14 must-read nonfiction books like Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal by Ameer Shahul

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Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal

By: Ameer Shahul

4.47

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrifying investigative account of a global corporation’s role in perpetrating India’s greatest …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal by Ameer Shahul , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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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2. In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2008 FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the… read more

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3. The Corridor of Uncertainty: How Cricket Mended a Torn Nation

By: Nihar Suthar

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1979, Afghanistan erupted into one of the most brutal civil wars ever. The fighting lasted almos… read more

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4. 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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5. The Forty Rules of Love

By: Elif Shafak , محمد درويش , None , ارسلان فصیحی

4.12

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a lit… read more

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"تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"النفاق هو الذي يجعل الناس سعداء. أما الحقيقة فتجعلهم يشعرون بالحزن"

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"لا يعنيني الحلال ولا الحرام فأنا أفضل أن أطفئ نار جهنم، وأن أحرق الجنة حتى يحب الناس الله من أجل الحب الخالص."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

"من الغرابة أن تقول ذلك لامرأة تفكر بالماضي كثيراً, وتفكر بالمستقبل أكثر, لكن بطريقة ما, لم تمسّها اللحظة الراهنة."

-Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

6. നൂറു സിംഹാസനങ്ങൾ | Nooru Simhaasanangal

By: Jeyamohan

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

jugupsyoollN vllrunn veednyootte maatrmee ii kRti vaayiccutii[?]kkaanaavuu. avismrnniiymaay vaaynaa… read more

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7. Man-Eaters of Kumaon

By: Jim Corbett

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jim Corbett was every inch a hero, something like a "sahib" Davy Crockett: expert in the ways of th… read more

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8. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

9. Riot

By: Shashi Tharoor

4.75

Format: 118 pages,

Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? And why would anyone want to murder this idealistic… read more

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10. Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

By: Siddharth Kara

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold in… read more

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11. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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12. 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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13. Whole Numbers and Half Truths

By: Rukmini S.

4.22

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more

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14. The Travelling Cat Chronicles

By: Hiro Arikawa

4.34

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old a… read more

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"Guddo rakku!"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Because it was only natural to feel sad."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"Realmente, o ser humano é um bicho esquisito. - Nana"

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

"- A relação entre pais e filhos é diferente em cada família."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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15. Love in the Time of Serial Killers

By: Alicia Thompson

3.31

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn’t exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woma… read more

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" Hmm, if only there were a place where one could go for information... a place that had free books on every topic you could think of... (book stack emoji) Smiling, I typed back the interwebs? just to…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"I'm not comparing him to Most Wanted sketches anymore, if that's what you're asking." "The start of every beautiful friendship." "Shut up," I said. "You know I have a black, mistrustful pit where my …"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"... Old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers,'" I said softly to myself. From behind me, Conner laughed. "If anyone is acting strangely here, it's you. This is a real '"'Tis," repl…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"You're sweet," I said. "Sweet on you." I groaned at the cheesiness of that line, giving him a playful swat. But the truth was that it wormed its way into my heart regardless. It made me dream, for on…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

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16. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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17. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

By: Shrayana Bhattacharya

4.29

Format: 384 pages, None

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more

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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

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18. The Intruders

By: Louise Jensen

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

They were told to leave. They should have listened. It should be the perfect opportunity: a mano… read more

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19. The Cases That India Forgot

By: Chintan Chandrachud

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a state Legislature imprison a critic and summon a high Court judge to appear before it? Are re… read more

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20. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

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"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

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21. Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

By: Heather Morris

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the author tells the story, based on a true one, o… read more

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"I'd thought you'd given up on me."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

"His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

"Did I tell you about Cilka?" "No, Lale, you didn't. Who was Cilka?" "She was the bravest person I ever met. Not the bravest girl, the bravest person."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

"It's time to live now, Cilka," he says. "Without fear, and with the miracle of love." "Is that a poem?" she asks him, smiling through her tears. "It is the beginning of one."

-Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)

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22. Against the Loveless World

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more

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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

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23. The Indigo Story: Inside the Upstart that Redefined Indian Aviation

By: Shelley Vishwajeet

3.63

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The IndiGo Story is a fascinating analysis of the manner in which an unknown entity entered the per… read more

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24. The Paradoxical Prime Minister

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Narendra Modi is a paradoxical man. He says one thing and does another. He gives voice to a num… read more

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Cover of Young Blood: Ten Terrifying College Tales by Chandrima Das

25. Young Blood: Ten Terrifying College Tales

By: Chandrima Das

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Bored roommates use a planchette to contact a legendary ghost that haunts Pune University. Will she… read more

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26. Hacking Health: The Only Book You’ll Ever Need to Live Your Healthiest Life

By: Mukesh Bansal

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

We live in a world where there is a new fad diet, superfood, supplement or nutrition theory every m… read more

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27. The Haunting of Delhi City: Tales of the Supernatural

By: Jatin Bhasin

3.92

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

You know Delhi for its rich cultural tapestry, history and monuments. You love it for its food--the… read more

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28. The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery

By: Leeza Mangaldas

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In The Sex Book, award-winning sex educator Leeza Mangaldas provides scientifically accurate, judge… read more

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29. A Cop in Cricket

By: Neeraj Kumar

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this book, Neeraj Kumar, one of India’s most well-respected and accomplished police officers – a… read more

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30. The Good Indian Employee's Guide to Surviving a Lala Company

By: Rajiv Gupta

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Lala Land Here, Lalaji, the business owner, calls the shots. Here, every day is an event… read more

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Cover of Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal by Ameer Shahul

31. Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal

By: Ameer Shahul

4.47

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrifying investigative account of a global corporation’s role in perpetrating India’s greatest … read more

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Zoulfa Katouh

4.50

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Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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