The Brass Notebook: A Memoir of Feminism and Freedom
By: Devaki Jain
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist, with introductory piec…
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1. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
2. This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
By: Samanth Subramanian
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a b… read more
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"In the absence of ancient hatreds, chauvinism can easily rustle up modern ones."-Samanth Subramanian, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
"But the heart weakens without democracy , and there was no democracy within the Tigers. They antagonized their own brothers by killing them."-Samanth Subramanian, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
"[Speaking to 29-year-old ex-guerrilla] 'I see it as a process. First, yes, you do negotiate. But if that does not work, then you have to use violence to get what you need. Even if you have to bomb a …"-Samanth Subramanian, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
"It is the postscript to the war that offers the most revelatory and startling commentary on Dutugemunu's life. Despite his newfound wealth and his peactime luxuries, Dutugemunu wanders gloomily about…"-Samanth Subramanian, This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
3. Palestine
By: None , Joe Sacco
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more
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- nonfiction
4. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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5. എന്റെ കഥ | Ente Katha
By: Kamala Suraiyya Das , Madhavikutty
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Kamala Suraiya, better known as Kamala Das, is a well-known female Indian writer writing in English… read more
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6. Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
By: Manal Al-Sharif
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Hardcover
A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the… read more
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7. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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8. On Balance, an Autobiography
By: Leila Seth
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first woman chief justice of a high court in India, the first woman to top the bar examinations… read more
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9. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
By: Brenda Ueland
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules s… read more
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10. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
11. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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12. 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
13. 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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14. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)
By: Harini Nagendra
3.62
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more
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15. The Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more
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"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
16. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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17. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
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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18. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
By: Perumal Murugan
4.11
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more
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19. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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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
20. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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- biography
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
21. Tejo Tungabhadra: Tributaries Of Time
By: Vasudhendra
4.53
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tejo Tungabhadra tells the story of two rivers on different continents whose souls are bound togeth… read more
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"ಧರ್ಮಾಧರ್ಮದ ಸಂಘರ್ಷಣೆ, ರಕ್ಷಣೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊನೆಗೂ ಸೊರಗುವುದು ಸಮಾಜದ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವೆನ್ನುವುದು ಯಾರಿಗೂ ಸುಲಭಕ್ಕೆ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ."-Vasudhendra, Tejo Tungabhadra: Tributaries Of Time
22. Black River
By: Nilanjana Roy
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the village of Teetarpur, a few hours from the capital city of Delhi, Chand’s peaceful life is s… read more
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23. A Single Swallow
By: Zhang Ling
4.16
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling’s epic and intimate nove… read more
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24. Girl in White Cotton
By: Avni Doshi
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more
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25. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine
By: Kavitha Rao
4.49
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
At a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine wha… read more
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26. The People of the Indus
By: Nikhil Gulati
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Who were the people of the Indus? Why didn't they build pyramids like the Egyptians? And ultimat… read more
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27. LIES OUR MOTHERS TOLD US The Indian Woman’s Burden
By: Nilanjana Bhowmick
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
Savitribai Phule, Mahasweta Devi, Amrita Pritam, Medha Patkar, Kamla Bhasin, and countless others h… read more
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28. The Brass Notebook: A Memoir of Feminism and Freedom
By: Devaki Jain
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist economist, with introductory piec… read more
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- gender
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
29. The Mauryas: Chandragupta to Ashoka: The Backstories, The Sagas, The Legacies
By: Devika Rangachari
3.53
Format: 312 pages, ebook
From c . 324 BCE to c. 185 BCE, the Mauryas controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent with e… read more
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