Meetup Recaps

The 54th meetup of BBB happened on the 30th of Oct 2022. Books discussed: Dated : 27th Nov 2022 Books discussed - The Poppy War #1 The Sandman Series The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) The Diary of a Nobody So good they can’t ignore you Deep Work Unkahi: The Unsung Lajja The Traveling Cat Chronicles Frangipani Cubbon Park The Woman in White The Moonstone Bullet Train Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Algorithms to Live By Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Les Miserables In search of Lost Time Turbulence Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh Atomic Habits Tiny Habits A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Series Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution Ponniyin Selvan Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Evil under the Sun An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Design of Everyday Things HP Lovecraft - The complete collection (Mountains of Madness) I am Providence Books by M.R. James (Author of Collected Ghost Stories) The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today Lust for Life The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma My Work is Not Yet Done Dream Story Yuganta Yugandhar The Oath of The Vayuputras Mahashweta Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives There Is No Antimemetics Division Mammoth book of Roman Whodunits Existentialist Cafe The Inugami Curse Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1) Inseparable The Lies I tell Confessions The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Lessons in Chemistry It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2) The Complete Maus Discovering Bengaluru The Mistborn Saga The Ethical Slut Books by Colleen McCullough Books by Ngiao Marsh Paintings in Proust A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters

The 53rd meetup of BBB happened on the 30th of Oct 2022. Books discussed: Dated : 30th Oct 2022 Books discussed -

The 52nd meetup of BBB happened on the 25th of Sep 2022. Books discussed: Dated : 25th September 2022 A Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz When No One is Watching – Alyssa Cole The Silent Patient – Alex Michealides Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky Spiritual Enlightenment - Jed McKenna War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez The General in his Labyrinth – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn East of Eden – John Steinbeck At Night All blood is Black – David Diop These Hollow Vows – Lexi Ryan Blade of Secrets – Tricie Levenseller The Good Lie – AR Torre In My Dreams I Hold a Knife – Ashley Winstead Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean Paul Didierlaurent The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman An Invitation to Die – Tanushree Podder Bullet Train – Kotaro Isaka Temple of a Thousand Faces – John Shors The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi & Arrowroot – Junichiro Tanizaki Nomads – Anthony Sattin Atomic Habits – James Clear Red Riding Trilogy Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard Lonely City – Olivia Laing My year of rest and relaxation – Ottessa Moshefegh Savithri’s Special Room and other stories – Manu Bhattathiri The Town That Laughed – Manu Bhattathiri The Oracle of Karutthupuzha – Manu Bhattathiri Idealogy and identity – Pradeep Chhibber Do Epic Shit – Ankur Warikoo The Stormlight Archive – Brandon Sanderson Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson The Myth of the Holy Cow – DN Jha India’s Founding Moment – Madhav Khosla Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell The Outsider – Albert Camus How I braved Anu Aunty and Founded a Million Dollar Company – Varun A Whole Numbers and Half Truths – Rukmini S Early Indians – Tony Joseph Wanderers, Kings, Merchants – Peggy Mohan Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 – Christopher Browning Hitler’s Willing Executioners – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah Did 6 million really die? – Richard Harwood The Politics Book – Kate Johnsen Philosophy of Existence – Karl Jaspers Updike – Adam Begley Inside the Pakistan army – Carey Schofield The Rabbit Novels – John Updike Gertrude and Claudius – John Updike The Witches of Eastwick – John Updike The Couples Books by Saul Bellow A Case of Exploding Mangoes – Mohammed Hanif A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving Unscripted – Vidhu Vinod Chopra The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins Habibi – Craig Thomson Blankets – Craig Thomson Sandman – Neil Gaiman The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell The House Across the Lake – Riley Sager All the Lovers in the Night – Meiko Kawakami Em and the Big Hoom – Jerry Pinto The Book of Light – Jerry Pinto Nasty Women – Samhita Mukhopadhyay To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Diary of a Void – Emi Yagi Haldol and Hyacinths – Melody Moezzi Alphabet Soup for Lovers – Anita Nair The Education of Yuri – Jerry Pinto

The 51st meetup of BBB happened on the 28th of Aug 2022. Books discussed: Dated : 28th Aug 2022 Books Discussed -

The 50Th meetup of BBB happened on the 31ST of Jul 2022. Books discussed: A Gentleman in Moscow In Search of Lost time Three Chinese Poets Paintings in Proust I Remember You Lord of The Rings Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry Gooseberries Steppes Lady with the Dog Book of Short Stories Wyrd Sisters Poirot Investigates Assassination Classroom The Magician The Magic Mountain Buddenbrooks A House for Mr Biswas Hitler’s Willing Executioners Death in Venice The Argumentative Indian Anarchy Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth Ranger’s Apprentice Early Indians City of Stairs War Minus the Shooting Inventing the Pyramid How to Build a Car The Night manager Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Marshall Pigeon Tunnel The Spy who Came in from the Cold Art of Conjuring Realities Asylum Young Blood Hawk The Mother of Manipur The Song of Achilles Republic of Caste The Birth of the Clinic Authentic Happiness

