7 Top biography books like Roses in December by M.C. Chagla

Roses in December

By: M.C. Chagla

4.19

Format: None pages, None

Roses in December, the autobiography of M. C. Chagla (1900-81), is one of Bhavan’s landmark publica…

"God is one's intimate way of understanding the mystery of Existence."

-M.C. Chagla, Roses in December

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1. Autobiography of a Yogi

By: Paramahansa Yogananda

4.24

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures … read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Who am I? The great inquiry indeed."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

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2. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

By: Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Format: 912 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"

-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

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3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. Shantaram

By: Gregory David Roberts

3.85

Format: None pages,

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choi… read more

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5. A Short History of Nearly Everything

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

In Bryson's biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, ans… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Suzanne Toren

6. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren

4.28

Format: 916 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

7. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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8. Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography

By: Fali S. Nariman

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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9. Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

By: Sadhguru

3.86

Format: 256 pages,

The latest book, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, is published by Spiegel & Grau/Random Ho… read more

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10. Chai, Chai

By: Bishwanath Ghosh

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Biswanath Ghosh paints an amazing and mystical picture in this book, where he starts his journey fr… read more

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11. NANI PALKHIVALA - THE COURTROOM GENIUS

By: None , None

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

If ever a colossus strode across the Indian legal arena, it was Nani Palkhivala. After a brilliant … read more

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12. Nani A. Palkhivala - A Life

By: None

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

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13. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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14. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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15. Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

By: Anand Ranganathan

4.48

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must What kind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The concept of justice is like memory. It keeps getting passed on until it is realised."

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

"To me, the mark of civilisation is this unquenchable thirst of man to demand justice for his ancestors; to correct a historical wrong. For that exemplifies a continuity; an idea, a memory that can ne…"

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

"And to those who now call this nation a Hindu Rashtra, run by religious zealots and fascists, to those I ask: In which theocratic state would religious zealots wait for half a millennium and even the…"

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

Cover of Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups by Ashneer Grover

16. Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups

By: Ashneer Grover

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the unfettered story of Ashneer Grover-the favourite and misunderstood poster boy of Start-… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. The Magicians of Mazda

By: Ashwin Sanghi

3.98

Format: 492 pages, Paperback

YATHA AHU VAIRYO ATHA RATUSH ASHAT CHIT HACHA VANGHEUSH... AS THE MASTER, SO IS THE JUDGE TO BE … read more

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18. Measure What Matters

By: John Doerr

3.99

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"For anyone striving for high performance in the workplace, goals are very necessary things."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"Acute focus, open sharing, exacting measurement, a license to shoot for the moon—these are the hallmarks of modern goal science."

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside. It gives us an environment for risk…"

-John Doerr, Measure What Matters

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19. Devil's Advocate: The Untold Story

By: Karan Thapar

3.72

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometime in the late summer of 1976, Sanjay Gandhi asked if I wanted to go flying with him... After… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

By: Steven Kotler

4.22

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective,… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intr…"

-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

"Guilford also realized that divergent thinking wasn't entirely free wheeling: It had four core characteristics. Fluency, the ability to produce a great number of ideas in a short time-frame; flexibil…"

-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

"Once, unfortunately, in a crisis situation (as the Greek poet Archilochus pointed out so long ago) we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Once again, th…"

-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

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21. Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir

By: Kobad Ghandy

3.70

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Born in the cradle of upper-middle-class privilege in a Bombay Parsi household and educated at one … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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22. Wicked Lies

By: M.V. Kasi

4.12

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Her one scandalous meeting led to his wicked lies... When Sukanya is offered her dream project, … read more

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23. How Prime Ministers Decide

By: Neerja Chowdhury

4.53

Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition

India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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24. From the Trenches

By: Abhishek Singhvi

3.93

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

Abhishek Singhvi is one of India’s top lawyers. In this book he talks about the most important case… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction

25. Roses in December

By: M.C. Chagla

4.19

Format: None pages, None

Roses in December, the autobiography of M. C. Chagla (1900-81), is one of Bhavan’s landmark publica… read more

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  • biography
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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"God is one's intimate way of understanding the mystery of Existence."

-M.C. Chagla, Roses in December

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26. History of the Jews: A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2 (History of Judaism)

By: Captivating History

4.21

Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Jews, then keep reading... Free History BONU… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Hindu Way: An Introduction to Hinduism

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.77

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

The Hindu Way: An Introduction to Hinduism, the new book by bestselling author Shashi Tharoor, whos… read more

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  • history
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28. The Story of TATA: 1868 to 2021

By: Peter Casey

4.13

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1868, Jamsetji Tata, a visionary of his time, lit the flame that went on to become Tata and its … read more

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  • biography
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29. Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0

By: Rajiv Malhotra

4.26

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

Snakes in the Ganga unveils uncomfortable truths concerning India’s vulnerabilities: Intense warfa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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30. The Wit and Wisom of Nani A. Palkhivala

By: Jignesh R. Shah

4.02

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Nani A. Palkhivala, a multi-talented personality, played diverse roles in his life—lawyer, diplomat… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction
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31. Landmark Judgments That Changed India

By: Asok Kumar Ganguly

3.67

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

The executive, the legislature and the judiciary are the three branches of government, both state a… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction

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Ramachandra Guha

4.39

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Yuval Noah Harari

4.35

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Bill Bryson

3.42

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4.28

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Amish Tripathi

3.84

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Sita: Warrior of Mithila (RamChandra, #2)

Amish Tripathi

3.54

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Amish Tripathi

3.32

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3.98

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