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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away ★★★★☆
* Read on: 2011-05-16
* Authors: Bill Bryson
* Publisher: Broadway Books
* Pages: 304
* Original Published Year: 1998
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference ★★★★☆
* Read on: 2010-10-15
* Authors: Malcolm Gladwell
* Publisher: Time Warner Book Group
* Pages: 301
* Original Published Year: 2000
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail But Some Don't ★★★★☆
* Read on: 2010-05-14
* Authors: Nate Silver
* Publisher: Penguin
* Pages: 544
* Original Published Year: 2012
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy ★★★★★
Given the number of blog posts, magazine (and journal) articles, and news reports I read these days, I had almost
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ★★★★☆
[Guest-post by my wife]
[Spoilers abound alert]
Only one book was pre-ordered for our apartment, so P and I tussled
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies ★★★★★
* Read on: 2006-04-09
* Authors: Jared Diamond
* Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
* Pages: 498
* Original Published Year: 1997
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Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System ★★★★★
Regardless of the title, this post might venture beyond the realms of a book review and try to scratch some
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ★★★★★
* Read on: 2006-03-12
* Authors: Eric Schlosser
* Publisher: Harper Perennial
* Pages: 383
* Original Published Year: 2001
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything ★★★★☆
Should you think twice before citing an economics bestseller (previously an oxymoron) in class? If you think otherwise, a student
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Q&A ★★★☆☆
As mentioned before, out of the two books I received from Simon & Schruster, I started out with Q&
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ★★★★★
I finished the book just in time for the movie. The plot is now well-known and takes off from where
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A Short History of Nearly Everything ★★★★★
* Read on: 2005-03-10
* Authors: Bill Bryson
* Publisher: Crown
* Pages: 544
* Original Published Year: 2003
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Animal Farm ★★★★★
George Orwell had this uncanny knack for writing ominous conspiracy theory fiction that somehow come true. Animal Farm takes potshots
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Interpreter of Maladies ★★★★★
Jhumpa Lahiri certainly deserved her Pulitzer. I recently read the assortment of short stories in her literary debut book, Interpreter
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Life of Pi ★★★★★
Life of Pi seemed to be the more interesting read, although I am not sure what the Man Booker Prize
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster ★★★★☆
Strangely enough I have been whiling away my exam nerves by reading up on immaterial readings. The postponement of the
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The Inscrutable Americans ★★★☆☆
I finally read The Inscrutable Americans. Hilarious and thought-provoking in terms of empathizing with the protagonist, Gopal (or rather Goh-Pahl)