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Most Popular Reviews - 2021


     Here are the reviews that attracted the most interest at the complete review in 2021, first the top 50 for the year and then the top 15 each month of the year.

2021

     [Reviews with an asterisk (*) were first posted in 2021.]

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo
  3. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan
  4. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay
  5. Noli Me Tangere*, José Rizal
  6. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre
  7. Now You're One of Us, Nonami Asa
  8. The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante
  9. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa
  10. Klara and the Sun*, Kazuo Ishiguro
  11. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade
  12. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  13. A Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka
  14. Never*, Ken Follett
  15. Silverview*, John le Carré
  16. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy
  17. The Voice, Gabriel Okara
  18. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Georges Perec
  19. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra
  20. Basti, Intizar Husain
  21. Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  22. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray
  23. Sofia Petrovna*, Lydia Chukovskaya
  24. Revolution 2020, Chetan Bhagat
  25. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  26. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa
  27. Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo
  28. Palace Walk, Naguib Mahfouz
  29. The Anomaly*, Hervé Le Tellier
  30. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah
  31. One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko
  32. Goat Days, Benyamin
  33. At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop
  34. The Three Mistakes of my Life, Chetan Bhagat
  35. The Story of the Stone, Cao Xueqin
  36. Morning Yet on Creation Day, Chinua Achebe
  37. Voss, Patrick White
  38. Chaka, Thomas Mofolo
  39. Krishnakanta's Will, Bankim-Chandra Chatterjee
  40. White Teeth, Okot p'Bitek
  41. Divya, Yashpal
  42. The Membranes*, Chi Ta-wei
  43. The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup
  44. The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
  45. The Morning Star*, Karl Ove Knausgaard
  46. Ambiguous Adventure, Cheikh Hamidou Kane
  47. The Cloud-Messenger, Kalidasa
  48. Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda
  49. 2666, Roberto Bolaño
  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, 2021

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  2. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (3)
  3. Silverview, John le Carré (5)
  4. The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (7)
  5. The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (23)
  6. Never, Ken Follett (1)
  7. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (10)
  8. Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson (-)
  9. Cremation, Rafael Chirbes (n.a.)
  10. White Teeth, Okot p'Bitek (25)
  11. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (6)
  12. Two Thousand Seasons, Ayi Kwei Armah (51)
  13. The Last One, Fatima Daas (n.a.)
  14. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (11)
  15. Divya, Yashpal (42)

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November, 2021

  1. Never, Ken Follett (8)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (4)
  3. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (6)
  4. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (1)
  5. Silverview, John le Carré (7)
  6. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (5)
  7. The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier (n.a.)
  8. The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (n.a.)
  9. Morning Yet on Creation Day, Chinua Achebe (84)
  10. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (17)
  11. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (18)
  12. Trust, Domenico Starnone (n.a.)
  13. Our Sister Killjoy, Ama Ata Aidoo (22)
  14. The Sea Lies Ahead, Intizar Husain (61)
  15. The Lost Library, Walter Mehring (n.a.)

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October, 2021

  1. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (1)
  2. The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante (22)
  3. The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgaard (n.a.)
  4. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (7)
  5. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  6. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (13)
  7. Silverview, John le Carré (n.a.)
  8. Never, Ken Follett (n.a.)
  9. Be as Children, Vladimir Sharov (n.a.)
  10. Lemon, Kwon Yeo-sun (n.a.)
  11. Malpertuis, Jean Ray (n.a.)
  12. Ahab (Sequels), Pierre Senges (n.a.)
  13. God on the Rocks, Jane Gardam (n.a.)
  14. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (-)
  15. Everything and Less, Mark McGurl (n.a.)

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September, 2021

  1. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (9)
  2. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (1)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (4)
  4. When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (n.a.)
  5. Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Wole Soyinka (n.a.)
  6. The American, Henry James (n.a.)
  7. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal(19)
  8. Last Words on Earth, Javier Serena (n.a.)
  9. The N'Gustro Affair, Jean-Patrick Manchette (n.a.)
  10. Awake, Harald Voetmann (n.a.)
  11. The Chestnut Man, Søren Sveistrup (90)
  12. La Madre, Grazia Deledda (n.a.)
  13. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (20)
  14. The Voice, Gabriel Okara (31)
  15. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (7)

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August, 2021

  1. Voice of a Dream, Glaydah Namukasa (58)
  2. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra (5)
  3. Pessoa, Richard Zenith (n.a.)
  4. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  5. We Who Are About To ..., Joanna Russ (n.a.)
  6. Malicroix, Henri Bosco (n.a.)
  7. Play of Giants, Wole Soyinka (-)
  8. Last Loosening, Walter Serner (n.a.)
  9. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (61)
  10. Martin Eden, Jack London (n.a.)
  11. Shikasta, Doris Lessing (n.a.)
  12. Happy Valley, Patrick White (-)
  13. An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, Alain-Paul Mallard (n.a.)
  14. One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (43)
  15. Rakes of the Old Court, Mateiu Caragiale

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July, 2021

  1. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy (-)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (8)
  4. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (4)
  5. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, Pankaj Mishra (26)
  6. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (17)
  7. The Luminous Novel, Mario Levrero (n.a.)
  8. The Atom Station, Halldór Laxness (n.a.)
  9. Adorable, Ida Marie Hede (n.a.)
  10. The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, Yury Tynyanov (n.a.)
  11. The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, Thomas De Quincey (n.a.)
  12. Bullet Train, Isaka Kotaro (n.a.)
  13. The Illustrious House of Ramires, José Maria de Eça de Queirós (n.a.)
  14. Babylon, René Crevel (n.a.)
  15. Midnight, Water City, Chris McKinney (n.a.)