The 49th meetup of BBB happened on the 26th of Jun 2022. Books discussed: Dated: 26th Jun 2022 The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier 84, Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History – Andy Greene Malazan Book of the Fallen Series – Steven Erikson A Song of Ice and Fire Series – George R.R. Martin The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear Chorashastra – VJ James A Manga about food - Needs clarification Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu, Volume 1 – Virginia Nitouhei Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence – Shrayana Bhattacharya On Photography – Susan Sontag Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail – Cheryl Strayed Giga: The Complete Series – Rosh Hndi Upanyas :Rashtra Aur Hashiya – Shambhunath Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive – Philipp Dettmer Shards of Earth – Adrian Tchaikovsky Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) – Pierce Brown Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions – Brian Christian Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech – Sara Wachter-Boettcher Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness – Richard H. Thaler Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy – Cathy O’Neil Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado-Perez Cradle Series – Will Wight Gora – Rabindranath Tagore Accidental Feminists – Jane Caro Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages – Peggy Mohan Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics – Tim Marshall Path to Ascendancy Series – Ian C. Esslemont American Gods (American Gods, #1) – Neil Gaiman How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read – Pierre Bayard Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World – Nicholas Ostler The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World – David W. Anthony Books – J.P. Mallory The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity – David H. Rosen The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum – Camila Russo The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze – Laura Shin Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire – Brad Stone No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram – Sarah Frier Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom – Katherine Eban Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit: An American Legend – Laura Hillenbrand Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver 11/22/63 – Stephen King The Republic of Reason: Words They Could Not Kill – Narendra Dabholkar Annihilation of Caste – B.R. Ambedkar Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From – Tony Joseph Revolution – Russell Brand A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India – Josy Joseph Jane Austen Mysteries Series – Stephanie Barron Dido Kent Series – Anna Dean The Dalai Lama’s Cat (The Dalai Lama’s Cat, #1) – David Michie No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering – Thich Nhat Hanh Circe – Madeline Miller The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph – Ryan Holiday The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1) – Amish Tripathi All Book Series – Rick Riordan Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden Verity – Colleen Hoover Bullet Train The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) – Scott Lynch All Souls Series – Deborah Harkness Other links :

The 48th meetup of BBB happened on the 22nd of May 2022. Books discussed: Dated: 22nd May 2022 I too had a love story – Ravinder Singh Five point someone – Chetan Bhagat Zero to One – Peter Thiel No rules rules – Reed Hastings Whisper To Me Your Lies Beast Stormlight Archive – Brandon Sanderson Atomic Habits – James Clear Red rising – Pierce Brown Will – Will Smith Ship of Magi series - Robin – Robin Hobb Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb Daughters of the Sun – Ira Mukhoty Plassey – Sudeep Chakravarti The ocean’s Churn – Sanjeev Sanyal Asoka – Patrick Olivelle Beyond the Boulevard – Aditi Sriram Chorashastra – VJ James Devil and the dark water – Stuart Turton Desperately Seeking Shahrukh Khan – Shrayana Bhattacharya City Adrift – Naresh Fernandes The Inquisitor’s Tale – Adam Gidwitz The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy Assassin’s Creed – Oliver Bowden War & Peace – Leo Tolstoy Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Shogun What I talk about when I talk about Running – Haruki Murakami Confessions of a Bookworm Marathon Man – William Goldman Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens India & Europe – Sanjay Subrahmanyam India i.e. Bharart – J. Sai Deepak Burden of Democracy – Pratap Bhanu Mehta The Bangalore Detectives Club – Harini Nagendra Parveen Mistry Series – Sujata Massey A Rising Man – Abir Mukherjee Patang – Bhaskar Chattopadhyay Rita Ferreira Series – Vish Dhamija The Englishman’s Cameo – Madhulika Liddle Miraculous History of Ali – Uzma Aslam Khan Case for India – Will Durant Story of Civilization – Will Durant Peace has Come Munnu : The Boy from Kashmir – Malik Sajad A Curfewed Night Our moon has blood clots – Rahul Pandita The Far Field – Madhuri Vijay Rumors of Spring Numbers in the Dark – Italo Calvino Monsoon Islam – Sebastian R. Prange Savitri’s Special Room – Manu Bhattathiri The Town that Laughed – Manu Bhattathiri The Oracle of Karuthupuzha – Manu Bhattathiri Yugantha – Irawati Karve The Tokyo Zodiac Murders – Soji Shimada Silent Parade – Keigo Higashino The Living Mountain – Nan Shepherd And then there were none – Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery – Agatha Christie Inside Out and Back again – Thanhha Lai The Unbroken – C.L. Clark The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs The Library – Bella Osborne The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams Book Lovers – Emily Henry House on The Cerulean Sea – T.J. Klune The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel What government has done to our Money – Murray N. Rothbard The Mousetrap: A Play – Agatha Christie Coromandel: A Personal History of South India – Charles Allen Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas – Anirudh Kanisetti The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims – A.L. Basham The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World – David Deutsch The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma – Gurcharan Das The Midnight Library – Matt Haig All Souls Series – Deborah Harkness The Black Prism (Lightbringer, #1) – Brent Weeks Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk

