8 must-read history books like The War That Made R&AW by Anusha Nandakumar

Cover of The War That Made R&AW by Anusha Nandakumar

The War That Made R&AW

By: Anusha Nandakumar

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘Knowledge is power, and the proverb holds true for Intelligence agencies more than any other entit…

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Cover of Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits by Rahul Pandita

1. Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

By: Rahul Pandita

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history

2. Black Holes: The Reith Lectures

By: Stephen Hawking

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the… read more

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3. Train to Pakistan

By: Khushwant Singh

3.85

Format: 128 pages,

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4. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

By: Chris Kyle , Scott McEwen , Jim DeFelice

4.03

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers."

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

"The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pa…"

-Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

5. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

By: Peter Thiel , Blake Masters

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is … read more

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6. Choices: Inside the Making of Indian Foreign Policy

By: Shivshankar Menon

4.00

Format: 258 pages,

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7. The Noise of Time

By: Julian Barnes

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes's first … read more

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Cover of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Cover of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

9. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By: Ben Macintyre

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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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  • india
"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

Cover of The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World by S. Jaishankar

11. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

By: S. Jaishankar

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

Cover of The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur : How the Pulwama Case was Cracked by Rahul Pandita

12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • india
Cover of The Archer by Paulo Coelho

13. The Archer

By: Paulo Coelho

3.66

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but w… read more

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Cover of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson

14. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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  • nonfiction
"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Cover of Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson

15. Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

By: Mark Manson

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a co… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true."

-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

"Ultimately, we are moved to action only by emotion. That's because action is emotion."

-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

"When we deny ourselves the ability to feel pain for a purpose, we deny ourselves the ability to feel any purpose in our life at all."

-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

"Ultimately, the most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice."

-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope

Cover of A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3) by Keigo Higashino

16. 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)

Cover of The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 by G.B.S. Sidhu

17. The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984

By: G.B.S. Sidhu

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and An… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
Cover of The Battle of Rezang La by Kulpreet Yadav

18. The Battle of Rezang La

By: Kulpreet Yadav

4.48

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

On 18 November 1962, the Charlie Company of the 13 Kumaon Battalion, Kumaon Regiment, fought a Chin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
Cover of Dera Sacha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim by Anurag  Tripathi

19. Dera Sacha Sauda and Gurmeet Ram Rahim

By: Anurag Tripathi

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A journalist's account of investigating Gurmeet Ram Rahim and his empire of exploitation How did… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
Cover of The War That Made R&AW by Anusha Nandakumar

20. The War That Made R&AW

By: Anusha Nandakumar

4.17

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Knowledge is power, and the proverb holds true for Intelligence agencies more than any other entit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
Cover of Sky High: The IndiGo Story by Tarun Shukla

21. Sky High: The IndiGo Story

By: Tarun Shukla

4.20

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

IndiGo was one of the late entrants in the low-cost airline business in India. The market already h… read more

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4.03

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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4.37

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