The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
By: Kushanava Choudhury
3.74
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Chou…
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1. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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- history
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- asia
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- nonfiction
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
2. The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1 (Feluda #1-16)
By: Satyajit Ray , Gopa Majumdar
4.55
Format: 788 pages, Paperback
Between 1965 and 1992, Satyajit Ray wrote a total of 35 Feluda stories, featuring the master sleuth… read more
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- indian literature
- india
3. Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12)
By: Colin Dexter
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The peaceful quadrangle of Lonsdale College seems remote from the shocks of the outside world - suc… read more
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4. The Sleeping Dictionary
By: Sujata Massey
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Paperback
From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India--a sweeping saga and a love s… read more
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- asia
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5. The Strangler Vine (The Blake and Avery Mystery Series, #1)
By: M.J. Carter
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Calcutta 1837. The East India Company rules India - or most of it; and its most notorious and celeb… read more
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- india
6. A Woman in the Polar Night
By: Christiane Ritter
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more
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7. The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)
By: Colin Dexter
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Hardcover
The final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis… read more
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8. NW
By: Zadie Smith
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more
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9. The Last Summer
By: Jamie Bulloch , Ricarda Huch
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
A psychological thriller by the pioneering German writer Ricarda Huch. A novel of letters from the … read more
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10. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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11. Calcutta: Two Years in the City
By: Amit Chaudhuri
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of … read more
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12. Problem at Pollensa Bay (Hercule Poirot, #40)
By: Agatha Christie
3.74
Format: 70 pages,
Problem at Pollensa Bay - Parker Pyne The Second Gong - Poirot Yellow Iris - Poirot The Harlequin T… read more
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13. Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
By: Matt Goulding
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel WritersFinalist for the 2016 IACP Aw… read more
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14. The Midwich Cuckoos
By: John Wyndham
3.91
Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more
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"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
15. It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
By: Lynsey Addario
3.78
Format: None pages, Hardcover
War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit … read more
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16. War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
By: Iris Origo , Denis Mack Smith
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Depicts the impact of the turmoil of World War II on the daily life of the peasants in a small vill… read more
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17. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
By: Dan Saladino
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more
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- history
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
18. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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19. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
By: Donna Leon
4.09
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more
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"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
20. Whereabouts
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.77
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more
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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
21. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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22. Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)
By: Vaseem Khan
4.25
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***In the fourth rip-roa… read more
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23. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
By: Keigo Higashino
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more
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"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
24. The Last Queen
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more
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"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
25. The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
By: Paul Millerd
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
With 40k global sales, The Pathless Path has become a surprise best-seller. The book has received a… read more
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26. Joan
By: Katherine J. Chen
3.96
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in t… read more
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"What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of m…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
"You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there w…"-Katherine J. Chen, Joan
27. Learning to Talk
By: Hilary Mantel
3.67
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York… read more
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"Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow thee."-Hilary Mantel, Learning to Talk
28. Orienting: An Indian in Japan
By: Pallavi Aiyar
4.06
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
How is Tokyo, a city of thirty million people, so safe that six-year-old children commute to school… read more
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29. 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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30. The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
By: Kushanava Choudhury
3.74
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Chou… read more
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- asia
- indian literature
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- india
- travelogue
31. Regrets, None
By: Dolly Thakore
4.20
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
Written with wit, humour and candour, Regrets, None is a rare memoir that is unafraid to bare it al… read more
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