The 47th meetup of BBB happened on the 27th of March 2022. Books discussed: Dated: 27th March 2022 The Gulag Archipelago 12 Rules for Life Anxious People Kings, Saviors and Scoundrels Murder on the Orient Express A Man Called Ove Shoe Dog East of Eden Kafka on the Shore Harry Potter Elon Musk The Psychology of Money Poor Charlie’s Almanack Atomic Habits Deep Work The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Why we Sleep The Locked Tomb Series Crooked Kingdom Six of Crows Fight Club This is How you Win the Time War Broken Earth Trilogy Binti Humans - Matt Haig Reasons to Stay Alive The Comfort Book The Midnight Library Free Poems of Early Buddhist Women Dark Matter Sum : The 40 Tales of Afterlife A Gentleman In Moscow The Cat who Saved Books Shadow of the Wind The 3 Body Problem Autobiography of a Yogi Wanderers, Kings, Merchants Desperately seeking Shahrukh Khan C.J.Samson Series Cadfael Series The Tournament The Shadow of the Wind The Millennium Trilogy Dial A for Aunties Finlay Donovan is Killing It Silent Parade History of Middle Earth The Sillmarillion Corey Doctorow books A Beautiful Mind Project Hail Mary The Bell Jar Brave New World Station Eleven The Martian A Mathematician’s Apology A Mind At Play Notes From the Underground Numbercaste Sapiens Beautiful World, Where are you? Frankenstein Secret Garden Life is What you Make it Shamans, Mystics and Saints Notes of a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski

The 46th meetup of BBB happened on the 27th of February 2022. Books discussed: Dated: 27th February 2022 Seven and half deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle The house in the Cerulean Sea Big Trouble by Dave Barry Assassin’s Apprentice Finlay Donovan is killing it Every last Secret by A R Torres Comfort me with Apples Not a happy family by Shari Lapana Better to have gone by Akash Kapoor A history of places Project Hail Mary Lords of the Deccan Sweet sweet revenge limited Cards on the table by Agatha Christie Jurassic Park The Poetry Pharmacy The sage with two horns Valmiki’s Women Designing your life Designing your new work life Lost and Found by Kathyrn Schulz How I learned to understand the world by Hans Rosling A time for Mercy by John Grisham A Time to Kill A gentleman in Moscow The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy Safehouse by Jo Jakeman Dial A for Aunties The Seven Husband’s of Evelyn Hugo Salmon of Doubt Six of Crows The Riyria Revelations The faithful and the fallen by John Gwynne (Series) Silent Parade Under the Whispering Door The Road trip Malibu Rising The Storied life of A J Fikry- Desperately seeking Shahrukh Khan The 100 years of Lenny and Margot Old Man’s War The ghost brigade Neuromancer Count Zero Monalisa Overdrive

The 45th meetup of BBB happened on the 17th of December 2021. Books discussed: The Story of China – Michael Wood The Story of India – Michael Wood Circe – Madeline Miller Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir SPQR A Man Called Ove Ocean of Churn Dune Jodorowsky’s Dune (documentary) Harry Potter Cuckoo’s Calling Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash Beauty is a Wound Indians – Namit Arora Tyranny of Merit Caste – M Subramaniyam Annihilation of Caste – Ambedkar Anand Teltumbe Caste Among Equals Despite the State Malevolent Republic Desperately Seeking Shahrukh Slowly Down the Ganga Islamic Architecture Banaras – Diana L. Eck Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel Call the Midwife Anxious People The Sun & Two Seas – Vikranjit Rao Neuromancer Snow Crash Sprawl Trilogy – Neal Stephenson Wheel of Time An Elegant Puzzle The Manager’s Path Staff Engineer – Will Larson The Incal – Jodorowsky Anna Karenina A Fine Balance A Suitable Boy Earthsea Flowers for Algernon Malazan Elantris The Boron Letters – Gary Halbert We Are Like That Only Motherland – Leah Franke Murder on Malbar Hill Kitty Party Murder In the Name of God – Ravi Subramaniyam Don’t Tell the Governor – Ravi Subramaniyam God is a Banker Shantaram Letters to a Young Poet Hangwoman – KR Mira The Purgatory of Forgotten Dreams Dial A for Aunties Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney The Bill Hodges Trilogy The Broken Earth Trilogy Rhythm of War Everybody Loves a Good Drought – P. Sainath Ramrao – Jaydeep Old Man’s War – John Scalzi The Sanatorium – Sarah Pearse An Invitation to Die – Tanushree Podder