BYOB Club discussion

What were the best books you read in 2016?

Do they have to be books released this year?

Varun wrote: "Do they have to be books released this year?"

Nope!

My favorites would be
> Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson
> Mistborn: Bands of Mourning - Brandon Sanderson
> The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

1. The Count of Monte Cristo - Superb plot. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

2. East of Eden - One of my all time favourites. Each character is well sketched out and I was involved in their lives and loves from page 1. Had to put down the book to just soak in Steinbeck's beautiful words multiple times.

3. Night - Harrowing.

4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - This book is a trip.

5. Dark Matter - DID NOT EXPECT TO LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Please don't read any summaries or reviews. I went in blind and was amazed. Love, betrayal, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, thriller. It's all there.

6. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival - Doesn't read like a non-fiction book. Learnt a lot about Russia and Tigers. His style of writing really pulled me in.

7. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas - Best book ever. Hilarious and intelligent writing.

8. Crime and Punishment - First Dostoyevsky.

9. Medea - Very forward for a book written in 400BC.

10. The Suitcase - Hilarious! Also introduced me to a ton of other poets and writers, which is always a big plus.

Off the top of my head, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Song of Achilles, and Middlesex

List from my Goodreads list. I did read a lot of good books.
1. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
2. On Writing by Stephen King
3. Astray by Emma Donoghue
4. Harry Potter (1-3)
5. After Dark by Murakami
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
7. The Iliad by Homer
8. Galatea by Madeline Miller
9. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
10. Hannibal Lector trilogy
11. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
12. City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
13. A Memory of Demons by David Ambrose
14. Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
15. Indigo by Satyajit Ray
16. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
17. In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie (Currently reading, my last book of 2016, but really good)

Shivam wrote: "List from my Goodreads list. I did read a lot of good books.
1. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
2. On Writing by Stephen King
3. Astray by Emma Donoghue
4. Harry Potter (1-3)
5. After Dark by Murakami..."z
Ooh, Red Dragon by Thomas Harris! Definitely up there

I guess mine would be Digger: The Complete Omnibus and Bone

1. A court of mist and fury by Sarah J. Maas
2. Touch of power by Maria V Snyder

Top 12
1. Neverwhere
2. Open
3. We Should All Be Feminists
4. V for Vendetta
5. The Graveyard Book
6. Coraline
7. American Gods
8. Himalaya
9. Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime
10. Heroes
11. The Damned Utd
12. Malice

Lowland and Unaccustomed Earth-Jhumpa Lahiri
Three cups of Tea- Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

The Color Purple, Watchmen, Murakami, Furiously Happy, too many comics to name...

Exercises In Style by Raymond Queneau
MAUS by Art Spiegelman
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Identity by Milan Kundera
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
On David Bowie by Simon Critchley
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
One Punch Man by ONE

Manas wrote: "Exercises In Style by Raymond Queneau
MAUS by Art Spiegelman
Submarine by Joe Dunthorne
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Identity by Mil..."

Oh WOW. You've had a good year!

Sapiens : A brief history of humankind, my this year best read!

In The Skin of a Jihadist (BYOB Recommended)
In the Light of Darkness
To Cancer, With Love
The Kite Runner
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (BYOB Recommended)

Varun wrote: "I guess mine would be Digger: The Complete Omnibus and Bone"

I'd like to add Scrappy Little Nobody to this

Nidhi wrote : "Oh WOW. You've had a good year!"
Thank you.

It seems you've had an interesting year too.
Wondering what all you have in mind for this year.

Cheers!

1. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2. Sapiens - A brief history of human kind by Yuval Noah Harrari
3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays translation)
4. When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
5. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
6. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
7. Man's search for meaning by Viktor E Frankl
8. Peace by Gene Wolfe
9. Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

1. Foundation by Issac Asimov
2. The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
3. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
4. Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson.