A Taste of Time: A Food History of Calcutta
By: Mohona Kanjilal
3.67
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Calcutta, once the nucleus of the Raj, was at the heart of a thriving economy and unparalleled admi…
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1. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600 - 1850
By: Prasannan Parthasarathi
3.55
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why… read more
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2. A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)
By: Abir Mukherjee
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B019CGXRZM The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crim… read more
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3. Ikigai
By: Francesc Miralles , Héctor García
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." --Japanese proverb According to t… read more
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4. Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 1 - Japanese Cuisine
By: Tetsu Kariya , Akira Hanasaki
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Follow journalist Yamaoka Shiro on a rich culinary adventure as he hunts for the "ultimate menu". T… read more
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5. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
6. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
7. An Equal Music
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boyreturns with a powerful and deeply romanti… read more
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8. Curry: A Tale of Cooks And Conquerors
By: Lizzie Collingham
4.05
Format: 208 pages,
An authoritative history of the foods of India, complete with delicious recipes, ranges from the im… read more
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9. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
10. Independence
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more
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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
11. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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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
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"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
13. War Minus the Shooting
By: Mike Marqusee
4.50
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-… read more
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14. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
15. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
By: John Carreyrou
4.41
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start… read more
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"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
16. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
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4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more
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17. The Living Mountain
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.86
Format: 35 pages, Hardcover
In my dream I was a young girl, growing up in a valley that was home to a cluster of warring villag… read more
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18. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o… read more
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19. Zikora
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4.27
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more
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"You can’t nice your way to being loved."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
20. Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
By: Ira Mukhoty
4.27
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With him ride his wives, his… read more
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21. Girl in White Cotton
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3.35
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22. Chronicle of an Hour and a Half
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4.30
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23. A Taste of Time: A Food History of Calcutta
By: Mohona Kanjilal
3.67
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
Calcutta, once the nucleus of the Raj, was at the heart of a thriving economy and unparalleled admi… read more
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24. The Non-Serious Guide To Bengali Food
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4.03
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Tongue-in-cheek, whimsical and full of surprises, The Non-Serious Guide to Bengali Food by the auth… read more
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25. The Flavours of Nationalism: Recipes for Love, Hate and Friendship
By: Nandita Haksar
3.87
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In this extraordinary book, Nandita Haksar recounts her culinary journey in search of answers to th… read more
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26. Digesting India : A Travel Writer’s Sub-Continental Adventures With The Tummy: A Memoir À La Carte
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3.74
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27. Bengali Cooking: Seasons and Festivals
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4.17
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
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