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SCHEDULE
2025-2003
DATE HOST BOOK AUTHOR
2025 Sanjay
Apr 10, '25 Smita A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Feb 20, '25 Raj The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
Jan 9, '25 Naren The Worlds I See : Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Nov 18, '24 Shobhana Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus
Oct 3, '24 Kalyan Table for Two Amor Towles
Aug 9, '24 Neerja Loot Tania James
Jun 28, '24 Shyam Remarkably Bright Creatures Shelby Van Pelt
May 3, '24 Madhu House of Cards Sudha Murthy
Mar 8, '24 Prasad The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump Michiko Kakutani
Jan 19 '24 Mira Honor Thrity Umrigar
Dec 8, '23 Shobhna The Great Escape Saket Soni
Sep 22, '23 Neerja The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert
Aug 4, '23 Smita Victory City Salman Rushdie
Jun 23, '23 Parvati All Systems Red Martha Wells
May 12,''23 Kalpana Jitterbug Perfume Tom Robbins
Mar 31, '23 Raj Last Queen Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Feb 10, '23 Vasan Disgraced Ayad Akhtar
Jan 13, '23 Shyam His Only Wife Peace Adzo Medie
Nov 18, '22 Kalyan Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead
Oct 7, '22 Sid The Magnolia Palace Fiona Davis
Aug 26, '22 Naren Finding Me - A Memoir Viola Davis
Jul 22, '22 Sanjay The Diamond Eye Kate Quinn
May 6, '22 Neerja A Rising Man Abir Mukherjee
Mar 25, '22 Mira Sparks like Stars Nadia Hashimi
Feb 11, '22 Parvati The Summer Country Laura Willig
Jan 7, '22 Madhu The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi Vicki Mackenzie
Nov 19, '21 Smita The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham
Sep 29, '21 Shobhana Christine Falls Benjamin Black
Aug 20, '21 Kalpana Winterdance Gary Paulsen
Jul 09, '21 Shyam Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri
May 28, '21 Vasan A Burning Megha Majumdar
Apr 16, '21 Prasad Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
Mar 5, '21 Kalyan Rules of Civility Amor Towles
Jan 22, '21 Sid Deacon King Kong James McBride
Dec 11, '20 Raj Lucky Man Michael J. Fox
Oct 30, '20 Poornima American Dirt Jeanine Cummins
Sep 18, '20 Sanjay Killers of the Flower Moon:The Osage murders and the Birth of the FBI David Grann
Aug 7, '20 Naren Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine Gail Honeyman
Jun 26, '20 Prasad The New Class War Michael Lind
May 15, '20 Neerja Gun Island Amitav Ghosh
Apr 3,'20 Smita A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen
Feb 21, '20 Mira Blonde Roots Bernardine Evaristo
Jan 17, '20 Madhu The Storytellers's Secret Sejal Badani
Dec 13, '19 Kalpana Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens
Nov 1, '19 Parvati Dark Matter Blake Crouch
Sep 20, '19 Vasan The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
Aug 2, '19 Raj Educated Tara Westover
Jun 21,'19 Prasad The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt
May 24,'19 Sid Mother India Tova Reich
Apr 12,'19 Kalyan Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man U.R. Ananthamurthy and A. K. Ramanujan
Feb 23, '19 Shyam Ways to Disappear Idra Novey
Dec 14, '18 Sanjay Home Fire Kamila Shamsie
Oct 5, '18 Shobhana The Geography of Bliss Eric Weiner
Aug 10,'18 Naren Born a Crime Trevor Noah
Jun 15, '18 Mira Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Balli Kaur Jaswal
May 11,'18 Raj When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
Mar 30, '18 Smita The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Feb 16,'18 Neerja Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie
Jan 5,'18 Shobhana Glass Houses Louise Penny
Nov 10,'17 Parvati Persepolis-1 Marjane Satrapati
Oct 13,'17 Madhu Option B Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
Sep 8,'17 Kalpana Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel
Jul 27,'17 Naren The pearl that broke its shell Nadia Hashimi
Apr 21,'17 Shyam The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
Mar 3,'17 Poornima Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance
Jan 27,'17 Sid The Forgetting Time Sharon Guskin
Dec 2,'16 Vasan A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
Oct 14,'16 Prasad Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
Aug 26,'16 Shobhana Where'd you go, Bernadette Maria Semple
Jul 15, '16 Kalyan Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee
Jun 3,'16 Sanjay The Promise of Joy Allen Drury
Apr 22,'16 Amita The Moor's Account Laila Lalami
Mar 18,'16 Kalpana Circling the Sun: A Novel Paula McLain
Feb 5, '16 Prasad Waking Up:A Guide to Spirituality without Religion Sam Harris
Jan 8, '16 Neerja The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin
Nov 13 '15 Naren The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown
Sep 25 '15 Shyam All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
Aug 14, '15 Parvati The City and the City China Miéville
Jul 10, '15 Shobhana The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
Jun 5, '15 Raj I Never Had It Made Jackie Robinson
Apr 17,'15 Sidhu The Nightingale Kristin Hannah
Mar 6, '15 Sanjay When Broken Glass Floats Chanrithy Him
Jan 23,'15 Mira Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christopher Moore
Nov 7 '14 Vasan The Pregnant King Devdutt Pattanaik
Oct 3 '14 Poornima Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Sep 12 '14 Amita A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki
Jul 11 '14 Kalyan India: A Portrait Patrick French
Jun 13 '14 Smita The Dinner Herman Koch
Apr 25 '14 Shobhana Stag's Leap - a collection of poems Sharon Olds
Mar 14 '14 Neerja 11/22/63 Stephen King
Jan 24 '14 Kalpana Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier
Jan 10, '14 Prasad The Emotional Life of Your Brain Richard Davidson w/ Sharon Begley
Oct 25 '13 Naren Beautiful Ruins Jess Walter
