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message 1: by Yash (new)

Yash (ysharma) | 96 comments Feel free to share recent purchases, great deals and impulse buys!


message 2: by Yash (new)

Yash (ysharma) | 96 comments Just to start this off, I recently acquired:

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber


message 3: by Nidhi (new)

Nidhi Srivastava (nidhisrivastava) | 109 comments Mod
Up in the Tree :'D Will pass it off to some kid after reading (and hopefully getting signed)!


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message 6: by Utkarsh (new)

Utkarsh Bansal (yourfriendlyneighborhoodbansal) | 68 comments Nikita wrote: "The Castle by Franz Kafka"

Have you read any Kafka in the past?


message 7: by Nikita (new)

Nikita Nautiyal | 63 comments Of course . The trial by Kafka is one of my favourite books . This one is sort of a sequel to that


message 8: by Utkarsh (new)

Utkarsh Bansal (yourfriendlyneighborhoodbansal) | 68 comments Ah, I see. I read The Metamorphosis and couldn't really get into it. I think I'll give The Trial a try, though.


message 9: by Malvika (new)

Malvika (malvikonga) | 12 comments Just bought the last Salinger for my collection! For Esmé - with Love And Squalor


message 10: by Utkarsh (new)

Utkarsh Bansal (yourfriendlyneighborhoodbansal) | 68 comments Just had my first go with the World Book Fair. Bought House of Cards (Francis Urquhart, #1) by Michael Dobbs , Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov , The Help by Kathryn Stockett and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee . WOOHOO!


message 11: by Yash (new)

Yash (ysharma) | 96 comments Nikita wrote: "Of course . The trial by Kafka is one of my favourite books . This one is sort of a sequel to that"

I really like The Trial too. It's my first, and (so far) only Kafka.


message 12: by Natasha (new)

Natasha D' silva | 10 comments I've bought 'The Rosie Project' by Graeme Simision and I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. I exhchanged them for two old Agatha Christie novels that I had at Bookworm


message 13: by Yash (new)

Yash (ysharma) | 96 comments Natasha wrote: "I've bought 'The Rosie Project' by Graeme Simision and I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. I exhchanged them for two old Agatha Christie novels that I had at Bookworm"

Nice. I am planning on to read The Rosie Project soon. I've heard it's pretty funny.

Bookworm is a bookstore?


message 14: by Natasha (new)

Natasha D' silva | 10 comments Yes, on Brigade Road


message 15: by Shivam (new)

Shivam Kalra (thatwriterfromdelhi) | 41 comments I bought City Of Djinns by William Dalrymple and The Mahabharata Secret by Christopher C Doyle yesterday. Both are signed copies.


message 16: by Nikita (new)

Nikita Nautiyal | 63 comments Where is this brigade road ?


message 17: by Utkarsh (new)

Utkarsh Bansal (yourfriendlyneighborhoodbansal) | 68 comments Nikita wrote: "Where is this brigade road ?"

Bangalore.


message 18: by Ramya (new)

Ramya | 1 comments Shilpa shetty's "The great indian diet".. bought it online from amazon


message 19: by Malvika (new)

Malvika (malvikonga) | 12 comments Buddha by Osamu Tezuka.


message 20: by Archi (new)

Archi Seth | 5 comments Thw witches of EastwickThe Witches of Eastwick


message 21: by Amanda (new)

Amanda | 2 comments We Are Water by Wally Lamb


message 22: by Yash (new)

Yash (ysharma) | 96 comments I just bought The Vegetarian by Han Kang .


message 23: by Dia (new)

Dia Jain (diajain) | 5 comments Hello I am Dia,
A newbie in reading. Hunting for some place where I can rent my books.
Can anyone help ?


message 24: by Lenny (last edited Jun 14, 2016 01:01AM) (new)

Lenny (lenny_ray) | 8 comments I just placed a GIANT 19-book order with my b'day money :D *rubs hands in glee*
The Passage (The Passage, #1) by Justin Cronin The Twelve (The Passage, #2) by Justin Cronin The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3) by Justin Cronin
Death A Life by George Pendle
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Anatomical Venus Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic by Joanna Ebenstein
The Fireman by Joe Hill
End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) by Stephen King
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
The Women in Cages Collected Stories by Vilas Sarang
Unseaming by Mike Allen
Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies by John Langan
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (The complete trilogy)
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Straw Men by Michael Marshall
As to when I'm actually going to get around to reading them, who knows.


aDystoPianClassic (souveekpal) wow!!! -drools- o.o
hope you enjoy reading all the books


message 26: by Abhiraj (new)

Abhiraj | 7 comments Just bought One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan at half price from Flipkart. Can't wait to read it!


message 27: by Janhavi (new)

Janhavi Malice by Keigo Higashino and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Bought these 2 recently. Can't wait to start Neverwhere.


message 28: by Varun (new)

Varun Vasudev | 81 comments A secondhand copy of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein


message 29: by Shrimukh (new)

Shrimukh | 3 comments after reading Kafka on the shore & Norwegian Wood and getting mesmerised by his work purchased 1q84 by the great Haruki Murakami


message 30: by Varun (new)

Varun Vasudev | 81 comments Secondhand copies of Dune, Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert , and Hyperion, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons


message 31: by Smriti (new)

Smriti (santreads) | 10 comments Haha, okayyy! So this month I have bought:

1 - The Bees by Laline Paul
2 - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
3 - Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
4 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
5 - The Fishermen by Chigoize Obioma
6 - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
7 - The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
8 - The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Che Guervara
9 - Quidditch Through the Ages by The Queen a.k.a JK Rowling
10 - Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
11 - How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
12 - The Color of Magic by Terry Prachett
13 - The Guide by RK Narayan
14 - The English Teacher by RK Narayan
15 - Self by Yann Martel (of Life of Pi fame)
16 - The Red House by Mark Haddon

I've had an eventful month, to say the least.


message 32: by Smriti (new)

Smriti (santreads) | 10 comments Janhavi wrote: "Malice by Keigo Higashino and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Bought these 2 recently. Can't wait to start Neverwhere."


Let me know how Malice is! :D


message 33: by Yash (new)

Yash (ysharma) | 96 comments Smriti wrote: "Haha, okayyy! So this month I have bought:

1 - The Bees by Laline Paul
2 - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
3 - [book:Second-Hand Time|268544..."


This is quite the shopping spree...all new?


message 34: by Pallavi (new)

Pallavi  (versespire) | 3 comments Recently I bought

Room - Emma Donoghue
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
Cometh the Hour - Jeffrey Archer
Casual Vacancy - J. K. Rowling
The Girl Who Played with Fire- Stieg Larsson
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak


message 35: by Smriti (new)

Smriti (santreads) | 10 comments @Yash - The last 4 aren't. The rest are new.


message 36: by Gunjan (new)

Gunjan Yogendra (goodreadscomgunjan_yogendra) | 1 comments Best of Guy de Maupassant
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
The Monk who Sold His Ferrari - Robin Sharma


message 37: by Archi (last edited Jul 30, 2016 12:25PM) (new)

Archi Seth | 5 comments The Mirror of Beauty The Mirror of Beauty by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and The Witches of Eastwick The Witches of Eastwick (Eastwick, #1) by John Updike


message 38: by Harpreet (new)

Harpreet Sandhu Mahatma gandhi autobiography "my experiments with truth "


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