26 Best nonfiction books like India's China Challenge: A Journey through China's Rise and What It Means for India by Ananth Krishnan

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India's China Challenge: A Journey through China's Rise and What It Means for India

By: Ananth Krishnan

4.42

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Ananth Krishnan first moved to China in the summer of 2008. In the years that followed, he had a ri…

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1. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By: Nir Eyal

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

How do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture wide… read more

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2. How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century

By: Shyam Saran

3.97

Format: 352 pages,

Former India Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran has had a ringside view of the most critical events and … read more

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  • indian literature
  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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3. The Accidental Prime Minister

By: Sanjaya Baru

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 2004 Sanjaya Baru left a successful career as chief editor of the Financial Express to join Prim… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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4. Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement

By: Rahul Pandita

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction

5. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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6. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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7. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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9. The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur : How the Pulwama Case was Cracked

By: Rahul Pandita

3.99

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Inside the world of the jaish-e-mohammed – from the Parliament attack to the Pulwama bombing in Feb… read more

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  • indian literature
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  • india
  • nonfiction
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10. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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  • nonfiction
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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11. The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By: Henry Kissinger

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

By: Shrayana Bhattacharya

4.29

Format: 384 pages, None

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more

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  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • india
"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

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14. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

By: Reed Hastings

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder… read more

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15. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future

By: Raghuram G. Rajan

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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16. The Science of Storytelling

By: Will Storr

4.06

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Stories mould who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our… read more

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"The gift of story is wisdom"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species."

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really…"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

"Stories work on multiple evolved systems in the brain and a skilled storyteller activates these networks like the conductor of an orchestra, a little trill of moral outrage here, a fanfare of status …"

-Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

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17. The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India

By: Vijay Gokhale

4.48

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

'Essential reading for all those interested in how India will deal with its greatest strategic chal… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • china
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18. After Tiananmen: The Rise of China

By: Vijay Gokhale

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

On a snowy day in January 1998 Xu Zengping, a Chinese businessman based out of Hong Kong, stood on … read more

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19. Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Protest

By: Vijay Gokhale

4.24

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

'I recall being woken by the sound of tanks moving down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. It was 5 o'clo… read more

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20. Murder at the Mushaira

By: Raza Mir

4.22

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

3 May 1857. India stands on the brink of war. Everywhere in its cities, towns, and villages, rebels… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
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21. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977

By: Abhishek Choudhary

4.40

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more

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22. India's China Challenge: A Journey through China's Rise and What It Means for India

By: Ananth Krishnan

4.42

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Ananth Krishnan first moved to China in the summer of 2008. In the years that followed, he had a ri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • china
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23. Bridgital Nation: Solving Technology's People Problem

By: N. Chandrasekaran

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

It is 2030. India is among the world's top three economies. All Indians use the cloud, artificial i… read more

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  • india
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24. Coaching Beyond: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team

By: R. Sridhar

4.07

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

The book is a dive into the minds of the top players and what has made them and the Indian team tic… read more

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25. India's Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution

By: Sanjaya Baru

3.58

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point … read more

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26. This Seat is Reserved: Caste, Quotas and the Constitution of India

By: Abhinav Chandrachud

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

By examining the history and evolution of the equality provisions in the Constitution of India, Thi… read more

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27. The Great Tech Game: How Technology Is Shaping Geopolitics and the Destiny of Nations

By: Anirudh Suri

4.53

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

After agriculture, trade, industrialization, colonization and capitalism, technology is arguably th… read more

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28. What The Economy Needs Now

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee

3.77

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Indias economy is under threat with rising unemployment, banks in crisis, falling GDP and farmers u… read more

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29. India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present

By: Shivshankar Menon

3.99

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

A clear-eyed look at modern India's role in Asia's and the broader world One of India's most distin… read more

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  • china
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Cover of In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy by Vijay Kelkar

30. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy

By: Vijay Kelkar

4.22

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and … read more

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31. Nehru, Tibet and China

By: Avtar Singh Bhasin

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

On 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China came into being and changed forever the course of… read more

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