Sep 6, '13 Poornima The Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman
Jul 19, '13 Mira Dark Continent My Black Arse Sihle Khumalo
Jun 7, '13 Kalyan The Orphan Master's Son Adam Johnson
Apr 19 '13 Varsha The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin
Feb 22 '13 Smita Return to India: An Immigrant Memoir Shoba Narayan
Jan 18, '13 Vasan Dark Tangos Lewis Sherman
Dec 7, '12 Sanjay City of Thieves David Benioff
Oct 19, '12 Amita Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay
Sep 7, '12 Shyam The Paris Wife Paula McLain
Jul 27, '12 Sid Tunnel Vision Gary Braver
Jun 15, '12 Shobhna The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
May 4, '12 Arun Behind the Beautiful Forevers Catherine Boo
Mar 16,'12 Parvati After Dark Haruki Murakami
Jan 13, '12 Prasad The Glass Castle: A Memoire Jeannette Wells
Dec 8, '11 Neerja Phantoms in the Brain V. S. Ramachandran
Nov 4, '11 Naren The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
Sep 9, '11 Kalpana Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford
Aug 19, '11 Varsha Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson
Cancelled Smita Freedom Jonathan Franzen
May 6, '11 Mira The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
Mar 18, '11 Arun The Upanishads Eknath Easwaran
Feb 18, '11 Kalyan The Janissary Tree Jason Goodwin
Sep 25 '10 Vasan Two States Chetan Bhagat
Aug 6, '10 Sanjay Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Jun 11, '10 Amita Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh
Apr 30 '10 Shyam Netherland Joseph O'Neill
Mar26 '10 Shobhna Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingslover
Feb 26 '10 Poornima In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniyal Mueenuddin
Jan 22 '10 Parvati Stormy Weather Carl Hiassen
Dec 4 '09 Sid Outliers - The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell
Aug 14 '09 Neerja Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
Jun 26'09 Arun The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria
Apr24,'09 Varsha The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
Jan 30'09 Neerja Lush Life Richard Price
Dec 19 '08 Sanjay Ghost Train To The Eastern Star Paul Theroux
Jul 22 '08 Smita Big Russ & Me Tim Russert
Jun 20'08 Mira Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo
May 2 '08 Kalyan Rosario Tijeras Jorge Franco / Gregory Rabassa
Mar14 '08 Prasad Eat Pray Love Elizabeth Gilbert
Jan 24'08 Kalpana The Alchemist (Plus) Paulo Coelho
Nov 15 '07 Sid Divisadero Michael Ondaatje
Sep 21 '07 Shobhna The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
Jul 27 '07 Shyam The Final Solution Michael Chabon
Jun 15 '07 Vasan Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less Jeffrey Archer
May 4 '07 Parvati American Gods Neil Gaiman
Mar 9 '07 Varsha The Measure of A Man: A Spiritual Autobiography Sidney Poitier
Feb 9 '07 Poornima The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai
Dec 1 '06 Arun The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen
Sep 8 '06 Kalpana Bel Canto Ann Patchett
Jun 6 '06 Mira In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Alexander McCall Smith
Apr 21 '06 Vasan Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
Mar10,'06 Kalyan Proof David Auburn
Jan 20'06 Poornima Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie
Nov 18 '05 Prasad The Enlightened Heart Stephen Mitchell
Oct 14 '05 Sanjay Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
Sep 2 '05 Shyam The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
Jul 15 '05 Neerja The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini.
Jun 24'05 Parvati The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapters 4-6 Thomas H. Kean, Chairman
Apr 1 '05 Mira Me talk pretty one day David Sedaris
Feb25 '05 Kalpana Life of Pi Yann Martel
Jan 28'05 Vasan A Tourist in the Yucatan James McNay Brumfield
Sep 17 '04 Arun Nehru Sashi Tharoor
Aug 13 '04 Prasad Hunger of Memory Richard Rodriguez
Jun 4 '04 Shyam Galahad at Blandings P. G. Wodehouse
Apr 16 '04 Sanjay Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand
Mar12 '04 Poornima DaVinci Code Dan Brown
Feb 13 '04 Neerja Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
Dec 12 '03 Varsha Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri


FUTURE SCHEDULE
2024 -
DATE HOST BOOK AUTHOR
2025 Prasad
2025 Mira
2025 Vasan
2025 Parvati
2026 Biba
2026 Madhu
2026 Sid
2026 Kalpana


BOOKS READ BY YEAR
2003-2025
HOST 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TOTAL
Amita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Arun 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Biba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kalpana 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 10
Kalyan 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 10
Madhu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4
Mira 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 10
Naren 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 8
Neerja 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 12
Parvati 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 9
Poornima 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8
Prasad 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 11
Raj 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 6
Sanjay 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 11
Shobhna 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 11
Shyam 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 11
Sidhu 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 8
Smita 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 9
Varsha 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Vasan 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 10
TOTAL 1 6 8 6 7 6 5 7 8 8 7 9 8 9 7 8 8 9 8 8 8 7 4 162


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