Best Of Books

Amit Chaudhari’s Best Indian Books

• Walking in December (Anand Thakore) Delicate powerful poems on inward journeys.
  

• On Cleaning Bookshelves (Arundhati Subramaniam) Assured, intelligent poems.
  
• Dangerlok (Eunice D’Souza) Its casual, unillusioned drift belies the book’s sympathy with life.
  
• Uncollected Prose and Poems (A.K. Ramanujan) A collection betraying his constant reinvention..
  

• In Search of the Mahabharata (Jean Claude Carriere) A small delight.

Pankaj Mishra’s Best International Books

• Empire (Dominic Lieven) A profound, unostentatious grasp about the workings of empires, society.
  

• Complete Works (Isaac Babel) New translation places Babel in his own unique realm.
  
• Lineages of the Present (Aijaz Ahmed) This piece includes great reassessment of Maulana Azad.
  
• Hell and Back (Tim Parks) Has some penetrating essays on W.G. Sebald, Leopardi, Verga, Borges.
  
• Summerland (Malcolm Knox) Assured fictional debut by the Australian writer.