Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary
By: Gita Ramaswamy
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
1980s. Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, South India. Landless dalits are caught between a reddy and a hard…
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By: Sujatha Gidla
3.97
Format: 570 pages,
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2. Unaccustomed Earth
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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3. El hombre que amaba a los perros
By: Leonardo Padura
3.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Ivan, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un pauperrimo g… read more
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4. Seeing Like a Feminist
By: None
3.50
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5. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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6. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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7. A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
By: Josy Joseph
4.15
Format: None pages,
'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting f… read more
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8. The Adivasi Will Not Dance
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
4.08
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU PRIZE 2016 In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich… read more
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10. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
By: Amy Wallace , Ed Catmull
2.83
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"What does it mean to manage well?" From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter)… read more
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11. Run Posy Run (Underboss Insurrection, #1)
By: Cate C. Wells
3.82
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
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12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
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4.10
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
14. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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15. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
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"Има ли миналото срок на годност?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
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3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code
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3.82
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"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
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3.70
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
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4.46
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20. Sakina’s Kiss
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3.81
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Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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21. Butter
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3.60
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
22. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.29
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she came home one day to find that her dad had left a pape… read more
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"The beauty of nature and the joy that comes from unstructured human engagement is a powerful combination."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"Does empathy depend on believing that but for the grace of God, or the randomness of the natural lottery, we could have been born with a different set of endowments?"-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
"She felt at home in the lab. It was a quiet temple for individual persistence and contemplation. She could be creative and independent as she pursued a path toward her own discoveries."-Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
24. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
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4.02
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25. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
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"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
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4.13
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‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more
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27. A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar
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4.59
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28. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
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29. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
By: Manu S. Pillai
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Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who … read more
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30. Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary
By: Gita Ramaswamy
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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31. Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity
By: Priya Basil
3.65
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the meaning and limits of hospitality today, from the shortlisted author of the Com… read more
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