9 must-read history books like Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris by Christopher Snedden

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Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

By: Christopher Snedden

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) — popularly called ‘Kashmir’ — an…

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1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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2. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

By: Joshua Foer

3.88

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our con… read more

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  • nonfiction
"learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard."

-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

"A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense."

-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

"If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember."

-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

"What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?"

-Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

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3. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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4. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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5. The Golden Notebook

By: Doris Lessing

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a… read more

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6. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

By: Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Format: 466 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for ISBN 9780345350688 Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"We all like chicken"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"كانت حياتي سلسة من التحولات"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

"I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"

-Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

9. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

By: Austin Kleon

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Congo: een geschiedenis

By: David Van Reybrouck

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Er is aan het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw nauwelijks een roeriger natie dan Congo, het reusac… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

13. The Country Without a Post Office

By: Agha Shahid Ali

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who al… read more

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  • india

14. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

By: Cal Newport

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this sk… read more

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15. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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16. 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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  • india
"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

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17. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

18. The Annihilation of Caste

By: B.R. Ambedkar

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more

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19. Curfewed Night

By: Basharat Peer

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. read more

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20. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

By: Arundhati Roy

3.12

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more

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21. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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22. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson

3.92

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's ans… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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23. Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris

By: Christopher Snedden

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) — popularly called ‘Kashmir’ — an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
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24. Kashmir Beyond Article 370

By: Bashir Assad

3.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Provocative, insightful and passionately argued, Beyond Article 370 brings a unique perspective to … read more

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Joshua Foer

3.88

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4.32

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Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

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3.31

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A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

4.37

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Jhumpa Lahiri

3.87

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Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.01

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4.14

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