The title story in this week's Outlook (India) is: '100 books that can change your life', as Mukul Kesavan, Mani Shankar Aiyar, David Davidar, Nilanjana Roy, and Sunil Sethi (not a bad line-up) selected A hundred essential books [...] and the reasons they should be read -- and reread.
In Word Psmiths In The City they also talk about making the selection -- noting: "This list is not about the greatest books or the most popular ones".
(This is long, and offers some decent entertainment value, e.g. this exchange re. Anna Karenina
In Word Psmiths In The City they also talk about making the selection -- noting: "This list is not about the greatest books or the most popular ones".
(This is long, and offers some decent entertainment value, e.g. this exchange re. Anna Karenina
Sunil Sethi: But did you know it was going to be on the rail tracks ?And, helpfully, they also list The Almosts: 50 Not Out -- the fifty titles that almost made the list .....
Mukul Kesavan: Oh, that's a bonus, yes. She was perishable from the start.