Lockdown reading: What's the good word

When the world shuts down and all roads to the outside are blocked, time to catch up on all the books bought and never read or rediscover old favourites. Here is what is on the quarantine reading list' of some authors, artists and others that PTI reached out to:
JERRY PINTO:
Author of Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel Em and the Big Hoom
YASHWANT SINHA:
Politician and author, the former finance minister last year came out with his autobiography "Relentless"
OLIVIA FRASER

Delhi-based Scottish artist
'NAMITA GOKHALE:
Author and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF). Her latest book is "Jaipur Journals"

YASIR ABBASSI
Cinematographer and author of "Yeh Un Dino Ki Baat Hai: Urdu Memoirs of Cinema Legends"
MARTAND KHOSLA:
Architect
BASIST KUMAR
Contemporary artist
VARUNIKA SARAF
Artist and historian
DEVAPRIYA ROY:
Writer, her latest book is "Friends from College"
SUHASINI KEJRIWAL
Contemporary painter