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Genre Specific Dune – Frank Herbert 1984 – George Orwell H2G2 – Douglas Adams Martian – Andy Weir Artemis – Andy Weir Binti - Nnedi Okorafor Who fears Death - Nnedi Okorafor Thursday Next Series – Jasper Fforde Ready Player One – Ernest Cline Ubik – PKD Children of Time – Adrian Tchiakovsky A Scanner Darkly – PKD Do Androids – PKD Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C Clarke Steelheart – Sanderson 2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C Clarke Leila – Prayaag Akbar Time Machine – HG Wells Bear and The Nightingale – Katherine Arden The Trigan Empire – Hamlyn (Publisher) The Savage Sword of Conan + Short Stories– Marvel/Robert E Howard The Last Question – Isaac Asimov Earth to Centauri: The First Journey – Kumar L Hell! No saints in Paradise - A.K. Asif I,Robot – Isaac Asimov The Complete Robot – Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man – Isaac Asimov Consider Phlebas – Iain M Banks Disposessed – Ursula K Le Guin I have no mouth and I must scream – Harlan Ellison Legion – Sanderson Emperor’s Soul – Sanderson The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C Clarke Professor Shonku – Satyajit Ray Three Body Problem – Cixin Liu Dead Send – Cixin Liu Altered Carbon – Richard Carbon Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel The Themis Files – Sylvain Neuvel The Quantum Thief Trilogy – Hannu Rajaniemi Collected Fiction – Hannu Rajaniemi White Mars – Roger Penrose This Alien Shore – Cecilia Friedman The Crystal Trilogy – Max Harms Norse Mythology – Gaiman Coraline - Gaiman Grimus - Salman Rushdie Timeline - Michael Crichton All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka Yaana - S L Bhyrappa Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne Non Genre: The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl Modern Romance – Aziz Ansari Thinking, Fast and Slow Selfish Gene - Dawkins The Rational Man Deep Work Flow Blindness Edge of Physics – Anil Ananthaswamy The Man who wasn’t There – Anil Ananthaswamy Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates We were Eight Years in Power - Ta-Nehisi Coates Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Kundera Zero to One – Peter Thiel

Despite the fact that we had to abandon our meetup at Atta Galatta midway and rush to a gazebo outside to resume it, we still managed to have a lively conversation. When Breath becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi The Game - Neil Strauss Malazan - Steve Erikson Create Dangerously - Albert Camus The Book of Chocolate Saints - Jeet Thayil The Meursault Investigations - Kamel Daoud Essays on Nationalalism - George Orwell Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe Leila - Prayag Akbar Guards Guards - Terry Pratchett Not that Kind of a Girl - Lenna Dunham A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan Mid-Wicket Tales: From Trumper to Tendulkar - S Giridhar and V J Raghunath

We at Broke Bibliophiles Bangalore had our 2nd meetup of 2018 and 9th meetup in all on Saturday, the 24th of Feb. It was a lot of fun, even the first half of it, I’m sure. I reached late …coz..I started late. We had a lot more people join in this time and that fueled most of the conversation. Some of the books discussed were - A Room of One’s Own (by Virginia Woolf) Skin in the game (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Ready Player One The Elephant in the Brain (by Kevin Simler) and a smattering of Murakami as always. ...

This was the first meetup of 2018 and if spirited conversations, a lot of laughter and smiles all around are any indication, it was a lot of fun. We had a modest gathering of close to 25 people and everyone…came on time. (Fiine.. I wasn’t there on time). We went with our usual practice of talking about the last couple of books we’d read and with the gathering that we had, a lot of books were discussed. We had a few new faces ( :) ) and some old heads were absent (-_-) . ...

This was our only meetup outdoors, at Cubbon Park.

Aaaand Meetup#5 happened as well ! :) The modest strength of the attendees notwithstanding, this was another fun meet. We had 3 new entrants today in Gokul S Nath, Amay Narayan and Palgun Kj . Also, pseudo-newbie Varun Vasudev finally made it to His first formal book-meetup as well :D The books mentioned and discussed today were - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15745753-eleanor-park The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart, #1) by Philip Pullman https://www.goodreads.com/…/sh…/114982.The_Ruby_in_the_Smoke ...

So yesterday, we had meetup #4! :) And the usual gang had gathered along with a couple of new faces. We spoke about this and that and books and yes, we ate a lot. (I’m so good at summarizing) But, the real takeaway was the collective knowledge of the books we might not have read that we individually and separately had. And we’ve made a list of those books this time :) ...