Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Reading List: Jan 2017 to Jan 2018

  1. The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
  2. Ratner's Star (Don Delillo)
  3. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
  4. The Human Stain (Philip Roth)
  5. Prelude to Foundation (Isaac Asimov) (reread)
  6. मोहन राकेश की यादगारी कहानियां (मोहन राकेश) (tr. Memorable Stories of Mohan Rakesh (Mohan Rakesh))
  7. Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) 
  8. Attack on Titan: Vol 1 (Hajime Isayama)
  9. Attack on Titan: Vol 2 (Hajime Isayama)
  10. Boomerang (Michael Lewis)
  11. Forward the Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
  12. Falling Man (Don DeLillo)
  13. दाग़ देहलवी: ग़ज़ल का एक स्कूल (सं: निदा फ़ाज़ली) (Daagh Dehalvi: A School of Ghazal (Ed. Nida Fazli))
  14. Foundation's Edge (Isaac Asimov) (reread)
  15. Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
  16. Foundation and Earth (Isaac Asimov)
  17. शिकायत मुझे भी है (हरिशंकर परसाई) (tr. I Too Have A Complaint (Harishankar Parsai))
  18. The Caves of Steel (Isaac Asimov)
  19. Complete Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
  20. Nemesis (Isaac Asimov)
  21. दोज़ख़नामा (रबिशंकर बल (अमृता बेरा)) (tr. Chronicles of Hell (Rabishankar Bal (Amrita Bera)))
  22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C Clarke)
  23. Lords of Finance (Liaquat Ahmed)
  24. Why Nations Fail? (Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson)
  25. Flash Boys (Michael Lewis)
  26. Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
  27. अभी, बिलकुल अभी (केदारनाथ सिंह) (tr. Now, Just Now (Kedarnath Singh))
  28. Man Tiger (Eka Kurniawan)
  29. Submission (Michel Houellebecq)
  30. Horse Walks Into a Bar (David Grossman)

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Megamore Recent Acquisitions

Featuring:
  1. Submission (Michel Houellebecq)
  2. R Packages (Hadley Wickham)
  3. The Competent Authority (Shovon Chowdhary)
  4. Analysis of Financial Time Series (Ruey Tsay)
  5. R for Data Science (Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund)
  6. Convergence of Probability Measures (Patrick Billingsley)
  7. क्या भूलूँ क्या याद करूँ (हरिवंश राय बच्चन) (tr. What to remember what to forget (Harivansh Rai Bachchan))
  8. सोनम गुप्ता बेवफ़ा नहीं है (अनिल यादव) (tr. Sonam Gupta is not a cheat (Anil Yadav))
  9. आकारों के आसपास (कुंवर नारायण) (tr. In the vicinity of shapes (Kunwar Narayan))
  10. A Horse Walks Into A Bar (David Grossman)
  11. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler (Italo Calvino)
  12. The Sellout (Paul Beatty)
  13. The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
  14. On Anarchism (Noam Chomsky)

Tuesday, January 09, 2018

The Child is Grown, The Dream is Gone. Not.

Featuring:
  1. The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
  2. Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
  3. Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (tr. Ken Liu)
  4. Man Tiger (Eka Kurniawan)
  5. Vampire in Love (Enrique Vila-Matas)
  6. अभी, बिलकुल अभी (केदारनाथ सिंह) (tr. Now, Just Now (Kedarnath Singh))
  7. खिलेगा तो देखेंगे (विनोद कुमार शुक्ल) (tr. Will See When Blooms (Vinod Kumar Shukla))
  8. तट पर हूँ पर तटस्थ नहीं (कुंवर नारायण) (tr. On The (Shore)Line But Not Neutral (Kunwar Narayan))
  9. The Peripheral (William Gibson)