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June, 2021

  1. Three Days and a Life, Pierre Lemaitre (-)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  3. The Golden Fortress, Satyajit Ray (81)
  4. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (10)
  5. Basti, Intizar Husain (27)
  6. The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen (n.a.)
  7. The Membranes, Chi Ta-wei (n.a.)
  8. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  9. Heaven, Kawakami Mieko (n.a.)
  10. Box 21, Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström (-)
  11. The Woman in the Purple Skirt, Imamura Natsuko (n.a.)
  12. Solomon's Vineyard, Jonathan Latimer (n.a.)
  13. At Night All Blood Is Black, David Diop (99)
  14. October Child, Linda Boström Knausgård (n.a.)
  15. Sevastopol, Emilio Fraia (n.a.)

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May, 2021

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (3)
  3. Now You're One of Us, Nonami Asa (1)
  4. One Man, One Matchet, T.M.Aluko (-)
  5. Journey to the End of the Night, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (n.a.)
  6. King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes (n.a.)
  7. Nives, Sacha Naspini (n.a.)
  8. Antiquities, Cynthia Ozick (6)
  9. The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, Tanguy Viel (n.a.)
  10. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (n.a.)
  11. The Critical Case of a Man Called K, Aziz Mohammed (n.a.)
  12. Among the Hedges, Sara Mesa (n.a.)
  13. Chasing the Dream, Liane de Pougy (n.a.)
  14. Greed, Elfriede Jelinek (n.a.)
  15. Nocturne of Remembrance, Nakayama Shichiri (n.a.)

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April, 2021

  1. Now You're One of Us, Nonami Asa (-)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  3. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  4. J R, William Gaddis (n.a.)
  5. First Person Singular, Murakami Haruki (n.a.)
  6. Antiquities, Cynthia Ozick (n.a.)
  7. Sofia Petrovna, Lydia Chukovskaya (9)
  8. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (41)
  9. Bharathipura, U.R.Ananthamurthy (45)
  10. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (3)
  11. The Employees, Olga Ravn (n.a.)
  12. Thirst, Amélie Nothomb (n.a.)
  13. If You Kept a Record of Sins, Andrea Bajani (n.a.)
  14. The Tool & the Butterflies, Dmitry Lipskerov (n.a.)
  15. Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin (n.a.)

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March, 2021

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (2)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (1)
  3. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (n.a.)
  4. Hurdy Gurdy, Christopher Wilson (n.a.)
  5. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (12)
  6. Basti, Intizar Husain (37)
  7. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (23)
  8. Mona, Pola Oloixarac (n.a.)
  9. Sofia Petrovna, Lydia Chukovskaya (38)
  10. The Voice, Gabriel Okara (5)
  11. Noli Me Tangere, José Rizal (n.a.)
  12. The Slaughterman's Daughter, Yaniv Iczkovits (n.a.)
  13. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (14)
  14. The Orphanage, Serhiy Zhadan (n.a.)
  15. Ciuleandra, Liviu Rebreanu (n.a.)

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February, 2021

  1. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  2. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  3. An I-Novel, Mizumura Minae (n.a.)
  4. Cowboy Graves, Roberto Bolaño (n.a.)
  5. The Voice, Gabriel Okara (-)
  6. How to Order the Universe, María José Ferrada (n.a.)
  7. Dissipatio H.G., Guido Morselli (n.a.)
  8. The Delivery, Peter Mendelsund (n.a.)
  9. Fragments of an Infinite Memory, Maël Renouard (n.a.)
  10. Peach Blossom Paradise, Ge Fei (n.a.)
  11. Maigret Hesitates, Georges Simenon (n.a.)
  12. Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection, Kalidasa (63)
  13. The Passion according to Renée Vivien, Maria-Mercè Marçal (n.a.)
  14. The 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis de Sade (16)
  15. Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo (88)

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January, 2021

  1. El Filibusterismo, José Rizal (1)
  2. The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ama Ata Aidoo (2)
  3. Killing Time in a Warm Place, Jose Dalisay (6)
  4. Childhood, Tove Ditlevsen (n.a.)
  5. Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (23)
  6. Point Zero, Narek Malian (n.a.)
  7. The Legends of Khasak, O.V.Vijayan (36)
  8. Untraceable, Sergei Lebedev (n.a.)
  9. The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, Gina Apostol (n.a.)
  10. The Dark Domain, Stefan Grabiński (n.a.)
  11. Thebes at War, Naguib Mahfouz (n.a.)
  12. Kracauer, Jörg Später (n.a.)
  13. Game of the Gods, Paolo Maurensig (n.a.)
  14. Munchausen and Clarissa, Paul Scheerbart (n.a.)
  15. The Way Out, Ricardo Piglia (n.a.)

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