Arvind's Friend Comments

I must have read over 200 books in the last year. I hope to list them gradually with brief comments on each. Recent favorites include the Peter Hessler "trilogy" on China; Frank Fukuyama's "Origins of Political Order,"; Graham Green's "Quiet American" and "Power and the Glory"; Julian Barnes' "Sense of an Ending;" three Richard Kapucynski books; Le Clezio's "The Prospector"; Ian Morris' "Why the West Rules for Now,"; "Chinaman" by Karunatilaka; "Submission" by Amy Waldman; David Mitchell's "Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet"; Siddhartha Mukherjee "Emperor of All Maladies," Kissinger's "On China"; Ezra Vogel's biography of Deng Xiaoping; "Terrible Splendor" the book on the famous Davis cup tennis match between Baron von Cramm and Don Budge; Liqauat Ahamed's "Lords of Finance;" Simon Johnson and James Kwak's "White House Burning," Katherine Boo's book on the slums of Mumbai; and for the n-th time keynes' "Economic Consequences of the Peace."