Welcome to the NetSAP-DC book club! The book club started in October 1998 to read and discuss books with South Asian themes. We read a new book each month. Feel free to attend whenever the month's selection interests you, but please make a good faith effort to read that month's book.
We meet the second Thursday of each month at 7pm. For each meeting we ask one of our participants to volunteer to host. The host provides a space conducive to discussion and orders snacks or dinner for the meeting. We ask our participants to share the cost of food.
To join the book club, visit the book club Yahoo group above, or send a blank e-mail to netsap-books-subscribe@yahoogroups.com . (To unsubscribe send a blank e-mail to netsap-books-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com .) We use the Yahoo group to send out meeting notices, directions to meetings, and other book club information.
We select readings by soliciting nominations at the end of each year and voting for our preferences. These are the selections for 2008:
2008
Month
Title
Author
January
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
February
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
March
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
April
The Perfect Man
Naeem Murr
May
Gifted
Nikita Lalwani
June
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
July
If Today Be Sweet
Thrity Umrigar
August
A Good Indian Wife
Anne Cherian
September
A Golden Age
Tahmima Anam
October
Animal's People
Indra Sinha
November
The Last Song of Dusk
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
These are the past readings:
2007
Month
Title
Author
January
Ramayan
Ramesh Menon
February
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya
March
The Argumentative Indian
Amartya Sen
April
Storywallah
Shyam Selvadurai
May
Saturday Morning Omelettes
Kavita Khanna
June
Under Her Skin
edited by Pooja Makhijani
July/August
Sacred Games
Vikram Chandra
September
Husband of a Fanatic
Amitava Kumar
October
A Space Between Us
Thrity Umigar
November
Climbing the Mango Tree: A Memoir of Childhood in India
