The book in my hand

Ravichandran Ashwin

A weekly column on what celebrities are reading and planning to read.

Ravichandran Ashwin

I am reading Clive Cussler’s

The Solomon Curse . I quite like the author.

The recent books that I read are Amish Tripathi’s Shiva trilogy (

The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputras ) and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web .

(Ravichandran Ashwin is an off-spinner, who was ranked the number-one bowler of 2015 in the ICC Test Player Rankings.)

Samit Basu

I recently read the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie, a stunning sci-fi trilogy set in space. Its protagonist is a woman who used to be a spaceship. Ancillary Sword is the book to start with.

Next on the to-read list are new books from Meenakshi Madhavan, Sarnath Banerjee and Amy Poehler.

(Samit Basu is an Indian novelist, graphic novelist and screenwriter.)