U.R.Ananthamurthy (23)
  10. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (9)
  11. The Pine Islands, Marion Poschmann (n.a.)
  12. The Gift of a Cow, Premchand (14)
  13. Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann (n.a.)
  14. The Sweet Indifference of the World, Peter Stamm (n.a.)
  15. The Black Cathedral, Marcial Gala (n.a.)

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