Bring Your Own Book

Delhi BYOB meet February 2026

Books discussed:
Green Humour for a Greying Planet by Rohan Chakravarty

Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq

Where You'll Find Us by Jen St. Jude

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Hunger by Choi Jin-young

Not Quiet Dead Yet by Holly Jackson.

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy

The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave

In Xanadu by William Dalrymple

King of Ashes by S.A. Corby

How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent

Bangalore BYOB - January 2026

We celebrated the 120th meet and 10 years of BYOB here in Bangalore :)

Delhi BYOB - the first meet of 2026. Our theme was "Books and their adaptations".

What has been your favourite book adaptation in recent times?

Books we discussed:
•⁠ ⁠A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, the 2015 Swedish movie and its 2022 adaptation, A Man Called Otto
•⁠ ⁠Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk and the 1999 cult classic movie
•⁠ ⁠The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie and the 2026 Netflix miniseries
•⁠ ⁠The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and its 1992 adaptation
•⁠ ⁠Calling Sehmat by Harinder Sikka and the 2018 blockbuster Raazi
•⁠ ⁠Peril at End House by Agatha Christie and the 1989 series Agatha Christie’s Poirot
•⁠ ⁠No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai and its manga and movie adaptations
•⁠ ⁠Animal Farm by George Orwell and the 1954 Film
•⁠ ⁠⁠All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and the 2023 miniseries
•⁠ ⁠Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, and the 2022 Amazon Prime documentary and various podcasts

Happy Reading!

Braved the cold Delhi winter for our last meet of 2025 :D

📍 Nehru Park

Books discussed:
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Birdwatchingwatching by Alex Horne
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Stargazing Dog by Takashi Murakami
Scale by Geoffrey West
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
Good Material by Dolly Alderton

📸: Amit

Our November Noida BYOB meet at !

Delhi BYOB December meet

Theme: Books and places they thrive in

Books discussed: *1. Days at the morasaki bookshop ( Ramya.) 2. More days at the morasaki bookshop.( Roshnee) 3. Midnight Library (Vikas) 4. A short stay in hell (Noeen) 5. The Little coffee shop of kabul ( Samyuktha) 6. Funny story.(Ashish) 7. The Paris Library (Navneet) 8.Last bookshop in London.(Atiyab) 9. Before we lost kindness ( Sagar) 10.The labyrinth of the spirits (Aakash) 11.The door to door bookstore (Aakash kumar) 12. The polymath (Vibhu)*

*Books Discussed At The 100th Meet of Bangalore BYOB on 25th May 2024:*

1. Anand
• Corfu Trilogy - Gerard Durrell
2. Ajay Ramasehan
• Balochistan: Bruised Battered and Blooded - Francesca Marino
3. Arvind
• Marcel Proust: A Life - Jean-Yves Tadie
4. Jyotsna
• Chronicle of a Co**se Bearer - Cyrus Mistry
• The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
5. Ashwini
• Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI - Madhumita Murgia
6. Priyadarshini
• Asprushyaru (Vasudeva’s Family) - Vaidehi
7. Abhinand
• Have You Eaten Grandma? - Gyles Brandreth
8. Rajasekhar
• Inner Goal - Robert Johnson
9. Sandhya
• Know My Name - Chanel Miller•
10. Ajit Paul
• On Grief and Reason: Essays - Joseph Brodsky
11. Abhilash
• Dance of Thieves Duology - Mary E. Pearson
12. Darshan
• Together - Vivek H. Murthy
13. Suryansh
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife - David Eagleman
14. Alisha
• Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
15. Soumya
• Collegu Ranga - B.G.L. Swamy
16. Pradeesha
• The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
17. Mohit
• The Great Gatsby - Scott F. Fitzgerald
18. Siddhant
• Into the Heart of Himalayas - Jono Lineen
19. Vinay
• First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Loung Ung
20. Pradeep
• The Love Gap - Jenna Birch
21. Lavanya
• H-Pop: Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars - Kunal Purohit
22. Anuradha
• Unstoppable Us Series - Yuval Noah Harari
23. Saadrusha
• The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
24. Chinmay
• The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly - Luis Sepulveda
25. Sudarshan
• The Rabbit Listened - Cori Doerrfeld
• The Emergency: A Personal History - Coomi Kapoor
26. Vinayak Hegde
• H for Heritage Mumbai - Fiona Fernandez
• Among the Russians - Colin Thubron

_Other Books Recommended/ Mentioned:_
Whatever Happened to Margo - Margaret Durrell
Alexandria Quartet - Lawrence Durrell
Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future - Tom Chivers
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - Stuart Russell
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
In the First Circle - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
The Body Keeps the Score - Bes

Delhi BYOB - June 2024
Thank you to the lovely team!

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Pictures from Sunday's BYOB Meet. Thank you everyone for coming. Hope everyone had a good time.